NETGEAR 2.4 GHz MA111 manual Wireless Network Fundamentals, Statistics Section, About Section

To display Access Points around the working environment, select the Re-Scanbutton. In addition to showing the MAC Address of each Access Point, you can also view the Channel, Signal, Security, and Network Modes.

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Statistics Section

The Statistics section of the Configuration Utility dialog box indicates the real-time Transmit and Receive packets performance in graph form and also displays the performance statistics in figures.

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This table describes the options available from the Statistics section:

Statistics	Description
Transmit/Receive	Displays the maximum and current Tx/Rx (Kbits/sec) performance statistics.
Performance
Transmit/Receive	Monitors the Tx/Rx of the Kbits or packet statistics.
Statistics

About Section

The About section of the Configuration Utility dialog box shows the regulatory domain: FCC for US, ETSI for Europe, MKK for Japan; the MAC address and the release information of both the device driver for the Wireless Adapter and the Wireless Configuration Utility software.

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3 Wireless Network Fundamentals

Wireless Network Configuration

Ad-Hoc Mode (Peer-to-Peer Workgroup)

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standard for wireless LANs (WLANs), 802.11 offers two methods for configuring a wireless network — Ad-Hoc and infrastructure. In an Ad-Hoc network, computers are brought together as needed; thus, there is no structure or fixed points to the network — each node can generally communicate with any other node. There is no Access Point involved in this configuration. It enables you to quickly set up a small wireless workgroup and allows workgroup members to exchange data or share printers as supported by Microsoft Networking in the various Windows operating systems. Some vendors also refer to ad-hoc networking as peer-to-peer workgroup networking.

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