i haven't been using the wireless internet connection yet.but i wanna tried it.when i contact the local isp they only provide the CDMA card to connected as the wireless internet. oh.i have been so dispointed with GSM or CDMA net..

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Yes.., it is very sercure. The network i am running now is ADSL and i have a password set for hexideciaml and static IP. I haven't had any problem out of it every since I did that. I am using a D-Link Router, which I would highly recommend to anyone.

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I have heard that is is quite insecure unless you put encryption on the signal and still is a little insecure. anyone can access using your signal so you really have to be carefull. i love my cable modem.



Long life to Cable Modem

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Wifi is faster than Dial up, and it doesnt need any phone to be able to connect to the net, dial up needs a phone line to just like a DSL connection.

im planning to switch to wifi in the next 3 months and see if its performance can meet my expectations.. dsl is just too pricey for a student T_T

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I have an ADSL connection, but I have considered changing it to a Wireless connection in the future.

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Wirless it is good if you have a good house and you want mobility inside your place. Maybe you want to use a laptop one day in the basement and antoher day in your room.

Basically the speed is a bit lower in wireless network but you have much more mobility. The choice depends on where you want to get connected in your house or if your room.

Yap it is secure. You can encrypt it with WEP protocol. It is easy and your neighbour would not be able to use your net without your approvement. Of course data transfer in the air is less secure than in wire but if you do not use.

 

 

 

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how would you go about getting satellite internet? i never heard of a company that actually provides that service. I guess it cost too much to be public or something. i have no idea. i've always heard about it but never seen a company sell it or even advertise it.

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I've been using a wireless internet connection on the university campus for a while now and it's really awesome, have never had a problem with it although I'm pretty sure this is more like a wireless area network connection rather than a pure wireless internet connection. Most of our campus is covered and I've really enjoyed using it. At home I still use ADSL.

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Overall, if you are networking wirelessly, it depends on what you are getting. I am using a D-Link router at home, with my dad's comp hardlined into it, and my sister's laptop and my desktop on wireless. My sister's laptop has a D-Link airplus wirless G Cardbus card, and I can get a signal with it anywhere in the house, and it doesn't drop anything, or lose the connection. My desktop on the other hand is running on an airplus as well, but I got a cheap $10 one. It doesn't lose any packets or corrupt/change packets, but occaisonally it will simply drop the connection, annoying when I'm playing guild wars Overall, if your router and wirless PCI/Cardbus cards are from the same company, you are going to get a better service than if you mix and match. If you are atually on a satelite connection, you will get extremely fast connection/transfer speeds, but there is a major catch in the contract. If you download more than 100MB in a month, your connection speed will drop to less than a 56k modem, because you will get that 100 MB file in less than a minute, and the satelite companies don't want all of their bandwidth eaten up by massive downloaders. DSL on the other hand, can be fast, but it depends on who you are getting it from, and how close you are to the nearest repeater. I am on a DSL connection through SBC, but we are a ways from the repeater, and only paying $30 a month, so we get about a 266k connection, I max out at about 60kb/s download, but the upside of DSL, is I can get about a 500kb/s upload time.
Cable, overall is your best choice if you want to download files, but it is also the most expensive besides satelite. If you get cable through Comcast, and you have Comcast cable, it will cost you $40 a month, but you also pay $8 month for modem rental fees, and a little more for slightly hidden fees. Cable is faster than DSL for downloads, but you will not get very great upload speeds. You have to be very careful with cable, and watch your bills, to see exactly how much you will pay a month.

That's about it for now. PM me if you have any questions about what I've posted, or just ask it here.

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Sorry, I have to disagree, well sorta, a wireless network is both, I have a home wireless network, netgear router and it is a network where I can access printers other cpus shared files all through the network, then there are larger networks like isps with wirless towers, or satelite or like a cell phone companies "networks", network is a broad term of any connected systems or communication, in a general statement anything connected, Trap17 could be called a network if u wanted it to. You could be right though in which type of network he is talkin about.

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