Chapter 3: Use the technology that fits
Posted by Mungo under Chapter 3 on February 25th, 2007.All of these network designs can be used to complement each other in a large network, and can obviously make use of traditional wired networking techniques whenever possible. It is a common practice, for example, to use a long distance wireless link to provide Internet access to a remote location, and then set up an access point on the remote side to provide local access. One of the clients to this access point may also act as a mesh node, allowing the network to spread organically between laptop users who all ultimately use the original point-to-point link to access the Internet.
Now that we have a clear idea of the way that wireless networks are typically arranged, we can begin to understand how communication is possible over such networks.
