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The Importance of 5GHz Operation for Video

Posted Friday, February 09, 2007 8:00 AM by wndpteam
Recently, I read a great article on ZDNet that discusses the challenges IEEE 802.11n faces with 2.4GHz operation. The article is appropriately titled The Consequences of Abandoning the 5GHz Frontier , and discusses some history, backward compatibility, Read More...
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Wireless Routers That Rock: First Works With Vista Router

Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 8:00 AM by wndpteam
Congratulations to D-Link (powered by Ubicom ) for being the first ever to acheive a Windows Vista logo for the DIR-655 wireless router. While Buffalo acheived the premium "Certified for Windows Vista" logo , D-Link was first to meet the baseline "Works Read More...
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Wireless Routers That Rock: First Certified For Vista Router

Posted Monday, February 05, 2007 4:47 PM by wndpteam
Congratulations to Buffalo for being the first to acheive a Certified for Windows Vista logo for their dual-band WZR-AG300NH wireless router. In short, this device passed over eight hours worth of rigerous testing designed to ensure a fantastic experience Read More...
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Windows Vista Networking Goodies, Part 2: Device & Service Discovery

Posted Friday, January 05, 2007 11:34 AM by wndpteam
In my first post of this series, I talked about Windows Connect Now (WCN) and how easy it is in Windows Vista to discover, configure, and securely connect devices to a wireless network. In this post, I’ll talk about how to discover PCs, devices, and services Read More...
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Windows Vista Networking Goodies, Part 1: Windows Connect Now

Posted Thursday, January 04, 2007 1:53 PM by wndpteam
In addition to a completely re-written core networking stack, Windows Vista makes networking a significantly easier proposition for home, small business, and enterprise users. In this multi-part series, I’ll describe some new features which greatly simplify Read More...
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LLTD is Available for Non-Windows Platforms

Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 11:52 AM by wndpteam
Exciting news; the Windows Rally Development Kit was publicly released today on the Windows Rally technologies website! This porting kit is royalty free and provides full source code for an embedded Linux (yes, you read that correctly) reference implementation. Read More...
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Xbox 360 Fall Update Includes LLTD

Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 11:49 PM by wndpteam
There has been a lot of buzz about the recent fall update for the Xbox 360; however, an important new feature which has not been mentioned is support for the Link Layer Topology Discovery ( LLTD ) protocol. In its basic form, LLTD allows a Windows Vista Read More...
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How to find consumer network gear that rocks

Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 8:00 AM by wndpteam
Over the past few years, we've seen consumer networking products get really cheap. While cheap in a currency sense is great, we're unfortunately left experiencing the same of product quality (usually while grimacing at the "getting started" manual). Consumer Read More...
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WiFi QoS Support in Windows Vista: WMM Part 4

Posted Wednesday, August 09, 2006 8:00 AM by wndpteam
Parts 1-3 of this series on WMM provided a bunch of details about how the Windows Vista network stack enables prioritization on WiFi networks, and how to figure out if the access point actually supports this capability. This post describes what behavior Read More...
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WiFi QoS Support in Windows Vista: WMM Part 3

Posted Friday, July 21, 2006 5:32 PM by wndpteam
In my previous posts about WMM support in Vista, I described how Windows network applications can indicate which priority level they desire for traffic sent, and how Native WiFi (NWF) drivers can identify this traffic to provide appropriate prioritization Read More...
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Using Policy-Based QoS to Enable and Manage WMM in Enterprise Wireless Deployments

Posted Friday, June 30, 2006 6:54 PM by wndpteam
If your enterprise wireless AP vendor of choice supports WMM (most likely), and the warriors that wander the halls and conference rooms tote laptops with WMM capable NICs (most likely), you should start taking advantage of this capability. Until Windows Read More...
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New Public Forum for Windows Network Development Discussions

Posted Friday, June 30, 2006 4:30 PM by wndpteam
We've just launched a new MSDN public forum for Windows Network Development. The first open forum for discussions is QoS/qWAVE; however, myriad others will follow. We highly encourage open discussion on these forums, and we'll be actively monitoring to Read More...
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WiFi QoS Support in Windows Vista: WMM part 2

Posted Friday, June 30, 2006 1:00 AM by wndpteam
My previous post on WiFi QoS (WMM) discussed the four access classes (BG, BE, VI, and VO) available for traffic differentiation. I also highlighted that packets containing either a layer-2 802.1p tag or layer-3 DSCP mark (i.e. packets associated with Read More...
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WiFi QoS Support in Windows Vista: WMM

Posted Wednesday, June 28, 2006 7:22 PM by wndpteam
In Windows Vista, a great deal of effort has gone into making it simple for network applications to take advantage of QoS capable networks. This post focuses on QoS for WiFi networks (both consumer and enterprise) and how the Vista network stack enables Read More...
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