User Manual

Multi-Function Gigabit Wireless-N Client Bridge

Version 1.0

g) Wired LAN backup

Network managers implement wireless LANs to provide backup for mission-critical

applications running on wired networks.

h) Training/Educational facilities

Training sites at corporations and students at universities use wireless connectivity to

ease access to information, information exchanges, and learning.

1.6 Network Configuration

To better understand how the wireless LAN products work together to create a wireless

network, it might be helpful to depict a few of the possible wireless LAN PC card network

configurations. The wireless LAN products can be configured as:

a) Ad-hoc (or peer-to-peer) for departmental or SOHO LANs.

b) Infrastructure for enterprise LANs.

a) Ad-hoc (peer-to-peer) Mode

This is the simplest network

configuration with several

computers equipped with the PC

Cards that form a wireless network

whenever they are within range of

one another. In ad-hoc mode, each

client is peer-to-peer, would only

have access to the resources of the

other client and does not require an

access point. This is the easiest and

least expensive way for the SOHO

to set up a wireless network. The

image depicts a network in ad-hoc

mode.

b) Infrastructure Mode

The infrastructure mode requires the use

of an access point (AP). In this mode,

all wireless communication between

two computers has to be via the AP. It

doesn’t matter if the AP is stand-alone

or wired to an Ethernet network. If used

in stand-alone, the AP can extend the

range of independent wireless LANs by

acting as a repeater, which effectively

doubles the distance between wireless stations. The image below depicts a

network in infrastructure mode.