9
Getting Started
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 or a wireless router. The
Infrastructure Network
example shown on the following page contains the following
D-Link network devices (your existing network may be comprised of other devices):
A wireless router -
D-Link
Air
Plus Xtreme G DI-624
A laptop computer with a wireless adapter -
D-Link
Air
Pro DWL-G6
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A desktop computer with a wireless adapter -
D-Link
Air
Plus
Xtreme G
DWL-G520, D-Link
Air
DWL-520,
or
D-Link
Air
Plus DWL-520+
A cable modem -
D-Link DCM-201
There are basically two modes of networking:
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Ad-Hoc
– directly connecting to another computer, for Peer-to-Peer
communication, using wireless network adapters on each computer,
such as two or more DWL-G6
8
0 Wireless Cardbus Adapters.
Infrastructure
– using an access point, or wireless router, such as
the DI-624.
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