802.11n Rogue Detection Using 802.11 a/b/g WIDS/WIPS Sensors 802.11n is designed to be backwards compatible with 802.11 a/b/g. 802.11n beacons are sent on a regular 20 MHz channel using a low rate modulation. Beacons in the 2.4 GHz frequency are fully understood by 802.11b/g devices and 5 GHz beacons are fully understood by 802.11a devices. [...]

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Why Tower Climber Certification and Training Is Important The video below has been circulating around the ‘Net for a few weeks and is a great example of why tower climber certification and training is so important. If you thinking about installing WiFi equipment on anything above 20 feet I recommend a lift and anything above [...]

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Download latest WiFi Scanner from Mac App Store WiFi Scanner Mac OS X Feature Requests

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Campus WiFi – AirPennNet – University of Pennsylvania Founded by Benjamin Franklin, University of Pennsylvania “is home to a diverse undergraduate student body of over 10,000, hailing from every state in the union and all around the globe. Penn consistently ranks among the top 10 universities in the country. Another 10,000 students are enrolled in [...]

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Campus WiFi – AirBears – University of California, Berkeley This is a continuation of an earlier post about university campus WiFi networks. The first school that I will be profiling is the University of California, Berkeley. “The University of California, Berkeley, is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. The oldest of [...]

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WiFi Positioning Databases WiFi positioning databases store the BSSID, GPS coordinates and RSSI value. The information is collected by wardriving efforts and/or crowd sourced using mobile phones such as the iPhone and Android phones. Below are several companies that maintain WiFi positioning databases also known as BSSID databases and WiFi triangulation/trilateration databases. Skyhook Wireless – [...]

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FCC Frees Up Vacant TV Airwaves For “Super Wi-Fi” Technologies Google has been a big proponent of opening up white space for data networking. For Google it is mainly about increasing the number of potential users for their services. “When it comes to opening these airwaves, we believe the public interest is clear. But we [...]

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CCNA Wireless Home Lab on a Budget A very common reason to build an enterprise wireless home lab is to prepare the CCNA Wireless exam. “Cisco Certified Network Associate Wireless (CCNA® Wireless) is one validates associate-level knowledge and skills to configure, implement and support of wireless LANs, specifically those networks using Cisco equipment. With a [...]

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Wardriving At Ekoparty Conference In Buenos Aires, Argentina “ekoparty – Electronic Knock Out Party – Security Conference, is a one of a kind event in South America; an annual security conference held in Buenos Aires where security specialists from all over Latin America (and beyond) have the chance to get involved with state-of-art techniques, vulnerabilities [...]

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Locate Rogue Access Points Using Data From WiFi Positioning Databases If you don’t have an Enterprise Wireless Intrusion Detection/Prevention System (WIDS/WIPS) to help estimate the location of the rogue access point I recommend using our OUI Lookup Tool to provide data on which side of building to start searching for the rogue access point hunt. [...]

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