VOIP Voice Over IP

  In your computer there is what’s called a “wireless adapter”. Almost any new computer should already come with this installed. Your computer’s wireless adapter can translate any data you may have stored on your computer into a radio signal. Your wireless adapter will then send that radio signal to your wireless router.

Your wireless router will then take that radio signal that your computer’s wireless adapter sent, and decode it. The router sends that information to the Internet using an Ethernet cable.

This cable is colored yellow or gray and looks like a phone cable only bigger. It is plugged into the back of your router and runs to the modem that your Internet service provider, (ISP) supplied you with. The modem is what actually brings the Internet to your home. If you have a cable ISP, they some times will give you a modem that double as a wireless router. They usually add a charge for this on your monthly bill. DSL and Satellite ISP’s do not offer that.

This process can also work in reverse. The wireless router can receive information from the Internet, translate it into a radio signal and send it to the computer's wireless adapter. Giving you Internet on your computer. read more »