Cnet CWP-800 Manuel D’Utilisation

Chapter 2: Planning Your Wireless Network 

 

A wireless local area network (WLAN) is exactly like a regular local area network (LAN), except that 

each computer in the WLAN uses a wireless device to connect to the network. Computers in a WLAN 

share the same frequency channel and SSID, which is an identification name for wireless devices.   

 

An Ad-Hoc wireless LAN is a group of computers, each equipped with one WLAN adapter, connected 

as an independent wireless LAN. Computers in a specific Ad-Hoc wireless LAN must be configured to 

share the same radio channel. 

 

 

 

The adapter provides access to a wired LAN for wireless workstations. An integrated wireless and 

wired LAN is called an infrastructure configuration. A group of adapter PC users and an Access Point 

compose a Basic Service Set (BSS). Each adapter PC in a BSS can talk to any computer in the wired 

LAN infrastructure via the Access Point.