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Troubleshooting Wireless Client Connectivity

by Andrew Crouthamel

Ensuring clients can connect and remain connected to your wireless network is critical. In this course, you will learn how to verify wireless client access to a wireless infrastructure and understand interference issues caused by common technologies.

What you'll learn

Wireless networks are everywhere, and good network engineers need to understand the differences between wireless and wired infrastructures to ensure client communication works as intended. In Troubleshooting Wireless Client Connectivity, you will learn knowledge of wireless issues, troubleshooting methods for clients, and supporting infrastructure devices. First, you will learn about the features of Cisco Prime Infrastructure and how it can help you diagnose a network. Next, you will explore interference issues and common technologies you will see in the field, as well as tools to help diagnose and troubleshoot them. Finally, you will discover how to verify and tweak client settings to ensure correct configuration and compatibility with a wireless network. When you're finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of client troubleshooting needed for the CCNA Wireless WIFUND (200-355) exam.

Table of contents

Course Overview
1min
Introducing Troubleshooting Wireless Client Connectivity
5mins
Prime Infrastructure
13mins
Wrapping Up
5mins

About the author

Andrew started out in IT working an Assistant Computer Technician position for a school district, blowing dust out of lab computers all summer; barely making enough to pay for gas to get to work. Since then, he has worked for a number of different organizations, some of them well known. He knows what it is like to start out in IT from the bottom up and uses this experience to help students learn the best way possible, offering some nuggets of wisdom on real-world IT along the way.

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