April 2004
Beginner
312 pages
8h 23m
English
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- access control layer
Baked into the Wi-Fi standards; specifies how a Wi-Fi device, such as a mobile computer, communicates with another Wi-Fi device, such as a wireless access point. Also called MAC layer.
- access point
A broadcast station that Wi-Fi computers can communicate with. Also called AP, hotspot, and base station. Access points are used as the central point for a network of Wi-Fi computers.
- access point/router
This common hardware combination combines the functionality of a Wi-Fi access point with that of a network router.
- ad-hoc mode
Wi-Fi computers in the ad-hoc mode communicate directly with one another in a peer-to-peer fashion without using an access point to intermediate network communication.
- AirPort
Apple's version of 802.11b.