Archive for the 'Networking' Category

Friday, May 8th, 2009

What Else Can You Do Over a Wireless Network?

Well, you’d be surprised. There really are all sorts of things you can do with wireless networks — you’re only really limited by your imagination! Here are a few weird and wonderful ideas to get you started, but don’t be afraid to try out anything else you think of.
Store Files in Your Car.
If you put [...]

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

Cable Modem Phone

Its odd that advertisements for broadband phone service are all over the place, and yet there are many people who have no idea what it is all about. Sure, every website, witty television commercial, and radio spot tells you how much money you can save, but the story seems to be missing something. Before you [...]

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Wardriving and the Wireless Pirates.

Thanks to the manufacturers’ default settings leaving wireless encryption switched off, thousands upon thousands of wireless connections everywhere are completely insecure. New breeds of wireless users have started to take advantage of this ‘free’ bandwidth appearing everywhere: the wardrivers and the wireless pirates.
Wardriving.
So what’s wardriving? Well, to put it simply, it’s when someone drives around [...]

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

Buying a Broadband Phone

With the increase in cable and DSL Internet connections in homes, the popularity of broadband phones is growing also. In the early days of Internet phone service, with the choppy speech and echoes, is long gone, and a new generation of broadband phones is available. You can even use your own regular phone connected through [...]

Friday, April 24th, 2009

The Future of Wireless.

Wireless is a technology that’s cheap, easy and useful right now, and yet it’s a technology that’s still very young. Here’s a quick look at what the future could hold for wireless.
The Radio and the Phone.
Wireless networks will always win over wired ones, in the end, simply because it is cheaper for signals to travel [...]