Internet Speed

People use a wireless internet connection in different settings for various reasons but there is one binding desire that links all people that invest in a wireless internet connection. That is the desire to not clog up their home or office with cables necessary to connect to the internet. When the internet was first introduced the only way to connect to it was through dialing a modem on your computer and taking up the phone line. In the very early days if you wanted more than one computer to access the internet then you either needed multiple phone lines or somehow figure out how to split the phone line.

This was a fun novelty at first but soon it got to be tedious and when you add in the fact that the phone companies still charged by the minute back in those days you got a pretty expensive internet connection. Companies avoided too many internet connections because of the cost or insisted that their internet providers have a toll free number for internet access which got to be expensive for the providers. Soon the phone companies came around and offered bulk calling packages where you could call any number in the United States for one monthly charge and the internet boomed. Then broadband internet entered the picture and everything changed again.

Faster Faster I Need More Speed!

After a while cable television companies started offering high speed internet service and the phone companies followed suit with their version of high speed internet called DSL. Now not only were more people accessing the internet but they were doing it at speeds faster than ever before. The best thing about high speed internet and DSL is that you could get a router and share the signal among multiple computers. This was great except for the cabling all over the place. Enter the wireless internet connection. Nothing has done more to increase the sale of computers in this country than the wireless internet connection because now we could easily connect multiple computers to the same internet connection without all the cables. Nirvana had been achieved.

A wireless internet connection requires a broadband high speed modem, a router, a wireless access point, and wireless network cards on the computers. Today your wireless connection can be made with a unit that is a combination router and wireless access point which is much easier to configure and cheaper to buy. With the advent of the wireless internet connection internet providers have finally embraced the wireless internet routers. For years providers hated the routers because they felt that if customers wanted multiple connections in their home they should pay for multiple connections. But in the end the "if you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em" mentality won out and now a wireless internet router is a standard piece of equipment with your new wireless internet connection.