administrators. Using both Cisco and Linksys equipment, students will plan, install, configure, manage, and troubleshoot wireless local area networks. Students will gain experience using the Windows XP automatic wireless configuration tool, as well as the more advanced wireless utilities from Cisco. In addition to basic wireless setup, labs include RF math calculations, co-channel and adjacent channel interference, roaming, power management, open authentication and shared key authentication, ad hoc versus infrastructure mode, repeater mode, wireless site survey tools, and filtering based on SSIDs, MAC addresses, and IP addresses.

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