>That's because (a) drivers universally suck for master mode, and (b)
>there's a hell of a lot more setup required for master mode than adhoc.
>At the moment, I don't see a compelling reason to use master mode over
>adhoc until drivers get better.
er.. I didn't mean to complain about the "lack" (which I don't consider as
such) of AP-mode support. If my words
sounded like a complaint, I offer my apologies on the spot. I like NM very
much, and it's fun seeing how it gets better
with every release: I was stunned how easy it was to get my USB 3G modem
working with NM ("plug, PIN, works"), where it
took me half an evening to make it work on MacOS X, half of which figuring out
which software to obtain from where and
what exactly to use it for...
The one thing that springs to mind if it comes to "Infrastructure" vs "ad-hoc"
modes of 802.11 could be scaleability
for a larger number of devices, and another thing might be the lack of
WPA/WPA2 support I see occurring in most
implementations once you switch over to ad-hoc mode. I'm not quite sure if that
is because of the nature of how 802.11
ad-hoc mode works or if no vendor's so far cared about implementing WPA/WPA2
in ad-hoc mode.
regards
Marc
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