D-Link dwl-ab520 manual Getting Started

Getting Started

With its default settings, the DWL-AB520 will connect with other D-Link AirPro products, right out of the box.

There are basically two modes of networking:

Infrastructure – using an Access Point, such as the DWL-900AP+, DWL-5000AP or DWL-6000AP.

Ad-Hoc– directly connecting to another computer, for peer-to-peer communication, using wireless network adapters on each computer, such as two or more DWL-AB520 wireless network PCI adapters.

On the following pages we will show you an example of an Infrastructure Network and an Ad-Hoc Network.

An Infrastructure network contains an Access Point or Router. The Infrastructure Network example shown on the following page contains the following D-Link network devices (your existing network may be comprised of other devices):

A wireless Router - D-LinkAirPro DI-764

A laptop computer with a wireless adapter -

D-Link AirPro DWL-A650 or AirPlus DWL-650+

A desktop computer with a wireless adapter -

D-Link AirPro DWL-AB520

ACable modem - D-LinkDCM-200

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