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LINDY ELECTRONICS LIMITED & LINDY-ELEKTRONIK GMBH - FIRST EDITION (APR 2001)
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English Manual
1. Introduction
The LINDY W-LAN 11 provides a fast and reliable solution for wireless network
access. It is compatible with the W-LAN-standard IEEE802.11b and 802.11. The
card is a PCMCIA Type II card (16 Bits) and will work with all standard W-LAN
wireless networks.
It is intended for use in e.g. Historical buildings where no cabled networks can be
installed; for the requirements of mobile utilisation within buildings, or to create a
general cable-free network (e.g. Internet) access within a specified environment
(university, school, hotel, etc).
In general it is possible to build up a network connection as peer to peer (Ad-Hoc)
between to computers with an installed W-LAN PCMCIA card, between access
points (which lets them act as wireless repeaters), or between access points and
clients (Infrastructure). The LINDY access point supports roaming functionality,
which allows a larger area to be covered by using more than one access point.
The range of one access point greatly depends on the conditions of the building
(shielding by concrete walls, pillars and girders from steel etc). It can be up to
45m under good conditions; in most cases the maximum range reaches 15 to
25m. Outside of buildings the range can be up to 250m without any special
antennas.
Please note that:
It is possible to listen in on a W-LAN network. Only if you enable
encryption is there a certain degree of security.
Without activated access restriction and password functionality
everybody in the area that owns an IEEE802.11b W-LAN card
could theoretically gain access to your network!
For instructions on how to activate the security functionality see the network set-
up section in this manual.
1.1 Network configurations
The card works under
Windows 95/98, NT
and 2000. Support for
other operating sys-
tems is under develop-
ment. Software, dri-
vers and firmware up-
dates are available via
download from
www.lindy.com.
The card can be
operated in ad-hoc
networks (peer to peer
communication
Infrastructure-Network
Ad-hoc Network
Wired Network
Wireless Network
AccessPoint