Well with the local wireless network that 197Kbps or so just got turned into 1280Kbps. Not kidding one bit. If you don't believe us read the box that the base station came in. ONLY do you have all this bandwidth available for users to share, but the system works via a switched network. Each person trying to download something will have the full 1024Kbps of bandwidth dedicated to them when each data packet is sent.
Wireless Internet is so secure that it actually caused the webmaster some problems.
The world can not even see these addresses from the outside. All traffic is routed through one computer, that was specifically designed to pipe the data out and in, while still being secure. Any strange packets sent to the wireless firewall are not only dumped, but an error returns to the computer saying that the address doesn't exist. They might be able to play with the computer you're going through some - but there is absolutely NO way it can be sent directly to your computer. Now on to the disadvantages of wireless.