Oh My God! You Killed Garfield! You Bast@#^@&!
Oh My God! Some say women are the worst drivers while other mention man are bad pedestrian. Whatever the case, please check left and check right before driving on and crossing road.In today world of broadband and Internet, almost every house is wired to the World Wide Web. For those who have more than 1 PC or laptop at home, using a router is the only way to share the single Internet connection of the broadband modem. In the early days of Network router, everything is wired, just like the early telephone. So you might have the modem in the living room, a cable to the router and 2 or more cables from the router snaking around the house to Papa laptop in the master room and his Daughter PC in the bedroom. In the large family (and rich) where every member wants their own digital world privacy, the house soon looks like a Russian fighter jet with cables running everywhere. Than there was the house pet dog who have a strange appetite for chewing LAN cables and Johnny who kept tripping over it while running crazy around the house.
Thanks to radio wave, nowadays we can take those cables out of the way with a bit more cash in the pocket. Wireless router have so far been the widely use by household and even hotel and small office. First it doesn't need a cable between router and all the PCs that need to be connected to it, Second the PCs or the laptop can surf the Internet anywhere as long as its within the range of the router which usually is around 50m to 80m. Suddenly there is so much freedom and mobility. We are no longer at the Mercy of Ricky Riccardo's Cable. But but but... Wireless bring its disadvantage for example the Range depends on the Antenna power, the old saying holds true, the bigger the better. A big Antenna means more power and more power = to better range. Wireless it may be but any obstruction like walls, tv or door will reduce the power of the transmitted signal and result in poor signal quality in layman term it means the web surfing experience seems a bit slower in your bed room compare using the PC in the living room right next to the router. And for people living in big houses, getting a acceptable signal from one end of the house to another is almost impossible.
So on one hand a cable signal is better because it does not experience lost of strength and could hold high data rate but everyone have to deal with cable management and the ugly sight of LAN cables running around the floor. On the other hand Wireless signal free you from the cable mess and let you surf the net anywhere in the house without worrying about tripping over cables but suffer from poor signal strength if there is just too many wall between you and the router.
Can we have the best of both world? Almost, and the answer lies in the power supply lines routed all around our apartment. There is this neat little device I tried using recently. You see, I have just built a new desktop but unlike my laptop, it does not have WiFi hardware in it, only a Ethernet port that is a standard in all modern PC motherboard. I don't wanna run a cable all the way from the router in my living room to my bedroom just to use the Internet and I want maximum signal strength for online gaming so which means I definitely need a cable signal right? This device that allow me to connect to the Internet through my router, without resorting to wireless, without running cables around the house and give me a data signal strength as good as a direct cable connection is called a Powerline Networking Adapter. Well to be frank its just an excuse by me to try some new networking gizmos and I got this gadget from the local Fry's Electronic Store which give me a 15 days no question ask return policy.
Stay tune the next blog when I talk about this Powerline Networking Adapter.
Thanks to radio wave, nowadays we can take those cables out of the way with a bit more cash in the pocket. Wireless router have so far been the widely use by household and even hotel and small office. First it doesn't need a cable between router and all the PCs that need to be connected to it, Second the PCs or the laptop can surf the Internet anywhere as long as its within the range of the router which usually is around 50m to 80m. Suddenly there is so much freedom and mobility. We are no longer at the Mercy of Ricky Riccardo's Cable. But but but... Wireless bring its disadvantage for example the Range depends on the Antenna power, the old saying holds true, the bigger the better. A big Antenna means more power and more power = to better range. Wireless it may be but any obstruction like walls, tv or door will reduce the power of the transmitted signal and result in poor signal quality in layman term it means the web surfing experience seems a bit slower in your bed room compare using the PC in the living room right next to the router. And for people living in big houses, getting a acceptable signal from one end of the house to another is almost impossible.
So on one hand a cable signal is better because it does not experience lost of strength and could hold high data rate but everyone have to deal with cable management and the ugly sight of LAN cables running around the floor. On the other hand Wireless signal free you from the cable mess and let you surf the net anywhere in the house without worrying about tripping over cables but suffer from poor signal strength if there is just too many wall between you and the router.
Can we have the best of both world? Almost, and the answer lies in the power supply lines routed all around our apartment. There is this neat little device I tried using recently. You see, I have just built a new desktop but unlike my laptop, it does not have WiFi hardware in it, only a Ethernet port that is a standard in all modern PC motherboard. I don't wanna run a cable all the way from the router in my living room to my bedroom just to use the Internet and I want maximum signal strength for online gaming so which means I definitely need a cable signal right? This device that allow me to connect to the Internet through my router, without resorting to wireless, without running cables around the house and give me a data signal strength as good as a direct cable connection is called a Powerline Networking Adapter. Well to be frank its just an excuse by me to try some new networking gizmos and I got this gadget from the local Fry's Electronic Store which give me a 15 days no question ask return policy.
Stay tune the next blog when I talk about this Powerline Networking Adapter.
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