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coordination between players in the guild to fully clear the content of
the corresponding game (Siitonen & Warmelink, 2009).
In order to play multiplayers in today’s games, there is a
requirement which need to be fulfilled, which is the internet access such
as: 3G and WiFi. As the wide usage of both technologies to connect
between clients and offer various advantages, for instance 3G offers
portability to users, such as accessing road map information while
driving a car, or movie theater information. WiFi also offers various
advantages such as: stability and bigger broadband facility. WiFi allows
users to do much more things at once due to its higher speed (Kurose &
Ross, 2010).
The main characteristics of today’s multiplayer games is the
large number of player, hunders, thousands or even millions of
participants which simultaneously play together in a server. As both
peers, in this context, players, require an intermediate in between to
connect each other in a same place is the purpose of having server. The
server itself intermediates the communication between each pair of
players (Bezerra, Carlos, Benevides, Geyer, & Resin, 2009).
2.2.6.
Wi-Fi
According to Asabere, Enguah, Salakpi, Mensah & Ahegbebu
(2011), Wi-Fi is one of wireless connections
which belong to Wireless
Local Area Network
(WLANs)
technology,
that also permit wireless
connections to be set up within one particular range or area. It stands for
Wireless Fidelity and it is based one of Institute of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
802.11 standard connections, such as
802.11a (operates in the 5-GHz band), 802.11b (operates in the 2.4-GHz
frequency band), 802.11g (2.4-GHz band) and 802.11n (operates in
both the 2.4-GHz and 5-GHz frequency bands).
As a non-profit organization, Wi-Fi Alliance controls all
standardization for Wi-Fi in order to have the same standard for high-
speed wireless local area connection. Aside from controlling standard,
Wi-Fi Alliance
also
develops universal specifications, does quality
testing and Wi-Fi certification of wireless devices. Through its
development process, Wi-Fi has become
one of the standards for
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