WI-FI PRODUCTS
If you are a café, hotel, bookstore, laundry, restaurant and other
location owner that wants to become a Wi-Fi hotspot that provides wireless
internet access, then you'll need a piece of hardware called an access
point to broadcast your broadband signal to your customers.
If you wish to access the Wi-Fi signal at a hotspot you'll need a Wi-Fi
enabled device such as a PDA or a laptop computer that contains an Internal
PC card or mini-PCI module (Wireless NIC).
You will have a wide choice of products that use the 802.11a, 802.11b,
802.11g standards or a combination the three. To this point 802.11b (11Mbps
maximum throughput rate) products have been the most popular and least
expensive but 802.11g (54 Mbps maximum throughput rate) is the most recently
approved standard and those products are now entering the marketplace.
Manufacturers and developers of Wi-Fi and wireless products include the
following
2Wire
3Com
Apple
Bluesocket
Cisco
Colubris Networks
D-Link
Dell
Freefinet.com is an ad serving system for hotspots and FreeSpots
HP
IBM
Intel
Intermec
JPELECTRON
- DNS Redirector redirects to welcome/advertisement page
Linksys
Megapath.net allows connection sharing of their broadband services
Microtik
NetGear
Palm - Tungsten C handheld
PatronSoft
- FirstSpot product has Captive Portal feature
Public IP Services
- The Hot Spot solution for public spaces that want to offer free wireless
Internet.
Redspan
Solutions - UK based retailer with over 20,000 wireless and IT
products
SMC Networks
Speakeasy.net allows and encourages sharing of their DSL broadband service
Sputnik
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Toshiba
Vivato
YachtSpot
- complete solution for providing wireless Internet access to Marinas,
Boat Yards, Boat Shows Zyxel
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