Essay On Wifi

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Before the implementation of BlueTooth into cellular devices, cell phone users were either required to have a wired earpiece running to their phone, or use one of their hands to hold the phone to their ears. Bluetooth has become a vital part of corporate use because it allows for employees to excel in multitasking, making it one of the world’s most used wireless connection system. Cell phone manufacturers prefer BlueTooth to any other type of technology because of the low power consumption, less complication on the user’s behalf, and the ability to implement the technology cheaply. This technology has advantages over infrared transmitters due to the ability to leave the line of sight of …show more content…

This is what has allowed to gain an overhead on Wi-Fi. The latter technology has the advantages of a much larger area of communication between computers. The problem is that Wifi was only developed for computers while BlueTooth came out on a plethora of devices such as phones, tablets, PCs, headsets, PDAs, and much more. Wi-Fi also uses a considerable more amount of energy to run and would cause the issues of sacrificing battery life for the ability to multitask. This would be too much of a hassle for employees as they would constantly be looking for a place to charge their electronic …show more content…

This is more secure than that of a normal wireless broadcasting system such as Wi-Fi which uses a high frequency of radio waves to transmit data. Wi-Fi normally transmits at 2.4 GHz and is easily intercepted if another computer is listening too. This creates the need for software that encrypts the data before sending it out which requires large amounts of processing power and plenty of energy. On top of that, encryption can easily be broken by any kind of brute force, creating the need for many different types of security protocols like WPA/WPA2 and 802.11. Bluetooth connects to a specific device to

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