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7D-Link DAP-2690 User Manual
Section 1 - Product Overview
Wireless Basics
D-Link wireless products are based on industry standards to provide high-speed wireless connectivity that is easy to use within your home, business
or public access wireless networks. D-Link wireless products provides you with access to the data you want, whenever and wherever you want it.
Enjoy the freedom that wireless networking can bring to you.
WLAN use is not only increasing in both home and oce environments, but in public areas as well, such as airports, coee shops and universities.
Innovative ways to utilize WLAN technology are allowing people to work and communicate more eciently. Increased mobility and the absence
of cabling and other types of xed infrastructure have proven to be benecial to many users.
Wireless adapter cards used on laptop and desktop systems support the same protocols as Ethernet adapter cards, allowing wireless users to use
the same applications as those used on a wired network.
People use WLAN technology for many dierent purposes:
Mobility - Productivity increases when people can have access to data in any location within the operating range of their WLAN. Management
decisions based on real-time information can signicantly improve the eciency of a worker.
Low implementation costs - WLANs are easy to set up, manage, change and relocate. Networks that frequently change can benet from WLAN's
ease of implementation. WLANs can operate in locations where installation of wiring may be impractical.
Installation and network expansion - By avoiding the complications of troublesome cables, a WLAN system can be fast and easy during installation,
especially since it can eliminate the need to pull cable through walls and ceilings. Wireless technology provides more versatility by extending the
network beyond the home or oce.
Inexpensive solution - Wireless network devices are as competitively priced as conventional Ethernet network devices. The DAP-2690 saves money
by providing users with multi-functionality congurable in four dierent modes.
Scalability - Congurations can be easily changed and range from Peer-to-Peer networks, suitable for a small number of users to larger Infrastructure
networks to accommodate hundreds or thousands of users, depending on the number of wireless devices deployed.