Best Practices Foundation
Wi-Fi best practices: the checklist worth arguing about
A condensed, opinionated checklist covering RF, configuration, security and operations — the settings that make the biggest difference in the shortest time.
Technical
Technical library
Reference pages you can hand to a colleague: spectrum behaviour, RF fundamentals, corporate installation practice and the design rules that survive contact with a building.
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Best PracticesCorporate InstallationDesignRF FundamentalsSecuritySpectrumStandardsTroubleshootingUbiquiti
Best Practices Intermediate
Guest, BYOD and contractor access without regret
Designing guest and BYOD access that is genuinely isolated, survives MAC randomisation, and does not require a helpdesk ticket per visitor.
Corporate Installation Intermediate
Corporate Wi-Fi installation: from survey to sign-off
The full project sequence for an enterprise wireless installation — predictive design, cabling and PoE budgets, mounting, validation and handover — with the mistakes that cost money.
Design Intermediate
Channel planning: co-channel contention is the real enemy
Why adding access points often makes Wi-Fi slower, how CSMA/CA turns density into delay, and how to build a channel plan that survives.
Design Intermediate
Capacity-based design and where to actually put the access points
Moving from coverage-based to capacity-based design: how to size AP count from devices and applications, and the placement rules that matter more than the count.
RF Fundamentals Foundation
RF fundamentals: dBm, SNR, MCS and why signal strength lies
The small amount of RF maths that explains most Wi-Fi behaviour: the decibel, noise floor, SNR, and the modulation ladder that turns signal quality into throughput.
Security Intermediate
Enterprise wireless security: WPA3, 802.1X and the certificate problem
What WPA3 actually fixes, how to deploy 802.1X without creating a phishable network, and practical options for IoT that cannot do certificates.
Spectrum Foundation
The Wi-Fi spectrum, explained end to end
One page covering every band Wi-Fi uses — 2.4, 5, 6 and 60 GHz — what each is good for, how much usable spectrum you really get, and where the regulatory landmines are.
Spectrum Intermediate
DFS channels: when to use them and when to stay away
DFS roughly triples your 5 GHz channel budget and occasionally drops every client on an AP. A decision framework, plus how to test your site before committing.
Spectrum Advanced
6 GHz in practice: LPI, Standard Power and AFC
How the 6 GHz power classes actually constrain a design, what AFC does, why your 6 GHz SSID is invisible, and the coverage penalty nobody puts on the data sheet.
Standards Advanced
Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be): what MLO actually changes
Multi-Link Operation, 320 MHz channels, 4096-QAM and Multi-RU — separating the features that change deployments from the ones that change data sheets.
Troubleshooting Intermediate
A troubleshooting methodology that stops the guessing
Wi-Fi complaints are vague and the temptation is to change settings until it improves. A repeatable sequence for finding the actual fault.
Ubiquiti Intermediate
UniFi: the settings worth changing from default
UniFi Network ships with defaults tuned for a small home. A pass through the settings that matter once you have more than two access points.
Ubiquiti Intermediate
UniFi network design patterns that scale
How to structure a UniFi deployment so it survives growth — controller placement, VLAN scheme, switch topology and the multi-site model.
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