This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. It also obtains FCC Certifications (FCC ID is NOI-W121C). These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter CE Mark Warning This equipment complies with the requirements relating to electromagnetic compatibility, EN 55022 Class B for ITE, the essential protection requirement of Council Directive 2004/108/EC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to electromagnetic compatibility and R&TTE Directive 1999/5/EC to meet the regulation of the radio equipment and telecommunications terminal equipment.
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter Package Contents The following contents should be found in your box: One IEEE 802.11n USB Adapter One external antenna One resource CD, including: REALTEK 11n USB Wireless LAN Driver and Utility User Manual Note: Make sure that the package contains the above items. If any of the listed items are damaged or missing, please contact with your distributor.
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter Chapter 1 Introduction Thank you for purchasing this product. Read this chapter to know about your IEEE 802.11n wireless USB Adapter. 1.1 Overview of the Product Comply with 802.11n standard This Wireless 11n USB Adapter provides you a better wireless signal, with its smart external antenna.
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter 1.3 Features High Speed transfer data rate up to 150 Mbps. Supports 2.4GHz Frequency band, 1T1R. Supports QoS Enhancement (WMM, WMM-PS Client mode). Supports Multiple BSSID. Supports frame aggregation, Power saving mechanism and co-existence. Transmit Opportunity (TXOP) Short Inter-Frame Space (SIFS) bursting for higher multimedia bandwidth.
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter Chapter 2 Management Guide for Windows XP User 2.1 Hardware Installation The installation of the Adapter is very simple. You could plug the Adapter directly to the USB port on your computer. The LED will light up when the Adapter is installed successfully and the PC is on. 2.2 Software Installation 2.2.1 Overview The following Setup Wizard will guide you through the Installation procedure for Windows XP.
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter 3. At this moment “Preparing Setup” window appears. Please wait. 4. Now comes the welcome window. Click the “Next” button to proceed. - 10 -...
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter 5. Click the “Install” button to start installing. 6. Please wait when you see the following interface. 7. Please wait again while installation - 11 -...
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter 8. After all the steps above, you will see the screen below. Select “Yes, I want to restart my computer now.” and click “Finish” to reboot the system. 2.3 Management Guide This guide describes how to configure your Adapter for wireless connectivity on your Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and use the data security encryption features.
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter 2.3.2 To Connect with Microsoft Zero Configuration Tool After specifying the Microsoft Zero Configuration tool to configure your wireless network, right click on the icon on system tray. Select “View Available Wireless Networks” to specify your wireless network.
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter Note: 1. Functional Buttons: on the upper side of the utility window, you can click each button to access each configuration window for the detail information in the center area. 2. Optional Table: at the bottom: “Show Tray Icon”, “Disable Adapter”, “Radio off”, “Windows Zero Config”...
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter 2.3.3.2 Available Network This table lists the available wireless networks surrounding you. You can select the network you want in this list (The network with the strongest signal is recommended). You can refresh the connecting network list by clicking the “Refresh” button. Available Network Information: Items Information...
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter • Infrastructure - All wireless clients will connect to an access point or wireless router. • Ad-Hoc - Directly connecting to another computer, for peer-to-peer communication, using wireless network adapters on each computer, such as two or more wireless adapters. The MAC address of locally-managed, generating from a 46 random BSSID code.
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter In this dialog box, there are some items: Items Information Profile Name Identifies the configuration profile .This name must be unique. Note that the profile names are not case-sensitive. (You can enter the Profile name by “Add”, but you could only use the default name by “Add to profile”.
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter Open System: enable an adapter to attempt authentication regardless of its WEP settings. It will only associate with the access point if the WEP keys on both the adapter and the access point match. Shared-key: only allows the adapter to associate with access points that have the same WEP key.
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter Profile List: The list shows all the profiles you have added before. Buttons: You can click on these buttons to Add a new profile, Remove, Edit, Duplicate or Set Default an old profile. - 19 -...
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter 2.3.3.4 General In this window, there are some items as following: Items Information Status Currently connection status. Speed Show current transmit rate and receive rate. Type Network type in use. Encryption Encryption type in use. The name of the IEEE 802.11 wireless network.
