The article "Wireless Internet" talks about mobile devices, it has been released by Dennis Oley.
We have all come a long way from conencting to the web via the old 2400 baud telephone line modem to a slow AOL connection.
Now, there are many ways to connect to high-speed web at various costs and sevrice levels. Today, the Cable TV provided high-speed web access usually costs about $50 per month in the United States and provides speeds from 1 mgeabits per second to 3 megabits per second (in locations). The baby blels have also jumped on the high-speed web service bandwagon, with various DSL service offers.
The DSL service is delivered to your home or office over a standard telephone line, and the cost can be as low as $25 per month for high-speed access.The hottest thing about high-speed web service (other than you don’t have to wait forever for your favorite web page to load) is the option to connect other usres to your same web connection - and share the service. There are two ways to share an web connection – either hard wire network (using twsited (4) pair Cat 5 wire), or Wireless network. The old-fashioned hard-wire method is still the hottest for cosntant connectivity and security. With a hard-wire network and the correct security precautions, it is really difficult for a hacker to access your network from across the street!
However, wiring your condo or small business for hard-wired web and netwrok access can be a titanic job with titanic costs, and your computer is “stuck” in one location near the wire outlet. Today the wireless network solutions from LinksysÒ (a Division of Cisco Systems, Inc.) and CableOrganizer.Com are affordable, reliable, and secure. Here is a fast primer on how to build your first indoor wireless network to share web access.The first thing you have to do is purchase a high-speed web connection from your favorite local web provider. Both DSL or Cable web access will be delivered through a high-speed DSL or Cable modem. Now to set-up a simple wireless network you need two more things; a Wireless Router (to connect to your high-speed modem), and a way to receive the wireless signal at your computer, a wireless network card.
Wireless Network Cards are available for internal installation as a PCI card, or, as an external plug-in card for your laptop, or as a USB port connection on any computer. I prefer the USB port connected network cards cause they are easily portalbe to any computer (laptop or desktop).
The instructions that are proivded with the router and the network cards are relatively fast to understand.
Just remebmer to follow the instructions carefully from the beginning. You will be connected wirelessly to the router and the web really quickly, and you will be amazed at the quality of the 300 feet range connection.Before completing your wireless network configuration, please don’t forget to install the recommended secruity precautions. The LinksysÒ Wireless Routers allow you to specify only the computers that you want to allow access to your network (via the network card MAC address).
And, you can also configure 128-bit encryption of all the wireless trfafic from your computers to the wireless router.
This security is sufficient to deny acecss to the most malicious hacker attempts, and it is all provided free with your LinksysÒ Wireless network from CableOrganizer.Com.
There is nothing better than surfing the net wirelessly from your backyard patio on a nice day. Have fun! Dennis Oley is New Products Specialist at http://cableorganizer.Com/ - Hundreds of cable management products to choose from, all in one place.
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