The city of Aurora, Ill., partnered with KnowBe4 to develop a free online Internet security course for its residents. The course contains eight different lessons and is in response to the new norm of remote work.
How to name your Wi-Fi networks for best Mac, iPhone, and iPad roaming
Give your devices the great freedom to roam among Wi-Fi gateways with one notable exception.
body>Macs, iPhones, iPads, and other Apple hardware roam best across Wi-Fi networks that are made up of multiple wireless routers when the routers all share the same network name, known obscurely as a Service Set Identifier (SSID). This name allows your devices to recognize the collective set of routers as all equally available to switch among to preserve a connection when the signal for one network becomes weak.
I have several access points, but they re all unified under a single name.
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When thousands of World Wide Technology employees went to work-from-home environments, IT practitioners like Jason Kayser focused on easing that transition from a network connectivity standpoint.
Kayser, senior manager of infrastructure engineering of the $13.4 billion, 7,000-employee technology and services provider, said the first big challenge was helping employees self-educate about their new work digs: how to best connect to their workplace applications, collaboration tools and systems.
âTrying to figure out the transition during COVID, that was really interesting to see,â Kayser said in an interview with Reworked. âWhat s the network responsibility for us as a company vs. whatâs the user s responsibility? Whatâs that line of demarcation? Do people really want their company to get into what they are doing within their homes?â