Alright, the name of the show is “No Strings Attached” because well we are wireless so we don’t need strings right? Sort of, we do need at least 1 “string” and that is the one connected to our access point. While we have focu

Digging deep into the Stefanick archives of real world 802.11 issues. I challenge YOU with 4 real world examples. Keep in mind sometimes the obvious is not so obvious. While frames don’t lie understanding 802.11 is important to see the truth. These are

1) CRC is cyclic redundancy check. This means a radio received a frame and failed the checksum. A normal communication the intended receiver will not ACK and the sender will retransmit the frame. What’s important to understand when sniffing just becaus

Welcome to this first part of a two part series on the new Cisco 3800 and 2800 series access points. Today we talk with Mark Denny and Brian Levin, product managers for the two new access points. This first part of the series is an introduction to the ...

Welcome to a very special episode of the NSA Show. On this episode we are joined by Ryan Adzima (@radzima) from Whiskey and Wireless as well as Stew Goumans (@wirelessstew) to discuss a bunch of different topics.

802.11 – Reason Codes and Status Codes  The 802.11 standard section 8.4 comments on reason codes and status codes. I’ve used these myself when troubleshooting frame captures. These codes provide insight to Wi-Fi related problems like stations

Let’s start 2016 with a blog post that will surely get some of you thinking. As a professional who focuses on Wi-Fi communication I’m asked from time to time what does Wi-Fi mean? The conversation usually goes something like this: What does Wi-Fi

Welcome back to the NSA Show podcast! We are starting up our winter season with an update episode. On this episode Sam and Blake talk tools with George Stefanick.

On this episode of the No Strings Attached Show we chat with GT Hill about 802.11ac Wave2. Now that we are starting to see infrastructure devices hit the market based on Wave2 chips it's important to take a look at what this means for channel widths,

Another Aruba Atmosphere event is in the books, this one had some big news at it regarding Aruba Networks as a company. Sam and I give our opinions on the matter and what we think it means for Aruba as well as the industry.