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Wireless LAN network defined by IEEE 802.11b/g standard committee
could be configured as :
Ad Hoc wireless LAN.
Infrastructure wireless LAN.
Ad Hoc
network is a group of PCs installed with wireless LAN cards, this
group of PCs is called a BSS (Basic Service Set). PCs in this group can use
their wireless LAN cards to communicate with each other, but can not
connect to the
Internet
.
Ad Hoc
Wireless Network
Infrastructure
Wireless Network
The most obvious difference between
Infrastructure
wireless network
and
Ad Hoc
wireless network is that the PCs in
Infrastructure
wireless
network can access the resource in the Internet through
Access Point
.
Depending on your requirement, you can easily set up your PC’s
network to be a “
Ad Hoc
” or “
Infrastructure
” wireless network. Generally
speaking, if in your network, there is an
Access Point
in it, we recommend
you to set your network as an “
Infrastructure
”, so it can connect to
the
Internet
.