OliverBrown.me.uk » WLAN http://www.oliverbrown.me.uk Sun, 21 Aug 2011 09:08:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 AOL misleading with wireless broadband http://www.oliverbrown.me.uk/2006/10/19/aol-misleading-with-wireless-broadband/ http://www.oliverbrown.me.uk/2006/10/19/aol-misleading-with-wireless-broadband/#comments Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:13:40 +0000 Oliver http://www.oliverbrown.me.uk/2006/10/19/aol-misleading-with-wireless-broadband/ AOL UK (that would be Carphone Warehouse now) are advertising wireless broadband for the same price as regular broadband. What this means is instead of getting a free ADSL modem, you get a free combined wireless router/ADSL modem allowing you to create a wireless home network with the Internet accessible from all the computers.

Quite a few companies advertise a similar service as wireless broadband.

There are companies slowly appearing however offering genuine wireless broadband via WiMAX, for example now. Once the availability increases the issue of what “wireless broadband” means will become more important…

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