Ad-hoc WLAN limitations

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Keith Leite - 29 Jul 2003 13:55 GMT

Greetings ...

Currently I am working on a project that may require atleast 20 PDA's with
WLAN 802.11b adapters (NetGear MA-401) running with the WL100nds.dll driver
installed onto the units.The PDA's will have to communicate via the Ad-Hoc
configuration, there will be no Access Points in the configuration.

I noticed when I had multiple PDA's turned on that when I went to the
association window it show that some PDA's were getting associated to
another client, I was using a program called "NetStumbler" to track the
802.11b traffic.

What causes multiple peers on a Ad-hoc WLAN network ???

Thanks Keith

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Helio Diamant - MS-MVP/Mobile Devices - 29 Jul 2003 16:29 GMT

An ad-hoc WLAN is by definition a peer-to-peer connection. Thus, if there
are other peers available, it could happen that they would connect to the
wrong place.

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> Thanks Keith

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