<p>I’ll be heading to college this fall 10 and noticed that my university has several wireless regions. does that mean you don’t need an internet service provider or what?</p>
<p>All universities provide the service for you. Internet Service Providers are only needed in the cases of like homes where they need to hook you up and actually connect you to everything. Universities have their own connections either through a ISP, or their own hookup at the same level of an ISP.</p>
<p>It means you can connect to a router or wifi spot or whatever there is without having to use an ethernet cord connected between the two objects, you’re connecting “wirelessly”. This is of course if you’re using a laptop with a built in wireless adapter (I’m pretty sure 99% have one) or a desktop with a wireless adapter, either internal or external.</p>
<p>Wireless WiFi applies for laptops, ipod touches, and other gadgets. You use an internet router which are those netgear/dlink/belkin boxes.</p>
<p>Cell phones use satellite wireless. I think your college means that it supports at&t, verizon, t-mobile, etc.</p>
<p>I don’t exactly know which wireless you’re refering to sorry.</p>
<p>Basically it means that say your library is one of these wireless areas, and you’re in the library working on a paper. If you need to connect to the internet on your laptop you go into your network and internet connections, and click on the University’s wireless network and you connect to it. But yes, you don’t normally have to pay for it. Some universities have optional dial-in services which they charge, but wireless is generally free.</p>