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Wireless-N DUAL ANTENNA
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User's Manual
Cod. KN.2D
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The manufacturer is under no circumstances liable for any unauthorised modifications made to
the product by the user or any other parties which may compromise its conformity and safety.
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  • Page 1 Wireless-N DUAL ANTENNA adapter 300Mbps User’s Manual Cod. KN.2D Warning The manufacturer is under no circumstances liable for any unauthorised modifications made to the product by the user or any other parties which may compromise its conformity and safety. www.kraun.it...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Chapter 3. How to use the Windows Built-in Wireless Configuration..12 3.1 Wireless Network Connection under Windows Chapter 4. Kraun Wireless Utility ......14 4.1 Station mode (Client Mode) Main interface for station mode 4.1.1 Site Survey...

  • Page 3: Chapter 1. Product Introduction

    1. Please read through the whole user guide before you install and use this product. 2. Please close or uninstall the configuration programs of other manufacturers’ before you install the configuration programs of Kraun network adapters to avoid possible UI (user interface) conflict. 3. To avoid possible network conflicts between this Kraun network adapter and those of other manufactures’...

  • Page 4: Disable Other Manufacturers' Wireless Network Adapters

    1. Right click “My Computer” and select “Manage” 1.5 Product Maintenance 1. Please keep the product away from water and humid environment to guarantee its normal performance 2. Protect it against hazardous substances (such as acids, alkalis etc). 3. Please don’t directly expose the adapter to the sunlight or excessive heat. 4. Please contact Kraun tech support if any problems occur. 2. On the Computer Management screen ,select“Device Manager” - “Network adapters”, and right click the network adapter you want to disable and click “Disable” www.kraun.it www.kraun.it...

  • Page 5: Chapter 2. Installation Guide

    2.2. When The “Found New Hardware Wizard” system dialogue pops up, we rec- ommend that you select” Cancel” and use the included Setup Wizard software CD for fast installation. This chapter will guide you through the process of installing the network adapter software package, with the included software CD. The package integrates driver and configuration software. Thus, when you are installing the driver, the configura- tion software will be installed automatically as well. The software installation steps and operating guide in this user guide are explained under Windows XP, Installation steps for other operating systems are similar. 2.1 Hardware Installation 2.1.1 Install the USB network adapter Please insert the Wireless USB Adapter into the USB port of your computer. 2.3 Put the included software CD into the CD drive of your computer ,and the driver should run automatically , a Welcome screen should pop up, just click the “RUN” button.( Double click “Kraun.exe”in the software CD and manually install when it doesn’t auto-run). www.kraun.it www.kraun.it...
  • Page 6 Manual Manual 2.4 Select “I accept the terms of the license agreement” and click “Next”. 2.6. Click “Install” to begin the driver installation. 2.7 Click “Finish” to complete the installation. 2.5 Two set up types are provided: one is “Install driver only” ,the other is “Install driver and Kraun WLAN Config Tool”. NOTE: you may select the first method when you are accustomed to use the WINDOWS built-in wireless configuration program.However, this program doesn’t support AP mode, WPS, and the WPS button on the wireless adapt- er. To use these advanced features, the second method is recommended. www.kraun.it www.kraun.it...

  • Page 7: Chapter 3. How To Use The Windows Built-In Wireless Configuration

    Manual Manual Chapter 3. How to use the Windows 2. If the wireless network you are connecting is encrypted, you’ll be prompted to enter the key. Click “Ok” after you enter the correct key. Built-in Wireless Configuration This chapter explains to users who don’t install Kraun configuration program how to use Windows Built-in Wireless Configuration to connect to the wireless network . Use of the Windows Built-in Wireless Configuration requires enabling Wireless Zero Configuration service(the default is enabled). 3.1 Wireless Network Connection under Windows 1. Click the wireless connection in the lower right corner of the computer’s desktop to view the available wireless networks. Select the wireless network you wish to connect and click “Connect” or double click the wireless network to connect. If you don’t find the specified one, please click the refresh icon in the upper right corner to update the list. 3. It shows “Connected” after successfully connected. You can disconnect it, view its status or modify the wireless network properties by right click the wireless network www.kraun.it www.kraun.it...

