INTRODUCTION SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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System Requirements
The following are the minimum system requirements in order to
use the USB adapter.
PC/AT compatible computer with a USB interface.
Windows 2000/XP/Vista or MAC OS operating system.
30 MB of free disk space for installing the USB adapter
driver and utility program.
Applications
EnGenius wireless LAN products are easy to install and easy to
use. The following list describes some of the many applications
made possible through the EnGenius wireless LAN products:
Difficult-to-wire environments
Temporary workgroups
Accessing real-time information
Frequently changing environments
Small Office and Home Office (SOHO) networks
Wireless extensions to Ethernet networks
Wired LAN backup
Training and Educational facilities
Network Configuration
To better understand how the wireless LAN products work
together to create a wireless network, it might be helpful to
depict some of the possible wireless LAN PC card network con-
figurations.
EnGenius wireless LAN products can be configured as:
Ad-hoc (or peer-to-peer) for departmental or SOHO LANs.
Infrastructure for enterprise LANs.
Ad-hoc (peer-to-peer) Mode
This is the simplest network configuration with several comput-
ers equipped with the PC Cards that form a wireless network
whenever they are within range of one another. In ad-hoc
mode, each client is peer-to-peer, would only have access to
the resources of the other client and does not require an access
point. This is the easiest and least expensive way for the SOHO
to set up a wireless network. The image below depicts a net-
work in ad-hoc mode.
Infrastructure Mode
The infrastructure mode requires the use of an Access Point
(AP). In this mode, all wireless communication between two
computers has to be via the AP. It doesn’t matter if the AP is
stand-alone or wired to an Ethernet network. If used in stand-
alone, the AP can extend the range of independent wireless
LANs by acting as a repeater, which effectively doubles the dis-
tance between wireless stations.
