Wireless

Wireless

Wireless means using a device without the use of a plugged in cord. It can pertain to any system or device, as a cellular phone, for transmitting messages or signals by electromagnetic waves. Wireless can be a telephone or a laptop that can function as well as or better than if it was plugged into a cord. Wireless could also be noting or pertaining to any of various devices that are operated with or actuated by electromagnetic waves. Things are wireless if they are used without the use of an external power source. [|Click here for more information about the meaning of the word wireless.]

It encompasses various types of fixed, mobile, and portable [|two way radios], [|cellular telephones], [|personal digital assistants] (PDAs), and [|wireless networking]. Other examples of //wireless technology// include [|GPS] units, [|garage door openers and or garage doors], wireless [|computer mice], [|keyboards] and [|headsets], [|satellite television] and cordless [|telephones]. (site: [|Wikipedia])
 * Wireless communication** is the transfer of information over a distance without the use of electrical conductors or "[|wires]".[|[1]] The distances involved may be short (a few meters as in television remote control) or long (thousands or millions of kilometers for radio communications). When the context is clear, the term is often shortened to "wireless". Wireless communication is generally considered to be a branch of [|telecommunications].

=What Is WiFi?= A wireless network uses [|radio waves], just like [|cell phones], [|televisions] and radios do. In fact, communication across a wireless network is a lot like two-way radio communication. (Source: [|How Stuff Works])
 * 1) A computer's wireless adapter translates data into a radio signal and transmits it using an antenna.
 * 2) A wireless [|router] receives the signal and decodes it. The router sends the information to the Internet using a physical, wired [|Ethernet] connection.