What is Wireless LAN and Wi-Fi?
Wireless LAN stands for Wireless Local Area Network, a local area network that transmits over the air. Wireless Local Area Network allows you to wirelessly connect to your email and Internet at super fast speeds. Wireless base stations are wired to an Ethernet network and transmit a radio frequency over several hundred feet through walls and other non metal barriers. Roaming users can jump from one access point to another like a cellular phone system. The major wireless LAN standard today is Wi-Fi. Wireless Wi-Fi adapters (Wi-Fi transceivers) are built into most new laptops or added via a PC card slot or USB ensuring their wireless capabilities for Internet connection. Newer mobile phone handsets now often have built-in Wi-Fi creating ‘dual mode’ phones which operate like normal mobiles phones but have the option of switching to cheaper Wi-fi connections when they are available.
