CSW-H80 User Manual Ver. 3.0
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Installation and Test
2.1
Fundamentals of wireless LAN
CSW-H80 supports IEEE802.11b/g. IEEE 802.11 is also called wireless LAN and has two
network topologies and those are Infrastructure and Ad-hoc mode. CSW-H80 also supports
WEP, WPA-PSK (TKIP) and WPA2-PSK (AES) for security.
2.1.1 Topology
Infrastructure Mode
All wireless LAN stations communicate through an Access Point (AP). The wireless
LAN station can be converted wired network by AP. It makes communication between
wireless LAN stations as well as between wireless LAN station and wired LAN
(Ethernet) host.
Figure 2-1 infrastructure mode
