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Roaming for wireless clients is very important. Some smaller environments pay little attention to roaming; while some environments require near perfect roaming and can’t afford for wireless clients to drop a connection and then reconnect. Wireless engineers spend lots of time figuring out how to deploy a wireless network that will offer seamless roaming. And…
During my recent Wireless Adjuster II class I got introduced to Airtool Pi (new tool created by Adrian Granados). If you have been using Airtool or Airtool 2, you will certainly love this, cost is $14.99 and it is worth every penny. All you need is a WLANPi (Neo 2 is what I used; you…
This past week I attended the Wireless Adjust II class taught by Devin Akin. I recall attending the very first class back in 2020, that was a beta class, and we all had a great time attending that class. You can read more here. I knew that Devin had added lots of new content in…
I have written about Wyebot and some features you can use in my previous blog post. I also talked about a couple of use case scenarios. In this post, I want to review correlation and troubleshooting steps using the Wyebot interface. Let’s look at one of the Wyebot sensor. Below, I summarize all the issues…
AI/ML, Automation are few terms that every vendor is talking about in the tech industry. Each vendor has their own flavor of AI/ML engines with different feature sets. Regardless of their path end goal is “better end user experience”. Managing and operating a wireless network for thousands of users across different sites can be quite…
You setup a new site, perform a heat map using wireless heat mapping software, document and generate a beautiful report. Shows how the signal looks in different areas. Validate the wireless coverage and all is ready. Although we can use offsets when displaying this collected data, it is not accurate. Now keep in mind, I…
This post is part of the series, “Troublehsooting with Marvis”. I decided to write these to document some connectivity related troubleshooting tips using MistAI and Marvis. When it comes to any WLAN, troubleshooting the network post deployment is an intrinsic part of any WLAN engineers job. User Satisfaction and Performance: Users are crucial. Their experience…
Previously I discussed utilizing Wireshark I/O Graphs for troubleshooting. In this post I would like to share some thoughts on using the “WLAN Traffic” option for analyzing and troubleshooting purposes. Keep in mind that these tools will not necessarily exactly tell you what the issue is at times. But they are available as part of…
If you work in the IT I am sure you have used, seen and/or heard of Wireshark. It is an awesome free packet capture tool and/or to view captured data. Before I got heavily involved in Wireless, I extensively used it on the wired side of the things sometimes to troubleshoot and sometimes to prove…
I am pretty sure everyone knows how to do this but I am writing this anyways because I want to show some appreciation to WLANPi and AirTool 2. I had to capture some 2.4 GHz frames to troubleshoot some issues and I was trying to replicate the issues in my lab. Now I was able…