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Wireless Cards

September 12th, 2010 by Edy
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A wireless system requires you to have a wireless card that does the job of receiving and transmitting data. This is either on your computer or laptop.

Most laptops, as I said earlier, come with the card installed on it. All that you have to do: go to your operating system and enable the card. You can start using it immediately.

Well, this might not be the case with all machines or laptops. Please note that there are also laptops that fitted with Bluetooth and not with WiFi. In these laptops and machines, you need to install the wireless card to get it connected to the access point. Read the rest of this entry →

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WLAN and WiFi

September 10th, 2010 by Edy
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WLAN stands for Wireless Local Area Networking or just Wireless LAN. The wireless LAN can be set up using any of the wireless communication methods that are normally used.

The most common one is the WiFi or Wireless Fidelity systems. This is the brand name for such wireless systems produced by the WiFi Alliance.

So what is this WiFi? WiFi is a standard protocol and brand owned by the WiFi Alliance. Most internet service providers are subscribers to this brand and make equipments that fit into this interface. Read the rest of this entry →

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