Wireless broadband and its limitations
The advantages of wireless broadband are known to everyone but the darker side of it is ignored. With wifi, it is possible to connect almost each and every computer in one’s home to internet at a time. But it has certain limitations too.
Let’s take a look at the drawbacks in the proceeding paragraphs.
Foremost – the security
During the installation of your wireless network, one should regard the chances for your network to be scanned by hackers or neighbours and using your internet. The only way out is to use a strong encryption key and change the password on regular basis. WPA being the newest in offering wireless security much more than the WEP codes, still many of the PC’s and laptops does not support WPA. With the provided wireless key generator (free), you can get the benefit of hard to guess encryption keys.
Secondly – downloading speed
Broadband speed is not directly affected from switching from an Ethernet cable to a wireless network. But there are a lot of things that can affect the performance. There is chance of signals getting degraded due to the barriers, such as doors and walls in between the router and the laptops. Slow speeds may be resulted when many people at a time use single wireless connection or when downloading movies or music or even while viewing internet -TV.
Next – the location of the router
Distance between the router and the faceplate -where the broadband line comes into your house, can make a real difference. To ensure the highest strength signals, you can keep them very close to the place where you use it. The aerial replacement is another alternative to solve the problem. A standard 2dBi aerial, which is long enough to offer better signals, can be used. To increase your signals strength to 30-50 per cent you can go for a 9dBi for £10.
The flexibility in using the WiFi and other advantages of it overshadows its limitations. Enjoy online games, downloading and uploading or streaming music without the hassles of wires.
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