Chris Avants

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Chris is an awarded Expert Instructor / Author specializing in Wireless, Security, and Collaboration technologies. Chris began his career with GE Capital at the age of 17, and continued working in the field as an SME for over 13 years before becoming an authorized Cisco Instructor. Over the last 6 years Chris has helped thousands of students learn advanced technology concepts, and has authored / co-authored several courses on both official and original subject matter around Wireless, Security, and Collaboration technologies namely from Cisco Systems. Chris is currently a contract instructor/ author with some of the best learning partners in the world.

CCNAW / CCNPW / CCIEW Lab for Cheap

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If your working toward a Cisco Wireless certification such as CCNAW/CCNPW or CCIEW, you will want to practice. A LOT. When it comes to building and buying lab equipment, if you know me you know I am not shy about investing in the right education or lab gear at all. That said there’s no need […]

Learn to subnet in 20 Minutes

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This was a promo video I did for an upcoming digital course I am working on called Rockstar Network Foundations. The course will be released at WiFi Training / Rockstar Training and covers network fundamentals. For fun, I wanted to see if I could teach people VLSM or IPv4 subnetting in just 20 minutes. The […]

Captive Portal Bypass / Hacking

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A quick 3-minute video illustrating why it’s important to secure captive portals. In this example, it’s bypassing simple terms of use or user acceptance policy, but the same hack works on more than a few popular captive portals out there. If we go to the effort to create a security policy, ensure your properly enforcing […]