Posted on 10/10/2014 4:57:37 PM PDT by lee martell
Categorize this as yet another question I have about personal computers, but am too embarrassed to ask anybody about till now. That is what I wonder. I hear the web described as a 'cloud', so I suppose it one way it exists is in the form of a massive activity ball of entertwined signals. Sometimes, I'm lucky, and my connection occurs almost immediately. Does it variate in intensity and speed as would radio waves, with consistant peaks and valleys?. I've begun to wonder if the net is being sent out in the form of linear beams, almost laser like in their straightness and concentration. Other times, my connection is sporadic, or more prone to fluctuation. It almost oozes into my cell phone. I know this sounds hopelessly unlearned, but it is a question I have. Knowing the various ways the net is sent out or received may help me to know the best way to position my phone or tablet or laptop in order to recieve these data more quickly.
Got it. If I had emoticoms, I’d be using them. I’ve seen emoticoms that sing, dance and even cry (and other undisclosed activities as well).
Ted Stevens told me it was a series of tubes.
With or without Saurkraut and Horse Radish? This makes ALL the difference in connectivity of the synapes, or so I hear.
Note the defensive rays emanating from my body to ward off the attempted invasion by Plagiarasitic Blogentities.
With practice, you too can learn to maintain autonomy in the face of this attempted corruption and the theft of your precious bodily fluids.
I’ll need to sign up for those workshops. My Chakras are off centered anyway. Time for an Aural Alignment and Adjustment.
By the way - I’m voting for circular wave beams.
Geography matters - WiFi is radio waves... Metal messes with them, so if the router is on the other side of the kitchen, or a furnace room, the appliances can effect or even block signal. I have seen large duct-work do the same.
As far as the technology goes, if the router is older, or your computer is older (say, WinVista to early Win7) upgrading may be useful - an 'N' series router AND network card (has to be both) will vastly improve signal and speed. If it is 'G' series, consider upgrading.
Also a wireless to wireless, or preferably wired to wireless repeater or hotspot can be employed (another router of your own hooked to his would do the same thing PLUS privacy)
And finally, if desktop, Wired is much faster and more reliable than wireless.
Domo Arigatou! I enjoyed that short Meditation Tour. The second one reminds me of Olias of Sun Hillow, by John Anderson. John Anderson used to be the vocalist of YES. The Ocean Song is also good on that very old album.
Your last point, wired is faster and more reliable than wireless. I was surprised to discover that for myself. This may change in the next few innovations. Wireless is still in it’s infancy.
Introducing "the cloud" into the discussion just complicates things unnecessarily. The cloud is a physical place. A "farm" of computer servers in some huge warehouse somewhere. There is no one "cloud" there are thousands of them. Try to understand the similarities (and differences) between a desktop computer, a server and a "cloud." There are many tutorials on line; hundreds of them.
Bottom line, how the waves get to your computer is a radio problem, no different from a pocket radio, a car radio or any other radio. The only differences are the frequencies involved.
The other element is the antenna. Again, more related to radio, television and cell phones than to any other technology.
Stay off drugs.
your conflating various parts of the internet. the internet is the old school usa based network of networks. The WWW world wide web took that global but the “phone number directory” that lets you type in google and get to their WWW page is still in the USA internet hands (ICANN). Cloud was an online storage backup service, think a network connected ironmountain. With the development of the internet of things (your car, stove and thermostat will be “online” the cloud is moving from storage to SAAS or software as a service. Think of this as the morphing of a computer to a chromebook. you basically can’t use a chromebook unless your online.
Now all internet data is packeted. thus if you want a visual reference its like droplets from a faucet. the overall speed is dependent on the size of the pipe and the pressure of the data. Even fiber optics which may morph some day into a constant data transmission system is today sending discrete data packets. The only non packeted data transmission systems are old school radio waves and twisted copper phone(1960’s like stuff) (caveat there are some laser transmission systems that are time or distance measuring that are still analog)
Hope this helps
No it is not.
Wireless is as old as solid state and integrated circuit electronics, which began in the late 50s-early 60s, in, for example controlling model boats and flying airplane models.
Your explanation does help. Thanks. I would be either blankly stared at or openly laughed out of Best Buy if I asked one of their Geek Squad anything like this question. Sort of like driving an automatic car, and knowing absolutely about what transpires under the mysterious metal hood.
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