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Appendix
This section provides some technology document of IEEE802.11b. Read the description below to know
the standards about IEEE802.11b.
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What is the IEEE 802.11b standard?
The IEEE 802.11b Wireless LAN standards subcommittee, which is formulating a standard for
the industry. The objective is to enable wireless LAN hardware from different manufactures to
communicate.
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What IEEE 802.11 features are supported?
The product supports the following IEEE 802.11 functions:
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CSMA/CA plus Acknowledge protocol
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Multi-Channel Roaming
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Automatic Rate Selection
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RTS/CTS feature
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Fragmentation
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Power Management
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What is Ad-hoc?
An Ad-hoc integrated wireless LAN is a group of computers, each with a WLAN adapter,
Connected as an independent wireless LAN. Ad-hoc wireless LAN is applicable at a
departmental scale for a branch or SOHO operation.
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What is Infrastructure?
An integrated wireless and wired LAN is called an Infrastructure configuration. Infrastructure is
applicable to enterprise scale for wireless access to central database, or wireless application for
mobile workers.
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What is BSS ID?
A specific Ad-hoc LAN is called a Basic Service Set (BSS). Computers in a BSS must be
configured with the same BSS ID.
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What is WEP?
WEP is Wired Equivalent Privacy, a data privacy mechanism based on a 64/128 bit shared key
algorithm, as described in the IEEE 802.11b standard.
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Can Wireless products support printer sharing?
Wireless products perform the same function as LAN products. Therefore, Wireless products
can work with Netware, Windows NT/2000/XP, or other LAN operating systems to support
printer or file sharing.
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Would the information be intercepted while transmitting on air?
WLAN features two-fold protection in security. On the hardware side, as with Direct Sequence
