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2 Wireless LAN basics
Wireless LAN network defined by IEEE 802.11b standard committee could be
Configure as:
Ad Hoc wireless LAN
or
Infrastructure wireless LAN.
Ad Hoc
network is a group of notebooks with wireless LAN PCMCIA Card, called a
BSS (Basic Service Set). These notebooks use their wireless LAN PCMCIA Card to
communicate with each other directly.
The most obvious differentiation between
Infrastructure
wireless network and
Ad
Hoc
wireless network is that the notebooks in
Infrastructure
wireless network can
make use of the resource in the Internet through
Access Point
.
To set up your notebook’s network as the type of “
Ad Hoc
” or “
Infrastructure
”
wireless network depends completely on your requirement. Generally, if your network
environment has an
Access Point
, it’s recommend that you set it as “
Infrastructure
”
mode to connect to the
Internet
.
