If you set up your own wireless area, please register it with DoIT to reduce overlap and assure compatibility with the campus network. The policies below govern the use of wireless ethernet at UW-Madison and the use of the Wireless WiscWorld network. Background Wireless access to the Internet enables a computer to attach to the network using high-frequency radio waves instead of through a physical connection with a modem or network cable.
Wireless access offers a great degree of convenience and mobility to computer users.
Wireless ethernet enables users to connect to a network via a wireless client card in their PC or Macintosh and a wireless access point connected to a wired network. For DoIT-recommended wireless access point products, click here. The standard provides 11 frequency ranges. Each wireless access point operates in a single frequency. The frequency ranges is used for the Wireless WiscWorld network are a shared resource.