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Wireless Network Configuration
Ad-hoc Mode (Peer-to-Peer Workgroup)
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standard for
wireless LANs (WLANs), 802.11 offers two methods for configuring a wireless
network — ad-hoc and infrastructure. In an ad-hoc network, computers are
brought together as needed; thus, there is no structure or fixed points to the
network — each node can generally communicate with any other node. There is
no access point involved in this configuration. It enables you to quickly set up a
small wireless workgroup and allows workgroup members to exchange data or
share printers as supported by Microsoft Networking in the various Windows
operating systems. Some vendors also refer to ad-hoc networking as peer-to-
peer workgroup networking.
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