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- Page 1 802.11n Wireless USB Adapter WNL-U554A User’s Manual Version: 1.00 Date: November 2008...
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Page 2: Federal Communication Commission Interference Statement
Copyright © 2008 by PLANET Technology Corp. All rights reserved. No part of this Copyright publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written permission of PLANET. - Page 3 This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the Following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this Device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. Federal Communication Commission (FCC) Radiation Exposure Statement This equipment complies with FCC radiation exposure set forth for an uncontrolled...
- Page 4 Revision User’s Manual for PLANET 802.11n Wireless USB Adapter Model: WNL-U554A Rev: 1.0 (November 2008) Part No. EM-WNLU554A...
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Page 5: Table Of Contents
Table of Contents CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ....................7 1-1 F .............................7 EATURES 1-2 S ........................8 AFETY NFORMATION 1-3 S ..........................9 PECIFICATION 1-4 P ........................10 ACKAGE ONTENTS 1-5 H ......................... 11 ARDWARE CHAPTER 2: INSTALLATION ....................12 CHAPTER 3: GENERAL CONFIGURATION ................. 17 3-1 P ......................18 ROFILE... - Page 6 CHAPTER 5: APPENDIX......................56 5-1 T ........................56 ROUBLESHOOTING 5-2 G ..........................58 LOSSARY...
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Page 7: Chapter 1: Introduction
RP-SMA connector design, allow users manually exchange higher gain antenna for further wireless coverage range. The WNL-U554A provides advanced security, not only 64/128-Bits WEP, but also WPA, WPA2 and LEAP encryption. Moreover, in order to simplify the security configurations, WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) offers a convenient and fast method for users as well. -
Page 8: Safety Information
1-2 Safety Information In order to keep the safety of users and your properties, please follow the following safety instructions: 1. This USB wireless network card is designed for indoor use only. DO NOT expose this network card to direct sun light, rain, or snow. 2. -
Page 9: Specification
1-3 Specification Interface USB 1.1 / 2.0, Type-A Standards IEEE 802.11n/802.11b/802.11g compatible Conformance 802.11n (20MHz):up to 72 Mbps 802.11n (40MHz):up to 150 Mbps Data Rate 802.11g:6/9/12/24/36/48/54Mbps 802.11b:1/2/5.5/11Mbps Operating Mode Infrastructure / Ad-Hoc Mode, Soft-AP Mode WEP 64/128, WPA, WPA2 Security Cisco CCX support 802.11b:Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS): DBPSK, DQPSK, CCK... -
Page 10: Package Contents
1-4 Package Contents Before you begin the installation, please check the items of your package. The package should include the following items: WNL-U554A x 1 USB Cable x 1 Quick Installation Guide x 1 CD-ROM x 1 (Including User’s Manual and Utility) -
Page 11: Hardware Info
1-5 Hardware Info USB Connector Connector Cap (To protect USB connector when not in use) Link/Activity LED Light Status Description Link/ Linked to a wireless access point / Transferring data Activity No wireless activity... -
Page 12: Chapter 2: Installation
Chapter 2: Installation Note 1: If you had ever installed the other Wireless Cards before, please uninstall the existed drivers and utilities first. Note 2: The installation below is performed in Windows XP system. The installations in Windows 2000 and Vista are similar. 1. - Page 13 4. Read the License Agreement carefully. Click “Yes” to accept it and continue. It is suggested to use “Install driver and Planet WLAN Utility”, which provides full installation to manage the WNL-U554A; Otherwise, choose ”Install driver only” for only installing driver. Then click “Next” to continue.
- Page 14 It is suggested to use “PLANET configuration Tool”, which the WNL-U554A Utility; Otherwise; choose ”Microsoft Zero Configuration Tool” for only installing Microsoft wireless configuration. Then click “Next” to continue. Click “Install” to begin the installation.
- Page 15 If the screen appears during installation, please click “Continue Anyway” to continue. Please click “Finish” to finish the installation.
