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Do you have wireless internet at your house / what year did you get Wi-Fi?
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2001. It was Linksys at start, then added two Belkin. Never liked the earlier Airport. Now everything consolidated under Airport Extreme since the new one launched.
Of course, it has always been Airport Express for travel, since they launched.
Of course, it has always been Airport Express for travel, since they launched.
Late 2006 I got a Linksys G router. Then when I got my MBA rev.0 I got an AEBS, and USB HDD for wireless backup with Time Machine. I now have the AEBS running 2 iphones 2 macbooks, and 1 XBox 360. I have to run cat5 to 2 rooms of my house to my DISH network receivers. I sure wish there was a wireless adapter for the DISH receivers. If anyone knows of such adapter, well let me know.
I had wifi since 2001 with a Apple Snow base station (did 802.11b)
I then had a Apple Airport 802.11g base station + Netgear .11g router
Now we have x2 Timecapsule's running on 802.11an under 1 network name (WPA2) and
x2 Airport Extreme Flat + x1 Airport Extreme Dome base stations under another network running WPA2
All connected to a ethernet network to a 24 port gigabit switch. I also have a Buffalo 802.11g base station with external antenna connecting to a friends house who has the same base station + antenna so he's connected to my network.
We have 4 mobile phones, x1 ipod Touch (my sisters), Wii, PS3, x3 Laptops, x1 Printer all using the wifi network.
What i love about apple's airport's are the fact you can manage them in a central location, the routers in them are pants but as base stations brilliant little things. I just wish they provided PoE and antennae socket on the new ones!!! :-(
I then had a Apple Airport 802.11g base station + Netgear .11g router
Now we have x2 Timecapsule's running on 802.11an under 1 network name (WPA2) and
x2 Airport Extreme Flat + x1 Airport Extreme Dome base stations under another network running WPA2
All connected to a ethernet network to a 24 port gigabit switch. I also have a Buffalo 802.11g base station with external antenna connecting to a friends house who has the same base station + antenna so he's connected to my network.
We have 4 mobile phones, x1 ipod Touch (my sisters), Wii, PS3, x3 Laptops, x1 Printer all using the wifi network.
What i love about apple's airport's are the fact you can manage them in a central location, the routers in them are pants but as base stations brilliant little things. I just wish they provided PoE and antennae socket on the new ones!!! :-(
I use my neighbour's (whose computer has been infected with a DNS trojan so I must use an alternative dns server) rarely, since I normally use my ADSL.
In '04 I bought the g4 iBook, bought the UFO base station the same day. Just finally upgraded to the new AEBS (g) last week. 
I left it wide open for almost 4 years until I started seeing odd computers showing up in my finder! I could browse their iTunes, picts, business files etc. That spooked me enough to lock her down. Boy were the rest of the tennents in my building pissed!
I left it wide open for almost 4 years until I started seeing odd computers showing up in my finder!
I could browse their iTunes, picts, business files etc. That spooked me enough to lock her down. Boy were the rest of the tennents in my building pissed! 
Absolutely
How could I not? I do most of my work from home and use my laptop all around the house
How could I not? I do most of my work from home and use my laptop all around the house
I want to say my parents got wireless in 2002ish. Maybe sooner. It was a few years before wireless N was even heard of.
That linkson router signal went to crap so I stole it for while I was at Texas Tech living in the dorm to provide me with a hardware firewall and wireless for my dorm which was about all it was good for (and yes I used security on it). That router is sitting on a shelf here at my apparment unused.
Moved off campus bought a new linkson router that was used there. Used that until I graduated from school and I wireless with my desktop until I graduted.
Moved to dallas got ATT Uverse which the modem is a wireless router and my computer and 360 are hardware in because the router is stored in my office with my computer and I am to cheap to buy a wireless adaptor for the 360.
The only time wireless part ever gets used is when my girlfriend visits and she uses her laptop.
There you have my wireless life story.
That linkson router signal went to crap so I stole it for while I was at Texas Tech living in the dorm to provide me with a hardware firewall and wireless for my dorm which was about all it was good for (and yes I used security on it). That router is sitting on a shelf here at my apparment unused.
Moved off campus bought a new linkson router that was used there. Used that until I graduated from school and I wireless with my desktop until I graduted.
Moved to dallas got ATT Uverse which the modem is a wireless router and my computer and 360 are hardware in because the router is stored in my office with my computer and I am to cheap to buy a wireless adaptor for the 360.
The only time wireless part ever gets used is when my girlfriend visits and she uses her laptop.
There you have my wireless life story.
AT&T DSL wireless 2004/5, switched to Comcast Hi-Speed Internet (HSI) 16Mbps and it totally smokes at around 32Mbps easily...