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CHAPTER 2—WIRELESS NETWORK

FUNDAMENTALS

Wireless Network Configuration

Ad-hoc Mode(Peer-to-Peer Workgroup)

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standard for

wireless LANs (WLANs), 802.11 offers two methods for configuring a wireless

network — ad-hoc and infrastructure. In an ad-hoc network, computers are

brought together as needed; thus, there is no structure or fixed points to the

network — each node can generally communicate with any other node. There is

no access point involved in this configuration. It enables you to quickly set up a

small wireless workgroup and allows workgroup members to exchange data or

share printers as supported by Microsoft Networking in the various Windows

operating systems. Some vendors also refer to ad-hoc networking as peer-to-

peer workgroup networking.

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