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Appendix 2. Planning Your Wireless Network

A2-1 Network Topology

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.

A2-2 Ad-hoc versus Infrastructure Mode

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

all be configured to share the same radio channel.

Figure 17 Ad-hoc Mode

An integrated wireless and wired LAN is called an Infrastructure configuration. In this mode, a

group of wireless nodes and an Access Point compose a Basic Service Set (BSS). Each wireless

node in a BSS can talk to any computer in the wired LAN infrastructure via the Access Point.

Figure 18 Infrastructure Mode

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