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Wireless problem scenarios

Wireless problem scenarios

- A well configured wireless network is gonna be like a refrigerator, it's just gonna run and you're gonna forget about it, if you're lucky. But, problems do pop up. So what I wanna do in this episode, is come up with three distinct examples of problems that you can run into in the wireless world. Now, these are... I'm not gonna say they're super common, but to be honest with you, once a wireless network is setup properly, it's hard to find any kind of common problem, but I will say that you have probably run into all three of these types of problems. So lets start off with the big one, Interference. Now, when you connect to a wireless network, you establish a certain speed that you and that wireless network are gonna run at. Let's just say I'm running at 80211G, now you'd think when I connect to a wireless device, that I'd be running at 54 megabits per second. Well, that's a top speed. Because of Interference and things like this, speeds can slow down a little bit. So one of the…

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