A wirelessnetwork is a telephone or computer network that uses radio for the carrier or physical layer.
The military found use for this wireless technology is configured the wireless signals to send data that was heavily encrypted making it difficult to be cracked which proved to be especially useful during World War II for the Army and Navy (History of Wireless).
Wirelessnetworks in terms of internet connections, are typically slower than those that are directly connected through an Ethernet cable.
In a traditional wirelessnetwork where laptops connect to a single access point, each laptop has to share a fixed pool of bandwidth.
However, one feature of wireless mesh networks is that an operator need only deploy a minimal base station infrastructure, and allow the users themselves to extend the network.
Since this wireless Internet infrastructure has the potential to be much cheaper than the traditional type, many wireless community network groups are already creating wireless mesh networks.
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