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Wireless Home Networking Simplified
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Wireless Home Networking Simplified

by Jim Doherty, Neil Anderson
December 2006
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
384 pages
10h 39m
English
Cisco Press
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Wireless Networks Will Be Faster

There is no doubt that wireless users are addicted to speed. With perhaps the sole exception of security improvements, speed is where most of the R&D and engineering dollars get spent in companies that provide wireless equipment. The interesting thing is that most people’s high-speed Internet connection is slower than the slowest wireless standard currently on the market (which is being phased out because consumers are demanding the faster standards).

Paying for extremely high speeds doesn’t make sense unless you are using wirelessly enabled computers where the connections are faster (perhaps at the office or Internet cafés) or if you are using bandwidth-intensive applications within your network, such as music ...

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