PEOPLE with a houseful of computers can now connect them to the Net without
trailing phone leads everywhere. A radio link connects computers to a central
modem up to 300 metres away, so you can pepper PCs around your bedrooms,
outbuildings and garden, and keep them all online.
Airway, a system launched by British Telecom this week, has adapted the
technology already used for DECT digital cordless phones. The Airway base
station has a built-in 56K modem or ISDN adapter that plugs into a phone line as
normal, while each PC has a small transmitter/receiver that plugs into its
serial…
