802.11 Standards Rundown
May 28, 2020The list below covers off the 802.11 standards and what they mean: 802.11-1997 The first standard, providing a data rate up to 2 Mbps in the 2.4GHz frequency. It provided a range of a whopping 66 feet of indoors (330 feet outdoors), so if you owned one of these routers,… Read more
IoT v IIoT
May 28, 2020IoT is the internet of things. Smart devices connected wirelessly together, such as lighting or applicances. Simple application and low risk. But what is IIoT? IoT uses Bluetooth, WiFi or specific 802.14.5 based radios, for ZigBee for example, for a localised network. Vendors like Ruckus and Aruba are supporting BLE… Read more
Slow Networks might not be the cable
May 19, 2020Got good cabling but your network is still slow? There is a good chance your networking equipment is probably not what it could be. To explain this, lets draw a parallel between your cabling and equipment, and cars and roads. Roads are your network cabling infrastructure, if the road is… Read more
Telstra’s really big IoT network
May 14, 2020Telstra have launched their IoT network, leveraging off their exisiting mobile phone coverage. Telstra IoT Web Site It works using their own Captis Pulse device with inbuilt SIM and antenna to connect to the IoT netowork with the device visible back at their Cloud service, the Telstra Wireless M2M Control… Read more
WiFi6 and WiFi6E differences
May 12, 2020Just quickly the new WiFi standard, 802.11ax WiFi6) brings big differences to 80211ac including MU-MIMO or Multi User MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output). 802.11ac allows for this in the download direction, to the end points, and only in 5GHz, where as 802.11ax allows the AP to also receive from multiple… Read more
Powerline
May 10, 2020Powerline is a way to network in your house without running data cables or messing around with your WiFi. It works by using the power cabling you already have. You can get them with WiFi extenders built in to quickly increase the coverge and speed of your WiFi in low… Read more