Re: [Phys-l] WIFI

[chuck britton <cvbritton@mac.com>]

It's digital.

Check out the WikiPedia (Modulation)  for more than you really want 
to know about the various forms of Digitally encoding information in 
the EM spectrum.

Skip the Analog stuff.
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At 7:57 PM +0000 4/7/12, Forinash III, Kyle wrote:
> Does anyone know if digital signals (e.g. WIFI) are sent by 
> frequency modulation or amplitude modulation or something else? I 
> read in Wikipedia something about the phase difference between two 
> or more carrier frequencies encoding the ones and zeros but that 
> sounds to me like basically FM. I know the transmission frequencies 
> are much higher than AM or FM which makes sense if you want to send 
> lots of information. I need some simple (simplistic) explanation to 
> follow a simple explanation of AM and FM for my intro class.
>
> kyle
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