How Wireless Works

by Preston Gralla

Book Overview

This book features stunning four-color illustrations, taking readers through the inner workings of wireless. It contains updated material on WiFi networking, home and corporate wireless networking,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789733447
• ISBN13: 9780789733443
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Que
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Great illustration of the basics

A previous reviewer wrote "takes one concept and manages to fill an entire book" as being a negative. The author makes it clear up front that all these technologies use the same basic concept - attaching data to a wave and sending it - so what do you expect?? I'm a wireless engineer and thoroughly enjoyed how the author laid out each technology in a step-by-step fashion, complete with full color illustrations and interesting side notes. I originally picked this book up at the library, but decided I needed my own for quick and enjoyable reference.

Good book for beginners

This book fulfills its role as the very first book one may wish to read if he/she knows nothing at all about wireless technology and wants a broad overview of the subject. The colorful pictures and brief text descriptions makes the book accessible to newbies. The reader is then prepared to move into more advanced books on this interesting subject.

Great book!

If you want to know how any kind of wireless technology works, this is the book for you. Whether it's wireless networks, wireless Internet access, cell phones, WAP, pagers, WSDL...it's all here. The introductory material is great for anyone wanting to understand concepts like how data and information can be sent wireless, how the electromagnetic spectrum works, etc. And even the more complicated material is easy to follow --- the illustrations are clear and are great for explaining wireless concepts. Anyone interested in wireless technology should get this book.