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Wi-Fi is a somewhat new form of technology that is just

Needs to attract a broad following world wide. Some

consider it to be one of the most critical improvements

in technology considering that the internet came to the conventional.

Because of it, computers are now in a position to connect to the

Web and to other computers wirelessly.

The precursor of todays Wi-Fi was created sometime in

The first 1990s by the Netherlands-based organization NCR

Corporation/AT&T (which later became known as Lucent &

Agere Systems). Called WaveLAN, it had been originally intended

to be utilized in cash registers.

Many fighting requirements prevented the immediate success

of having wireless networks. But, with the growth

of the IEEE 802.11 standard and the launch of its first

protocol in 1997, this technology gradually got

into the mainstream.

Since then, several practices were produced and several

more will be released to handle dilemmas such as for instance range and

Rate.

The first protocol released in 1997, now called the

Legacy method, managed in the 2.4 GHz frequency. The

throughput and data rate are slow by todays standards,

with only 0.9 and 2 Mbit/s, respectively. 802.11 a and n

came 2 yrs later in 1999 with the a protocol offering

faster speeds as the w offered a wider range.

The components of the two were later merged in 2003 once the

802.11g project was published. The newest process offered the

speed of the a and the array of the w.

Newer practices are under development. The d, collection

to be produced mid-2009 offers greater speeds and almost

double the product range of the a/b/g methods. Another, the

802.11y, is set to be introduced in mid-2008 gets the same

Pace as the g protocol even though the y has an outdoor range