A home wireless networking is just what it sounds like a means of creating networks without any wires within your home. If this sounds interesting to you, then read on. A home wireless network can create radio connections between computers that let them communicate or connect to the Internet without having to go to all the difficulty of connecting them with wires. The computers don’t even need to have a clear course for the signal, because the wireless signal can go through walls and between floors easily.

The story of wireless networking is a somewhat strange one. It is essentially a function of a technology called frequency leaping which was, believe it or not, invented by the actress Hedy Lamarr and a popular musician George Antheil, back in the 1940s. Seriously, they received a patent for their invention, which was intended to help in the war effort.  Hedy was a Jewish, but had been made to hide it and socialize with Hitler as a young woman — she had to drug her husband and run off to London to escape her native Austria. The importance of what they’d done, however, wasn’t recognized until many years later. However, the U.S. military implemented the technique in the ’60s, using it during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Hedy never saw any money from it as the copyright had expired, but she was given a Pioneer Award by Electronic Frontier Foundation in 1997, three years prior to her death.

On the other hand, when most people talk about wireless networks, they are talking about wireless LANs or also known as local area networks. A local area network doesn’t mean that it covers the whole neighborhood — the ‘local area’ in question can be only one building, such as your house. So if you want wireless networking at your home, you need a home wireless LAN. Once people have wireless in their home, they always look to act as if there’s been an absolute miracle. After years of drilling different holes and running various wires all over the place, suddenly seeing them gone is really amazing.