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Wi-Fi is the buzzword among technicians and not-so-tech people alike for very little time now. And 2hile this is the case, not everyone knows exactly what is means and what it stands for.
To begin with, Wi-Fi is a trademark of wireless technologies, is owned by the group known as Wi-Fi Alliance.
The group aims to improve interoperability, Wireless local area network (WLAN) products from the following IEEE 802.11 standards.
This technology is usually mobile PCs and more and more mobile phones and PDAs are designed
in Wi-Fi enabled. As a wireless network, Wi-Fi works far with Ethernet cable that is used on a computer on the other computer and the Internet.
The second language experts in the wireless LAN Board Wi-Fi Hotspot simply known as HotSpot. A Hotspot is any the public sector, offers a free or paid wireless Internet access.
Some of them refer only to a small area (such as hotel lobbies), while those that cover the entire city (such as municipal elections are hot).
While hotspots is cheap and even free Internet Connection, there are also security problems, in parallel with this technology.
Some hotspots are, intentionally or unintentionally unsecured, so that all data on the network unencrypted. As a result, malicious users can breathe (Monitor) data from other, are the same
Network.
But several solutions, such as the Virtual Private Network (VPN) is available, although they are not widespread because of the cost of implementing them.
