printed on your APs, wireless routers or WETs, because the MAC addresses shown for Infrastructure devices are those of their radios. The MAC addresses for AdHoc entries are for the AdHoc network, which are randomly generated and don't correspond to any hardware...

need to correct an oversight. It is possible to set the channel in AdHoc mode, but I found a small bug in the Channel selector. When you select AdHoc mode, the Channel selector comes alive. But the channels available in the selector don't immediately change...

yet support the impending WPA security enhancement. The Site Survey tab (not shown) is similar in function to XP's Wireless Connection Properties > Wireless Networks tab, and shows all Access Points / Wireless routers and AdHoc stations within range. It also...

either, when I disabled SSID broadcast on one of the routers, and displayed Cloaked to represent the missing SSID. For a second test, I moved the Linksys to my office's normal AP test location, powered the other routers down and walked to my usual four test...

note that the settings are not the defaults. The wizard steps you through screens that allow you to: Select AdHoc or Infrastructure mode Set (E)SSID, Channel (AdHoc only), and Bridge Name Manually set IP address, subnet and Gateway, or get that info from a...

port ping response and disabling and setting the range of its built-in DHCP server. But the 3Com's router mode configurability is much more like you get from other wireless routers. Figure 5 shows the router configuration tabs and the Port Forwarding page,...

Pictured below are a travel router on the left and mini 802.11g router on the right. The travel router is very Airport Express-y with a built-in power supply and pop-out US plug, but sadly, no built-in streaming audio adapter. Linksys mini routers The WRT54GC...

for a full-sized view) As Figure 4 shows, WPA-PSK with TKIP encryption is the only mode supported to similarly-equipped Access Points or Wireless routers. WPA won't work between two 2870Ws, because it isn't supported in AdHoc mode until its next version. If...

Point-to-Point or Point-to-Multipoint bridges by using AdHoc mode instead of a special bridging mode. This use of AdHoc mode allows WEBs to do one thing that AP/Bridges can't do. Figure 4 tells the tale. Figure 4: Wireless Network using AdHoc mode If you compare...

discourages this, the product could still be WPA and Wi-Fi Certified. No AdHoc support WPA currently supports Infrastructure mode only, with AdHoc mode support delayed until WPA2. The larger impact of this missing feature may be on Wireless Ethernet Bridges...