| As with normal wired Internet connections, you | | | | that hardware is required. The type of things that |
| want to be sure that your new wireless Internet | | | | will affect wireless internet provider uptime would |
| is going to be up most of the time. Preferably we | | | | be failure of a core router just the same as |
| want and need our Internet service to be up all | | | | conventional connections. However, the advantage |
| of the time. In reality there are things out of our | | | | is that the chance for stupid people to accidentally |
| hands that mean that we turn our computer on | | | | dig into a line is eliminated. It can also be said that |
| and nothing is working. We check our equipment | | | | at the moment WISP's (Wireless Internet Service |
| and find out that everything is fine and our hearts | | | | Providers) are not so common and so if there is |
| drop knowing that our Internet Service Provider | | | | a fault the service team can fix it quite quickly. |
| (ISP) has something faulty somewhere. Of | | | | There are wireless access points around that |
| course, this can happen with both wired and | | | | place with equipment that can also have faults. As |
| wireless Internet connection types. | | | | mentioned above these can be fixed quite quickly. |
| The things that can go wrong with a wired | | | | One other thing that you need to be aware of is |
| connection are numerous. A core router could fail. | | | | your location. You need line of sight from the |
| A physical line can be accidentally severed | | | | wireless transmitter to your wireless receiver. If |
| because some one decided to dig a whole and did | | | | this is not the case then you are unlikely to be |
| not check to see if they were allowed to in that | | | | able to use the service. This will not affect your |
| spot. Another reason could be that a card in the | | | | uptime but will affect whether or not you are able |
| exchange may have failed. All of these things | | | | to even get the service to your home. |
| require hardware to be changed. These are all the | | | | There are a few things to consider when it |
| downsides to having a wired connection and it | | | | comes to wireless service uptime. Just like wired |
| compromises the uptime of ISP's that use this | | | | connections there is a possibility of hardware |
| technology. | | | | faults and failures. However there is no risk of |
| You may think that wireless connections do not | | | | third party accidents disrupting your wireless |
| have these problems at all and this is where you | | | | internet providers service to you. |
| are wrong. Having wireless connections still mean | | | | |