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Title: 802.11 Demystified: Wi-Fi Made Easy (Telecommunications) by James LaRocca, Ruth LaRocca ISBN: 0-07-138528-2 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Pub. Date: 10 June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Good context for decsion makers
Comment: This book is good for people condsidering WLAN for their business or using WLAN technology in their products. Some tech details, but if you don't know what spread spectrum is, why its important to WLANs and why security is such a problem - topics such as that - then this book is for you. It's not a tech bits/bytes programming manual, but if you want that - you can download the spec from IEEE free. If you want a good view of where the technology fits with other wireless data technologies, why its so popular and what areas are problems, this book gets you going.
Rating: 2
Summary: Too much fluff
Comment: This book contains too much fluff. The title is somewhat misleading in my opinion. It has almost 300 pages but only about 150-170 of those pages actually deal with 802.11. Even of those pages, a considerable amount of space is devoted to covering the other 802.11 working groups leaving me disappointed in the 802.11b coverage. The rest of the book covers other wireless networking technologies (such as hiperlan, homeRF and countless others that most of us will never encounter). It also spends way too many pages on vague, 1-2 paragraph descriptions of how business x has implemented a 802.11 network to enhance productivity. And finally, the last 61 pages (aka appendix A), is a word-for-word reprint of the FCC regulations covering unlicensed emissions. These regulations apply to, but are not specific to, 802.11 and are surely available for free on the internet if you really have to have them. I'm still looking for a good WiFi book.
Rating: 2
Summary: Too simple without insight
Comment: This book severs as an introductory book. If you are an engineer with backgound on ethernet, you can skip this. This book is supposed for non-technical people, like marketing. Go for 802.11 wireless network if you want to know more.
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Title: 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly Networking) by Matthew Gast, Matthew S. Gast ISBN: 0596001835 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Wi-Fi Handbook : Building 802.11b Wireless Networks by Frank Ohrtman, Konrad Roeder ISBN: 0071412514 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Pub. Date: 10 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: The Wi-Fi Experience: Everyone's Guide to 802.11b Wireless Networking by Harold Davis, Richard Mansfield ISBN: 0789726629 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 21 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Maximum Wireless Security by Cyrus Peikari, Seth Fogie ISBN: 0672324881 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 18 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Wireless LANs (2nd Edition) by Jim Geier ISBN: 0672320584 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 09 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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