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Appendix A - Wireless Basics
Eliminate Interference
Place home appliances such as cordless telephones, microwaves, and televisions as far away as possible from the router/access
point. This would significantly reduce any interference that the appliances might cause since they operate on same frequency.
Security
Don’t let you next-door neighbors or intruders connect to your wireless network. Secure your wireless network by turning on
the WPA or WEP security feature on the router. Refer to product manual for detail information on how to set it up.
There are basically two modes of networking:
• Infrastructure
– All wireless clients will connect to an access point or wireless router.
• Ad-Hoc
– Directly connecting to another computer, for peer-to-peer communication, using wireless network adapters
on each computer, such as two or more wireless network cardbus adapters.
An infrastructure network contains an access point or wireless router. All the wireless devices, or clients, will connect to the
wireless router or access point.
An ad-hoc network contains only clients, such as laptops with wireless cardbus adapters. All the adapters must be in ad-hoc
mode to communicate.
Wireless Modes
