Hawking WIRELESS-G CARDBUS PC CARD - GUIDE D User Manual

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2. Planning Your Wireless Network2.1 Network TopologyA wireless local area network (WLAN) is exactly like a regular local area network (LAN), exceptthat each computer in the WLAN uses a wireless device to connect to the network. Computers in aWLAN share the same frequency channel and SSID, which is an identification name for wirelessdevices.2.2 Ad-Hoc versus Infrastructure ModeAn Ad-Hoc wireless LAN is a group of computers, each equipped with one WLAN adapter,connected as an independent wireless LAN. Computers in a specific Ad-Hoc wireless LAN mustall be configured to share the same radio channel.An integrated wireless and wired LAN is called an Infrastructure configuration. In this mode, agroup of wireless nodes and an Access Point compose a Basic Service Set (BSS). Each PCadapter/card in a BSS can talk to any computer in the wired LAN infrastructure via the AccessPoint.Network TopologyAd-Hoc versus Infrastructure Mod