The number of home users adopting to wireless networking has been on rise in the UK, according to the 'Connected Life Consumer Trends Survey' conducted by YouGov in association with LinkSys (Cisco), the leading manufacturer of wireless networking hardware.

According to the report, the majority of the broadband users (59 %) in the households use wi-fi home networking while it is interesting to note that most of the respondents (96 %) have a PC of their own and use it for their computing needs.

Among the respondents who have adopted to wi-fi network, one-thirds of them have connected the printers and one-fifths of them included the game consoles using the wi-fi networking hardware, according to the survey. However, only six percent of the respondents connected their music players to the wireless network.

As for using wireless networking to access the contents from their homes, significant part of the respondents (37 %) felt that the complexity of the technical information has been an issue and prevented them from taking advantages of the wireless technology. However, one-fourths of the respondents felt that the higher cost has prevented them from setting up wi-fi networking in their homes.

Chris Dobrec, Director of Linksys Strategy and Business Development commented:
“The research shows that wireless networking is now a mass market technology – and not only for the tech savvy consumer. That very same consumer is the owner of their network and tools like our Linksys EasyLink Advisor help the consumer make sure that the network fulfils their expectations.”

“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.”