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In 2007, one de each two internauts will go without cables
In Spain there are 17.7 million users de Internet, according to the data de the Red.es Observatory, employee de the Ministry de Industry. In the middle de year, at least six million were connected through radio networks or WiFi, according to the company IWE-X, person in charge de the Wireless Observatory.
The wireless height has taken to the City council de San Francisco (Californian, the USA) to sign a provisional agreement with a supplier to defer municipal and gratuitous WiFi cover to its 777,000 inhabitants.
Commercial accesses
Throughout this year, IWE-X esteem that the number de Spanish users de Internet WiFi will equal to the one de traditional cybernauts who connect themselves to the Network by means de cables. The fault de this new revolution will have the proliferation de commercial joining points in the great Spanish cities and the extension de the use de the WiFi networks through other technologies, like the movable telephones that already allow to connect themselves to Internet, remember from the company. Thus, at present, the company has located only in Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Bilbao and Valencia 110,050 wireless joining points, the majority de them, prevailed.
Security, encriptadas 70%
70% de the WiFi networks are encriptadas, that is to say, that is not de free access, according to calculations de the Wireless Observatory. Nevertheless, the insecurity before the snoopers is the great problem de these networks.
Extension, Madrid at the top
With 40,000 joining points WiFi located, Madrid is today the Spanish city with greater wireless cover, followed de Barcelona, with 28.000; Seville, with 22.000; Valencia, with 14.550; and Bilbao, with 5.500.
Connection, to use the neighbor
A young person de 17 years de Singapore recognized days ago to have connected to Internet through the radio network de his neighbor, reason why she could be condemned to spend three years in prison.
4 questions on Radio networks
1What means WiFi?
It comes from the English Wireless Fidelity (wireless fidelity) and is a set de computer science standards that allow to create zones de access to Internet with no need to connect cables to the wire net.
2How they settle down?
With a joining point to the wire net that connects to a modem and a Wi-Fi device connected to our computer, internal or externally.
3What cover gives?
The wireless cover usually is among 100 and 150 meters, which allows the user to connect itself to the Network in all the rooms de its house, although also to some espabilados neighbors.
4What is hotspot?
They are coverage areas WiFi located in places public like airports, libraries, hotels or dependancies de the Administration.
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