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter 2.3.3.5 Advanced This screen below enables you to make advanced configuration for the profile. Please refer to the following chart for definitions of each item. 1. Preamble Mode The length of CRC blocks in the frames during the wireless communication. Select the options from the drop list: (1) Long (2)Short (3)Auto.
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter The following table describes the items in “Status”. Items Information Manufacturer The name of manufacturing this product. NDIS Driver Version The version of Network Driver Interface Specification. Encryption Here displays the encryption type the device is using. Authenticate This shows whether the server based authentication is used.
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter the packets. • None - Turns power saving off, thus powering up the Wireless USB Adapter continuously for a short message response time. Associated AP MAC The MAC Address of associated AP. Up Time Record life time. 2.3.3.7 Statistics Statistics page displays the detail counter information based on 802.11 MIB counters.
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter RX ICV Error Integrity Check Value receiving with error. Reset Counter Reset counters to zero. 2.3.3.8 Wi-Fi Protect Setup The primary goal of Wi-Fi Protected Setup (Wi-Fi Simple Configuration) is to simplify the security setup and management of Wi-Fi networks. This Adapter supports the configuration setup using PIN configuration method or PBC configuration method.
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter Click the button “Yes”, and then select one of the AP. Also, you can click these buttons by “Refresh / Select / Cancel” for any change. When the following interface pops up, double click the Internet WEB browser icon on your desktop screen.
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter When the “General” window appears, WPS is configured successfully. 2. PBC (Push Button Configuration) method After pushing the PBC button, please push the physical button on your Router/AP or visual button on the WPS config page, then come to the following figure. - 26 -...
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter When WPS is configured successfully, the “Available Profile” is changed. 2.3.4 AP Mode Management Guide for Windows XP User If you wish to share the Internet access with the wireless stations in your environment, you can configure this wireless adapter as a software access point (Soft AP).
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter Software Access Point (Soft AP) Application: 2.3.4.1 General To use this Adapter as an access point, please click the “Mode” on the menu bar and select “Access Point”. Then switch from station mode to AP: At the same time, you will find that the icon on the system tray is changed.
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter The following interface is under AP mode: Please refer to the following information about this AP mode utility. Items Information SSID AP name of user type. The MAC address of locally-managed, generating from a 46 random BSSID code.
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter SSID: AP name of user type. Security Setting: Authentication mode and encryption algorithm used within the AP. System default is no authentication and encryption. Cancel: Cancel the above changes. OK: Apply the above changes. Network Authentication: Select the Security tab in the screen above. To define the security mode, select the desired security mode as follows.
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter appropriate security option and configure the exact key as your need. 2.3.4.2 Advanced Items Information Beacon Interval Beacon frequency spacing. Delay transmission indicator map (DTIM) is enabled for power management DTIM Period of the client. If any client power management is enabled, the DTIM should be retained for 1 (the default).
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter 2.3.4.3 Statistics Statistics page displays the detail counter information based on 802.11 MIB counters. Items Information TX OK Successfully transmitted frames numbers. TX Error Frames numbers transmitting with error. RX OK Successfully received frames numbers. Rx Packet Count The packets of receiving frames.
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter 2.3.4.4 ICS In this function, you can set the device sharing with Internet. Click the button “Apply”, and then Prompt box pops up. Select “OK”. When the connection is successful, you will find that the tray “Local Area Connection” has been changed.
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter Chapter 3 Management Guide for Vista User 3.1 Hardware Installation The installation of the Adapter is very simple. You could plug the Adapter directly to the USB port on your computer. The LED will light up when the Adapter is installed successfully and the PC is on. 3.2 Soft Installation 3.2.1 Overview The following Setup Wizard will guide you through the Installation procedure for Vista.
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter 4. Please wait again while installation 5. After all the steps above, you will see the screen below, Select “Yes” to reboot the system, then click “Finish”. - 35 -...
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter 3.3 Management Guide This guide describes how to configure your Adapter for wireless connectivity on your Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and use the data security encryption features. After Installing the Adapter, the Adapter’s tray icon will appear in your system tray. It appears at the bottom of the screen, and shows the signal strength using color and the received signal strength indication (RSSI).
