| New to the whole wireless internet router thing? | | | | dumping buckets of water into one another (this |
| Don't worry about it. Even if you're not computer | | | | metaphor is getting kind of silly, but stay with us |
| savvy at all, even if you can't tell an apple iPod | | | | here). You can literally pour the water as fast as |
| from a plain old apple, the whole wireless internet | | | | you can pour it, transmitting entire gallons in |
| thing is the easiest thing in the world to | | | | seconds flat where a garden hose would limit how |
| understand. | | | | much water you can send into a bucket per |
| The way it works is simple. You take a wireless | | | | second. |
| internet router and you plug it into your existing | | | | One issue with a wireless internet router: Security. |
| internet source. You don't need a special service | | | | Now if we go back to our silly garden hose |
| or anything, you just plug it into the wall like your | | | | metaphor, we're talking about spilling drops of |
| current router, and as long as you're using | | | | water all over the place (or having somebody |
| broadband internet, it should work just fine. | | | | steal your water and pour it into their own |
| The router simply relays information back and | | | | bucket!). |
| forth from your computer and the other | | | | This used to be more of an issue when wireless |
| computers that make up the wild wild west we | | | | was new to the home market, but recently, |
| call the internet (that's what WWW stands for, | | | | routers have been becoming more and more |
| you know). | | | | secure to the point where the average wireless |
| This is accomplished through bluetooth and wifi | | | | router on the market today is practically |
| technology. The great thing about wireless is that | | | | impervious to any but the most experienced |
| it's so much faster. While the technology is still | | | | hackers (who may all too busy working for the |
| developing as of yet, the fact remains that a | | | | CIA to be bothered trying to steal your credit |
| cable or a telephone line can only transmit so | | | | card number). |
| much information. | | | | And that's pretty much all you need to get |
| It's sort of like a garden hose. No matter how | | | | started. So what are you waiting for? Get a |
| much water you try to pump through it at once, | | | | wireless router, ditch the cables, and join in the |
| you're only going to fit as much through as will fit | | | | wireless revolution. |
| through. Switching to wireless is sort of like just | | | | |