Category: Deployment

After installing a wireless LAN, you might find that it doesn't support applications as expected. Users may complain of erratic connections and slow performance, which hampers the use and benefits of applications. When this happens, you'll need to do some troubleshooting. Start by finding the root cause of the problems. Via [wi-fiplanet.com]

A pioneering public sector wireless network is being extended, and should eventually bring Wi-Fi to local residents. Via [news.zdnet.co.uk]

UK-based Pipex is "encouraged" by trials of its WiMAX wireless broadband service and is pressing ahead with further tests, it revealed today. Via [theregister.co.uk]

VIA Rail Canada has made Wi-Fi official. After over a year of trials, the railway said last week that it has a five-year contract in place to put wireless in reach of not only passengers, but for business as well - imagine wireless entertainment services and ticketing in the future. Via [wi-fiplanet.com]

MetroFi Inc., a maker of wireless mesh network gear, has set up three "hot zones" in the city that are available now, the Mountain View, California, company said Tuesday. The city awarded MetroFi the right to set up the zones through a request for proposal (RFP) process that began in April, according to Chuck Haas,...

Ah, the joy of wireless networking! No more tripping over messy cables or taking turns on the internet. Whether it's a PC in the bedroom or a notebook PC in your garden, wireless networking, or Wi-Fi, means you can use a computer where it suits you without a cable in sight. Via [vnunet.com]

A biotechnology company with a specialty in killing mosquitoes is turning to wireless technology and computers to make a killing for itself. Via [news.com.com]

Formerly part of Yugoslavia and previously better known as a potential ethnic trouble spot, Macedonia is now rapidly becoming a wi-fi hotspot. Via [news.bbc.co.uk]

Internet search giant Google has offered to bring free wireless Internet, or WiFi, connections to Mountain View, the city of its corporate headquarters. Via [siliconvalley.com]

Should the UK offer free wireless internet access everywhere and to everyone? If one council, such as Islington, can do it, should the rest of the councils - or central government - follow its lead? Via [silicon.com]

According to Intel, thirteen carriers from around the world are now deploying the world's first fixed WiMAX networks based on Intel's WiMAX technologies, delivering high-speed broadband access to businesses and residences from Germany to Guatemala. Eleven more carriers are preparing to deploy additional Intel-based WiMAX networks by year's end. Via [geekzone.co.nz]

Wireless technology will help visitors at the 2008 Beijing Olympics navigate the city and cope with the language barrier. Via [vnunet.com]

In another time and place, college students wondering whether the campus cafe has any free seats, or their favorite corner of the library is occupied, would have to risk hoofing it over there. But for today's student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that kind of information is all just a click away. Via [seattlepi.nwsource.com]...

Europe has become the world leader in the public availability of wireless internet access points, or hotspots, according to figures published last week. Via [vnunet.com]

Birmingham’s Heartlands hospital is using wireless networking in its ear, nose and throat department to improve efficiency and patient care. Via [vnunet.com]