Stop Designing Wi-Fi for Your Weakest Device Your most important devices are suffering from it. There’s a design philosophy that has governed enterprise wireless networking for nearly two decades. It goes by the acronym LCMI — Least Capable, Most Important. The premise is straightforward: find the weakest Wi-Fi device your business cannot afford to lose —…
2026 predictions for major Wi-Fi market shifts As we approach the final days of 2025 and anticipate the start of 2026, several shifts in Wi-Fi playbooks are expected to impact planning, design, and implementation. Slàinte!
The Wi-Fi Colour Wheel: A Simple Framework for Better Real-World WLANs Most people experience Wi-Fi in one of two states: That second state is where modern Wi-Fi planning often goes wrong—not because the technology is weak, but because the design and expectations are misaligned. The Wi-Fi Colour Wheel is a helpful way to explain why. It reminds…
Strike a balance between Wi-Fi Performance vs the Cost Here’s a spicy take for your Friday feed: maybe “better Wi-Fi” isn’t always better business. We love squeezing out the last few percentage points of performance. It’s fun, technical, and it looks fantastic in a heatmap. But if that 4% bump demands triple the hardware and…
Wi-Fi must be regulated before it can be considered a Public Utility In today’s interconnected world, access to reliable, high-speed internet isn’t a luxury—it’s a fundamental necessity for education, healthcare, employment, and social connection. Yet, we continue to treat it as a commodity, a service you buy, rather than a utility, a right you have. To understand…
Stop Guessing—Start Reading: A Practical Guide to Getting (and Using) the IEEE 802.11 Standard If you design, build, test, or troubleshoot Wi-Fi, there’s one resource that quietly answers more questions than any blog post, webinar, or vendor deck: the IEEE 802.11 standard itself. Here’s the good news that most people miss: many Wi-Fi standards are available…
Quick Guide on Configuring Your Airconsole Recently, I worked on a project which required console access to configure and log output from network devices via the console port. I did not want to be directly plugged into the device while it was in the rack and forced to stand in front of it tether to…
The Decibel: A Little Unit with a Loud Legacy How a forgotten measurement, a Canadian inventor, and a smart branding choice shaped how we hear the world. In the world of sound, few things are as universal — and as misunderstood — as the decibel. You’ve probably seen it pop up on your phone’s volume…
Wi-Fi Generation Naming It’s worth addressing a growing trend where people, organizations, and manufacturers are misaligning IEEE Wireless LAN Standards (802.11) with Wi-Fi generation numbers. While this may stem from a noble intention to clarify the naming convention, it ultimately causes widespread confusion. By accurately mapping these standards to their corresponding Wi-Fi generations, we can…
Cisco Drops LoRaWAN Support Cisco presented at MFD12, sharing updates on Wi-Fi 7 clients, UWB, Cisco URWB (very cool announcements on URWB), and AI-RRM. One thing that stood out to me was the lack of updates on IoT—specifically, there were no details or insights shared about the recent announcement to discontinue the Cisco LoRaWAN product…
