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The advantage of the infrastructure operating mode is that you can have more
control over network connections because they pass through an access point.
A wireless station can access the services that are available for a regular wired
LAN by using an access point.
Ad hoc
In the ad hoc operating mode, wireless stations communicate directly with each
other; no access point is required. Simply insert the wireless LAN cards into the
stations, make the necessary configurations, and start communicating. Ad hoc
networking is easy to set up, but communication is limited to stations that are
within range.
Select the desired operating mode when you are creating a new profile with the
Profile Wizard. If you want to change the operating mode later, go to the Profiles
page and click
Edit
.
Network name
The network name is the name of the wireless LAN to which the card can connect.
It is usually programmed into an access point by a system administrator. You
should ask the system administrator for the network name.
You can save more than one network name for each profile. If you enter more than
one network name, the names must be separated from each other by a semicolon,
for example: Headquarters;Office4.
Within a network, there may be subnetworks that all have different names, for
example: Office_wlan1, Office_wlan2, Office_wlan3, etc. One profile can be used
to connect the wireless LAN card to all the subnetworks. The network name may
include a special character, a wildcard *, which can be used as a place holder for
one or more letters or numbers. By using the wildcard, you can specify
Office_wlan* as the network name, and the wireless LAN card can be connected
to any of the networks whose name starts with Office_wlan.
Figure 3 - Ad hoc networking