  • Page 8: Chapter 4. Kraun Wireless Utility

    Manual Chapter 4. Kraun Wireless Utility The function buttons on the top(From L to R )are respectively Site Survey, Link In- formation, Profile, Advanced, About, Help, and MiniSize. While the left column dis- plays Turn On/Off RF, Security /No security, and Signal status. When you are installing the driver, select “Install driver and Kraun WLAN Config Tool” and the adapter driver and client utility will be installed. All functions of this 4.1.1 Site Survey adapter can be configured via Kraun’s utility interface (in the following text it is ab- The “Site Survey” screen displays currently scanned wireless signals and you can breviated as UI). click one to connect the signal. Select one and you may view the AP’s MAC ad- Select “Start”—“All Programs” —“Kraun Wireless”— Kraun Wireless Utility”, or click...

  • Page 9: Link Information

    Manual Manual 4.1.2 Link Information After successfully connected to one wireless network, you can view its detailed in- formation by clicking the “Link Information” on the main interface. 1. “Link Status” screen displays the detailed information of the connected AP in- cluding its SSID,MAC address, authentication type, encryption type, network type and channel. The detailed explanations about the authentication and encryption are as follows: WEP: Supports 10/26-bit Hex characters and 5/13-bit ASCII. WPA-PSK: Supports 8-63-bit ASCII and 8-64-bit Hex characters. WPA2-PSK: Supports 8-63-bit ASCII and 8-64-bit Hex characters. WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK: Supports 8-63-bit ASCII and 8-64 -bit hex characters. NOTE: The Hex characters consist of numbers 0~9 and letters a-f. ASCII characters consist of any Arabic digitals/letters and characters. www.kraun.it www.kraun.it...

  • Page 10: Profile

    3. ” Statistics” screen is used to count the total Rx and Tx data packets, including transmitted,retransmitted and fail to receive ACK after all retries.You can click the “Reset Counter” button to clear the count. Add: create a new profile Delete: delete the existing profile Edit: modify the existing profile Add WPS Profile: WPS setting requires that the connecting wireless device support WPS function. WPS helps you to fulfill wireless encryption fast as well as secure your wireless network. For detailed setting steps, refer to appendix2. www.kraun.it www.kraun.it...

  • Page 11: Infrastructure Profile Management

    Manual Manual Infrastructure Profile Management There are two network types for your option when clicking the “Add” button to add wireless adapter connection: Infrastructure and Ad-Hoc. When you are connecting the wireless adapter to an AP or a wireless router, please select the Infrastructure mode. Click the “Add”button and select the network type as” Infrastructure”,and enter the profile name and SSID or you can find the SSID you wish to connect from the drop-down list. Infrastructure is an application mode that integrates the wired and wireless LAN architectures. It is different from Ad-Hoc in that in this mode the computer installed with the wireless network adapter has to fulfill the wireless communication via AP or wireless router. It can be devided into two modes:“wireless AP + wireless net- work adapter” and “wireless router + wireless network adapter”. Click the next button to select the authentication type and encryption type such as WPA, PSK and AES, and then input the key and click next. Ad-Hoc is a special wireless mobile network application mode. All nodes in the network are equal.Usually it is used to share resources by connecting the opposing computer’s wireless adapter. www.kraun.it www.kraun.it...

  • Page 12: Ad-Hoc Profile Management

    , import or export the profile,click “Active” to finish the a. Right click “My Network Places” on your computer’s desktop and select connection,now you can also view the detailed connection status on the “Link “Properties”. Information”screen. www.kraun.it www.kraun.it...
  • Page 13 Manual Manual b. Right click “Wireless Network Connection”, and select “Properties” d. Please enter the IP address and subnet mask, and make sure this IP address is not used by other devices in the network.For example: if your wireless adapter’s IP address is 192.168.0.1, then set other wireless adapters’ IP ad- dresses within the range of 192.168.0.2—192.168.0.254.Click “Ok” to save the settings. c. Select “Internet Protocol(TCP/IP)”and click “Properties”. 2) Create a new Ad-hoc profile Click the “Add” button and enter the network name in the SSID field to identify the wireless network, and select Ad-hoc as the network type and then select the chan- nel. www.kraun.it www.kraun.it...
  • Page 14 Manual Manual Click the “Next” button to select the authentication type and encryption type and And then search for the wireless network on other clients. Double click the wireless then input the correct key and click “Next”. network you have configured and you’ll be prompted for the key .After entering the key, click “Connect”. When the highlighted part shows “Connected“ ,it indicates the connection is suc- cessful. After a profile is successfully added,the profile can be seen on the profile list ,select it and click the “Active” icon on the lower right corner. www.kraun.it www.kraun.it...

