Network Configuration; A) Ad Hoc (Peer-To-Peer) Mode - TRENDnet TEW-445UB User Manual

108Mbps 802.11g High Power Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter

1.6 Network Configuration

To better understand how wireless devices work together to create a wireless
network, it might be helpful to depict a few of the possible wireless network
configurations. Wireless devices can be configured as:
a) Ad hoc (or peer-to-peer)
b) Infrastructure

a) Ad hoc (peer-to-peer) Mode

In ad hoc mode, each client is peer-to-peer. The client would only have
access to the resources of the other client.
require an access point. This is the easiest and least expensive way for
the SOHO to set up a wireless network. The image above depicts a
network in Ad hoc mode.
Ad hoc mode does not
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