Author name: Andrew Walding

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CBRS Certified Professional Installer (CPI) Services

CellStream is proud to announce, and congratulates, Mr. Andrew Walding on attaining his CBRS Certified Professional Installer certification from Google!  As discussed in the CBRS overview article, CBRS license holders need an account with one of the SAS providers, and then they need a CPI to actually certify and log their CBSD/Antennas into the SAS […]

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CBRS – the new way to allocate Wireless Spectrum

If you haven’t heard by now, there is a new and innovative way to allocate wireless spectrum.  It is called CBRS – or Citizens Broadband Radio Service.  In our opinion every service provider, rural or otherwise, should be actively engaging this new methodology and ramping yup their awareness and participation in CBRS.  In fact, especially

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Capturing Wi-Fi WLAN Packets in Wireshark on MacOS

Check out these great references as well:   Our Wireless custom profile for Wireshark  Our Udemy course on Wireless Packet capture  Our other Wi-Fi related articles Ok all you Mac users, here is the way you capture Wi-Fi/WLAN frames using your Mac and Wireshark. First, Mac users get a really easy time of putting their interface

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Windows WLAN/Wi-Fi Commands of Interest

Check out these great references as well:  Our Wireless custom profile for Wireshark  Our Udemy course on Wireless Packet capture  Our other Wi-Fi related articles There are several other articles that we have written on various Windows 10 WLAN/Wi-Fi commands that you can execute to perform various important wireless information gathering and management.  We will

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Viewing the WLAN/Wi-Fi details via the WLAN Report in Windows

Windows 10 has several interesting WLAN/Wi-Fi commands you can run from the Windows 10 and later command or Powershell.  One of them is the WLAN Report.  The Windows WLAN Report is a detailed, automatically generated diagnostic report that provides a comprehensive history of Wi-Fi activity on a Windows system. It is produced using the command

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Best Practices for Securing your WLAN/Wi-Fi Network at Home or Small Business

If you have attended any of my presentations of WLAN/Wi-Fi Security or even my Security Courses,you know that the design of WLAN/Wi-Fi networks leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to security.  This is also evidenced by the law suit against Amazon with hackers allegedly controlling Ring cameras.   I have always said that

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What are all the Microsoft local area connections?

Using Wireshark in Microsoft Windows reveals some quirks that naturally leave you scratching your head as to what is going on.  For example, when I launch Wireshark on my Windows 10 system I see a bunch of different interfaces.  Some make sense (Wi-Fi, Ethernet 2) but others….: What are all the Local Area Connections?  What

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Finding Text Strings in Wireshark Captures

A common question regarding Wireshark packet analysis is “Can I find a text string in a packet capture?” Check out these great references as well:   Our custom profiles repository for Wireshark  Our Udemy course on Wireshark   Our Udemy course on Wireless Packet capture The answer is that it depends on where the text string is

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Fantastic Free Wi-Fi Analyzer for Windows – WinFi

Here is the download link: https://github.com/HelgeMagnusKeck/WinFi – look to the right, you will see Releases, and the latest release can be downloaded. Here is the Discord Server to join in discussions and request PRO Engineer version activation: https://discord.gg/4GTv5ED7 This tool is free – and there is a PRO Engineer version that costs money. After test

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Tweaking the Wireless Interface – Power Settings, Country etc. in Linux

I was asked in a recent WLAN class whether you can adjust the power level in a Wi-Fi radio.  The answer is yes (if you have the right operating system), and here is how. For this demonstration, I am using Kali Linux but this should work on any Linux.  Comment below if you can confirm

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