Wireless Internet Access

According to International Data Corp. (IDC), about half of all households have a computer, and more than that some of have more than one computer. In fact, market research shows that current PC owners are buying most of the new computers. This means that multi-computer households are becoming pretty common. If you are one of these multiple-PC owners, you have probably thought about how great it would be if your computers could talk to each other along with Wireless Internet Access. Infect computer without Internet is like body without blood. With your computers connected, you could:

• Share a single printer between computers
• Share a single Internet connection
• Share files such as images, spreadsheets and documents
• Play games that allow multiple users at different computers

Most people think that networking your home or small office can be painful–lots of wires, connections and the like. Plus, you have to make everything talk to one another. It's not as much of a challenge as you might think. With most people using Microsoft Windows operating systems, networking has been built in since Windows 3.11. Introduced in Windows 98, "Internet Connection Sharing" is a standard part of the operating system, allowing one computer to share an Internet connection with all computers on the home network. So, if you are running Windows, you can share files, printers and resources across your network without too much of a hassle.

How Wireless Internet Access works: Wireless Internet Access is a flexible data communication system implemented as an extension to, or as an alternative for, a wired internet within a building or campus. Using electromagnetic waves, Wireless Internet Access transmit and receive data over the air, minimizing the need for wired connections. Thus, Wireless Internet Access combines data connectivity with user mobility, and, through simplified configuration, enables movable LANs. Over the last seven years, Wireless Internet Access has gained strong popularity in a number of vertical markets, including the health-care, retail, manufacturing, warehousing, and academic arenas. These industries have profited from the productivity gains of using hand-held terminals and notebook computers to transmit real-time information to centralized hosts for processing. Today Wireless Internet Access is becoming more widely recognized as a general-purpose connectivity alternative for a broad range of business customers.

Applications for Wireless Internet Access: Wireless Internet frequently augment rather than replace wired LAN networks-often providing the final few meters of connectivity between a backbone network and the mobile user. The following list describes some of the many applications made possible through the power and flexibility of wireless Internet access.

• Doctors and nurses in hospitals are more productive because hand-held or notebook computers with wireless Internet access capability deliver patient information instantly.
• Consulting or accounting audit engagement teams or small workgroups increase productivity with quick network setup.
• Network managers in dynamic environments minimize the overhead of moves, adds and changes with Wireless Internet Access, thereby reducing the cost of LAN ownership.
• Training sites at corporations and students at universities use wireless connectivity to facilitate access to information, information exchanges, and learning.
• Network managers installing networked computers in older buildings find that Wireless Internet Access is a cost-effective network infrastructure solution.
• Retail store owners use wireless networks to simply frequent network reconfiguration.
• Trade show and branch office workers minimize setup requirements by installing preconfigured Wireless Internet Access needing no local MIS support.
• Warehouse workers use Wireless Internet Access to exchange information with central databases and increase their productivity.
• Network managers implement Wireless Internet Access to provide backup for mission-critical applications running on wired networks.
• Senior executives in conference rooms make quicker decisions because they have real-time information at their fingertips