The Wi-Fi Experience: Everyone’s Guide to 802.11b Wireless Networking

Chapter 9. The Wi-Fi Revolution

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In this chapter

• A Peek Into the Near Future 137

• The Weightless Computer 139

• Wireless Freedom of Information 142

• What About HiperLan/2? 143

• VoIP: The New Telephone? 143

• Welcome to the Wireless World 145

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Most experts agree that someday wireless communication will dominate information services. We will enjoy HDTV, broadband Internet, videophone, and all the other modern communication systems—free at last from the need to use any wires.

Until that happy day arrives, many forward-looking people are connecting their computers with Wi-Fi, an early taste of what the future holds. People want to be free to roam around their offices (or indeed around the country) and still remain connected to ...