Bonjour! Bonjou! Peter Packet, you and your team are heading into the wireless component of your mission. You will find that in wireless space you'll need additional security and that you must continue to keep an eye out for viruses and hackers. You may face interference from other signals in the air as you work to get your message through to Pierre. Interference could distort your message. Charlyne's family is in great need of the water filtration system. So hurry. There are no cables to guide you. Be careful.

1. Go to the game and skip forward to the wireless section, making sure you select Haiti. Team members should head to their own computers or share computers with others as they move through wireless space. If anyone needs help, remember that your team always has access to the Game Cheat Sheet and the Help button. Stop after your mission is complete at a section called "Learn More: Haiti." Do NOT click on the links in this section.



2. Add details of your mission in your Mission Journal making sure to list details about traveling through wireless space, the difficulties you encountered, and what happened when you made it to the wireless access point.



3. Once your message has been assembled, it is time to get together with your team to consider how that message got to Haiti. Let's say it left from a computer on a wireless network on the campus at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania and ended up at its destination computer in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Use the links below to help you list in your Mission Journal the route your packet traveled and how it avoided problems with interference, congestion, viruses, hacker packets, and distance. Keep in mind that the links will not give you all the answers, but you may want to use your email connections to people like your school networking specialist who might give you some additional help. Your team will have to use its best judgment (sometimes guessing) in deciding upon the route and the way around problems faced.
   
   
   Internet Cabling
   Map of Internet cabling throughout the world.
   
   Gettysburg College Wireless Map
   Shows the range of wireless computing on the campus.
   
   Haiti Communications
   Ways people communicate electronically in Haiti.


4. Be ready to report your results to the class. Babay!

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