It's likely to be widely used in businesses. To get that power into the home, Lucent technologies recently unveiled an 802.11b line of products called the Orinoco Residential Gateway specifically for broadband connections. For Mac users, Apple has the Airport, a futuristic- looking wireless transceiver that delivers 11Mbps of networking power up to 150 feet away. Plug and Go Setting up a WiFi LAN is fairly simple. You connect your cable modem or DSL line to the transceiver, plug the transceiver into your PC's USB port, and then add a transceiver to every PC in the home.
Laptops use a PC Card version and can roam freely throughout the house and even into the yard.
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