Hello,
WiFi technology is the term used to decribe internet connectivity (internet access) using a radio frequency link, instead of needing cumbersome old cables & connectors.
**Wireless can be used locally in the home or in a business by using a wireless router or wireless internet access point. This allowes users say with laptops to physically move around the office yet maintain full internet access (seems abit like magic if you've never seen it before).
**Sometimes you might hear people talk about WiFi hotspots, these are mostly public places such as train stations, airports or starbucks coffee shops which provide free wifi internet access.
**There are x2 protocols or communications standards commonly being used with wifi today, these are 802.11b and 802.11g
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2006-11-22 20:02:06
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answered by Anonymous
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Short for wireless fidelity and is meant to be used generically when referring of any type of 802.11 network, whether 802.11b, 802.11a, dual-band, etc. The term is promulgated by the Wi-Fi Alliance.
Any products tested and approved as "Wi-Fi Certified" (a registered trademark) by the Wi-Fi Alliance are certified as interoperable with each other, even if they are from different manufacturers. A user with a "Wi-Fi Certified" product can use any brand of access point with any other brand of client hardware that also is certified. Typically, however, any Wi-Fi product using the same radio frequency (for example, 2.4GHz for 802.11b or 11g, 5GHz for 802.11a) will work with any other, even if not "Wi-Fi Certified."
Formerly, the term "Wi-Fi" was used only in place of the 2.4GHz 802.11b standard, in the same way that "Ethernet" is used in place of IEEE 802.3. The Alliance expanded the generic use of the term in an attempt to stop confusion about wireless LAN interoperability.
2006-11-22 19:52:06
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answered by i_lyn_tek_i 4
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Other posters have correctly answered that Wi-Fi refers to wireless networking - for example using the internet from your laptop without wires.
However it's wrong to say it stands for Wireless Fidelity. There's no such thing - what would "fidelity" mean here? In fact it doesn't stand for anything at all, it's just a pun on "hi-fi" which originally stood for "high fidelity". It's just a brand name, it doesn't have a particular meaning.
2006-11-22 20:06:15
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answered by Daniel R 6
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Another name for human madness.
The either and lower is so polluted with electronic signals things have to be made digital ti find their way through the mess.
Our brains are effected by it (No Evidence) and Ghost Reports to the UK Ghost Society have dried up.
I thought we had high migration but even the ghosts have gone.
With wi-fi the animals will be next?
2006-11-22 20:04:34
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answered by Anonymous
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what's Wi Fi? a thank you to get internet get admission to, the term Wi Fi is a play upon the an prolonged time-previous term HiFi that describes the form of output generated via high quality musical hardware, Wi Fi stands for instant fidelity and is used to define any of the instant technologies in the IEEE 802.11 specification - inclusive of (yet no longer inevitably limited to) the instant protocols 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g. The wireless Alliance is the physique in charge for merchandising the term and its affiliation with countless instant technologies standards. what's a Wi Fi Hotspot? A Wi Fi hotspot is defined as any region wherein 802.11 (instant) technologies the two exists and is obtainable for use to clientele. on occasion the instant get admission to is loose, and in others, instant distributors value for Wi Fi utilization. many times, the main user-friendly utilization of Wi Fi technologies is for laptop clientele to earnings internet get admission to in places which comprise airports, coffee shops, etc, the place Wi Fi technologies could be used to assist clientele of their pursuit of artwork-based or entertainment internet utilization. How am i able to apply Wi Fi? try to be employing a working laptop or laptop or PDA that has Wi Fi connectivity already working. maximum portable desktops can upload Wi Fi employing an adapter that plugs right into a pc card slot or USB port. Will i could desire to have an account with a Wi Fi service service? many times, no. you ought to have the flexibility to affix with the service on the region. Many carriers will demonstrate classes whilst browser utility opens on a WiFi-enabled laptop. in case you have no longer have been given an account, purely initiate your laptop and make particular your Wi Fi card is plugged on. Then, open a browser. Is Wi Fi the comparable as Bluetooth? No. jointly as the two are instant technologies words, Bluetooth technologies lives below the IEEE protocol 802.15.a million, jointly as Wi Fi falls below the 802.11 specification. What this ability for clientele is that home equipment employing Wi Fi technologies and those employing Bluetooth technologies are no longer interoperable. Bluetooth and Wi Fi are diverse in numerous approaches, and are not inevitably in opposition. Wi Fi technologies boasts swifter documents flow speeds and variety, making it a good alternative for Ethernet (802.3) structures, jointly as Bluetooth demands much less ability and is hence extra prominent in small home equipment, which comprise PDAs.
2016-10-17 10:34:12
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answered by ? 4
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Is wireless fidelity the opposite of wired infidelity?
2006-11-22 19:52:52
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answered by k² 6
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Wireless communication between computers or a modem and a computer etc.. Wireless is better because you don't need wires.
2006-11-22 19:52:06
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answered by epwnymo 1
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it is wireless technology which operates at about 2.4GHz. it is used to interconnect all sorts of wireless devices, from computers to cordless phones, and even door-bells
2006-11-23 00:23:21
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answered by Anonymous
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wireless internet?
2006-11-22 19:49:37
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answered by adam r 3
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wireless
2006-11-22 19:49:00
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answered by Powerpuffgeezer 5
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