Edimax Technology EW-7711HPn User Manual

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3. What is Ad-hoc?

An Ad-hoc integrated wireless LAN is a group of computers, each has a Wireless LAN

card, Connected as an independent wireless LAN. Ad hoc wireless LAN is applicable

at a departmental scale for a branch or SOHO operation.

4. What is Infrastructure?

An integrated wireless and wireless and wired LAN is called an Infrastructure

configuration. Infrastructure is applicable to enterprise scale for wireless access to

central database, or wireless application for mobile workers.

5. What is BSS ID?

A specific Ad hoc LAN is called a Basic Service Set (BSS). Computers in a BSS must

be configured with the same BSS ID.

6. What is WEP?

WEP is Wired Equivalent Privacy, a data privacy mechanism based on a 40 bit shared

key algorithm, as described in the IEEE 802 .11 standard.

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