The illustration below shows a wireless network that uses an access point.

printer

wireless

wireless

laptop

 

print server

 

 

cable/ DSL modem

access point or

computers on LAN

AirPort Base Station

(Local Area Network)

 

Wireless Network

 

If you don’t have an access point, you can still print from any desktop computer or laptop that has a wireless adapter. In the illustration below, both wireless-equipped computers communicate directly with the print server.

wireless print

server

wireless computers

printer

Ad Hoc Wireless Network

Before you can set up your EpsonNet 802.11b Wireless Print Server, you need to decide how you will use it: either with an access point (in infrastructure mode), or without an access point (in ad hoc mode, also called ad hoc 802.11b, computer-to-computer, and peer-to-peer).

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