Deploying WLANs at Home: A Case Study
As a case study, I will describe a series of events that actually happened to me when I was visiting friends after Christmas 2002.
The friends had broadband Internet access via a cable modem, which was attached to their only PC (they had another PC, but it was not part of the home LAN…it turns out that it wouldn't have worked if they tried to connect it, for reasons that will become clear in a moment). My friends had purchased an AP so that they could use their laptop at home, but they were frustrated because even though their laptop worked wirelessly in the office, it did not work at all at home. This was supposed to be easy. The AP just had a simple Ethernet interface, and the laptop appeared to associate ...
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