My Packets Got Framed - Wireless Blog

Koen Verbeeck

A blog about my wireless adventures, the many issues I ran into and my journey towards CWNE.

Wi-Fi Tips for Working @ home (COVID-19 edition)

Since the last few weeks, Corona has changed our way of living and for a lot of people also their way of working. Their normal habit of driving to the office every morning is now traded in by working from home and this in turn requires a lot of self di...

Aruba Service Assurance Sensor Review

I ve been testing the Re-branded Sensor for a while now since HPE acquired Cape Networks and i must say that it still has the same look and feel as I was used to before the acquisition. They even added some nice extra features like Reporting, Telnet & ...

Ekahau - Where did my walls go?

Last, i ran into an issue were my walls had suddenly disappeared from my Ekahau project. What i normally would do when starting a new project is use a template containing all standard wall types as well as my custom made walls. This is just a clean...

Why are my Cisco Access Points not transmitting at maximum allowed EIRP?

When looking into my WLC controlled APs’ cli, I noticed that even with the highest configured TX power (Level 1 in the WLC) and several external antenna options they would never Transmit @ max. EIRP for my Regulatory domain following the simple EIRP fo...

Configuring DHCP Option 43 on a MikroTik Routerboard

Building my own knowledge base, i wanted to share another post, this time configuring a Mikrotik 1100 AH Routerboard as a DHCP server with option 43 (VSI). The goal is that Ruckus access points located in a different subnet than the vSZ, SmartZone or...

Capturing 802.11 Frames Using Ruckus Wireless Access Points and Wireshark

Its finally here, my first blog post 🙂. Special thx to Keith Parsons, Ferney Munoz and Tom Carpenter for inspiring me to start blogging. Lets kick-off with something not to hard that I field tested some time ago, nevertheless very useful for WLAN engin...

Cisco AP EIRP Calculation Examples

Used AP for these calculations is a Cisco AIR-AP1572EAC-E-K9 access point running IOS Version 15.3(3)JA8$ (8.0.133 MR3). 1. Browse for the EU Directive 1999/5/EC - Compliance Information document on the Cisco website for the specific access point. htt...