Bushel allows you to deploy settings for Wi-Fi networks to all of your users enrolled in Bushel. Bushel supports WEP, WPA, and WPA2. For More On Adding Wi-Fi configurations with Bushel, Click Here
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Home Automation :: Mi Casa Verde's Vera Light
Mi Casa Verde has had the Vera appliance for a number of years. Recently, they released the Vera 3, which controls practically any Z-wave device ever made (in fact many are guaranteed to work). The Vera 3 is also wireless (802.11), so you can place it practically anywhere in the home. Now there’s Vera Light, which retails for $100 less, has a much smaller footprint and no 802.11 networking but otherwise it appears to have pretty much the same feature set. I’m sure it can’t control as many things concurrently, given the smaller footprint, but it looks to me like a great deal for those looking to get started with…
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Managing iOS Devices with Apple Configurator
My traditional interpretation of Apple’s vision on how iOS devices are used is that everyone has an AppleID. That AppleID enables them to access their apps from any iOS device they own or Mac that they own. That AppleID enables them to access mail, contacts, calendars and even files through iCloud. That AppleID also allows users to remotely wipe their device through Find iPhone and track their friends iOS devices (as in social networking via breadcrumb tracking) through Find Friends. All of this “Just Works” in a consumer sense. And it even allows for a little sharing of content across devices you own. However, larger organizations need more. They need…
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Windows 7 HomeGroup
HomeGroup is a new home security feature of WIndows 7. HomeGroup resemble how you protect your home (an analogy I use in the Mac OS X Security book as well): Keep the outside doors locked and keep the interior doors unlocked (unless you’re on the crapper). HomeGroup can be initiated by any Windows 7 version other than Home Basic and Starter editions. Any Windows 7 machine can join a HomeGroup though and it is not a backwards compatible feature, meaning that if you’re still running Windows 95, 98 or Millineum don’t bother to upgrade (you probably can’t read this site anyway). But 2K to Vista, you gots’ta upgrade to play…
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Mac OS X: MacBook Wireless
The MacBook Pro’s wireless reception is relatively poor in comparison to the MacBook. The reason? The aluminum casehas a tendency to interfere with its radio waves. The wireless signal is received only through the antenna located in the clutch (note the rubbery area under the MacBook Pro lettering on the bottom of your display) – that rubbery material is transparent to the radio waves. The MacBook itself has a plastic case. Most plastics, unlike aluminum, are relatively transparent to radio waves – so better wireless reception.
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Slow Browsing
Slow browsing issues can often be caused by poor wireless reception. Sure, a lot of poor performance should be linked to this but few are as obvious to an end user as browsing around on the web really, really slowly. If you’re finding that pages are taking awhile to load then consider checking out the signal strength and see if speeds get better the closer someone moves to a WAP (provided signal strength increases as you get closer of course).
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Wireless Networking 101
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Wireless networks use high frequency radio signals to connect computers to each other and to shared-resources for the transmission of data such as files, images or connection to the internet. This type of network is known as a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). Wireless networks offer most of the same ability as a traditional wired LAN. If your wired network has the ability to access the Internet today, then your wireless LAN will be able to as well. A wireless LAN typically consists of two components; a wireless network card and an access point. The access point serves as an aggregate point for all…