The Wireless Takeover of the 21st Century
Just seeing who’s paying attention. Not too long ago the hype was all about the GB wired LAN connection, the fact that cell phones were able to take pictures as good a quality as a cheap digital camera, the XBox Live network or the PSN where you could finally play console games online, or even the Snuggie ‘thing’ which is nothing more than a backwards bathrobe.
Not to distract myself from the topic at hand, but I couldn’t resist finding a picture of a Snuggie while I e-bash it. Allow me to carry on. Wireless has been around almost as long as the personal computer in the form of RF. It didn’t really get it’s jump into networking, however, until the inception of 802.11b. From past experiences, I was lucky to maintain a 10mb connection to my LAN, and as far as internet connections go, forget about it. Perhaps I was served the short end of my routing stick, but I wasn’t a fan. Even the 802.11g series didn’t earn my respect, even though it was ALMOST as speedy as the favored CAT-5 cable.
Look at the way things have become. I’m not complaining, I love it, but I’m just saying…look at it. If only for a minute. Modern day technology has evolved to a point where it revolves around wireless connectivity over your typical wired LAN. PS3, XBox360 Slim, any notebook or netbook or any mobile device for that matter cell phones included all include some variety of wireless capability, and with the new(er) 802.11n wireless protocols, there is a good reason why. I can compare my wireless networking experiences of today with yesterdays networks connected to a 1000MB routers.
What will this bring tomorrow? I don’t know but I can’t wait to find out!
