the basics

Wireless internet, mobile broadband, information about how to set up your wireless computer to access the internet, using wireless USB or an adaptor for a wireless computer that has wireless internet capability. Wireless computer internet or Wifi is when your computer links to a wireless broadband router.

For this to be wireless computer internet, your computer trnsmitts to the router, and the wireless router communicates to the provider, through your modem which connects physically to your phoneline. You can of course have modem routers, where the function of a router and a modem is combined. Wireless internet connections gets rid of the need for an Ethernet or other cable from your router to the computer. Most broadband providers will give you a free or cheap wireless router when you sign up them. This is a great way of adding a lot of freedom to how you use your computer at home, and you can have more than one person using the internet at the same time, in different rooms. Remember you have to give back, or buy the wireless router if you cancel your broadband service. Mobile broadband is where you by a service, which you use a bit like a mobile phone serivce, topping it up when you run out of credit.