Wireless Bypass

It’s no secret that wireless internet is now available all across the country, but some cities that have access to broadband may surprise you. Here are a few of the newest wireless cities in the United States that you might not have guessed…
Kansas City – in both Missouri and Kansas, suburban parts of Kansas City are now able to enjoy the benefits of wireless Internet.
Greensboro, North Carolina – this relatively small city in NC have had (more…)

Regular refrigerator maintenance is vital to assuring yours is working efficiently. Here we will give you some easy tips to follow to make sure you are getting the most out of your money.

It is a good idea to clean the condenser coils about every three months and if you have pets around the house, it is recommend that you do this about once a month. To clean them, use a vacuum or even a broom, this will remove the dust that has built up on the coils.I was looking for more information and found it here. This dust will cause (more…)

With the recent introduction of many new types of home lighting, it can often be hard to keep track of the various types of lighting available. The most common decision a homeowner must make when purchasing new bulbs is whether to choose incandescent or fluorescent bulbs.

Incandescent light bulbs are the type familiar to most homeowners. They are typically found in the regular bulb shape, and output is measured in watts. They work by transmitting electricity through (more…)

A power strip is a simple and effective way to save hundreds of kilowatt hours on your electricity bill each year. Many household appliances work in conjunction and continue to consume electricity even when they are turned off. this consumption is called stand-by power. If you have a TV, VCR, and DVD player all plugged into different outlets they are consuming power even when they are turned off. The only way to prevent stand-by consumption in this situation would be to unplug each of these appliances whenever you (more…)

Mobile backhaul is the transport of wireless traffic from the cell site to the switch, or mobile tower. As more and more consumers use the internet and download apps from their cell phones, backhaul traffic backs up and slows down service. This not only aggravates customers, it causes network congestion and overtaxes operators. The solution to this backhaul traffic overload is increasing backhaul capacity. Already, many wireless providers have upped their backhaul capacity. Clearwire is increasing its backhaul capacity 250 or more,T-Mobile USA is upgrading to fiber backhaul, and Verizon Wireless is planning on increasing its backhaul capacity using Verizon Global Wholesale. The challenge is increasing backhaul capacity without overstepping the budget. Hopefully, advances in wireless technology will eliminate the problems we’ve been seeing with backhaul and create a plausible alternative. Already, AT&T is planning to try an enhanced fiber-optic backhaul connectivity that will hopefully boost their 3G service and help the development of their future long term evolution devices. (more…)

Though the topic of net neutrality has been hot in the past few weeks, no one seems to be getting anywhere on the topic. The big questionWho, if anyone, will regulate broadband internet service providers, has yet to be answered.Most recently, Federal Communications Chairman Julius Genachowski defended his plan to impose regulations on broadband ISPs in front of the financial services subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. He backs his plans despite the recent court ruling stating the commission lacked the authority to regulate.Genachowski is trying to get around this court ruling by classifying broadband internet as a common carrier service (putting it in the same category as phone service, which can be regulated by the FCC). Was Genachowski going too far by trying to outsmart authority? The answer to this is unclear, but we do know that it caused a fair upset among many members of the board. (more…)

The internet market is saturated with social networking sites and it takes something truly unique to stand out. Foursquare is a relatively new site that brings a whole new aspect to keeping up with your friends. Unlike many others of its kind, this social network doesn’t focus on what you are doing but where you are and where you’re going. When you arrive at a building, whether it be a restaurant, movie theatre, or grocery store you check in using your mobile phone. This site offers applications for many of the popular smartphones such as iPhone, Blackberry and Droid. Foursquare users without smartphones can still participate through text messages. (more…)

We’ve all come to understand how essential wireless internet is when at work, for checking email, and keeping up with friends on Facebook. But, what about driving a car? As oil supplies dwindle and environmental efficiency becomes an increasingly important topic, many car-sharing companies are emerging. One of the better known of these businesses is Zipcar. When you become a member of Zipcar you can reserve a car of your choice from a location of your choice at the time you need it. You then simply unlock the car, drive it as you need and return it when you’re done. This system is environmentally friendly because it reduces the amount of cars on the road, the amount of miles each person is driving, and many of the vehicles are hybrid cars. (more…)

The universe of wireless internet technologies has really come an incredibly long way since the first cell phones were equipped with web navigation capabilities back in the early 1990s. Since then, successive revolutions within this field of modern telecommunications technology have riveted the wireless internet-using population, opening up new possibilities that many of us wouldn’t have been expecting for another 10 or 20 years! Among the most significant strides forward to be made in recent years have been the arrival of fourth generation mobile standards, the ability to use wireless signals from stationary locations and the increasingly reliable, non-patchy nature of wireless networks in the nation’s principal urban (and increasingly suburban) communities. (more…)

If you ask wireless internet users what they are looking for most, you’ll probably find one answer continuing to pop up: great service in all places from one provider. It sounds simple, but it has been by no means easy to get such service from an internet provider.What would it take for total wireless access to happen? First of all, there would have to be the network which can get it all done, especially on the mobile front. Wired networks obviously can’t, since there are going to be places which are almost out of bounds where people will need to use the internet on the road. The latest wireless networks cannot cover entire states yet, but they can cover entire metropolitan areas with high speed internet. (more…)