January 2008
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
9h 43m
English
This chapter describes the different kinds of wireless network adapters, access points, and antennas that you will need to connect your computer to a Wi-Fi hot spot, construct a new wireless LAN, or add wireless access to your existing wired network. The next step is to make some choices and gather all of the hardware together. You're ready to install the wireless hardware. In the next chapter, you can find step-by-step procedures for installing different kinds of adapters and access points and for running the configuration utility programs that make all those pieces work together in a network.