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Unknown Unknowns
Things we don’t know that we don’t know. This is going to be a short post about an experience I had working with one of our cabling/installation vendors. This particular situation occurred on an outdoor access point installation project I was involved with. The vendor is a vendor that regularly performs installations for our infrastructure…
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lswifi
Ever support cloud based wireless access points that don’t include the uptime of the wireless access point? I can think of at least one vendor where the uptime of the access points is not available in via the cloud management dashboard. Typically support can provide the uptime of the access points but frequently reaching out…
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Certification Exams – How I prepare
So far, all of my preparation for CWNP exams has been self-study. I just passed the CWDP exam and thought this would be a good time for a post about my test preparations. I begin by purchasing the current exam guide directly from the CWNP website. There are other sources to purchase the CWNP approved…
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Filtering in Wireshark
The intent of this article is to provide some simple tips on how to better implement filters in Wireshark to be sure the intended results are achieved. Iām going to show some helpful filtering techniques that can be used when performing and analyzing captures. Applying filters properly is important to be sure you are seeing…
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Meraki Traffic Shaping with Configuration Templates…Unseen Categories
This post will be an exploration in to traffic shaping with templates in the Meraki dashboard. More specifically, how the categories are displayed compared to standalone networks. While recently troubleshooting an issue with an application that uses Web RTC traffic, it was discovered there are some differences in the way traffic categories are presented when…
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Getting Started…my journey in Wi-Fi
I’m began this blog to document my journey in networking, more specifically in Wi-Fi, and to assist in my pursuit of the CWNE certification. I’ve been working in the networking industry since the late 90’s and began working with Wi-Fi in the early 2000’s. If you’re at all like me, you became “The Wi-Fi Guy”…