TP-Link TL-WN422G manual System Requirements, Network Configuration, Ad-hoc peer-to-peer Mode

TL-WN422GHigh-Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide

1.4 System Requirements

The following are the minimum system requirements in order to use the TL-WN422G High-Power Wireless USB Adapter.

¾PC/AT compatible computer with a USB interface.

¾Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista operating system.

(Windows 98/ME don’t support USB 2.0, the performance could influenced)

1.5 Network Configuration

The following part will depict the possible wireless LAN PC card network configurations, which helps you to get a better understanding of how the wireless LAN products work together in a wireless network.

The wireless LAN products can be configured as:

Ad-hoc (peer-to-peer) Mode

This is the simplest network configuration with several computers equipped with the PC Cards that form a wireless network whenever they are within range of one another. In ad-hoc mode, each client is peer-to- peer, would only have access to the resources of the other client and does not require an access point. This is the easiest and least expensive way for the SOHO to set up a wireless network.

The image below depicts a network in ad-hoc mode.

Figure 1-1 Ad-hoc mode.

Infrastructure Mode

The infrastructure mode requires the use of an access point (AP). In this mode, all wireless communication between two computers has to be via the AP. It doesn’t matter if the AP is stand-alone or wired to an Ethernet network. If used in stand-alone, the AP can extend the range of independent wireless LANs by acting as a repeater, which effectively doubles the distance between wireless stations.

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