Getting Started; Chapter 1 Getting Started; About Your G-320H; Application Overview - ZyXEL Communications ZyXEL ZyAIR G320H User Manual

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This chapter introduces the G-320H and prepares you to use the ZyXEL utility.

1.1 About Your G-320H

The G-320H is an IEEE 802.11b/g compliant wireless LAN adapter. You can also use the
ZyXEL utility to turn your G-320H into an access point (AP). The ZyXEL utility is a tool that
helps you configure your G-320H. See the appendix for detailed product specifications.

1.2 Application Overview

This section describes some network applications for the G-320H.

1.2.1 Station Mode

The G-320H acts as a wireless LAN adapter (station mode) by default. In station mode, you
can either set the network type to Infrastructure and connect to an AP or use Ad-Hoc mode
and connect to a peer computer (another wireless device in Ad-Hoc mode) without an AP. See
Section 4.4 on page 50
1.2.1.1 Infrastructure
To connect to a network via an access point (AP), set the G-320H network type to
Infrastructure. Through the AP, you can access the Internet or the wired network behind the
AP.
G-320H User's Guide

Getting Started

for how to configure the network type.
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