General 1. What is the DWL-500?
The DWL-500 PCI adapter functions as a wireless IEEE 802.11b 11Mbps PCI adapter. The DWL-500 can be directly installed on a PC for high-speed wireless Internet access. The DWL-500 can be configured in Ad-Hoc Mode(Wireless Peer-to-Peer networking without an Access Point) or Infrastructure Mode (Peer-to-Peer networking with an Access Point). The DWL-500 can obtain IPs automatically that are dynamically assigned from a DHCP server or become programmed with a static IP address and become networked with other wireless PCs or laptops with a static IP address as well. The DWL-500 operates in 2.4 GHz Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) for wireless networks in the home or office environment with transparent bridging and roaming capabilities. The DWL-500 can be managed by its utility configuration management software. It also supports a 40/64 bit WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) Encryption or 128 bit WEP Encryption using driver ver 1.32 or later, MAC address control and user authentication to
