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Saturday, April 13, 2002
http://www.convergemag.com/magazine/story.phtml?id=3030000000009197 Breaking Free With Wireless Networks John Fleischman - February 2002 WHEN I was a teenager, we corralled our cars at the high-school parking lot to play music, socialize and make plans for the next party. In the Silicon Valley, there's a high school where the kids also corral their cars on weeknights and on weekends, but for another purpose. These kids are pulling into the parking lot with their laptops and wireless local area network (LAN) cards so they can access the school's wireless 11 Mbps (megabytes per second) network connection. At 11 Mbps, the wireless connection from the parking lot is a good deal faster than their home modems or even their DSL or cable modem Internet connections. As wireless LAN solutions drop in cost and improve in reliability, mobile network access is becoming more widespread. Wireless LANs typically consist of laptop computers that connect to fixed access points via infrared or radio signals. In some institutions, wireless mobile labs are being substituted for wired, fixed computer labs. In other institutions, especially within higher education, entire buildings are being set up for wireless connections for laptop-toting students....
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