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While hotspots, before wireless Internet on public places, as mushrooms from the ground shoot, lifted the real WiFi-revolution with private persons and commit that self such wireless network put up. But what comes there all by look”

A wireless network is especially skilful in buildings where a traditional network cable with difficulty can become aangelegd, different buildings to bridge, or in situations true users sleepiness from place exchange. The advantages its as ready as a lump: you have no network cable more necessarily. In of that place gets each pc a network card that wireless in connection stands with an entries point or access point or with a gateway.

Prices
Since a fours year approved became ago the first standard for thread lynx networks (for the gemakkelijkheid also source WLAN or WiFi named), stretch the sale of access points, gateways and network card in the elevator. Investigation desk Dell' Oro figured from that the sale of such equipment in 2002 good was for 1.5 billion dollar volume of trade, a figure that they within this and five year see double. The interest for WLAN is fed by the falling prices. According to the investigation desk Gartner went down that last year on average with a small forty per cent. A simple access point have you in principle already for pakweg 150 Euros; a thread lynx network card for 75 Euros, sometimes even more cheaply. All will the quality, and thus also the price, of thread lynx equipment once in a while robust differences.
Additional trump for WLAN is gets that the technology the full support of single large names from the industry, as Intel, Cisco, Apple and Siemens. Furthermore there are yet vigorously a little more specific players, as Proxim, 3Com, Belkin, Linksys, Sitecom, Buffalo Technology and D-Link. The success comes also forward from the enthousiasm of the many techneuten that already such network applied to hartelust to can surfing or e-mail in their garden or living room. Investigation desk IDC value will be that the half of the home networks against end 2006 wireless. The fast break of this technology, and the optimism or even euphoria that with this goes paired, does a little bit think of the beginning day of the internethype. “wireless Internet is arrived. And from now is the sky the limit”, as screamed the vakblad Wired the from in one of its youngest numbers.

Receiver
What do you have to go necessarily at the blow” Along the receiving side see to you about an apparatus that you on a wireless network wants connect.,. In the best case, that has been built in a notebook with antennae and WiFi. Only more than probably you must adapt on missing to a separate. For notebooks, the choice falls adapt mostly on a PC Card-. By a desktop, you have is an USB want to consist more choice; the cheapest solution-, but it also PCI-solutions - as source in PC Card-to-PCI-form as real WiFi-PCI-cards. The preference goes to these last form. Somewhat more frivolous are the WiFi-solutions for hand computers. Here you are strongly dependent on the brand and model of your hand computer.