Wireless Made Simple. Published May 09, 2004 at 8:00 PM EDT Updated Mar 13, 2010 at 5:36 PM EST. By Newsweek Staff . ... Verizon, AT&T Wireless, Cingular, or Nextel networks.

As organizations embrace mobility, wireless networks play an increasingly important role in IT operations. IT managers, however, must find a way to bridge the gap between a simple wireless network ...

As mentioned earlier in the book, a free access hotspot solution is simple and inexpensive, but it does not provide any real “hotspot features,” such as user control and management. However ...

Change Your SSID. Every wireless network has a name, known as a Service Set ID (or SSID). The simple act of changing that name discourages serial hackers from targeting you, because wireless ...

When one of the first instructions a popular wireless Internet router from Netgear gives its owner is a choice between the security protocols known as WPA-PSK (TKIP) and WPA-PSK (TKIP) + WPA2-PSK ...

Turning it into a simple wireless repeater is easy, but it cost me at least a 50% loss in speed and performance. So, avoid setting it deep in the basement or far from your primary router.

Looking to update your wireless network for better performance or security? Follow these simple steps for configuring your router and wireless network the right way. I’ve been working with ...

In essence, the researchers found a way to calculate an "index" for each node on a given wireless network, like a single drone in a fleet of them sending data to a central server.