CTS 152: Naughty or Nice Wi-Fi

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Does your Wi-Fi network make the naughty or nice list? We created a checklist of top 5 bad things that can harm user experience over Wi-Fi and the top 5 good things that can make a good user experience over Wi-Fi. Let’s have a little fun with it. We added couple of extras in there for you. There’s also have a giveaway at the end of this episode. This list is not to fully suggest your Wi-Fi network is good or not. There are many factors that go into that decision. Let your user experience really decide 🙂 Naughty List * Wi-Fi authentication is using PSK* Using a splash page* Your Wi-Fi is throttling users* The Wi-Fi infrastructure is still on aging controllers* Hidden Open SSID* 40 MHz wide channels on 2.4GHz and 80MHz wide on 5GHz by default* Cool 802.11 amendments not supported by all (802.11kvrw) Nice List * Wi-Fi has embraced 5 GHz channels* The Wi-Fi network uses external antennas* The minimum basic rate has been increased* Wi-Fi infrastructure is controller-less* Single Band SSID Links and Resources IT Blog Awards – Vote for us before the contest is over on January 4th, 2019! Help us win this one!Listener Survey – We’re gearing up for 2019 and we need your input. It only takes 5 minutes and it helps us improve the show!