Sony PCWA-A200 - Manual (Page 6)

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Overview
What you can do with your Wireless LAN Access
Point
The Wireless LAN Access Point PCWA-A100/A200 (hereinafter
referred to as the Access Point) is designed for building a wireless LAN
(Local Area Network) environment. Connect your Access Point to a
power outlet, insert the Wireless LAN PC Card PCWA-C100 into your
computer, and use the software supplied with your Wireless LAN PC
Card to build a wireless LAN environment.
Using the wireless LAN for connecting computers requires no wiring
which allows you to operate multiple computers more freely than ever.
The Access Point is capable of building a wireless LAN environment
including a maximum of 49 client computers (16 or fewer is
recommended).
You can connect to an Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN)
router, cable modem, DSL modem, or (with the PCWA-A100) a
telephone line to share access to the Internet among multiple
computers, or just use the Access Point as the hub of your LAN without
Internet access (hereafter referred to as a local network).
In a LAN environment, you can share files on other client computers
and let others share files on your computer. The following four figures
depict the various configurations you can implement.
1 Connecting to a telephone line and a network (see page 13)
(PCWA-A100 only)
Note
You cannot connect the PCWA-A200 to an analog telephone line.
Internet
Internet
Service
Provider
HUB
To 10BASE-T
connector
To LINE/
PHONE
connector