59% of broadband users run a wireless network at home, a survey by LinkSys (Cisco), a popular global manufacturer of voice, wireless, and networking hardware, has found. Moreover 98% of the 2,000 UK adults who completed the survey online have a PC/laptop at home.
The “Connected Life Consumer Trends Survey” found that British people are becoming au fait with wireless networking with 87% of those surveyed attaching a PC or laptop to their home network. A further 28% had connected their printers, 20% their games console and 6% their digital music player to the network. Linksys said customers were using wireless networks to surf the web, watch high-definition video, listen to streaming music, share files, make internet phone calls, and play online games.
Chris Dobrec, Director, Linksys Strategy and Business Development said “The consumer is by no means a computer network administrator - he or she is purely interested in the application of the network for tasks like accessing the internet wirelessly or printing wirelessly. It is the application that counts and we enable this through the network as the platform.”
It turns out that we Brits also love our gadgets, with 69% owning a digital music player, 57% a DVR/PVR or hard disk recorder, 53% a games console and 15% a digital photo frame.
37% of respondents who expressed a wish to connect to the internet away from home said they did not possess the technical expertise to know how to do this. A further 25% were concerned about cost, and 24% said they feared a long set-up time.
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