HNW300CI
User
Manual
8
Wireless PCI Card
2.3 Profiles
The
Profile
tab is used to store the settings of multiple Access Points such as home, office, café,
etc. When adding a profile you are required to enter a profile name and SSID as well as
configure the power-saving mode, network type, RTS/fragmentation threshold and
encryption/authentication settings. A profile can be configured as
Infrastructure
or
Ad-hoc
mode. The configuration settings for each mode are described below.
2.3.1 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.
