Wireless Home Networking Simplified

What to Consider When Choosing Your Wireless Standard

So how do you sort through the many wireless options that are available to you and decide what’s best for your home network? First, you must keep in mind that there are two sides to this decision process:

• What to choose for the wireless access point/router that will “host” your wireless network

• What to choose for wireless network interface cards (NICs) that will allow the computers on your home network to “join” the network wirelessly

The previous chapters covered the various wireless standards that exist and the advantages and disadvantages of each. Knowing the frequencies and other facts about the various standards is all well and good, but you still need to make a decision that will ...