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Originally Posted by JohnHorb
Sorry if this is a stoopid question betraying my ignorance, but if you are not using as a router, why do you need an access point? Can you not just run in 'ad-hoc' mode, as you suggest yourself?
Presumably the reason they do 108 Mbps routers is that it gives you the speed for local inter-computer comms, and also the shared Internet access (at the - slow - speed of your Internet connection).
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I might have to go ad-hoc yet, the reason that i am avoiding it is that there are a few black spots in the house, the current 54mpbs AP is tucked away in a corner that just about reaches to most places in the house. The computers in the house move around, nor are they always on, so i would have to situate an always-on NIC somewhere central to maintain the network and a PC with a wireless NIC is a bit bigger/harder to place than an AP. So its not ideal.