Repeaters
A wireless LAN captive artlessly receives 802.11 abstracts frames and retransmits them on the same
channel. They apparatus the absolute 802.11 standard, agnate to radio cards. This enables a
company to extend advantage of the wireless LAN to areas area it is not applied to install
Ethernet abstracts cabling. When deploying a repeater, the RF approach is set to the aforementioned approach to the
access point to which it associates. An affair that comes with captive use is that a captive doubles
the cardinal of abstracts frames beatific over the air because of the retransmission process. The aftereffect is a
significant bandwidth reduction. This ability not be a problem, however, if the wireless application
does not charge the absolute accommodation of the wireless LAN.
NOTE For advice about RF channels, see the area “RF Channels,” after in the chapter.