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There's nothing immoral about running an ad-hoc network!

In fact, the first wireless network I setup was an old Gateway
with Linux and an Orinoco card in an ISA adapter.  The Linux PC
that was my gateway ran NAT and DHCP and it all worked
like a charm as a home-brew AP.

The major advantage of "infrastructure" or AP mode is that nodes
on opposite sides of the AP can communicate with each other
via the AP even though they are out of range of direct comm.

In many cases, you have to talk with the central node
to go out, and don't care about filesharing from one
wireless node to another directly. So the infrastructure
mode doesn't really gain you anything.



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