{"id":27602,"date":"2025-02-06T20:54:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T01:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=27602"},"modified":"2025-02-09T19:34:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T00:34:04","slug":"how-does-wifi-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/02\/06\/how-does-wifi-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How does wifi work?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AW020625-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AW020625-4.jpg\" alt=\"How does wifi work?\" class=\"wp-image-27600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AW020625-4.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AW020625-4-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AW020625-4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AW020625-4-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">How does wifi work?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Great question! If you are referring to Boston College&#8217;s wifi, it&#8217;s called &#8220;eduroam.&#8221; If you are using it for the first time or just trying to connect, follow these instructions: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/bcwifi-setup.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/bcwifi-setup.<\/a> If you mean to ask how wifi works in general, I&#8217;m afraid that&#8217;s beyond my capacity to answer, though this encyclopedia article might be useful: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/story\/how-does-wi-fi-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">britannica.com\/story\/how-does-wi-fi-work<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great question! If you are referring to Boston College&#8217;s wifi, it&#8217;s called &#8220;eduroam.&#8221; If you are using it for the first time or just trying to connect, follow these instructions: https:\/\/bit.ly\/bcwifi-setup. If you mean to ask how wifi works in general, I&#8217;m afraid that&#8217;s beyond my capacity to answer, though this encyclopedia article might be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/02\/06\/how-does-wifi-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How does wifi work?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27640,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27602\/revisions\/27640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}