Sony PCWA-A100, PCWA-A200 Overview, What you can do with your Wireless LAN Access Point, 1Connecting to a telephone line and a network (see page 13) (PCWA-A100only)

Overview

What you can do with your Wireless LAN Access Point

The Wireless LAN Access Point PCWA-A100/A200 (hereinafter referred to as the Access Point) is designed for building a wireless LAN (Local Area Network) environment. Connect your Access Point to a power outlet, insert the Wireless LAN PC Card PCWA-C100 into your computer, and use the software supplied with your Wireless LAN PC Card to build a wireless LAN environment.

Using the wireless LAN for connecting computers requires no wiring which allows you to operate multiple computers more freely than ever. The Access Point is capable of building a wireless LAN environment including a maximum of 49 client computers (16 or fewer is recommended).

You can connect to an Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) router, cable modem, DSL modem, or (with the PCWA-A100) a telephone line to share access to the Internet among multiple computers, or just use the Access Point as the hub of your LAN without Internet access (hereafter referred to as a local network).

In a LAN environment, you can share files on other client computers and let others share files on your computer. The following four figures depict the various configurations you can implement.

1Connecting to a telephone line and a network (see page 13) (PCWA-A100 only)

Internet

To LINE/

PHONE connector

HUB

Internet

Service

Provider To 10BASE-T connector

Note

You cannot connect the PCWA-A200 to an analog telephone line.

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