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computer to the same radio channel. However, the Wireless Barricade Plus
can provide access to your wired/wireless LAN or to the Internet for all
wireless workstations. Each wireless PC in this network
infrastructure can talk to any computer in the wireless group via a
radio link, or access other computers or network resources in the
wired LAN infrastructure or over the Internet via the Wireless Barricade
Plus.
The wireless infrastructure configuration not only extends the
accessibility of wireless PCs to the wired LAN, but also doubles the
effective wireless transmission range for wireless PCs by
retransmitting incoming radio signals through the Wireless Barricade Plus.
A wireless infrastructure can be used for access to a central database,
or for connection between mobile workers, as shown in the
following figure:
Figure 2-4. Making WLAN Connections
Internet
Internet
Access
Device
SMC7004WFW
Wireless
Router
Cable/DSL
Broadband
Notebook with Wireless
PC CardAdapter
PC with Wireless
PCIAdapter
Wired LAN
Wired to Wireless
Network Extension
SMC7004AWBR
LAN
1
PWR
WLAN
WAN
2
3
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