what is the difference between high speed internet access and wirelesss access?

Question

I contacted bright house and they offerred me high speed at 512k, I would prefer yahoo but it is not avaiable in my area.

Answer 1

"Internet Access" is the access to the Internet itself. For me at home, I use a high speed cable modem provided by my cable company: Thus my home has "high speed internet access".

Now, if you come to my house with your laptop, and your laptop has a wireless card (or chip), you can access the internet at my home, because I also have a wireless router hooked up to my internet commection. You dont need a cable (wire) to plug into my network.

Other forms of "wireless access" are similar in principal. Some cities have hooked up a bunch of wireless routers (each accessing the Internet at high speed) similar to my home. If you live close enough, you can get on the Internet from your wireless computer for free.

Another form of wireless access uses the cell phone companies. Here, you have a special card that you put in your laptop and your computer basically turns into a cell phone, but the only one talking is your computer. Yes, this can tryly be called "high speed wireless Internet access"

What makes something high-speed (also called broadband) is when you can run faster than a dial modem, which is capped at 56K. So, even something slow by todays standards (256K) is still broadband.

Hope this helps...!

Edit - I have Bright House and love it.

Answer 2

It depends on the context. You can have wireless high speed access to the internet in some areas. However more commonly, you have high speed internet access using DSL, Cable or Satellite to your home that is connected to a wireless router so you can sit anywhere in your home to access the internet.

Answer 3

It you have high speed internet access (Should you go with DSL, cable, or a mobile data service? Learn what your options are. )you can add a wireless router to your installation and you have high speed with wireless.. the only problem with adding the wireless is you do lose some of your speed.

Answer 4

You can have high speed internet access via wireless. However not all high speed internet service is wireless.Thats the difference

Answer 5

they are two different things....but can be put together if you know what i mean.

high speed internet access....is talking about Broadband basically (fast internet access in order words - >512kb)

wireless access - is being able to use internet via wirelss device so no wires.

you can have "high speed internet access" via a "wireless access"....