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter minimized and stay on the tray icon located at the right bottom corner of Windows. If not, management GUI will shut down by only click "Close" button with unchecked condition. B. Disable Adapter---Disable this wireless PCI card. C.
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter Available Network Information: Items Information The name of the IEEE 802.11 wireless network. This field has a SSID maximum limit of 32 characters. Shows the encryption mode in use. There are total 4 modes: None, Encryption WEP, TKIP and AES.
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter (2) It displays “Wireless Network Properties” dialog box. This profile page allows users to save different wireless settings, which helps users to get access to wireless networks at home, office or other wireless network environments quickly. In the following dialog box, there are some items: Items Information...
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter (3) Wireless Network Security A. Network Authentication Select the Security tab in the screen above. To define the security mode, select the desired security mode as follows. There are 7 types supported: Open System, Shared Key, WPA-PSK, WPA2-PSK, and WPA 802.1X, WPA2 802.1X, WEP 802.1X, Please select a type from the drop down list Open System: enable an adapter to attempt authentication regardless of its WEP settings.
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter B. Data Encryption: There are 4 types supported: Disabled, WEP, TKIP and AES. The available encryption selection will differ from the authentication type you have chosen, the result is shown below: Authentication Available Encryption Selection Open System Disabled, WEP Data encryption...
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter Profile List: The list shows all the profiles you have added before. Buttons: You can click on these buttons to Add a new profile, Remove, Edit, Duplicate or Set Default an old profile. 3.3.4 General In this window, there are some items as following: Items Information...
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter MAC Address: The MAC address of the wireless network adapter. Network IP Address: IP address of current connection. Address Subnet Mask: Subnet mask of current connection. Gateway: Gateway of current connection. 3.3.5 Advanced This screen below allows you to make advanced configuration for the profile. Please refer to the following chart for definitions of each item.
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter Request To Send Threshold. This value should remain at its default setting of 2346. If you encounter inconsistent data flow, only minor modifications to the value range between 0 and 2432 are recommended. 3.3.6 Status The Status tab contains general information about the program and its operations.
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter Status Current connection status. SSID The SSID of the wireless system. The type of network and the station currently connected are shown Network Type here. The options include : Infrastructure, Ad Hoc Power Save Mode The power save mode have three mode: Max, Min, None Associated AP MAC The MAC Address of associated AP.
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter TX OK Successfully transmitted frames numbers. TX Error Frames numbers transmitting with error. RX OK Successfully received frames numbers. Rx Packet Count The packets of receiving frames. RX Retry Frames numbers re-receiving. RX ICV Error Integrity Check Value receiving with error.
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter PIN method Click the button “Pin Input Config (PIN)”, and then come to the following figure. Click the button “Yes”, and then select one of the AP. Also, you can click these buttons by “Refresh / Select / Cancel”...
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter When the following interface pops up, double click the Internet WEB browser icon on your desktop screen. Type the IP address of you selected Router/AP into the URL and press “Enter”, and then you can enter the configuration. Please enter the WPS (Wi-Fi ) configuration page, type the PIN code of adapter and click confirm button to build WPS connection.
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter When the “General” window appears, WPS is configured successfully. 2. PBC (Push Button Configuration) method After pushing the PBC button, Please push the physical button on your Router/AP or visual button on the WPS config page, then come to the following figure. - 49 -...
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter When WPS is configured successfully, the “Available Profile” is changed. 3.4 AP Mode Management Guide for Vista User If you wish to share the Internet access with the wireless stations in your environment, you can configure this wireless adapter as a software access point (Soft AP).
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter Please refer to the following information about this AP mode utility. Items Information SSID AP name of user type. BSSID The IEEE MAC address of locally-managed, generating from a 46 random code. Raise value by current connection. The station MAC address of current connection.
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter SSID: AP name of user type. Security Setting: Authentication mode and encryption algorithm used within the AP. System default is no authentication and encryption. Cancel: Cancel the above changes. OK: Apply the above changes. Network Authentication: Select the Security tab in the screen above. To define the security mode, select the desired security mode as follows.
