4. Getting Started
For the price of a single IP Address from your Broadband Internet Service
provider you can share the Internet with all the computers on your local
network, without sacrificing speed or security, using TRENDware networking
products.
There are basically two modes of networking:
Infrastructure
using Access Point
Ad-Hoc
directly connecting to other wireless computers, for
peer-to-peer communication.
On the following pages we will show you an example of an
Infrastructure
Network
and an
Ad-Hoc Network
.
An
Infrastructure
network contains an Access Point. The
Infrastructure
Network
example shown on the following page contains the following
TRENDware network devices:
A wireless Internet Router/Access Point (DHCP enabled).
TEW-311BRP
A laptop computer with a wireless network adapter
TEW-301PC
A desktop computer with an Ethernet adapter
TEW-303PI
A xDSL/Cable modem for accessing Internet access
DHCP
stands for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. It is a protocol for
assigning IP addresses “automatically” to network computers. With a DHCP-
capable gateway/router, there is no need to manually assign an IP address for the
network computer.
Setting Up an Infrastructure
Network to share Internet Connection
TEW-311BRP
Wireless
Internet
Access Point
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Fig. 4.1
