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Appendix A - Wireless Basics

There are basically two modes of networking: 

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Infrastructure – All wireless clients will connect to an access point or wireless router.

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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 DCS-930 wireless network Cardbus adapters.

An Infrastructure network contains an Access Point or wireless router. All the wireless devices, or clients, will connect to the wireless router or 

access point. 

An Ad-Hoc network contains only clients, such as laptops with wireless cardbus adapters. All the adapters must be in Ad-Hoc mode to 
communicate.