  • Page 15: Advanced

    Manual Manual 4.1.4 Advanced 4.1.5 About This section is used to set the wireless mode and country region code for the cur- This screen mainly displays the version information of the UI’s different programs rent wireless adapter. You have three options to choose from: 2.4G, 5G or 2.4G+5G. as well as Kraun’s copyright statement. The widely used is 2.4G wireless adapter. To use the 5G mode of 802.11a technol- ogy, please set it here. 4.1.6 Help Click the help button to open the user manual. 4.2 AP mode When you want to use the wireless adapter’s AP function, please right click the UI icon on the taskbar of your computer desktop and select “Switch to AP Mode”. www.kraun.it www.kraun.it...

  • Page 16: Config Ap

    Manual Manual In this mode, the wireless adapter acts as an AP to transmit wireless signal and cre- When it is switched to AP mode, the wireless adapter will automatically set its IP ate a wireless network, while allowing other wireless clients to access this network. address as 192.168.123.1, and other clients that connected to this AP will automati- cally obtain the IP addresses of: 192.168.123.X(X is any integer from 2 to 254).The As shown in the diagram below: The PC in the left has already accessed to the In- function buttons on the top (From L to R )are respectively Config AP, Advanced, ternet by using a wired network adapter, meanwhile, you install a Kraun wireless Access Control List, Associate List, About, Help, and MiniSize, while the left column adapter (take a USB wireless adapter as an example) and its UI on this computer, displays Turn On/Off RF, Security /No security, and AP mode icon. and set the adapter to AP mode. By using the wireless adapters to scan the AP’S SSID to connect, the computers in the right can also access to the Internet after successfully connected 4.2.1 Config AP This screen is used to set the AP’s general parameters including SSID, wireless mode, channel, authentication type and encryption type, as shown in the picture below. In this mode, the client utility differs from that in station mode, and the main inter- face is as shown below. www.kraun.it www.kraun.it...

  • Page 17: Advanced

    Manual Manual 4.2.2 Advanced Here the authentication type is set as “Open” and the encryption type “Not Use”. This screen is used to set the advanced parameters of the wireless adapter when working in AP mode, such as No forwarding among wireless clients and TX power. No forwarding among wireless clients: This feature isolates the communications among the wireless clients that are connected to the wireless adapter in AP mode. TX power: To adjust the transmit power for the wireless adapter www.kraun.it www.kraun.it...

  • Page 18: Access Control List

    Manual Manual 4.2.3 Access Control List : to add the entered wireless client MAC address to the list. Access Control is based on the wireless adapter’ MAC addresses to allow or reject a specified client’s access to this wireless network. : to delete an existing MAC address in the list. : to delete all clients’ wireless MAC addresses in the list. Add the MAC address of the client’s wireless network adapter to the list and select “All Allow” in the access policy drop-down list, computers whose wireless MAC ad- dresses are not included in the list will be rejected by default. Select “All reject”, and only the host computers whose wireless MAC addresses are included in the list can not access the AP wireless network. 4.2.4 Associate List When there’s client connected to this AP and has successfully obtained the IP ad- dress ,then the client’s MAC address, AID and Status can be seen on the list. Access Policy: Disable: To disable the filter function. Allow All: To permit all hosts whose wireless MAC addresses are included in the list to access the wireless network, other hosts whose wireless MAC addresses have not been added to the list will be prohibited by default. Reject All: To prohibit all hosts whose wireless MAC addresses are included in the list from accessing the wireless network, other hosts whose wireless MAC address- es have not been added to the list will be permitted by default. MAC Address: To input the client’s wireless MAC address you want to filter in the physical address field. www.kraun.it www.kraun.it...

  • Page 19: Ap Mode Under Windows 7

    802.11g An extension to 802.11 WLAN standard that provides up to 54 Mbps connected clients by modifying the max number of peers. AP mode has only one transmission in the 2.4 GHz ISM radio band. 802.11b uses OFDM modu- encryption method which is WPA2-AES by default and cannot be modified. lation and is backwards compatible with 802.11b. 802.11n higher transmission rate, supports Multi-Input Multi-Output(MIMO) technology. WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy. A security protocol for WLANs defined in the IEEE 802.11 standard. WPA Wireless Protected Access, adopts rotating keys. RSN Robust Security Network. A substitute for WPA, and it adopts 802.1x standard and advanced encryption ICS Microsoft Internet Connection Sharing enables multi-computer to share access to Internet via one PC. www.kraun.it www.kraun.it...

