I go to a small high school and we're planning on testing out some wirless networking to allow teachers to use a mobile lcd projector connected to a laptop and we want the laptop to have a wireless access to the network. <BR><BR>From what we understand all we need is an access point and a wireless card. So can we just pay $100 for an access point and connect it to the network with an ethernet wire and the wireless network card from the laptop will pick up the signal?<BR><BR>It says that it has a 11mbps, does that mean they take that signal and split it so many ways or does every computer get a 11 mbps?
Please take in to consideration, walls and distance. Unless you have some sort of actual access point in each room it will be difficult across campus.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/wireless-network.htm Here is a good read that explains how it works. It describes one for home networking, but it pretty much works the same, if you are trying to set it up at school.