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter 3.4.2 Advanced Items Information Beacon Interval Beacon frequency spacing. Delay transmission indicator map (DTIM) is enabled for power management of the client. If any client power management is enabled, the DTIM should be DTIM Period retained for 1 (the default).
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter 3.4.3 Statistics Statistics page displays the detail counter information based on 802.11 MIB counters. Items Information TX OK Successfully transmitted frames numbers. TX Error Frames numbers transmitting with error. RX OK Successfully received frames numbers. The packets of receiving frames.
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter 3.4.4 ICS In this function, you can set the device sharing with Internet. Click the button “Apply”, Prompt box pops up. Select “OK”, then the Internet connection is sharing. - 55 -...
Chapter 4 Introduction for Windows 7 User 4.1 Hardware Installation The installation of the Adapter is very simple. You could plug the Adapter directly to the USB port on your computer. The LED will light up when the Adapter is installed successfully and the PC is on. 4.2 Software Installation 4.2.1 Overview The following Setup Wizard will guide you through the Installation procedure for Windows 7.
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter 3. Please wait while “Preparing Setup” appears. 4. Here comes the welcome window. Click the “Next” button to proceed. 5. Please wait again while install. - 57 -...
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter 6. After all the steps above, you will see the screen below, Select “Yes” option to reboot the system.. 4.3 Management Guide This guide describes how to configure your Adapter for wireless connectivity on your Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and use the data security encryption features.
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter Note: 1. Functional Buttons: on the upper side of the utility window, you can click each button to access each configuration window for the detail information in the center area. 2. Optional Table: at the bottom: “Show Tray Icon”, “Disable Adapter”, “Radio off”. A.
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter 4.3.2 Available Network The above picture shows you the available wireless network lists. The Utility will connect to a wireless network with best signal strength automatically. You can refresh the connecting network by clicking on the network name and click the “Refresh” button. In the center of the Utility windows, you will see detail information of each network.
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter here. The options include : Infrastructure & Ad-Hoc The IEEE MAC address of locally-managed, generating from a 46 BSSID random code. Support Rates Show current rate. Note: 1) An Infrastructure network contains an Access Point or wireless router. All the wireless devices or clients will connect to the wireless router or access point.
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter In the following dialog box, there are some items: Items Information Profile Name Identifies the configuration profile .This name must be unique. Note that the profile names are not case-sensitive. Network The IEEE 802.11n wireless network name, using default name defined by Name(SSID) system.
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter WPA and WPA2 authentication types. Preshared Key(PSK): This is the shared secret between AP and STA. For WPA-PSK, WPA2-PSK and WPA-NONE authentication mode, this field must be filled with characters longer than 8 and less than 32 lengths. The following dialog appears if you have input invalid values.
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter (4) Finish the configuration, and then click “OK”, that network has been added to the profile. Profile List: The list shows all the profiles you have added before. Buttons: You can click on these buttons to Add a new profile, Remove, Edit, Duplicate or Set Default an old profile.
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter 4.3.4 General In this window, there are some items as following: Items Information Status Currently connection status. Speed Show current transmit rate and receive rate. Type Network type in use. Encryption Encryption type in use. The name of the IEEE 802.11 wireless network.
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter 2. IP Address : IP address of current connection. Address 3. Subnet Mask : Subnet mask of current connection. 4. Gateway : Gateway of current connection. 4.3.5 Advanced This screen below allows you to make advanced configuration for the profile. Please refer to the following chart for definitions of each item.
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter encounter inconsistent data flow, only minor modifications to the value range between 0 and 2432 are recommended. 4.3.6 Status The Status tab contains general information about the program and its operations. - 67 -...
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter The following table describes the items found on the Status screen. Items Information Manufacturer The name of manufacturing this product. NDIS Driver Version The version of Network Driver Interface Specification. Encryption Here displays the encryption type the device is using. Authenticate This shows whether the server based authentication is used.
