Thread: Linking To The Internet

The Radio and the Phone

Wireless networks will always win over pumped ones, if for no other reason, simply because it is much cheaper for signals to travel through the air than it is to install and hold wires. For example... consider that telephones were originally used for sending and receiving news reports. When radio was invented, this stopped almost overnight - why bother going to all that disbursal when it's free 'over the air'? The same principle applies to pc networking.

Imagine causing a select between a wired Internet joining and a wireless one. The only reason to select a wired connection would be cost because currently it's cheaper? However, that will change soon. Wireless is also easier. Once the cost gap closes, if given the chance, there's no logical reason why anyone wouldn't switch to a wireless connection.

WiMAX

WiMAX is the next times of wireless. It will use a received called 802.16. The current standard is 802.11. It's still a work in progress, but the openings are exciting.

WiMAX stands for Worldwide ability for Microwave Access and is designed to complement existing wireless instrumentality... rather than replace it. The big advantage of WiMAX is that it greatly increases range. Rather than being measured in square meters, which is how the current measure is evaluated in, WiMAX ranges will be measured in square kilometers.

Evidently, this opens an incredibly wide range of hypotheses. Wireless access would move from LANs (Local Area Networks) to MANs: (Metropolitan Area Networks) application a whole town or city with wireless access. The doubt would no longer be if you could link via wireless, but what WiMAX network you involved to join too.