WiFi

Wi-Fi, this term is known to few of the users who uses internet in their daily work. Internet is accessed for seeking information for education purposes its is also used for business in all scale organizations and mostly used in homes for browsing websites, listening music, communication through chatting and emails etc.

Most of the internet users do not know much about Wi-Fi, they either know this technology as Wireless internet, or Wireless network, I bet 99.9% do not know what WiFi stands for ?, WiFi stands for Wireless fidelity. Wi-Fi is referred with many names like Wi-Fi, wifi, WiFi, Fiwi and technical users may call it WLAN too. WLAN know to be Wireless local area Network.

Wi-Fi is pretty much about accessing internet or accessing LAN wirelessly. To connect to internet through Wifi, wifi cards are required to receive the incoming signals of Wireless network. Users can connect to wifi from access point, or hotspot; it mostly used wireless router which broadcast signals for all wireless connectivity enabled devices in range like Laptops, desktop computers, handsets and PDA’s etc.

Routers are most widely used hardware which is used to access wireless networks; it is connected to internet directly without any computer and it is intelligent enough to perform some features like server do. Internet is directly attached to its Ethernet port and it broadcast the internet wirelessly. In some cases routers are attached to servers for sharing internet and network for organizational security policy reasons.

Wi-Fi is cutting edge technology which completely removed uses of wires to create a network. It provides networking new horizons and put its use beyond imagination. Now Wi-Fi is used in most homes, universities, public libraries, public parks, airports because ease of use and implementation. As Wi-Fi technology provides us ease of mobility and network on move, it also places serious challenges of securities to confidential information against unauthorized users called hackers.