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Posted by: Bill Landon on Feb 14, 04 | 6:40 pm

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How to Buy a Great Wireles Network
We all have people on our holiday lists who seem to have more computers than they know what to do with. If you have someone on your list like that - or if your household has more than one PC, but you don't want to spend the time or money attaching them all with wires - the solution is simple. Get a wireless network. It hooks up all the computers in a house, and lets everyone share a single high-speed connection. Here's how to buy (and for the gamer in your house, you'll also find advice on how to wireless connect a gaming console for online gaming as well).

To put together a network you need a wireless access point, which connects to your broadband modem, and connects all your PCs to the Internet and to each other. And for each PC you'll have to buy a wireless network adapter, which connects them to the access point. The wireless hardware is commonly called WiFi, although techies know it as 802.11 technology. There are a few types of 802.11 hardware - the older and less-expensive 802.11b, which connects at up to 11 megabits per second; and the newer and more expensive 802.11g, which connects at up to 54 megabits per second. A word to the wise: Those numbers are only the networks' rated speeds. As a practical matter, figure you'll connect at about half those rates.

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