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Wireless Access to the Internet allows you to become more productive and effective in your daily personal and professional life. With Always On - Instant availability, the Wireless Internet will allow you to remotely access your desktop computer, email and important information when and where you need it. |
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In looking at Wireless Internet Access, the Question Is -#1) Where do you need the Wireless Internet Access? #2) What kind of applications do you plan on running?
To put things in the simplest manner, this is what you need :
If you need wireless Internet Access only for your home and you want to stream live video and have the same experience as being on a DSL / Cable Internet Connection then the following are your choices: Already have a Broadband Connection into the Home: DSL, Cable, FIOS If you already have a broadband internet connection and your looking to create a wireless zone within your house and the surrounding perimeter, then you want to purchase a Wireless Router. This router will create an 802.11 aka WiFi Wireless Hot Spot. This wireless technology
Wifi is a localized technology. If you need wireless internet access only within your home or office then this is prefect for you. Once you leave your home or office, you will not be connected to the internet unless you find a "Hot Spot". A "Hot Spot" is a place where you can receive WiFi (802.11) signal and hook up to the internet thru another person's local network. An example would be Starbucks. Many places offer WiFi access but the majority of these places charge as much as $9.95 per day for you to connect. If you will be leaving your local WiFi connection often - you would be financially better off to enroll in an EVDO service instead. WIFi is not as secure as EVDO - so be careful.
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You can purchase a simple wireless router, hook it up to your Cable
or DSL box and be off and running within 20 minutes. You will need
an 802.11 connection card - many of the new notebook computers
already have this built in.
Have No Current Internet Connection into the Home and want to go Wireless If you have no Internet Connection and are looking to get only 1 flexible Internet Connection, than our recommendation is to go with a "Mobile Broadband offering from one of the major carriers such as Verizon, AT&T or Sprint. You will want to obtain a USB Modem (A Wireless Broadband Modem that plugs into the USB port of any desktop or laptop computer and some newer routers ) This will allow you to use the same Internet connection in your house and while you travel. A perfect example would be the following: You live in New England in the Summer and you have a Winter Home in Florida. Instead of paying for Internet Access for the New England home in the Summer and a Separate Internet Connect in Florida you could obtain 1 Wireless Plan. You would use that same USB Card and Plan for both locations. Heck, you could even use it while your traveling between locations. You also get the many benefits of Internet Outside your home discussed below. Unlimited Plans cost between $50 and $60 per month so they are bit more expensive then most DSL and Cable Plans which will run between $24.95 and $39.99 per month. However, you only need the one plan and the convenience and reliability is worth it. So your looking to have Internet Access anywhere you travel. You are in luck. Today there are a multitude of ways to have Internet Access from anywhere in the world. The most popular Mobile Broadband services are those offered by the large wireless carriers such as Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile. The most popular of these broadband wireless services is called EVDO. Today, all of your nationwide cellular carriers such as Verizon Wireless, Nextel, Sprint, Cingular and T--Mobile offer high speed, broadband wireless internet access. This is the way to go today. Most plans start around $49.99 per month, with the average around $59.99. EVDO (Evolution Data Optimization - Revision A) EVDO is broadband wireless internet service. In the same way WiFi became a household word years ago, the newer, more powerful EVDO Service offers to further liberate the way you do "business" once again. EVDO works most everywhere your cell phone does. Unlike satellite internet, the equipment you need for EVDO is portable and fits in your pocket. Adding to your mobility, EVDO has about a 15mile range from every Verizon or Sprint Cell Phone Tower vs. WiFi, which has about a 50foot range from a "Starbucks" or home office. EVDO is the perfect solution for anyone who travels across the US and would like Internet Access anywhere. If your a business, you cant live without it. EVDO consistently delivers about 700kbps - 2mps. BUT in many instances you can achieve peak bursts of 3meg per second on the downlink. EVDO RevA is guaranteed to be 2000k+ on the downlink and almost 700K on the uplink. This is faster than most home DSL connections.
WIMAX WIMAX is an approximate acronym of Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, is a telecommunications technology that provides for the wireless transmission of data using a variety of transmission modes, from point-to-point links to full mobile cellular-type access. The technology provides upto 70 Mb/sec symmetric broadband speed without the need for cables. However, WiMax is still in its infancy and very limited in its availability as of 2009. By 2011 WiMax will be throughout most of the major metropolitan areas across the US. The primary US provider for WIMAX is a company by the name of Clearwire. (A Combined company that incorporates Sprint Nextel's Xohm WiMax Division with WiMax Provider Clearwire.) If coverage is more important than speed, than your ultimate choice is Satellite Based Wireless Internet Access. HughesNet is a provider of
internet access via two-way satellite. It is very secure, very fast, very
reliable, and now more affordable than ever. It is different than your
satellite TV dish, which is one-way (only receives TV signals). HughesNet
both receives and sends signals (download and upload). Download speeds range
from 700 Kbps - 2.0 Mbps. Dial-up downloads at 28 Kbps - 56 Kbps. That's an
incredibly fast difference! HughesNet is also always on and doesn't tie up
your phone line. Look to the Leader. HughesNet is brought to you
by HUGHES®, the leading provider of broadband satellite network solutions
for consumers, businesses, and government. For over 30 years, Hughes has
delivered satellite products and services around the world, with more than
1.5 million systems ordered or shipped to customers in over 100 countries.
Hughes pioneered the development of high-speed satellite Internet services,
which it markets globally under the HughesNet brand.
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