Having instantaneous bandwidth greater than around 1 MHz and supporting data rates above 1.5 Mbps' is broadband according to the 802.16-2004 standard. This broadband when reaches us without the entangling cables, it is known by the name of Wireless broadband.

Today, internet has spread its wings throughout the world with all the people getting used to the high speed of new connection types. Earlier, there used to be the dialup connections offering a low speed of a few kbps. Then, the internet tasks used to be very boring and monotonous kind of thing despite the fact that 'internet is an ocean of knowledge'. The only reason for this was the low speed of this connection. But now we have found a fast, very fast means of connection - the broadband. Through the broadband, we measure speed in Mbps and not Kbps. And then comes the wireless broadband through which we can reach speeds of upto 100 Mbps. Isn't it amazing!

These broadbands make use of short-range radio waves to build a specified coverage area where computers can be connected in absence of wires. The network consists of a series of towers that are placed in the radio wave coverage area and offer good connectivity among themselves.

With this high speed comes the joy of using internet. Browsing is real fun and downloading is much more fun. Large movie files can be downloaded within minutes whereas the same took days in case of the dial up. The wireless broadband also allows users to view online videos with the extreme entertainment. Online gaming has also turned to be very common due to the favorable usage conditions provided by it. Emails too can be accessed with the maximum comfort. Earlier, we did not have the concept of online videos or online gaming but with the advent of the broadband, they were also available and with the wireless broadband they became very common. Now, online gaming has a different experience and the online videos don't find any disturbance which was there due to slow video streaming. We have so much to use over the internet that other modes of transmission except the broadband would prove useless.

The broadbands used to reach homes through the DSL and cables but the wireless broadband reaches us through the satellites. Due to no cables these can reach us very easily. Now we don't even need the antennas that used to be there a few times back. The connection is simply plugged into a wireless router. The wireless cards and USB devices can also be used for the laptops. There are many organisations giving high speed through these cards and these can be found by searching over the internet. You only have to carefully go through the broadband usage policy while taking up the connection and then you are free to reach any extent within the policy.

With the people becoming more and more mobile, the high speed and the absence of wire in the broadband can be very useful and actually it has proved its use.

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