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There are plenty of good reasons to want to be able to watch movies and listen to internet radio from just about anywhere. For one, if you’re spending a lot of time in transit, it makes dealing with waits at airports and train stations a lot easier. For another, if you happen to be on the road because of business, it’s a lot simpler to send an email that you got to your destination safely rather than wake up your significant other or family with a phone call. And if you’re traveling with small children, you might find that activities designed to keep them entertained can turn into yesterday’s news a whole lot faster than you were expecting.

That’s the biggest problem with entertainment on the road: before the days of wireless internet, you were stuck with exactly what you packed, unless you felt like spending a whole lot of money to get something else. This meant that if you were in an airport for hours, you were going to have exactly the music on your mp3 player or Discman, and that your children were only going to have the coloring books and video games that you packed for them. That can definitely wear thin after awhile, and can be seriously troubling if you are in the middle of a major delay.

Today, things like wireless internet make it a lot easier to get fresh entertainment. Whether it’s a business traveler checking in for a more “serious” purpose, getting details on the weather via streaming website content or tweeting at friends, or it’s just catching up with your favorite television programs on a laptop, there’s something to be said about having technology at your fingertips. And even travelers who have smartphones can get in on the game in places that are hot spots, meaning a lot more variety than before.

The only negative about traditional wireless internet, however, is that it tends to go out at the most unfortunate times. And in places like train stations and airports, where wireless is often not free, there is also the downside of having to pay after your first hour, with prices often far too high. A wireless network in a hotel is also far more likely to slow down because of so many users, and wireless in hotel rooms often is resigned to the very same fate.

However, a new form of wireless makes it possible to get online and stay online, whether you want to listen to internet radio for three hours or watch a movie while you wait for your plane to finally show up. Called WiMax, this technology depends on towers that are able to magnify a signal for miles, rather than just for a couple of feet. This means that you can take your laptop on far more than just your morning commute, and that it will not lose your wireless signal anywhere along the way. And in airports and train stations, when the wireless is lagging because everyone is using it, you will still be enjoying a speedy connection, since you’re on a network all of your own. When it comes to entertainment on the road, nothing beats this new form of wireless.

Tags: Best, Entertainment, Mobile, WiMAX

admin  Jul 22 technology