In Hamina Network Planner, Attenuating Objects are used to represent solid objects such as warehouse shelves. They can be drawn either as rectangles or free-form shapes, and can have a custom lower...

If the Windows XP subreddit is a good indicator, it feels like Windows XP is entering a renaissance period. XP-era games are just old enough to be considered “vintage”, and there’s even new develop...

I have always loved small, portable devices. Over the years, I have owned and enjoyed many, always upgrading from device to device, carefully picking out each successor. For awhile now, I’ve wanted...

Ever since Atom was retired, I’ve been using Zed as my go-to simple text editor. While editing Markdown for this blog, I was annoyed that Zed didn’t seem to do word wrap, even though it understood ...

The short answer: yes! It’s not secret that I’m a huge fan of the Apple AirPort Extreme. Whenever friends and family have Wi-Fi problems at home, I get on Craigslist and buy a used Apple AirPort E...

I’m a huge fan of the WLAN Pi, but who in the Wi-Fi community isn’t? Whether you’re using it as an iPerf throughput testing endpoint, performing wireless packet captures from it, using as a remote ...

While I originally wrote and posted this restoration log on 68kmla.org, I’ve decided to duplicate all of my restoration logs to my blog for centralization and reading convenience. While I updated t...

At WLPC in 2018, I presented on packet analysis, or spectrum analysis, or something… but nobody cared, because during the presentation, I used the keyboard zoom feature in macOS to zoom in on areas...

The great CenturyLink outage of late 2018 is under way. At the time of this writing, we’re 16.5 hours in, and I’m tired of using my Android phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot. I want my network back up. For...

I love Wireshark, but one thing is for sure: tracking 802.11 conversations with my human brain is difficult. Coloring rules help, but I find it very difficult to remember which MAC address is which...