What Does WiFi Stand For?
Nothing.
“Wi-Fi”, Wi hyphen Fi, is a branding term created by Interbrand so that the WiFi Alliance could use the name and logo as the 80.211 interoperability seal and in marketing efforts. The branding effort has been so successful that the term WiFi is synonymous with 802.11 just like “Kleenex”, another invented [...]
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Free WiFi at Starbucks
Starting this spring Starbucks, in cooperation with AT&T Wi-Fi Service, will offer free WiFi internet at Starbucks locations. A paragraph from the press release is below.
Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) today announced a new comprehensive communications agreement with AT&T that will enhance the enterprise networking capabilities for Starbucks by streamlining business operations and [...]
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Long Range WiFi
Back in 2005, Team iFiber Redwire “shattered their previous world record of 55.1 miles, and the ground-to-ground amplified record of 82 miles set in Utah. Team iFiber Redwire achieved an unamplified, 124.9-mile, 11-Mbit connection for 3 hours.”
Huge Antennas
One of the biggest myths related to wireless LAN security is that placing an access point [...]
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Google’s Mountain View WiFi network celebrated its first anniversary and they posted several interesting data points about the network.
400+ mesh routers
12 square mile coverage and 25,000 homes
15,000 unique users per month
300 gigabytes per day (has grown 10% a month since beginning of 2007)
100 distinct types of WiFi devices
95 percent of the mesh routers being used [...]
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Kaspersky Lab recently published a report about WiFi networks in London. The report contains the usual information about transmission speeds, equipment manufacturers, and use of encryption.
One not so usual tidbit was the increased trend in using SSIDs for advertising purposes.
One interesting phenomenon is the tendency to use hotspots for subliminal advertising. Every client attempting to [...]
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