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Using wireless devices

Using wireless devices


Wireless technology transfers data using radio waves instead of wires. The wireless local area network (WLAN) device connects to wireless local area networks (commonly referred to as Wi-Fi networks, wireless LANs, or WLANs) in your home, public places such as airports, restaurants, coffee shops, hotels, and universities, and in corporate offices. In a WLAN, each mobile wireless device communicates with a wireless router or a wireless access point.

The following IEEE industry standards are supported:

802.11b, the first popular standard, supports data rates of up to 11 Mbps and operates at a frequency of 2.4 GHz.
802.11g supports data rates of up to 54 Mbps and operates at a frequency of 2.4 GHz. An 802.11g WLAN device is backward compatible with 802.11b devices, so they can operate on the same network.

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