Edimax Technology EW-7711UMN, EW-7711UAN What does Ieee 802.11 feature support?, What is Ad-hoc?

What does IEEE 802.11 feature support?

The product supports the following IEEE 802.11 functions:

zCSMA/CA plus Acknowledge Protocol

zMulti-Channel Roaming

zAutomatic Rate Selection

zRTS/CTS Feature

zFragmentation

zPower Management

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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