In this narrative I'll help you understand the rejoinder to a computer terminology question I find a lot of people asking: "How does wireless Internet work?".
Before I can rejoinder this question, I have to mention that there are two basic types of wireless Internet: a wireless Internet connection through a gismo called a router (this type of wireless Internet is called WiFi), and then there is wireless Internet entrance through the cell phone network.
Wireless routers are very base in homes, offices, and "wireless hotspots" like you find at coffee shops, airports, and elsewhere. These are basically just small electronic "boxes" that hook up to your Internet connection so you can share the connection between several computers, or plainly to give you the free time to place your computer wherever you want, and not just next to the cable or phone outlet.
The cell phone data network (wireless Internet through the cell phone network in other words) of course is very total -- pretty much everywhere where you can get a cell signal -- and can be used not only with a cell phone but also with a growing number of computers.
Now if you want to get in effect technical, these two types of wireless Internet work differently. But in a general sense, if you simplify things and elucidate them in a basic way that will make sense to the median person, they both work along the same general lines.
So how does wireless Internet work? One way to think of it is by comparing it to a conveyable phone.
With a conveyable phone, something most of us have in our home, the phone has two parts: a handset and a cradle.
The cradle gets plugged into the phone line -- the connection to the phone network -- and takes that connection and broadcasts it via radio waves more or less in all directions.
If the handset is within range of the signal, it picks up this signal and relays the telephone connection so you can make or receive a call.
Wireless Internet, either its via a cell network or a wireless router, works the same basic way: you have a connection to the Internet, which is sent out wirelessly to a receiver of some sort, very much like a conveyable phone cradle sends out the telephone connection to the handset.
The broadcast can come from a wireless router hooked up to a cable or Dsl Internet connection, or the broadcast can be from a cell phone tower hooked into the cell phone network and relaying the Internet connection.
On the other end you have a "handset", which is a receiver in a computer, smart phone, or other device. This could be a WiFi card in a laptop or desktop computer for the one type of wireless Internet, or a receiver in a cell phone or laptop using the cell data network.
I hope that makes sense.
How Does Wireless Internet Work? A easy Explanation of Computer Terminology
