May, 5th, 2010

It has been an interesting week,RF Math... the 10'3 and 3's make sense, butthe formula is another story all together. I purchased my CWNA package withvoucher. I am going to figure out away to give my book ways being that Ialready have one... SO if you or someone you know is going through the CWTSand need the CWNA book let me know. Studies have been a bit harder thisweek, my wife is not 100% and that plays apart of ye ole studies. To behonest I knew that was a lot more to RF/Wireless communications than I wasaware of but I did not realize the depth of it. As the days go on it justkeeps getting deeper. I will be on the forums more now that I am seeing howmuch I really don't know and I have heard it said that the devil is in thedetails.

Respectfully,

JCB

John Christopher Bogard, CCNA

Thur, 4/29/10, JC.Bogard

Thur, 4/29/10, JC.Bogard

My Journey into the depths of understanding wireless and is underway, mybook arrived Monday the 26th. I am about to take my IUWNE exam, I know thereis more info to learn OK, I am not a writer nor was I a blogger before - sothis is a new experience for me, here we go.

Once I learned I was one of the people selected for the CWNP or BUST myhouse was all excited. Having three children, two cats, a dog and a wifeleads to some interesting study habits. Read it when you can; a standardanswer is "Yes I am listing to you" while other topics are going throughyour mind. I read two chapter of the CWTS and the same with the CWNA, thecombined four chapters I have read so far have been a much easier read thansome of the other technical documentations I have read. I am planning onexperimenting with 802.11n and b&g signals, doing some packets capturing tosee how the beacons, probes and frames are affected. I have a neighborhoodto play in so it will be interesting to test things out. While readingthrough the first two chapters of the CWTS I discovered some things that Iwas not aware of and having completed the first two chapters of the CWNAbook the same is true. More technical postings will follow. I am justgetting my feet wet so to say.

After having spoken with a few other people via email and on the phone, I amthinking that my study habits may need a little tweaking. I would rather goslower and retain more that rush through and not be able to recall as much.Thanks for reading and I am looking forward to the path before me.

Study gear is an Itouch for a mini sniffer to detect open networks and I amgoing to hunt around for other tools I can use on it. Laptops are an HPNX9600 and an Apple Mac Book Pro for sniffing, reading, digital flash cards,practice test questions, packet captures... OS are Win7 Pro, Win XP Pro, andSnow Leopard with a fare amount of Linux tools (that I really don't know howuse very well yet, but I will S00N™), There are a several older computers Ican/will use to test connections and see about turning one or two of themin to rouge APs - an Ipad for reading/studies, connecting to AP's; going tosee if there are tools I can install on it for a portable sniffer or RougeAP as well... I have a couple out Netgear Wireless APs, Westell D90 AP, alot of routers and switches... no controllers (WLCs). Looking foreword toworking with those Cisco 1200 AP's.

Best Regards,

JC.Bogard