User's Manual

WF-100 CompactFlash Wireless LAN Card User Manual
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2. Wireless LAN Application
Wireless LAN (Local Area Network) systems offer a great number of advantages over the
traditional wired system. And these systems support the same network configuration options of
the legacy Ethernet LANs as defined by IEEE 802.3 standard committee. In general, wireless
LAN products can be configured as “Ad Hoc (Peer-to-Peer)” or “Infrastructure (Access
Point)” for the LANs of departmental, SOHO or enterprise.
2.1 Ad-Hoc Topology
“Ad-Hoc” is the peer-to-peer mode of network operation without access point. An Ad-Hoc
wireless LAN is a group of computers, which equipped with the wireless adapters and
connected each together as an independent wireless LAN. Computers in a specific Ad-Hoc
wireless LAN must be configured at the same radio channel and SSID for establishing the
wireless connection. Ad-Hoc wireless LAN is ideally applicable at a departmental scale for a
branch or SOHO operation.