When it comes to buying wireless access points (APs), now is a tricky time. Don't forget to keep an eye on the latest from IEEE. Draft 802.11n products are improving but are not yet mature. Today's ...

Wireless access points work best for spanning between floors when the floors in question are next to each other (i.e., floors 1 and 2). If your organization is in a building where another company has ...

Until recently, it's been difficult to use the words "secure" and "wireless" in the same sentence. Recent developments mean that's no longer the case. We look at six different options. November 2003 ...

Thick routers are the old familiar Cisco variety, running their own command-line operating system with thousands of parameters to tweak and tune. Thick routers need plenty of expertise to manage and ...

If you want to share a broadband cable or DSL connection across a home- or small-office network with cabled Ethernet and wireless 802.11b segments, the Linksys EtherFast wireless router does a solid ...

With the SMC EZ Connect 802.11a wireless access point, you no longer need to sacrifice financial security or networking performance when you give up wires. This device's modest price and good ...

Sometimes, in tech-space, two terms might sound synonyms but in reality, they aren’t. One such pair is of Wireless Router and Wireless Access Point. In this wireless world, it is important to know ...

Linksys wireless access points enable flexible configurations for wireless clients. Turning your access point into a wireless repeater connects it to a second access point through the wireless signal.

Although other companies have already shipped high-speed wireless adapters and access points based on the 802.11a standard, the entry of two big-name manufacturers—Linksys and Netgear—adds credibility ...