Wireless Signals

Wireless Internet/Technology

WHAT IS IT?

Wireless internet/technology creates a network by sending radio-frequency signals between your computers to share information. 

Wireless networking technologies is using no wires. In a wireless network, all of the computers in your home broadcast their information to one another using radio signals. This can make networking easy, especially if you have computers all over your house. It also makes it a whole lot simpler to move computers around, like laptop with a wireless network card. This makes it so much simpler because it's completely portable, which means that you can move throughout the house and still be connected to the internet. 

In wireless networking, a peer-to-peer or in other words point-to-point wireless network means that each computer can communicate directly with every other computer on the network. Not all of the wireless network has peer-to-peer, some wireless networks are client/server. The wireless network that use client/severs have an access point. An access point is a wired controller that receives and transmits data to the wireless adapters installed in each computer.

WHAT DOES IT DO?

The international standard from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN)  is 802.11b. WLAN operates at up to 11 megabits per second and has a range of 100-1000 feet.

A number of wireless network companies ("Hot Spot operators") are actively building Wi-Fi networks in public spaces such as hotels, airports, conference centers and retail establishments like Starbucks. They typically strike a deal with a landlord to deploy wireless access points ("APs" - Wi-Fi wireless transmitter hubs) in the facility and then pay the landlord monthly fees and/or a cut of revenue. On the other hand, becoming a small hot spot operator is inexpensive and easy.  A Wi-Fi acess point has a maximum typical range of 500 to 1000 feet. So making Wi-Fi available in...