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ESR-9710 Wireless N Gigabit Router Version 1.0

1.7 Network Configuration

To better understand how the wireless LAN products work together to create a

wireless network, it might be helpful to depict a few of the possible wireless LAN PC

card network configurations. The wireless LAN products can be configured as:

a) Ad-hoc (or peer-to-peer) for departmental or SOHO LANs.

b) Infrastructure for enterprise LANs.

a) Ad-hoc (peer-to-peer) Mode

This is the simplest network configuration with several computers

equipped with the PC Cards that form a wireless network whenever they

are within range of one another. In ad-hoc mode, each client is peer-to-

peer, would only have access to the resources of the other client and

does not require an access point. This is the easiest and least expensive

way for the SOHO to set up a wireless network. The image below depicts

a network in ad-hoc mode.

b) Infrastructure Mode

The infrastructure mode requires the use of an access point (AP). In this

mode, all wireless communication between two computers has to be via

the AP. It doesn’t matter if the AP is stand-alone or wired to an Ethernet

network. If used in stand-alone, the AP can extend the range of

independent wireless LANs by acting as a repeater, which effectively

doubles the distance between wireless stations. The image below

depicts a network in infrastructure mode.

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