Cnet CWC-800 Manual Do Utilizador

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, 

communicating with each other as an independent wireless LAN. Computers in Ad-Hoc wireless LANs 

must all be configured to share the same radio channel. 

 

In an infrastructure mode, the adapter provides access to a wired LAN for wireless workstations 

through the help of Access Points(AP). 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.