When internet was first introduced, the World became a better place. Now it is even better with the wireless internet. It doesn’t matter if you are using a PC, MP3 player, PDA, game console, mobile phone as long as it is wireless enabled.

In a plane, hotel, or library, you can still text your wife, check the inbox, listen to music, and download programs or whatever thing that you can do when connected. The wireless internet offers you all this in just a touch of the buttons.

However, advantages have their corresponding disadvantages. The wireless has its demerits also. For you to be able to carry out any activity, you have to be within the range of the wireless network connected to the internet. The coverage of one or more connected points referred to as hot spots can comprise of an area as small as a single room with wireless-opaque walls or as large as many miles covered by overlapping access points.

In addition to restricted use in homes and offices, wireless makes internet publicly available at a hot spot  free of charge or to subscribers of various providers. Organizations and other businesses such as airports, hotels, restaurants, often provide free hotspots to attract customers. Enthusiasts or authorities who wish to provide services or even to promote business in a given area sometimes provide free hotspots also.

If you are a subscriber you have to part with some dollars. You can either pay through credit cards or through subscriptions to the service provider. If you are not a subscriber of the hot spot, their rates will not be promising for you. Another good thing with the hotspots is that they have maps to their locations. Hence you don’t have to move from one point of the town trying to find the wireless internet coverage.



Thanks to Peter Gitundu for contributing this article to our DSL blog:

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