Wireless Internet

What is Wireless Internet?

Wireless Internet is a High Speed Internet access using a radio link between the customer’s location and the service provider’s facility. Wireless broadband can be mobile or fixed. High speed wireless connections are now readily available on laptops, cell phones, and other mobile computing devices.

Wireless technologies using longer range directional equipment provide broadband service in remote or sparsely populated areas where DSL or cable modem service would be costly to provide. Speeds are generally comparable to DSL and cable modem. An external antenna is usually required.

Hot Spot

Hot Spot is a specific geographic location in which an access point provides public wireless broadband network services to mobile visitors through a WLAN. Hotspots are often located in heavily populated places such as airports, train stations, libraries, marinas, conventions centers and hotels. Hotspots generally use a short-range technology that provides speeds up to 54 Mbps.

How Wireless Internet Works?

Wireless internet on laptops works by connecting wirelessly to a local domain (typically in a house or office). In order to connect wirelessly, you need to have a wireless networking device (either an external card that connects through your pcmcia slot or one internally embedded in the machine). Most new laptops have wireless cards pre-installed in the machine. The laptop communicates with a wireless access point in your location vicinity. Wireless routers also serve as access points.

Advantages of Wireless Internet

- Wireless Internet provides up to 10 Mbps download speed.
- Wireless Internet offers rural Web surfers a way to tap into high speed telecommunications without laying down fiber or reconfiguring the public switched telephone network system based on new DSL standards.
- Hotspots are available on populated places such as airports, train stations, libraries, marinas, conventions centers and hotels that provides speeds up to 54 Mbps.

Disadvantages of Wireless Internet

- Within the wireless traffic, hacking into your connection is big problem. You need to be sure to use wireless security to ensure all your private information is safe from those unauthorized viewers.
- Set-up costs may be expensive depending on the hardware required by your wireless Internet service provider.