SAN DIEGO — July 02, 2007 — QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies and mobile data solutions, and NTELOS, (Nasdaq: NTLS), a leading provider of wireless communications services in Virginia and West Virginia, today announced plans to launch the first BREW® ...

Interference can severely degrade the performance of wireless LANs, finds a new technical note from Farpoint Group. Just how bad is it? Consider the throughput reductions caused by these common devices: Microwave oven - 62%; another wireless LAN - 89%; Bluetooth headset - 20%; cordless ...

WEP is now severely broken. For those not familiar with the subject: WEP is a mechanism that protects sensitive data transmitted over a wireless network (conforming to IEEE 802.11 x standards) from being revealed to an attacker. It uses an algorithm called RC4 (designed by Ron Rivest). The following is ...

There are many reasons why a wireless signal strength is low or experiencing interruption, including: Range of the wireless modem/router - for the average home, the range of the wireless signal should not be a problem. Range is limited by the number of walls, ceilings, or other objects that the ...

Checking that all your wires are plugged in at the router and from the plug is one of the first things you should do – provided of course that you have access to them. Verify that the power cord is connected and that all the lights of the router and ...

 Wireless routers with Internet connection sharing, networking and firewall features are an alternative to Wired routers or Networking Software. Wireless routers are actually wired routers with wireless access points built in so you can have wired and/or wireless at the ...

Wireless internet was introduced in 1999. It is an ideal for business environment to make the atmosphere less massy. Beside its beniefit the main flaw is its insecurity. Problems presented by the accessibility of Wi-Fi include the usual cases of credit card fraud and identity theft, but accessing and reading ...

A local area network is popular in businesses, because it allows computers to share files without using a modem and because it allows multiple computers to use a single printer. Conventional local area networks in the 1980s required coaxial cable to be strung between computers and printers on the network. ...