ZyXEL Communications P-660HN-T1H User Manual

Chapter 8 Wireless LAN

P-660HN-T1H User’s Guide

This section discusses wireless LANs in depth. For more information, see the 
appendix.

Wireless networks consist of wireless clients, access points and bridges. 

• A wireless client is a radio connected to a user’s computer. 
• An access point is a radio with a wired connection to a network, which can 

connect with numerous wireless clients and let them access the network. 

• A bridge is a radio that relays communications between access points and 

wireless clients, extending a network’s range. 

Traditionally, a wireless network operates in one of two ways.

• An “infrastructure” type of network has one or more access points and one or 

more wireless clients.  The wireless clients connect to the access points.

• An “ad-hoc” type of network is one in which there is no access point. Wireless 

clients connect to one another in order to exchange information.

The following figure provides an example of a wireless network.

Figure 55   Example of a Wireless Network