| Practically everyone you know has an internet | | | | install and costs hardly anything. Family members |
| connection. People are no longer in awe of the | | | | can then move their laptops to any convenient |
| internet. Computers are now common fixtures at | | | | spot in the house and still be connected. |
| homes, and not just in offices. People now prefer | | | | Sometimes neighbors may be able to access |
| to use laptops instead of desktops both at home | | | | your connection, which is why it should be |
| and at work because they take up less space and | | | | configured with password security. Any machine |
| are portable. There has been a corresponding | | | | that cannot complete a 'handshake' with the LAN |
| natural progression to using wireless internet | | | | will not get wireless access. |
| connections (Wi-Fi). Wireless internet uses radio | | | | There is no need to worry about internet safety |
| waves rather than wires to transmit data. | | | | as wireless networks today use security protocols |
| There are two elements of a wireless internet | | | | such as Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) and an |
| connection. Firstly you need a Local Area Network | | | | even more advanced Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 |
| (LAN), an actual internet source that broadcasts | | | | (WPA2). This ensures that no one can eavesdrop |
| the internet connection. A computer needs to be | | | | on your internet activity. |
| equipped with a wireless LAN card in order to | | | | In many parts of the world entire business |
| connect with it. | | | | districts and corporate buildings are Wi-Fi hot |
| Wireless internet is the perfect solution to our | | | | spots where anyone with the appropriate |
| modern need to be connected at all times and | | | | hardware can connect to the internet. Coffee |
| everywhere. More and more businesses are | | | | shops and malls all over Europe and North |
| beginning to use Wi-Fi. They prefer to do without | | | | America are Wi-Fi enabled. Many hotels have |
| Ethernet cables all over the office. Installing cables | | | | jumped on the bandwagon and are offering |
| all over a building or an office is time consuming | | | | wireless internet as part of their services. |
| and messy. With wireless internet employees can | | | | Most of the latest computers, cell phones and |
| move their laptops wherever they want and still | | | | PDAs come with web browsers already installed. |
| be connected online. | | | | It makes more sense for you to adopt the latest |
| Many homes have also shifted to using a wireless | | | | wireless technology and make the most of it |
| internet connection. It takes less than an hour to | | | | whether at office, at home or while travelling. |