Digisol DG-BR5411QAC: Wireless Ways @home

Six companies came together in 1999 to form the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance offering the technology that came to be known as Wi-Fi: wirelessly distributing data and Internet across home and office, at a top speed of 10Mbps.

Today, as the industry marks 20 years of Wi-Fi, speeds have improved 100-fold to over 1 gigabit/sec and some 30 billion devices worldwide are wirelessly connected — almost certainly including a few in our own homes. Indeed, with the average family sharing the use of a PC or laptop , a TV and a few mobile phones at the very least, it is difficult to do without a broadband connection and a modem-router combo (often a single device) to “route” the data through the air, across the home.