  • Page 20: Chapter 6. Appendix 2: How To Set Wps

    2) On the Profile screen, select “Push-Button Configuration”(PBC) and then click the “Next” button, select “Start PBC” two minutes after the router enables the WPS function. The connection is established when the negotiating process fin- WPS setting supports two modes :PBC and PIN. The detailed setting steps are as ishes. follows: 1. Wireless Connection in PBC Mode 1.1 Enable the router’s WPS-PBC feature. If your router provides WPS button, just press and hold it for about 1 second, then the WPS LED will be flashing for about 2 minutes, which indicates the router’s WPS feature has been enabled. Otherwise, you can also log on to the router’s web-based utility to enable the PBC mode in WPS settings screen(For detailed settings,please refer to your router’s user guide). Start PBC: 1.2 Perform PBC connection on the UI of the wireless adapter 1) On the main interface of Kraun’s UI, click “Profile”—“Add WPS Profile”. Negotiating process: www.kraun.it www.kraun.it...
  • Page 21 A profile forms automatically after the connection is successfully established. The PIN code field lists the adapter’s current PIN code, when you select “ Enrollee” as the Config Mode, you need to copy this PIN code and input it in the PIN code field of the router’s WPS setting screen. 1.3 Using the wireless adapter’s WPS button to perform PBC connection. First enter its WPS configuration screen,enable WPS settings and select PIN for WPS If your wireless adapter provides a WPS button,you may use the button to perform mode and then input 18686791 in the PIN code field,and then click the “Save” but- PBC connection. ton. When the WPS indicator of the Router starts flashing,it indicates that WPS fea- a). Run the adapter’s UI and switch to STATION mode ture is enabled. b). Two minutes after the router’s WPS-PBC is enabled,press the adapter’s WPS but- ton to connect in PBC mode. c). You may view the PBC connection process on the UI’s PBC screen. 2. Wireless Connections in PIN Mode On the “Add WPS Profile” screen, select “PIN ” as the WPS Method. You may select the wireless AP to be connected in WPS mode on the WPS AP drop-down List,or select “Auto “and then click the next button. www.kraun.it www.kraun.it...
  • Page 22 Select “Registrar” as the config mode and enter the router’s PIN code,such as 35475088 that displays on the router’s WPS screen in section 2.1, in the PIN code field here. NOTE: 1. Under the WPS connection mode, when multiple routers simultaneously en- able the WPS function, it may cause connection failure. 2. If the router connect to the adapter using the WPS, only one client can be con- nected at one time, and so if the router need to connect to multiple clients Now you can view the SSID ,authenticaiton type,and encrytion type that need to through WPS, you should repeat the WPS operation. be negotiated by the WPS in registrar mode.These values can be modified but we www.kraun.it www.kraun.it...

  • Page 23: Chapter 7. Appendix 3: Faq

    Manual Manual Chapter 7. Appendix 3: FAQ 1. Please manually cancel or restart and cancel ICS, then re-switch to AP mode. 2. This dialogue box appears because virtual wi-fi miniport adapter can only be used by one wireless network adapter at a time. Please disable any other non- Q1: Microsoft ICS service is pending. Kraun wireless network adapters and re-switch to AP mode. A1: If ICS service cannot be enabled after a long time, please re-switch from Sta- tion Mode to AP Mode ,if not successful ,please restart the computer. Q4: Under Windows 7,when I switch from station mode to AP mode ,the screen flashes“Disabling ICS, please wait……”and immediately return to station Q2: ICS is already bound by another network device. screen. A2: Microsoft ICS service can only combine one group of WAN and LAN. This A4: This is because you have disabled “Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport message indicates ICS may have been enabled by other network adapters.
  • Page 24 Manual Manual Q7: Under Windows 2000 system, IP address can not be obtained when it is switched to AP Mode. A7: Under Windows 2000 system, you have to manually configure sharing and then switch to AP. And an IP address of 192.168.0.1 will be obtained. If you still have any problem, please contact our customer service or visit our website: http://www.Kraun.it Q8: Sometimes the UI can not be moved by the mouse and also can not be minisized,why? A8: when you are performing some configurations or connections ,the UI only activates the currently operating window,other windows are locked and can not be operated,but it will restore to normal when you close or finish the cur- rent configuration and connection . Q9: How to exit the UI? A9: Right click the system tray icon and click “Exit” on the appearing dialog. www.kraun.it www.kraun.it...

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