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hi friends, anyone have tried Wireless Internet ? the differences between dialup or other connections wif wireless? is it secure?











   Sat Aug 6, 2005    Reply         

I'm using it right now. It has its downtimes and it's a sensitive little bugger, but otherwise, very hardy and pretty fast. I have a D-Link one - so it does matter by brand. But I like it a lot :D

   Sat Aug 6, 2005    Reply         

What do you mean by wireless internet.. It can actually mean, acessing internet right from satellite or accessing it via access points which are setup by ISPs.

Anyone with more information? I would appreciate if you could give us the advantages and disadvantages in more detail.

   Sat Aug 6, 2005    Reply         


i've used wireless internet...i was using HP laptop ZD 7000 series and Linksys router....i dont remember the model of that....and service was absolutely brilliant...there are many standards like 802.11a 802.11b and 802.11g
and i think the best one according to speed is 802.11b but i think go for 802.11g standard as it the latest one and is backward compatible as well....if you want to know more about it then you can PM or otherwise i'll posting more information about it in the same thread..for that if you want you can compile more questions of about what do you want to know and i'll be able to answer those.






   Sat Aug 6, 2005    Reply         

I'd think by 'wireless internet, he'd mean like when you have those PCIMCIA cards, and you connect to the internet via the ISP's towers, or what have you.

Not wireless interenet like 'My house runs on 801.11 - b, so there' That's wireless networking (at least how I interpret it.

   Sat Aug 6, 2005    Reply         

you may be right! and if that is the case then he can have any laptop which is wi-fi enabled and that will solve the problem otherwise he will have to purchase a PCMCIA card as you have already mentioned...you are also correct that it will be called wireless networking but i think RemoteConnection is talking about the wireless networking only...because he seems to be in networking(it seems from his earlier posts) and by mistake typed it as wireless internet...or may be used it as a general term

   Sat Aug 6, 2005    Reply         


Well, by wireless internet , I mean transfer data from access points in ISP, but i've heard it's unsecured and at the most it supports 54MB/s

   Sat Aug 6, 2005    Reply         

My family has a laptop with wireless internet. It definitely has its disadvantages because having wireless internet in the first place is supposed to allow you to move your computer around and still have access, but the network connection doesn't have a good range, and it can't be moved too far. Sometimes the computer will be close to the laptop and it'll still lose the signal. So all in all, I'd rather just use an ethernet cable and be assured of a constant connection.

   Sat Aug 6, 2005    Reply         

I am having SMC Barricade g Wireless Router 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cable/DSL as router/access point this days. It acts like LAN Adapter with 54MBps of speed. Default router's IP is 192.168.2.1 which is your getaway to your ISP. You can be using cable or wireless connection to Router. I used it computer on second floor and router on 1st floor and it did worked OK, but not OK on every place. But for same floor this solution is ideal.

Standard 802.11b is for 11MB LAN and 802.11g is for 54MB LAN.

   Sat Aug 6, 2005    Reply         

I have a wireless network at my house and the security is pretty good no weird or strange things have happen so i must say it's secure also it's pretty fast now a days at over 50mbs

   Sat Aug 6, 2005    Reply         

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..

   Sat Aug 6, 2005    Reply         

QUOTE (RemoteConnection)

hi friends, anyone have tried Wireless Internet  ? the differences between dialup or other connections wif wireless? is it secure?
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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. :D

   Sat Aug 6, 2005    Reply         

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 :D :D :D B)

   Sun Aug 7, 2005    Reply         

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

   Sun Aug 7, 2005    Reply         

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

   Mon Aug 15, 2005    Reply         

QUOTE (RemoteConnection)

hi friends, anyone have tried Wireless Internet  ?


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.

QUOTE (RemoteConnection)

the differences between dialup or other connections wif wireless?

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.

QUOTE (RemoteConnection)

is it secure?
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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.

   Mon Aug 15, 2005    Reply         

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.

   Mon Aug 15, 2005    Reply         

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.

   Mon Aug 15, 2005    Reply         

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.

   Tue Aug 16, 2005    Reply         

QUOTE (thablkpanda)


I'd think by 'wireless internet, he'd mean like when you have those PCIMCIA cards, and you connect to the internet via the ISP's towers, or what have you.

Not wireless interenet like 'My house runs on 801.11 - b, so there' That's wireless networking (at least how I interpret it.

