How does wireless internet work

How does wireless internet work

Are you interested in learning how does wireless internet work? Are you fascinated with wireless internet and all its benefits? Are you interested to learn it on easy and "human readable" way? If so, then read rest of this.

Lets first define what wireless internet really is. It is connection from your PC (laptop or desktop), cellular phone or palm to internet, but WITHOUT WIRES.

We can accomplish this in three ways:

1) Using your mobile network operator

2) Using Wi-Fi (WLAN)

2) Using your WiMAX operator.

Let's describe this three most common way of commercial wireless internet connections:

1) Mobile Network operator

Today using your Mobile Network operator is most common way to use internet. Nowadays you can hardly find a person which doesn’t have PC. But it is impossible to find person who doesn’t have a mobile phone. GSM and CDMA are used for phone calls and really slow internet connection – 9.6 kbps.

But now every mobile operator has special systems used only for internet connection – packet transfer. GPRS (up to 114 kbps), EDGE (up to 384 kbps), UMTS (up to 2Mbps) and HSDPA(+) (up to 42Mbps) are giving you much more from traditional GSM. You can use your mobile phone or special mobile cards that connect your PC to internet.

2) Wi-Fi (WLAN)

Most of this site is about WLAN and Wi-Fi. So here will be very easy for you to find more information about this internet connection. You can start with How WLAN works.

3) WiMAX
About WiMAX you can find out more on WiMAX - broadband wireless internet.

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