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter Items Information TX OK Successfully transmitted frames numbers. TX Error Frames numbers transmitting with error. Successfully received frames numbers. RX OK Rx Packet Count The packets of receiving frames. RX Retry Frames numbers re-receiving. RX ICV Error Integrity Check Value receiving with error.
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter 4.3.8 Wi-Fi Protect Setup The primary goal of Wi-Fi Protected Setup (Wi-Fi Simple Configuration) is to simplify the security setup and management of Wi-Fi networks. This adapter supports the configuration setup using PIN configuration method or PBC configuration method. If the wireless card supports Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS), you can establish a wireless connection between wireless card and router using either Push Button Configuration (PBC) method or PIN method.
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter Click the button “Yes”, and then select one of the AP. Also, you can click these buttons by “Refresh / Select / Cancel” for any change. When the following interface pops up, double click the Internet WEB browser icon on your desktop screen.
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter When the “General” window appears, WPS is configured successfully. 2. PBC (Push Button Configuration) method After pushing the PBC button, Please push the physical button on your AP or visual button on the WPS config page, then come to the following figure. - 72 -...
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter When the “General” window appears, WPS is configured successfully. 4.3.9 Virtual WiFi Click the check box of “Virtual WiFi disallowed” at the bottom of the window to activate Virtual WiFi. Virtual WiFi , abbreviated to VWiFi, is a software layer that abstracts the wireless LAN card hardware into multiple virtual adapters.
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter Items Information The name of connected IEEE 802.11 wireless network. This field SSID has a maximum limit of 32 characters. a locally administered MAC address of the wireless network BSSID generated from a 64-bit random number Association Table It is the list of joined stations to this adapter Association ID...
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter The other connecter can share the same network by typing in the network key. In this way the connecter is connected to the adapter. - 75 -...
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter Setting Internet Connection Sharing(ICS) 1. Click the checkbox of ICS, a box asks for waiting will pop up, and “Auto Select Public Network” is enabled automatically. 2. If you want to select the “Shared network” manually, you can enable “Auto Select Public Network” and choose the “Shared network”...
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter 3. After selecting the shared network, click the button “Apply”, and then Prompt box pops up. 4. Select “OK”. When the connection is successful, you will find that the tray “Local Area Connection” has been changed. - 77 -...
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter 4.4 AP mode Management Guide for Window 7 User If you wish to share the Internet access with the wireless stations in your environment, you can configure this wireless adapter as a software access point (Soft AP). In this mode, this wireless adapter becomes the wireless access point that provides local area network and Internet access for your wireless stations.
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter Please refer to the following information about this AP mode utility. Items Information SSID AP name of user type. BSSID The IEEE MAC address of locally-managed, generating from a 46 random code. Raise value by current connection. The station MAC address of current connection.
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter SSID: AP name of user type. Security Setting: Authentication mode and encryption algorithm used within the AP. System default is no authentication and encryption. Cancel: Cancel the above changes. OK: Apply the above changes. A. Network Authentication Select the Security tab in the screen above.
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter There are 4 types supported: Disabled, WEP, TKIP and AES. The available encryption selection will differ from the authentication type you have chosen, the result is shown below: Authentication Available Encryption Selection Data encryption Open System Disabled, WEP Shared Key WPA-PSK, WPA2-PSK TKIP, AES...
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter 4.4.3 Statistics Statistics page displays the detail counter information based on 802.11 MIB counters. Items Information TX OK Successfully transmitted frames numbers. Frames numbers transmitting with error. TX Error RX OK Successfully received frames numbers. Rx Packet Count The packets of receiving frames.
IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter Appendix B: Glossary 802.11b - The 802.11b standard specifies a wireless product networking at 11 Mbps using direct-sequence spread-spectrum (DSSS) technology and operating in the unlicensed radio spectrum at 2.4GHz, and WEP encryption for security. 802.11b networks are also referred to as Wi-Fi networks.
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IEEE802.11n Wireless 1T1R USB Adapter identifying a wireless local area network. For the wireless devices in a network to communicate with each other, all devices must be configured with the same SSID. This is typically the configuration parameter for a wireless PC card. It corresponds to the ESSID in the wireless Access Point and to the wireless network name.