Premature Blamestorming

It’s easy, with all the things that can go wrong, to prematurely blame wireless for a given network problem. But from the size of this book, it’s pretty apparent that there are a lot more things that can go wrong. So before blamestorming wireless, make sure that the problem does not exist when you are using wired networking.

For example, say that you’re getting kicked out of your client/server application every once in a while. You might suspect that there was some sort of wireless interference going on—and without being able to shut down every other device in the place, it would be hard to rule them out. Instead of following this difficult path, you might simply want to swap your wireless interface with a wired interface. ...

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