User's Manual

COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL
Figure 1. AMBIT 11Mbps Wireless High Rate PC Card
2.2 Features
l Compatible with IEEE 802.11b high rate standard to provide wireless Ethernet speeds
of 11Mbps data rate
l Dynamic data rate switching with 11, 5.5, 2 and 1Mbps
l Allows auto fallback data rate for optimized reliability, throughput and transmission
range
l Supports wireless data encryption with 40-bit WEP standard for security
l Integrated Microstrip dual diversity antennas for the multi-path environment
l One-piece PC Card design to fully support PCMCIA type II defined mechanical and
environmental stress conditions
2.3 Requirements
l AMBIT 11Mbps Wireless High Rate PC Card
l Windows drivers and utilities
l A notebook computer with the following requirements
Ø Pentium or above processor
Ø Running Microsoft Windows 95, 98, Millennium, NT or 2000.
Ø PCMCIA type II slot.
Ø CD-ROM drive.
3.4 Usage Model
l Ad-hoc Networking
Ad-hoc network also is called Peer-to-Peer network. Without Access Point, notebook
users with each 11Mbps Wireless High Rate PC card can build a Ad-hoc Peer-to-Peer
wireless networks to share files with each other, share a public office printer and other
peripheral resources, and even access the Internet via a modem.
l Infrastructure Networking
802.11b-compatible Access Point is a bridge or router for connect to the wired
Ethernet network and wireless network. Through the deployment of Access Point,
wireless LAN can be extended to the reach of a wired network. Therefore, A notebook