How does Wi-Fi work?
If you want to understand wireless networking at its simplest level, think about a pair of $5 walkie-talkies that you might purchase at Wal-Mart. These are small radios that can transmit and receive radio signals. When you talk into a Walkie-Talkie, your voice is picked up by a microphone, encoded onto a radio frequency and transmitted with the antenna. Another walkie-talkie can receive the transmission with its antenna, decode your voice from the radio signal and drive a speaker. This is very much the same way the relationship between your computer or wireless device and our access points works.
Devices called access points are connected to the regular wired network on campus. Access points broadcast a radio signal that is picked up by the Wi-Fi card in your laptop. Your laptop communicates with the access point and the data is conveyed to the network. Check the RedRover coverage page to find out where you can connect.
