Benq Wireless LAN 1. Installation 1.1 Driver Installation Insert AWL300 USB Adapter into your PC, and then Windows will show the dialog – ‘Add New Hardware Wizard’. Select ‘Specify the location of the driver’ and press Next button. AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual...
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Benq Wireless LAN Select ‘Specify a location’ and browse the Benq Wireless LAN CD to find AWL300. For example, if your CD-ROM is drive D, the location is D:\AWL300. Windows has found Benq AWL300 Wireless LAN USB Adapter. Press Next button.
Benq Wireless LAN Press Finish. Press Yes and restart your computer. 1.2 Application Installation Execute Setup.exe in the AWL300 directory in Be nq Wireless LAN CD. For example, if your CD-ROM is drive D, please execute D:\AWL300\Setup.exe. AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual...
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Benq Wireless LAN Press Next button Select ‘Application & USB Drivers’ to install both of them if you don’t have USB Drivers installed yet. Select ‘Application Only’ to install only AWL300 applications. AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual...
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Benq Wireless LAN Press Browse if you want to change destination location of applications, and then press Next button. The folder name will be AWL300. Press Next button if you don’t want to change it. AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual...
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Benq Wireless LAN Press Next button. Press Finish and restart your computer. AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual...
Benq Wireless LAN 1.3 Application & USB Driver Installation Execute Setup.exe in the AWL300 directory in Benq Wireless LAN CD. For example, if your CD-ROM is drive D, please execute D:\AWL300\Setup.exe. Press Next button AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual...
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Benq Wireless LAN Select ‘Application & USB Drivers’ to install both of them if you don’t have USB Drivers installed yet. Press Next button Press Next button AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual...
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Benq Wireless LAN Press Next button Select the operating mode and then press Next button AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual...
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Benq Wireless LAN Specify ESSID and then press Next button Press Next button AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual...
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Benq Wireless LAN Press Finish and restart your computer. AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual...
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Benq Wireless LAN After complete installation, you will get the following screen. AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual...
Benq Wireless LAN 2. Uninstallation To uninstall AWL300, you can run the “Uninstall Configuration & Monitor Utility” as the following figure. Press OK if yo u really want to remove AWL300. AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual...
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Benq Wireless LAN Press OK when uninstall successfully completed. You must restart your computer. Press OK to do it. AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual...
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Benq Wireless LAN You can also remove AWL300 from Add/Remove Programs Properties in Control Panel AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual...
In this mode, the driver will scan for 5 seconds to look for an existing Ad Hoc network which uses the same SSID. Channel This field shows the current radio channel used for an active connection. AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual...
Only when the node is in Infrastructure Mode does the Signal Strength bar graph become active. This bar graph shows normalized signal strength as reported by the radio, averaged over all fr ames over 100 bytes long which are received from the Access Point. AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual...
Benq Wireless LAN 3.2 Statistics The Statistics Page shows the counts of packets transmitted and received. Press Clear button to set these numbers to zero. AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual...
Benq Wireless LAN 3.3 Site Survey The Site Survey Page shows the APs nearby. Press Re-Scan button to search APs nearby. AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual...
64 Bit – Enable WEP with 64 bit Key 128 Bit – Enable WEP with 128 bit Key WEP Key to use Select one of these four keys. WEP Mode Select WEP mode – Mandatory or Optinal AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual...
Benq Wireless LAN Authentication Type Select Open System type or Shared Key type 3.5 Advanced The Advanced Page sets the preamble type and threshold of fragmentation and RTS/CTS. Press Submit button to apply your changes AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual...
3.6 Version You may learn the product version including the detail of Driver, Firmware, and Application from this “About” tab. When users want to report their problems to technical support, they must use this version number. AWL300 USB Adapter User Manual...
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