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I’ve decided to go Wi-Fi at home. As a professional SEO I’m addicted to computers. Everywhere I go I’m on search for them.

I decide to set up a network at home, so I wont have any problems with my wife when I need to boost my SEO and CPC campaigns and her needs to access her email, etc.

That was a great experience, so I decided to write a small guide to wireless computing.

Basically Wi-Fi is a a set of instructions for configuring radios that allow computers to talk top each other without wires.

Think of WI-Fi as a way to replace all that annoying Internet cables all around your office or home.

How do you get started?

1) You need an Internet connection (D’oh!)
2) You need Wi-Fi equipment – A Wireless card for each computer, and a router (this device will communicate to all computers (this device will communicate to all of the computers).

That’s how it works:

- You’ve got DSL or cable modem – Connected to your provider through the modem
- You now have a Router connected to the modem.
- You’ve got Your computers communicating to the Router using the Wi-Fi cards through radio signals.

It’s that easy.

The router is the heart of the system, typically small device connected to the modem with an Ethernet cable.

All devices connected on your network send and receive signal from the router.

Prices and models vary for routers. I’ll get back to it later at this article.

The set up is straight forward, and usually a manual is provided with your router.

There are 3 main wireless standards that offer a huge difference in speeds and have different applications.

It’s important to consider what you’ll be using wireless for before purchasing

- Do you want just to share an Internet connection?

- Do you have a large space to cover?

- Would you like to stream digital content (YouTube, movies, Facebook, LastFm, music)?

- Would you like to do all of the above simultaneously and make VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol – as Skype)?

Standards Wireless Routers

- G (802.11g) G Standard wireless is suitable for basic files and Internet sharing over small spaces

- XG (802.11g Extreme G) Super G standard wireless is suitable for file, Internet and music streaming/sharing over small areas.

- N (802.11n) This is the future of the wireless. It’s suitable for all applications including streaming High-definition Video across much larger areas Than G or XG products.

- MIMO (multiple in/Multiple out) MIMO is wireless antenna technology which enable wireless coverage over much larger areas.

- EOP (Ethernet over power) Even the best wireless products on the market today, if you have an exceptionally large space to be covered, you can find some areas with limited or no coverage. EOP links these areas via a plug and play device that uses the power circuity in your walls as a network link.

There you go, a small guide to Wireless network.

Cheers

Lucio Dias Ribeiro

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