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 Wireless Agencies & Standards

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 Radio Frequencies

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) & Institute

of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Defined
Public Radio Frequencies used for Data Transfer.

900MHz
2.4GHz
5GHz

Note
802.11 is the standard for Wireless LAN introduced by
IEEE.

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 Radio Frequencies

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 Wireless LAN Topologies

Ad Hoc Topology (IBSS)

Infrastructure Topology
BSS
ESS

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 Wireless LAN Topologies
Ad Hoc Topology

Is also called Independent Basic Service Set (IBSS).

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 Wireless LAN Topologies
Infrastructure Topology
BSS

Basic Service Set (BSS).

Access point

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 Wireless LAN Topologies
Infrastructure Topology

Distribution System (DS)

Basic Service Area (BSA)

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 Wireless LAN Topologies
Infrastructure Topology
Service Set Identifier (SSID)

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 Wireless LAN Topologies
Infrastructure Topology
ESS

Extended Service Set (ESS).

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 Wireless LAN Topologies
Infrastructure Topology

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 Channels

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 Wireless Antennas

Omni (or point-to-multipoint)

Directional or Yagi (or point-to-point)

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 Wireless Standards

802.11a
802.11b
802.11g
802.11n

5GHz Band

12 Non-overlapping Channels

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 Wireless Standards

802.11a
802.11b
802.11g
802.11n

2.4GHz Band

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 Wireless Standards

Q. What is the term WI-FI?

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 Wireless Standards
Encoding Classes and IEEE Standard WLANs

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 Range Comparison of 802.11

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 Access Point Configuration
Connecting to an Access Point

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 Access Point Configuration
Authentication & Encryption Methods

Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)
WPA2
WPA-Personal
WPA-Enterprise

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 Access Point Configuration
Authentication & Encryption Methods

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 Access Point Configuration
Securing WLAN

1. Change the Admin password.

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 Access Point Configuration
Securing WLAN

2. Disable SSID Broadcast.

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 Access Point Configuration
Securing WLAN

2. Disable SSID Broadcast.

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 Access Point Configuration
Securing WLAN

3. Enable Mac Filtering.

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 Access Point Configuration
DHCP

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 An education isn't how much you
have committed to memory, or
even how much you know. It's
being able to differentiate between
what you know and what you don't.
Anatole France

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