5 Benefits of Implementing Home or Small Office Wifi Network

Wifi has become popular choices nowadays due to ease of installation and deployment. It is also give you mobility and convenience to access internet, which you will not get it if you use wired network. Business owners particularly in public area such as malls and coffee shops have begun to offer wireless access to their customers. More than ever, this internet access is provided as free service to attract more customer to come into their premises.

So, now you are in the midst of deciding whether implementing wifi or keeping your cable network. Before choosing wifi as preferred network-access for your office or your house, please do some homework to consider the pros and cons. Bellow are some benefit you will get if you are deploying home or small office wifi.

Convenience
Wifi enables users to access network resources in convenient location from their primary networking environment, either in home or office. This is particularly true with the ever growing and popularity of laptops. People want to have more freedom and mobility in accessing network resources.

Productivity
Wifii network can support multiple, simultaneous high-speed Internet connections from your several SOHO computers. What a modern house you have! Dad can be in the kitchen downloading a Martha Stewart Good Thing Pie recipe while Mom and the kids are playing Quake against each other from their respective bedrooms! Or you can also share network resources to be used at the same time like printer, network storage, applications or at the conveniences of sharing multimedia files like pictures, music, and video.

Cost Efficient
If you compare the both wired and wireless, wired networks have several disadvantages over wifi. First, you obviously have to string physical wires. The initial deployment of wired networking hardware units might be less expensive than the equivalent of wifi units. But in the long run, when the actual wiring costs are factored in, I can assure you that wifi deployment can be significantly less expensive.

Mobility and Adaptability
Wifi is highly adaptable in accommodating user’s needs. You can put computers where you want and easily rearrange them. It give you freedom to move around within the Wifi coverage zone with a laptop. Wifi-connected computers are highly portable and mobile. Now become a common when you see people using a wifi laptop in an organization. How much this freedom contributes to increased productivity is not in doubt. Needless to say, a wifi-enabled machine can be used in many places that a wired machine cannot: patio, unwired conference room, rooftop, whatever. This mobility and adaptability is attained without sacrifice always on connections.

Scalability
Wifi is far more scalable than wired LAN. You can install wireless router and reconfigure your wifi to meet your new needs and requirement. You can quickly scale up your network from a simple peer-to-peer setup into a full “infrastructure” network with thousands of users, covering a wide diverse and roaming area. You will find this is a truly advantages of wifi if you take into account that wired network is far more difficult to modify later on.©