Internet Service Providers & Wireless Internet Access:

There are so many internet service providers out there - that it can be difficult to choose which provider will work best for you. Most of us are looking for Affordable and Reliable Internet Access and E mail service for our home or office and we want to do business with someone we can trust.

Whether you're looking for; Reliable Dial Up - 56k v90 / High Speed Broadband Internet Access like DSL / High Speed Wireless Internet Access or a Cable connection the Alfred, New York area has Local Internet Service Providers to serve your individual needs.

This is a helpful guide for locating high speed Internet access providers, including dial up, DSL, cable and wireless internet service. Get your Internet Access from a provider with a good reputation!

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DSL - Digital Subscriber Line - DSL is a high-speed connection that uses the same wires as a regular telephone line.

Wireless Internet Access uses Wi-Fi technology that allows people to connect to the Internet using radio waves instead of phone lines. Wi-Fi, also, WiFi, Wi-fi or wifi, is short for wireless fidelity (originally licensed by the Wi-Fi Alliance )

 
A wireless network card (acting like a radio transmitter) is installed in your computer and then connected through a WLAN Wireless Local Area Network to a wireless transmitter mounted at an appropriate location on your house or building. The transmitter sends signals to one of the wireless network towers which is then sent to your wireless internet access providers and out to the Internet. The information from the Internet is then sent back to the tower and sent back to your transmitter and then to your wireless network card (acting like a radio receiver) and finally to your computer.

Wireless Internet Access is very fast and can transmit information hundreds of times faster than a normal dialup account.

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