| Are you thinking of upgrading your internet | | | | Wimax stands for Worldwide Interoperability for |
| connection at home or even at work? If it's been | | | | Microwave Access. No wonder why they use an |
| a few years since you've looked around the | | | | acronym! That's a lot of fancy words, but what |
| market, you will want to do a bunch of research. | | | | do they all mean? |
| There are many options now for faster, | | | | Wimax is the name for the actual technology that |
| smoother, wireless Internet connections. You | | | | allows transmission to happen over a variety of |
| might not even know what some of the terms | | | | outlets. For instance, signals will link back and forth |
| mean these days. Find out what every acronym | | | | between satellites to phone, from phone to |
| means and then see what fits your needs the | | | | computer, from satellite to telephone. Each transit |
| best. | | | | point is carried out with a standard level of speed. |
| First off, 4G stands for the fourth (4) generation | | | | That speed now happens to be 10 Mbps, which is |
| (G) of wireless standards. The original cell phones - | | | | considered the fourth generation or level of |
| those big, bulky bags with a phone the size of a | | | | standard put forth by the group. Each time the |
| shoebox inside - were the first generation of | | | | standard speed increases significantly, a new |
| cellular and wireless technology. They took | | | | generation comes out. |
| forever to dial and connect to another person, | | | | So, that's all well and good, but what does it really |
| even someone else who wasn't on a cellular | | | | mean? Times are getting faster. When you open |
| connection. It took a few more years to develop | | | | up your phone and connect to the Internet |
| faster speeds and smaller equipment to handle | | | | through it, it will open up much faster. The web |
| those speeds, but when it did, 2G was born. | | | | browsing, cell phone connections, Wi-Fi hookups |
| If you watch any TV at all, you will notice the | | | | and anything else that needs data to transmit will |
| battle of wireless companies over who has the | | | | run much quicker. There won't be the little |
| larger 3G network. 3G is obviously the third | | | | hourglass telling you to wait while data is moved |
| generation of higher standards and faster | | | | along lines to reach you. It will become almost |
| equipment to come about. The company who has | | | | instantaneous. |
| the largest and the fastest network, or bigger 3G | | | | As the technology improves, it also gets smaller. |
| area, thinks it will get more customers. And they | | | | Smaller technology means more portable |
| are probably correct - except that 3G has only | | | | equipment. But with more portable equipment, |
| been around for a couple years, but 4G is already | | | | there are also more wireless connections to be |
| coming out at some companies. Once people | | | | made and utilized in the system. It's a great big |
| have access to 4G they might dump their old 3G | | | | circle, but one scientists are working hard to |
| network! | | | | continue to develop. |
| Wimax is actually an abbreviation for technology. | | | | |