Harmony House 802.11a - Manual (Page 23)

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Chapter 3
Wireless Topologies
Harmony wireless products look and operate similar to Ethernet products. The only
difference is that a radio replaces the wire between various nodes. This means that all
of your existing applications that operate over Ethernet will work with Harmony
without any special wireless networking software. The Harmony 802.11a network
adapters support several network topologies, which are described in this chapter.
Ad Hoc
Two or more computers easily establish an ad hoc network when the units are in range
of each other. Each computer can dynamically connect and reconnect to the others
with no additional configuration, using off-the-shelf peer-to-peer network operating
systems, as illustrated in Figure 1.
Figure 1 Ad Hoc
To use a Harmony 802.11a network adapter as a member of an Ad Hoc network with
other 802.11a-compatible cards, configure the adapter to operate in Ad Hoc mode.
See “Network Mode” on page 28 for details.
Note: Products sold in Europe do not support Ad Hoc mode.