A few months ago, I wrote an article about Windows Vista's ability to form ad hoc networks using the IPv6 protocol. Since that time, I have received a considerable amount of email from readers who are ...

That wireless networking is on the cusp of becoming a mainstream technology is irrefutable. A quick scan through this week's Communications section shows that the outstanding technical issues have ...

An ad hoc network consists of one or more computers that are interconnected, but don't need a centralized access point, such as a router, to transfer data back and forth. Ad hoc networks are ideal for ...

An ideal application for mesh networking is off-grid communication; when there’s no cellular reception and WiFi won’t reach, wide-area technologies like LoRa can be used to create ad hoc wireless ...

Unlike most wireless local area networks, or WLANs, which use a router to provide network connectivity to wireless-capable computers in the area, an ad hoc network does not have a central access point ...

Intel on Monday demonstrated what may be the largest wireless ad-hoc network ever set up, as part of a discussion of its research and development efforts. Such networks, which can be formed and ...

Even the often far-reaching researchers at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) seems to think this one is a stretch: Develop what’s known as mobile ad-hoc wireless technology that lets ...

I live in a dorm room at school, and my laptop (Toshiba Tecra M2) is connected to my uni's residential network by an ethernet cable. The laptop has an Intel 2200BG wireless adapter. I searched and ...

Decentralized ad hoc networks, the kind we’re likely to see more of as IoT use increases, could self-discover their network size by copying ant colony behavior Ants figure out details related to the ...

I'm on the train right now, tethered to my cellphone. Despite the fact that its already fairly pokey, I'm feeling generous, so I created an ad hoc wireless network. Is there any way short of watching ...