Category: Wireless Networking

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI just noticed that Amazon.com is taking orders for a new book by Roger Weeks, Edd Dumbill, and Brian Jepson called Linux Unwired. It is reportedly to be published on February 1, 2004 by our friends at O’Reilly and Associates. There’s very little information available about the book right now. As…

Reading Time: 2 minutesI spent most of last evening diagramming my office’s LAN, performing the initial setup of a D-Link DI-624 AirPlus Xtreme G Wireless Router, and seeing if I liked the results. I followed most of the advice offered in The Wireless Networking Starter Kit. But, typically for me, the piece of advice I…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday UPS delivered a D-Link DI-624 AirPlus Xtreme G Wireless Router to the Home Office and I’m about to embark on the implementation of a wireless network. I am following as much of the advice that Adam Engst and Glenn Fleishman provided in their book The Wireless Networking Starter Kit as…

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe other day, I bought a copy of The Wireless Networking Starter Kit, Second Edition, read a significant part of it, and browsed through the rest. I think that this is one of the best books on wireless networking that has been published recently in terms of bredth of topics covered and…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA week before Christmas, Doug Bedell and Victor Godinez tested a number of pieces of consumer 802.11g gear and reported the results in an article that appeared in The Dallas Morning News. They generally liked the D-Link DI-624 AirPlus Xtreme G Router although they had difficulty setting up advanced features like…