Guess What Is The Most Desired Amenity in Hotels?
Would you choose Free Breakfast or WiFi? If you said free breakfast or free parking, you are wrong. It is actually free WiFi that ranks #1 in the list of desired amenities!!! Technology is changing travelers’ everyday lives including what they expect from hotels or...
VoIP Performance Test Using WiFi Client Emulator
In our previous post, VoIP Performance Over WiFi we have seen an overview of VoIP, the mechanism it uses for data flow, why VoIP application is so special to consider, indicators of VoIP performance, challenges in understanding the performance over wifi, and more. In...
VoIP Performance Over WiFi
Our recent tests showed that the latest enterprise-grade 802.11 AC access points are capable of delivering cumulative throughput of the order of up to 300 Mbps, with 100 concurrent users in real-life situations. So what would you expect if we do a concurrent VoIP call...
U-APSD
Unscheduled Automatic Power Save Delivery (U-APSD) In the previous blog, we have seen the details of the legacy power save mode. Now, let us see how to overcome the shortcomings of legacy power save with the adoption of U-APSD. In this post, we discuss The reasons why...
Legacy Power Save Mode
In our previous post Understanding WLAN Power Save Mode, we have seen an overview of 802.11 power save standards, mechanisms, and tools to simulate power save clients. In this blog, we will delve deeper into legacy power save mode - mechanism, process, drawbacks, and...
Understanding WLAN Power Save Mode
WLAN Power Save Wi-Fi has been adopted for a variety of devices addressing various use cases. Many of these applications require the devices to conserve power as much as possible. For example, mobile phones should reduce the total power used so that they can last from...
WiFi User Experience in Schools
WiFi in School Students thrive in an environment where technology and digital interactivity are encouraged. This scenario allows schools to adapt digital classrooms for the current and future generations. An increase in the usage of smartphones, tablets, and laptops...
WiFi Performance Benchmark Testing in a Class-room Environment
Comparison of 802.11ac Wave 2 Access points Alethea recently conducted WiFi Performance Benchmark testing of four 802.11ac Wave 2, dual-band access points in a high-density environment. Tests were conducted with both bands (2.4GHz and 5GHz) enabled and with the...
Why WiFi in Stadiums need rigorous testing?
The Role of WiFi in Social Media Engagement With the proliferation of smartphones and tablets, users in stadiums demand high data rates to engage with other fans across multiple social networks be it Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or Snapchat. The expectation is...
Customer Matters
In the Wi-Fi industry, we are very focused on advertising performance in terms of megabits and gigabits. Like the processor wars of the 90s and naughties, we are pushing the story that faster is better. And look where it led the processor industry – unsustainable and...
Video Performance over Networks
All of us have seen the familiar picture of “Loading Circle” while watching videos streaming over the internet. Video Streaming is probably the largest consumer of the bandwidth today. Every user would want to avoid the loading circle as much as possible; or the ISP...
User Experience in public Free-Wi-Fi
Today’s world lives in the paradigm that “Wi-Fi = Internet & Internet = Life”. Therefore it is not surprising that governments around the world consider making Wi-Fi a fundamental right of their citizens. In many ways, Wi-Fi is today what electricity was in the...
