Book Review – Wireless Hacks
If you deploy a wireless network or use any existing wireless technology and you want to get the most out of it, this is exactly the type of book you need. This book provides you with tips and practical short solutions for real-world wireless networking. The book consists of seven chapters, each devoted to a particular subject of wireless technology. Each chapter contains a number of hacks related to the subject of the chapter. The author organized the book in such way that allows the reader to read the book from chapter to chapter, or browse around and look for hacks that interest him/her most.
Most of the non-hardware hacks in this book are devoted to Unix/Linux platform, though the author provides some hacks related to Windows and Mac OS X users. Big portion of the book is dedicated to Hardware hacks, and they can be implemented on any platform.
The first chapter begins with basic tips related to wireless technology standards. The author provides information on the 802.11 family standards, cellular data networks and other less traditional communication technologies. The following chapter deals with Bluetooth technology and mobile data.
Network monitoring is the subject of the third chapter. In this chapter, the reader gets familiar with various tools for wireless network exploration and analysis, tips for avoiding interference, discovering who’s using the wireless network and doing what, and various other tips on network performance.
