Lab 5

Question 1

Infrastructure mode

Answer 1

• wireless stations connect through a wireless AP before they can begin communicating with other devices.
• Infrastructure mode uses a logical bus topology because all nodes hear all communications (in most cases).

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communications (in most cases).

Question 2

Ad hoc mode

Answer 2

• Sometimes called “peer-to-peer mode,” is a wireless mode of operation typically used only in small or temporary installations.
• There’s no central device, and data travels from one device
  to another in a line (more or less).
• in terms of a physical and logical topology, it most resembles a physical and logical bus.