- Page 16 The WNL-U554A utility will appear on the screen. Please select the AP you would like to connect and press “Connect” button and full in the security information , and then click “OK” to connect the wireless network.
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Page 17: Chapter 3: General Configuration
Use Zero Configuration as Configuration Utility: use Windows XP built-in wireless configuration utility (Windows Zero Configuration) to configure the card. Switch to AP Mode: the WNL-U554A can act as an AP. Please refer to next chapter for details. Exit: close the Configuration Utility tool. -
Page 18: Profile Management
3-1 Profile Management If you need to connect to different wireless access points at different time, like to access point of your home, office, cybercafé, or public wireless service, you can store the connection parameters (encryption, passphrase, security etc.) as a profile for every access point, so you don’t have to input these parameters every time you want to connect to a specific wireless access point. -
Page 19: System Configuration
Or, you can add a connected wireless access point or wireless device to a profile by clicking ‘Network’ tab, then click ‘Add to Profile’ button: 3-1-1 System Configuration And you can set the parameter for this profile here:... - Page 20 Parameter Description Profile Name Define a recognizable profile name for you to identify the different networks. SSID The SSID (up to 32 printable ASCII characters) is the unique name identified in a WLAN. The ID prevents the unintentional merging of two co-located WLANs. You may specify a SSID for the card and then only the device with the same SSID can interconnect to the card.
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Page 21: Authority/Encryption Setting
3-1-2 Authority/Encryption setting Parameter Description Authentication This setting has to be consistent with the wireless networks that the card Type intends to connect. Open – No authenti cation is needed among the wireless network. hared – Only wireless devices using a shared key (WEP Key identified) are allowed to connecting each other. - Page 22 already deployed IEEE 802.1x authentication, WPA offers the advantage of leveraging existing authentication databases and infrastructure. WPA-PSK – It is a special mode designed for home and small business users ho do not have access to network authentication servers. In this mode, known as Pre-Shared Key, the user manually enters the starting password in their access point or gateway, as well as in each wireless station in the network.
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Page 23: Using 802.11X
(Key1 ~ Key4) There are two types of key length: 64-bit and 128-bit. Select the default encryption key from Key 1 to Key 4 by selected the radio button. Fill the text box by following the rules below: 4-bit – Input 10-digit Hex values (in the “A-F”, “a-f” and “0-9” range) or 5-digit ASCII characters (including “a-z”... - Page 24 ’EAP Fast’ authentication type also have a sub-menu to set EAP fast-specific arameters: If you need to use protected authentication credential, check ‘Use protected authentication credential’ box, and click ‘Import’ to load .pac credential file; to remove a loaded credential file, click ‘Remove’. Session You can enable or disable session resumption here.
- Page 25 select ‘Domain name must end in specified name’. After you finish all settings, click ‘OK’ to save settings and exit. The profile you just created will be displayed:...
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Page 26: Network-Configuration Utility
Wireless connection is established, weak signal reception. Wireless network doesn’t connection. Wireless network card is not detected. There are two ways you can configure WNL-U554A network card to connect to wireless access point: using the WNL-U554A configuration utility and using built-in windows zero configuration utility. - Page 27 From the “Network” screen, all the networks nearby will be listed. You can change the connection to another network or add one of the networks to your own AP list. Parameter Description AP List This list shows all available wireless networks within range of your card.
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Page 28: Connect To An Access Point
3-2-2 Connect to an Access Point There are two kinds of wireless connection mode: Infrastructure and Ad-Hoc. Infrastructure mode is used by wireless access points, which is able to establish wireless connection for you and other wireless / wired network clients. Ad-Hoc mode is also know as ‘point-to-point’... - Page 29 If a symbol appears in front of the name of wireless device, means you’ve established connected with that wireless device. The type of this wireless device and the channel number of this wireless device. Means this wireless device is an access point Means this wireless device is a computer (Ad-Hoc mode, point-to-point connection) The wireless standard supported by this access point is displayed here:...
