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Wi-Fi offers greater speed and range than Bluetooth, but it drains your portable device batteries a lot
faster than Bluetooth does. In fact, if you use a Wi-Fi connection regularly on your laptop PC, you'll
undoubtedly notice that you need to recharge more often. If you need to conserve battery life — on a
long trip for example — turn off your Wi-Fi connection when you don't actually need it.
Security
Because wireless networks rely on radio signals to transmit data, they are not as secure as wire
network wireless networks are susceptible to viruses and breaches like eavesdropping and need to
be protected in order to be secure.
There are many security measures to safeguard wireless networks, protect the data, and keep
unauthorized users out.
Hotspots, on the other hand, are often free of standard security practices in an effort to make it easy
for anyone to connect. It may be found that some paid hotspots administered by service providers
offer have some level of security, however, when using a hotspot, it's always a good idea to be
proactive and to employ security measures of your own.

Glossary

Wi-Fi: Short for "wireless fidelity", a generic label that refers to wireless networks or networking.
Hotspot: A specific geographic location in which an access point provides public wireless broadband
network services to mobile visitors through a WLAN.
Throughput: The amount of data transmitted in a set amount of time.
Bandwidth: the amount of data that can be carried from one point to another in a given time period
(usually a second).
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