NETWORK TOPOLOGIES
Infrastructure Wireless LAN
The SMC2664W can also provide access to a wired LAN for wireless workstations. An integrated wired and wireless LAN is called an Infrastructure configuration. A Basic Service Set (BSS) consists of a group of wireless PC users, and an access point that is directly connected to the wired LAN. Each wireless PC in this BSS can talk to any computer in its wireless group via a radio link, or access other computers or network resources in the wired LAN infrastructure via the access point.
The infrastructure configuration not only extends the accessibility of wireless PCs to the wired LAN, but also increases the effective wireless transmission range for wireless PCs by passing their signal through one or more access points.
A wireless infrastructure can be used for access to a central database, or for connection between mobile workers, as shown in the following figure.
Wired LAN Extension to Wireless Adapters
File
Server
Desktop PC | Switch |
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Notebook with Wireless
USB Adapter
Access Point
PC with Wireless
PC I Adapter
Setting the Communication Domain
Stationary Wireless PCs
The Basic Service Set (BSS) is the communication domain for each access point (such as the SMC2655W). For wireless PCs that do not need to
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