- Page 30 4. If the AP uses encryption, you have to input WEP passphrase or WPA preshared key. Please ask the administrator, and input the correct passphrase / preshared key here, th click ‘OK’. If the value you inputted here is wrong, you will not be able to connect to this wireless access point.
- Page 31 5. If the wireless access point is successfully connected, you’ll see a symbol appears in front of the name of wireless device.
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Page 32: Advanced Settings
3-3 Advanced Settings Parameter Description Wireless mode Display the wireless operation mode of the network card. Enable Tx Burst Check this box to accelerate the data transmit rate. It may not work with all wireless access point and wireless devices. Enable TCP Window Check this box and the configuration utility will adjust TCP Size... - Page 33 Turn on CCKM: Check this box to enable CCKM (Cisco Centralized Key Management), which enables wireless clients to roam between CCKM-enabled access points in very short time. Enable Radio Measurements: When you’re connecting to CCX-compatible access point, check this box to enable radio measurement function to improve wireless connectivity.
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Page 34: View Network Link Statistics
3-4 View Network Link Statistics The configuration utility provides information about network statistics and link status. If you want to know how your wireless network card works, you can use these functions to get detailed information about the wireless connection you’re using. Click ‘Statistics’... -
Page 35: Wmm Setting
3-5 WMM Setting This wireless network card provides WMM (Wi-Fi Multimedia) function, which can improve the performance of certain network applications, like audio/video streaming, network telephony (VoIP), and others. When you enable the WMM function of this network card, you can define the priority of different kinds of data, to give higher priority to applications which require instant responding. -
Page 36: Wps Configuration
- just three simple steps! The WNL-U554A is compatible with WPS. To use this function, the wireless access point you wish to connect to must support WPS function too. Now, please follow the following... - Page 37 (This may require several seconds to one minute to complete). When you see ‘WPS status is connected successfully’ message, it means the connection between your WNL-U554A and access point is successfully connected by WPS, and the information about access point you connected to will be displayed.
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Page 38: Wps Setup - Pin
If you want to delete a found access point from the list, select it and click ‘Delete’ button. 3-6-2 WPS Setup - PIN 1. The PIN number of your WNL-U554A is an eight-digit number located at the upper-right position of configuration utility. Remember it, and input the number to your wireless access point as the WPS PIN code (Please refer to the user manual of your wireless access point for instructions about how to do this). - Page 39 NOTE: If you experienced problem with the pin code provided here, you can click ‘Renew’ to get a new pin code. 2. Click ‘PIN’ button now, and wait for few seconds to one minute. If a wireless access point with correct PIN code is found, you’ll be connected to that access point. 3.
- Page 40 WPS probe IE: Check this box to send the WPS probe request with WPS IE during WPS setup. This is optional and you can use default value if you don’t know what will be affected. Auto: When in PIN mode, wireless access point to be connected will be selected automatically if this box is checked.
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Page 41: Radio On/Off
3-7 Radio On/Off You can switch the wireless radio transceiver on and off by WNL-U554A utility, so if you want to disable wireless network function, you don’t have to remove the network card physically. 1. To switch wireless radio on/off, please click ‘Radio On/Off’ button. -
Page 42: About
By choosing this option, you can click the hyperlink to connect the PLANET website. You can also obtain basic information about the WNL-U554A such as the Driver, Utility, EEPROM and Firmware Version. The MAC Address of the card is displayed in the screen as well. -
Page 43: Help
3-9 Help If you need to know the directions of how to use specific function in the utility, please click ‘Help’ button. On-line help documents will be presented in Windows help format. Click this button to view on-line help documents. -
Page 44: Chapter 4: Soft-Ap Function
Chapter 4: Soft-AP Function Except becoming a wireless client of other wireless access points, the WNL-U554A can act as a wireless service provider also! You can switch the WNL-U554A’s operating mode to ‘AP’ mode to simulate the function of a real wireless access point by software, and all other... - Page 45 Parameter Description SSID Please input the SSID (the name used to identify this wireless access point) here. Up to 32 numerical characters can be accepted here, excepting space. Channel Please select the wireless channel you wish to use. The number of channels available here will vary depends on the setting of ‘Country Region Code’.