Link: view Post: 171338

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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a system of computers, terminals, and databases connected by communications lines

m-w.com

   Sun Jul 2, 2006    Reply         

QUOTE (iwuvcookies)


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.

Link: view Post: 174946


http://www.hughesnet.com/
go there to see about satelite internet, I saw a commercial for it once in a town in the middle of nowhere in nebraska, it says its broadband satelite internet

QUOTE (el_exorcista)


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 :) ;) B) :(

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if you use WEP protocal or newer protocals like these its extremely safe:
WPA-PSK (TKIP)
WPA2-PSK (AES)
WPA-PSK (TKIP) + WPA2-PSK (AES)
and trust me it is secure, also you can disable the broadcast of your SSID so the only people that can get in are the ones that know its there and they then have to know the exact SSID plus they have to know the key (password), its like logging into email, only safer

also just so you know I use a cabel modem, with a wireless router on top of that, my internet is actually as fast, or faster as being directly conected to the modem and as safe, but I do have the newest router avaliable and expensive

   Sun Jul 2, 2006    Reply         

I had used wireless internet connection in the past. It was in my friends place. My friend has a wireless internet connection at home, luckily he let me try once and it worked on my system as well. The wireless didn't have access key to access the network. When I switched on my wireless LAN it connects automatically. I think the wireless internet connection providers didn't bother to lock with some key number and whoever comes within that network could just use the wireless connection. It was pretty fast as well. And the system tray of wireless internet is very cute....

   Sun Jul 2, 2006    Reply         

Yeah we have a wireless network at my place, I set it up myself. The computer I work with (in the office) is directly connected to the wifi network though, our two laptops are wirelessly connected to the internet. There is a tiny drop in speed because you added an extra hop to the packets which need to be send and received, but in the end it's not much of a problem with high speed connections available lately.
The good is ofcourse that you can sit whereever you want in the house, which is really relaxing because you aren't bound to the office anymore... (Yet I sit in the office the entire day hehe)

   Mon Jul 3, 2006    Reply         

i would be able to use wireless soon. that's cool. the only place i can get wireless connection is at school. and since my mom has just bought a laptop with wireless connection, i would be able to use it at school for my thesis. that's cool. hehe.

   Mon Jul 3, 2006    Reply         

remote internet is good , but it has its own disadvantage, for exampe if you use blue tooth the device which you are using must be of high standard,else you loose speed

   Mon Jul 3, 2006    Reply         

Yes I did. I have been using 802.11b network for a few years, probably more then 4 years. I know that most wireless routers nowadays use 802.11g, which has a transfer rate of 54Mbps compared to 11Mbps for 802.11b. However, I have already switched back to the Old Stone Age, that is, to connect my computers using wires again. I switched back because the ping time for wireless network is inevitable about 4 times slower then a wired network. More importantly, in my city, there wireless networks have become an endemic, where so many people are using wireless networks that I can connect to more then 10 access points in my flat at various location. The noise is so intensive that my wireless network is not very stable. Sometimes there may be overlap of channels, sometimes there are interferences. I am so disappointed by the wireless technology and the government’s reluctance to open up more channels that I have chosen to wire my computers again. This is a sad story, but a true one. I don’t like my wireless router.

   Mon Jul 3, 2006    Reply         

I use wireless but since we have a brick walled house the signal has to be boosted by other routers throughout the house but all in all i find it reliable and fast, i like 3com routers (very biased) which is what we have, but the dlink and link sys seem good aswell. Only problem for me is that when my sister is connected to the downstairs office router the signal from the upstairs router suffors alot since it isnt wired but recieving the wifi from downstairs and boosting it.

   Mon Jul 3, 2006    Reply         

i dont like the sound of wireless internet cuz some lucky devil can just come along and PING on your internet without you knowing wireless is best for laptops

   Tue Jul 4, 2006    Reply         

ok first off dont get the wireless internet from the isp... get a good conection and if you still want wireless get a wireless router (50 -60 bucks for a decent one) and go from there itll be alot faster and you can gaurentee the safety

   Tue Jul 4, 2006    Reply         

I don't know weather this counts as wireless internet and i apologise if im off topic, but im browsing and replying to this with a phone lol (nokia n-gage qd) with a mobile version of opera. I also have ftp software and text editor etc for my phone and build full sites with it! Mainly wap sites but yesterday i did install web forums with extra mod's installed also. Its extremly slow and hard to navigate web sites with this method but it my only option right now ;-)

   Wed Jul 5, 2006    Reply         

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