While the debate over white space spectrum continues to go back and forth between Internet companies and broadcasters, one town in North Carolina is pushing forward with Wi-Fi service in public parks.
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How Does Wireless Work?
Wireless networks, commonly known as Wi-Fi, are increasingly popular for home networks. Several members of the household can share an Internet subscription, each using their own computer in different parts of the house without having to run cables all over the building. Everyone know that "wireless" does not use wires, but what does it use?
Data Packets
- In cabled networks, data travels around the network in a structure called a packet. The packet body contains a segment of data and network software puts headers on the front of the packet. The headers contain administration data. This includes the source and destination address for the packet, and also identifiers for the two applications communicating over the network. Wireless networks use exactly the same structure of a data packet. The only difference between wired and wireless networks is the network medium.
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