Today, more and more households are building wireless networks to support mobile computing.

A wireless home network is the simple, affordable, and high performance way to connect your home and its surroundings without having to dig into your walls to build a cumbersome and unsightly wired network. AMD-equipped wireless home networks allow you to:

• Share a printer and an Internet connection
• Access common photographs, MP3s, and other files from any computer
• Transfer files between computers
• Play multiplayer games
• Easily add, change, and share DVD burners, digital cameras, and other peripherals
• Monitor and manage your home audio/visual and security equipment

A wireless router—usually connected directly to a broadband modem—forms the hub of your home network. Most routers incorporate one or more wired ports for flexibility and a range of user-set security options to ensure your privacy.

You can center your wireless local area network, or WLAN, around a router that complies with one of several types of widely recognized protocols—802.11a, b, or g, known collectively as Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. 802.11g is the most recent among these protocols, and offers potential transfer speeds similar to those of a wired network.

Learn more about setting up a wireless network from 54g.org.