Tham khảo tài liệu 'wireless network hacks & mods for dummies phần 3', công nghệ thông tin, quản trị mạng phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Chapter 4 Wi-Fi and Broadband Connections 59 Dial-up is hard to share. You have to buy extra hardware if you want to easily share a dial-up connection. Only a couple of wireless access points accept dial-up modem connections and the list gets smaller every year. That makes it much more difficult although not impossible to even set up Internet sharing with a dial-up connection. Not only is it difficult to share but be warned it may actually cost you more when you factor in equipment than just going to broadband. Broadband is always on. You never get a busy signal and you never have to wait to dial in and you never get bumped off the line by an incoming call. Nuf said. Broadband is fast enough to support a home network. Dial-up bogs down with one user so imagine four or five. Broadband supports the applications you ll want to use on a souped-up wireless network. If you want to share photos download music and movies and conduct wireless VoIP conferences you must have broadband. We re not going to spend too much more time convincing you we suspect that 95 percent of you are already convinced and many probably already have broadband. We hope we ve converted the 5 percenters. Read on for more information about specific broadband options and how they might interact with your wireless networks. What to Look for in Broadband Service Regardless of the media be it phone lines airwaves cable connections or even fiber optic cables broadband connections all share certain common characteristics and features. As you re choosing a broadband service to connect your wireless network to the Internet and to broadband service providers for things like music and movies you should consider some of the following characteristics Dynamic IP addresses Most home broadband connections provide users with what is known as a dynamic IP address if you re not familiar with IP addresses check out the sidebar IP addresses for me and you elsewhere in this chapter . The key here is the dynamic part your
