and corresponding subscriber access units saus 14 1 14 2 14 h 14 l and associated antennas 16 1 16 2 16 h 16 l centrally located equipment includes a base station antenna 18 a base station processor bsp 20 internet gateway 22 internet 24 and network file server 30 the system is a demand access point to multi point wireless communication system such that the pcs 12 may transmit data to and receive data from network server 30 through wireless connections implemented over forward links 40 and reverse links 50 it should be understood that in a point to multi point multiple access wireless communication system 10 as shown a given base station processor 20 typically supports communication with a number of different subscriber access units 14 in a manner which is similar to that used in a cellular telephone communication network the pcs 12 may for example be laptop computers 12 l handheld 12 h or personal digital assistant pda type computers the computers 12 are each connected to a respective sau 14 through a suitable wired connection such as an ethernet type connection the respective sau 14 permits the pc 12 to be connected to the network file server 30 through several types of physical connections in the reverse link direction that is for data traffic traveling from the pc 12 towards the server 30 the pc 12 provides an internet protocol ip level packet to the sau 14 over the wired connection the sau 14 then appends to the wired framing i e ethernet framing in the ip packet and inserts appropriate wireless connection framing the appropriately formatted wireless data packet then travels over one or more radio channels provided by the reverse link 50 through the antennas 16 and 18 at.