What is a Wireless Network?
A wireless LAN Local Area Network- This is the university\’s network.’); return false”>LAN is one in which a mobile user can connect to a local area network (LAN) through a wireless (radio) connection. Current UM-Flint students or employees are entitled to receive access to the UM-Flint Wireless Network using their laptop computer.
A wireless network does not require a physical medium to connect computer-related devices together. Instead, it uses radio frequency in the atmosphere to construct a network, enabling file transfers and sharing. One of the main advantages of a wireless network is mobility, which means that a user can always be connected to a network wherever there is a wireless signal regardless of the availability of cables or wired network sockets. Although wireless network speed is about 2 times slower than wired network (usually 54 Mbps for wireless and 100 Mbps for wired), it is constantly being developed and will be very competitive with wired network in the near future.
A wireless network is a Local Area Network (LAN) that replaces wires and cables with radio frequency (RF) connections. Wireless networks have a relatively small coverage area, between zero and 300 feet per radio transceiver depending upon the surrounding building structure. Wireless networks give you the freedom to access the Internet, email, instant messaging services and your company’s network anywhere within the signal coverage area.
