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Article #317: Wireless Networking - Do You Need It?

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There has been so much hype about wireless adapters.
wireless networking that it is sometimes Wherever there is an 802.11 wireless
hard to get to the important question: access point, a wireless
do you need it? To determine whether networking-capable device can access that
your notebook computer needs to have network and, generally, the internet.
wireless networking capabilities, you Do You Need Wireless Networking in Your
need to understand what it is first. Notebook Computer?
WLAN Whether you need wireless networking
WLAN stands for Wireless Local Area depends entirely on you. Wireless
Network or Wireless LAN. Wireless networking capability is always a
network cards use the IEEE 802.11 wonderful feature to have in a notebook
standard of wireless transmission. There computer, but there are scenarios where
are other wireless networking standards, wireless networking is definitely
such as Bluetooth, but the 802.11 necessary.
standard is the preferred networking If you want to have a tidy office or home
solution. The Wireless Network interface network, wireless networking is for you.
was developed originally for interfacing Moreover, if there are many users in your
among computers connected through a local local network or if the number of users
area network, but it is now also being is expected to increase, a wireless
used for Voice over Internet Protocol router is not limited by the number of
(VoIP) and internet access, just like the Ethernet ports on the router. Please
standard Local Area Network interface. note, however, that a wireless network
A Wireless Networking environment has no connection is not as reliable as
need for complicated wiring to traditional Ethernet connections, and
accommodate data sharing and internet wireless connections are susceptible to
access. The wireless network uses one or radio wave and electromagnetic
more Wireless Access Points or Wireless interference.
Routers to transmit the signal. An If you are a freelancer, a reporter, or
Access Point has an antenna and an in another position where you frequently
Ethernet port, which must be connected to travel, Wireless Networking is
a broadband modem for internet invaluable. Wireless Networking is the
connectivity. A Wireless Router adds most widely used form of public internet
several more Ethernet ports to allow a access all over the world. With a
combination of wired and wireless wireless networking card, you are
connections. The Access Point or Router guaranteed an internet connection, as
acts as the radio frequency transmitter long as you can find a wireless hotspot.
and receiver (radio frequency For interfacing with personal devices
electromagnetic waves are the medium like PDAs and cellular phones, Bluetooth
through which data packets are sent and is a more common option, but Wireless
received). This Access Point interfaces Networking is absolutely necessary for
with devices (computers, PDAs, IP Phones, wireless internet connections.
and other Access Points) which use 802.11






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