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computer to the same radio channel. However, the Wireless Barricade Plus can provide access to your wired/wireless LAN or to the Internet for all wireless workstations. Each wireless PC in this network infrastructure can talk to any computer in the wireless group via a
radio link, or access other computers or network resources in the
wired LAN infrastructure or over the Internet via the Wireless Barricade Plus.
The wireless infrastructure configuration not only extends the accessibility of wireless PCs to the wired LAN, but also doubles the effective wireless transmission range for wireless PCs by retransmitting incoming radio signals through the Wireless Barricade Plus.
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 to Wireless
Network Extension
Internet | Internet |
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| Device | Notebook with Wireless |
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| PC Card Adapter |
SMC7004WFW
Wireless Cable/DSL
Broadband Router
Wired LAN
PC with Wireless
PCI Adapter
