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Wireless refers to the technology allowing transfer of information between two points that are not physically connected.

Wireless technologies allow the transfer of data between two points that have no physical connection. Traditionally, those physical connection are made in copper wires hence the term "wire-less".

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Do Access points use softMAC or hardMAC?

I am trying to understand the working of wireless in linux. I started with wpa_supplicant, hostapd applications with the help of their documentation and source code.Understood the flow and basic functionalities of : wpa_supplicant,nl80211(driver…
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Vehicle 2 Vehicle Communication Questions

I have a rare opportunity to meet the man in charge of implementing vehicle 2 vehicle communication for the US Department of Transportation with 2 others in a few hours. Do YOU have any questions for him? I know this is a little outside the…
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Wireless mesh networking on Raspberry Pi using batman-adv protocol

So I'm trying to setup a wireless mesh network using Raspberry Pi's, with the Edimax EW-7811Un WLAN Adapter and the batman-adv protocol. I've tried following the basic setup guides…
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the meaning of the output from iwlist scan

i have a question to the output of iwlist scan. for instance i have the following result. There are multiple entries with IE. What does the IE stand for? Becasue there are multiple entries i guess there are different encryption options for this…
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How to get the IP address of the associated access point on an iOS device

Use Case: We have an iOS application where you can run a network test between an iOS device and its associated wireless access point to test throughput. The app can get the IP address of the iOS device just fine, but the user has to type in the IP…
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HTML checkbox & Submit Button by Agreeing on Terms and Condition

I'm designing an html page for WiFi authentication and I would like to introduce in this page a Checkbox and Submit button, upon reading the Terms and Condition and Checking the CheckBox, the Submit button will be active. Is this doable? thanks,
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How to get signal strength of connected WiFi android?

I want to get signal strength of this wifi which is connected with my device. This is probably easy. But I am beginner. And It's homework. How to get it? I tried this code. But it doesn't work. registerReceiver(new BroadcastReceiver() { …
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Lightweight network visualization tool

I've been trying to find a tool for monitoring my home network. Before I go into the details, I've looked at a ton of different software and they're either an overkill or don't have what I'm looking for. Hopefully the community can help me with some…
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Smooth WiFi handover in Android

We are developing a small App for Android to smoothly switch between two different wireless access points in the same network (same SSID and same network configuration but different physical locations), with the goal of not dropping existing…
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How do I continuously send and receive with wireless serial-port in 8051?

I'm trying to make a microcontroller communicate with a program on my desktop. I'm using serial port connections with Xbee radios on both ends. The communication works fine when I send something from the microcontroller to the desktop and the…
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How do you use PyObjC to turn off and on the wireless interfaces of a Mac?

How do you use PyObjC to turn off and on the wireless interfaces of a Mac? My research to date has lead me to the Cocoa Framework and PyObjC. On the Mac Developer website I found an example of a wireless interface management application…
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Wireless Ad-Hoc mesh network implementation for Windows 7

I have been looking into Mesh Connectivity Layer on Microsoft Research. The implementation seems to be applicable only for Windows XP. Is there any freely available Ad-hoc Mesh support to help me with Multi-hop ad-hoc mesh networking? I am using…
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Location from WiFi Data

We are trying to determine which room a person is in based on WiFi data. Here's a sample of our data: 1.SSID: wireless, BSSID: 00:24:6c:61:da:81, capabilities: [ESS], level: -54, frequency: 2437 2.SSID: wireless, BSSID: 00:24:6c:61:da:c1,…
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how to scan wireless network and display the list of all computers and devices connected

I need to build a tool (c++) very much like "Wireless Network Watcher" which is a small utility that scans your wireless network and displays the list of all computers and devices that are currently connected to your network. here's the existing…
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Changing wireless network adapter wireless mode properties

My school uses 802.11a, but at home I use 802.11b. This means every time I go from home to school or the other way I have to go to device manager -> Network adapters -> Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 AGN -> properties -> advanced -> wireless mode ->…
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