Chapter 5. Selecting the WLAN Architecture and Hardware

As you no doubt understand by now, a properly selected and installed WLAN can provide a dramatic increase in productivity at the individual level, which in the end affects the bottom line for the company. However, selecting the wrong WLAN architecture or hardware can just as easily result in a system that causes the network to become unbearably slow, insecure, extremely unstable, or worse, a system that the users hate because of its archaic access and use rules.

Over the past couple of years, WLAN architectures have undergone many changes, with some ...

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