Wi-Fi

Definition

Wi-Fi – A facility allowing computers, smart phones, or other devices to connect to internet or communicate with one another wirelessly within a particular area

We know it as something that you can get “free” internet from in an area

Creators

• Terence Percival• Diethelm Ostry• John Deane• John O’Sullivan• Graham Damiels

What you need to hook up Wi-Fi

• A wireless router

• A computer with built-in wireless adaptor or a separate adaptor

How to hook up Wi-Fi

1. Most computers now supply wireless routers as a standard

2. Check that your computer has a built-in wireless adaptor

How to hook up your Wi-Fi continued

3. Then you connect by clicking on the Wi-Fi icon.

4. Now you just connect to the internet

Do you have a built-in wireless adaptor• Here is what you do to find out.

Click the start button

Right click on your computer

Click properties

Do you have a built-in wireless adaptor continuedClick device manager

Click the arrow next to ‘Network Adaptors’ to see the Wi-Fi adaptor listed

If you don’t have one, go buy one

How Wi-Fi works The creators thought

that why should radio waves be just for radio

Which means that Wi-Fi works through radio waves

the creators have learned to manipulate the transmissions from

radio into internet

How Wi-Fi works Then learned how to

make the radio waves compatible with a computer and other devices

And instead of having a radio tower you have a wireless router

How Wi-Fi works We have manipulated it

so instead of transmitting radio signals it give you access to the internet

Since it doesn’t need to have a tower the area is a lot smaller and is more secure

Open Wi-Fi hot spots McDonalds Dairy Queen Hardy’s Taco Bell Subway KFC Wendy’s Whataburger Burger King Middle school High school Clinic Hospital Banks

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