| Anyone who has ever tripped over a wire can tell | | | | apart is that the satellite company won't make |
| you that it's time for that problem to be solved. | | | | you sign up for cable TV or phone line service like |
| That's where wireless technology comes into play, | | | | cable and DSL internet might make you do. You |
| naturally, because the best solution is to get rid of | | | | could end up saving a bundle of money if you |
| the wire altogether. You can hide it all you want | | | | never use your cable or phone line but signed up |
| but it won't make it disappear completely. With | | | | just to get cable or DSL. Finally, you don't have to |
| the help of advanced wireless technologies like | | | | worry about sacrificing performance because the |
| satellite internet and WiFi, you''ll never trip over a | | | | satellite service is a broadband technology. That |
| wire again. | | | | means that you'll be able to play streaming video |
| One could easily assume that you'd have to pay a | | | | and audio without so much as a stutter. |
| premium for wireless technology. Maybe in the | | | | The perfect complement to wireless internet |
| past that was the case but today these luxuries | | | | would have to be a WiFi home networking |
| are actually quite affordable. In some cases they | | | | solution. Your satellite internet company will |
| are even as cheap as the equivalent wired | | | | probably provide you with one connection to the |
| technology, or even cheaper. Take satellite | | | | internet, but if you purchase a router you can |
| internet for example. It contends with such | | | | share that connection with all the compatible |
| internet connections as cable and DSL. The major | | | | devices in your home. For example, if you have 3 |
| difference is that satellites use a wireless | | | | computers and a laptop but you don't have a |
| technology to deliver the internet to you. Cable | | | | router, you may only be able to use the internet |
| uses cable wires and DSL uses the phone line. | | | | on one system. If you get a router you can |
| There are certain limitations of using wired | | | | share it amongst them all without performance |
| technology, with the main one being that you | | | | loss. Be sure to get a WiFi router, though. |
| have to be located close to their infrastructure to | | | | Wireless-N technology is the latest WiFi equipment |
| connect. If you live in the mountains, a remote | | | | out there that that will give you a lot of range as |
| part of the countryside, or even in a fairly | | | | well as high bandwidth. You'll be able to use your |
| remote part of the city, you may not have | | | | laptop outside next to the pool or even down the |
| access to cable or DSL. | | | | street at your friend's house. And you won't have |
| Satellite internet can be the solution to that | | | | to worry about the router slowing down your |
| problem. Best of all it's as cheap or cheaper than | | | | connection, because the last thing you want is for |
| either cable or DSL. It often has the same | | | | your anything to slow down your speedy satellite |
| monthly rate as the others but what really sets it | | | | internet. |