Chapter 2. INTRODUCTION TO WIRELESS NETWORKS
Up to a point, it's quite possible to treat your wireless network as a set of black boxes that you can turn on and use without knowing much about the way they work. That's the way most people relate to the technology that surrounds them. You shouldn't have to worry about the technical specifications just to place a long-distance telephone call or heat your lunch in a microwave oven or connect your laptop computer to a network. In an ideal world (ha!), the wireless link would work as soon as you turn on the power switch.
But wireless networking today is about where broadcast radio was in the late 1920s. ...
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