WIFI-Potato, a WIFI technology blog

Hi, and welcome to my first technical post of this blog. In this first post, I will talk about the use of the UNII-3 band (5725MHz - 5850MHz, channels 149, 153, 157, 161, 165) in Belgium and The Netherlands. Since I began to gather WIFI knowledge, across most literature, I could read that the UNII-3 band is not allowed to be used in Europe. Is the documentation out of date, or did I read the wrong literature, I don't know... But I had to change my view on this after sorting it all out. Using the band I was having a discussion with one of our vendors on this. On certain AP's I could see the UNII-3 band being used. As the vendor of the AP's was certain they did nothing wrong, I started gathering more information on this subject. After looking up and doublechecking everything, it soon became clear that the UNII-3 band is allowed to be used, both in Belgium and Holland, with a max. EIRP of 25mW. Also important is: this band is not part of the DFS channels. The st

Hi Everyone, My name is Dries Velle, WIFI engineer. I am working in WIFI for about 4 years now. I am employed by a Belgian value added distributor: Kappa Data . When I started my job at the helpdesk, it soon became clear for me that there was little knowledge on WIFI within the technical landscape. When there was a WIFI issue, at some point no one knew what to do and people were just doing something, hoping for the best. It looked a bit like the Wild West of WIFI: potato WIFI everywhere. This encouraged me to gather more knowledge on the subject. The more knowledge I gathered the more interesting WIFI became, and still is. With this blog I hope to help spread knowledge on WIFI technology and share some of the issues and interesting things I encountered in my works as a WIFI engineer. Below are some of the WIFI certifications I currently have are: CWNA ECSE Aerohive ACMA trainer Ruckus RASZA 200 trainer I hope that you will enjoy the content of the upcoming posts and tha