- Page 46 Country Region Code Available options are 0-7, which will affect the available wireless channels you can use: 0: FCC (US, Canada, and other countries uses FCC radio communication standards) 1: ETSI (Europe) 2: SPAIN 3: FRANCE 4: MKK 5: MKKI (TELEC) 6: ISERAL (Channel 3 to 9) 7: ISERAL (Channel 5 to 13) The operating frequency channel will be restricted to the...
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Page 47: Security Settings
It’s recommended to enable data encryption unless you wish to open your computer (and its internet connection) to the public. When you click ‘Security Setting’ in WNL-U554A configuration utility, the following window will appear:... - Page 48 WPA Pre-shared-key Please input the WPA pre-shared key here. Only clients with the same pre-shared key you inputted here will be able to connect to your computer. This setting is only available when you select one of WPA encryptions. Group Rekey Interval You can specify the time interval to re-issue the key to your wireless clients here.
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Page 49: Access Control
4-3 Access Control If you’re not going to open your computer and wireless resources to the public, you can use MAC address filtering function to enforce your access control policy, so only wireless clients with MAC address you defined by this function can be connected to your software access point. - Page 50 Parameter Description Access Policy Select the policy type of your access rule: Disable: Allow any wireless client with proper authentication settings to connect to this access point. Allow All: Only allow wireless clients with MAC address listed here to connect to this access point. Reject All: Reject wireless clients with MAC address listed here to be connected to this access point.
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Page 51: Connection Table
4-4 Connection table If you want to see the list of all wireless clients connected to this access point, please follow the following instructions: Click ‘Mac Table’ tab, and a list containing all connected wireless clients will appear:... - Page 52 Parameter Description MAC address Displays the MAC address of this wireless client The serial number of this wireless connection. Power Saving Mode Displays the capability of power-saving function of this wireless client. Status Displays additional information of this wireless Connection, like current wireless operating mode and data transfer rate.
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Page 53: Event Log
4-5 Event Log This software access point will log all wireless-related activities as a log. You can follow the following instructions to view the content of the event log: Click ‘Event Log’ tab, and the event log will be displayed: You can click ‘Clear’... -
Page 54: Statistics
4-6 Statistics If you want to know detailed information about how your software access point works, you can follow the following instructions to view the statistics of the access point: Click ‘Statistics’ tab, and the event log will be displayed: You can click ‘RESET COUNTERS’... - Page 55 4-7 About The ‘About’ tab provides you the information about version number of the configuration utility, driver, and other important information about your wireless access point.
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Page 56: Troubleshooting
This chapter provides solutions to problems usually encountered during the installation and operation of the adapter. Q. The PLANET WNL-U554A does not work properly. 1. Right click on My Computer and select Properties. Select the device manager and click on the Network Adapter. - Page 57 4. In Ad-Hoc mode, both wireless clients will need to have the same SSID. Please note that it might be necessary to set up one client to establish a BSS (Basic Service Set) and wait briefly before setting up other clients. This prevents several clients from trying to establish a BSS at the same time, which can result in multiple singular BSSs being established, rather than a single BSS with multiple clients associated to it.
- Page 58 4. The access point you wish to connect only allows network cards with specific MAC address to establish connection. Please go to ‘About’ tab and write the value of ‘Phy_Addess’ down, then present this value to the owner of access point so he / she can add the MAC address of your network card to his / her access point’s list.
- Page 59 What is STBC? STBC stands for Space-Time Block Coding, which is a technique used to transfer multiple copies of data by multiple antenna, to improve data transfer performance. By using multiple antennas, not only data transfer rate is improved, but also the wireless stability.
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Page 60: Ec Declaration Of Conformity
*Model Number WNL-U554A * Produced by: Manufacturer‘s Name : Planet Technology Corp. Manufacturer‘s Address: 11F, No 96, Min Chuan Road, Hsin Tien, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. is herewith confirmed to comply with the requirements set out in the Council Directive on the 1999/5/EC R&TTE.