| Wireless technology has become a prominent | | | | SSID. |
| field in the area of networking. It has many | | | | |
| uses. The most important being portability | | | | Advantages. |
| and mobility. With the help of wireless | | | | |
| technology people now can send and receive | | | | The usage of wifi system has numerous |
| messages, phone calls, faxes, read files, | | | | advantages. The most important advantage is |
| login on remote machines etc. and perform all | | | | the cost factor. Since there are free |
| the above mentioned duties from anywhere on | | | | hotspots or access points, a free connection |
| land, sea, or air. | | | | between two nodes cab be established in the |
| | | | network. A wireless network also provides |
| The technology of wifi has stormed the field | | | | the facilities of mobility. Hence it is now |
| of wireless networking. There are numerous | | | | possible to have a wireless connection, free |
| applications of wifi. Nowadays it is very | | | | of hard wired connections.It is also easy to |
| useful and critical in business world because | | | | install and configure wifi network. It is |
| today's business gives more emphasis on the | | | | also easy and generally faster, internet |
| communication of the information. Wifi also | | | | connections are possible by wifi networks. |
| finds usage at home, workplaces, shops, any | | | | |
| public places etc. the study of the | | | | Dangers and risks. |
| advantages and the risks involved in the wifi | | | | |
| system is necessary in order to exploit the | | | | Since wifi is a wireless connection it uses |
| full use of it. | | | | the shared wireless space. Hence it is |
| | | | possible that many signals of similar |
| About wireless networks. | | | | frequencies can interfere with each other and |
| | | | cause unnecessary distortions. This leads to |
| The transfer of information from node to | | | | the loss of data and the received data may |
| another with the help of electromagnetic | | | | get corrupted. Hence wifi does not ensure an |
| waves is referred to as wireless | | | | error free connection. Another danger |
| communication. Signals are normally broadcast | | | | involved is related to security of data. It |
| through free space and are available to | | | | is possible that users who are new to the |
| anyone who has device capable of receiving | | | | wifi network may setup an insecure access |
| them. A new technique of wireless data | | | | point, without setting the various security |
| transmission known as wifi (wireless | | | | configurations. It is also possible that |
| fidelity) has been developed. Wifi uses the | | | | some miscreants may use the same default SSID |
| radio waves to transmit the data. It uses the | | | | everywhere to access the secured access |
| frequency of 2.4GHz and uses SSID for | | | | points illegally. The best way to counter |
| addressing purposes. SSID stands for Service | | | | these dangers is to learn and study the |
| Set Identifier. It uses a set of characters | | | | configuration of the secured network and make |
| or numbers addresses so that the sending | | | | it a rule to always use a different SSID for |
| access point can be identified. Any access | | | | access point and never keep the default |
| point which wants to receive the signal must | | | | value. |
| have the same set of SSID as that of sender's | | | | |