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TP-Link TL-WN322G User Manual

TP-Link TL-WN322G User Manual

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  • Page 2 Specifications are subject to change without notice. is a registered trademark of TP-LINK Technologies Co., Ltd. Other brands and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. No part of the specifications may be reproduced in any form or by any means or used to make any derivative such as translation, transformation, or adaptation without permission from TP-LINK Technologies Co., Ltd.

  • Page 3: Fcc Statement

    PDAs (personal digital assistants) or other portable host devices. This device and its antenna must not be co-located or operated in conjunction with any other antenna or transmitter. CE Declaration of Conformity For the following equipment: TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter...
  • Page 4 Is here with confirmed to comply with the requirements set out in the Council Directive on the Approximation of the Laws of the Member States relating to Electromagnetic Compatibility (89/336/EEC), Low-voltage Directive (73/23/EEC) and the Amendment Directive (93/68/EEC), the procedures given in European Council Directive 99/5/EC and 89/3360EEC.

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Package Contents ...1 Chapter 1 Introduction ...2 Features ...2 LED Status...2 System Requirements ...2 Network Configuration ...3 Chapter 2 Installation Guide...5 Before You Begin ...5 Installing the Drivers ...5 Chapter 3 Uninstall Guide ...8 Through Control Panel...8 Through Programs...9 Chapter 4 Software Configuration ...12 Station Mode Configuration ...12 4.1.1...

  • Page 6: Package Contents

    Open the package carefully, and make sure that none of the items listed below are missing. One TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter One USB extension cable One TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter Resource CD, including: Drivers and Utility User Guide...

  • Page 7: Chapter 1 Introduction

    Supports Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, 2003, 64bit XP. Simulated AP Mode, And Supports PSP connection. 1.2 LED Status The TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter has a LED indicator and a built-in antenna for wireless connectivity. LED Indicator: Ad-hoc Mode: Solid Green, whether the wireless device is connected or not.

  • Page 8: Network Configuration

    TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter User Guide 1.4 Network Configuration To better understand how the wireless LAN products work together to create a wireless network, it might be helpful to depict a few of the possible wireless LAN PC card network configurations.
  • Page 9 TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 1-2 Infrastructure mode. - 4 -...

  • Page 10: Chapter 2 Installation Guide

    Chapter 2 Installation Guide 2.1 Before You Begin Before installing the new drivers of your TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter, you need to disable all of the Wireless LAN drivers that you have installed. During the installation, Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/64bit XP may need to copy systems files from its installation CD.
  • Page 11 TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 2-2 Install Shield—Choose Destination Location Wait a few moments until the files are copied to the computer. Figure 2-3 Install Shield—Setup Status The first part of the installation is complete. Click on the Finish button.
  • Page 12 TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 2-4 Installation Complete At this point, carefully insert the device into the USB port of your computer. Windows will automatically detect the device and display the icon below in the taskbar. - 7 -...

  • Page 13: Chapter 3 Uninstall Guide

    Follow the steps below in order to uninstall the Drivers and Utility: 1. Click on Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs 2. You will then see the following window. Select the TL-WN322G Wireless Utility and then click on Remove.

  • Page 14: Through Programs

    Figure 3-3 Uninstalling process finished 3.2 Through Programs Follow the steps below in order to uninstall the Drivers and Utility: Click on Start > programs > TP-LINK> TL-WN322G Wireless Utility> Uninstall TL-WN322G Wireless Utility. Figure 3-4 Uninstall from programs Then, process will go to Install Shield Wizard. The screen will pop up the following conversation “Do you want to completely remove the selected application and all...
  • Page 15 Figure 3-5 Confirm the Uninstalling process. The process will then remove TL-WN322G Wireless Utility and the drivers from your computer. Figure 3-6 Uninstalling TL-WN322G Wireless Utility and the drivers Click on the Finish button and then remove the TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter.
  • Page 16 TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 3-7 Uninstalling process finished - 11 -...

  • Page 17: Chapter 4 Software Configuration

    TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Chapter 4 Software Configuration 4.1 Station Mode Configuration This chapter focuses on how to configure the device in Station mode (wireless LAN client) Current Network Information The Current Network Information screen displays the current status of the wireless radio as a station.
  • Page 18 TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 4-2 More setting You can click “Change” button to change general connection settings. - 13 -...
  • Page 19 TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 4-3 More setting—Click Change - 14 -...
  • Page 20 TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 4-4 More setting—WEP SSID: Enter the SSID of the network. The SSID is a unique name shared among all points in your wireless network. The SSID must be identical for all points in the network, and is case-sensitive.

  • Page 21: Wep Encryption

    Key Value #1 - #4: You may enter up to 4 different WEP keys. However, only that WEP key will be used that is defined by the Default Key ID. TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 4-5 WEP Key Setting...

  • Page 22: Wpa/Wpa2 Authentication With Tkip/Aes Encryption

    WEP. WPA provides improved data encryption through the Temporal key Integrity Protocol (TKIP), which scrambles the keys using a hashing algorithm and by adding an integrity checking feature which makes sure that keys haven’t been tampered with. TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter User Guide - 17 -...
  • Page 23 In this section you can configure the settings for TLS or PEAP. TLS (Transport Layer Security) is an IETF standardized authentication protocol that uses PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) certificate-based authentication of both the client and authentication server. TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 4-7 More settings—TKIP...
  • Page 24 The PEAP authentication type is based on EAP TLS authentication, but uses a password instead of a client certificate for authentication. PEAP uses a dynamic session-based WEP key, which is derived from the device and RADIUS server, to encrypt data. TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 4-8 WPA setting...

  • Page 25: Wpa-Psk Authentication

    Multiple profiles can be created for different Network Names (SSIDs) and security settings. This allows a user to quickly associate with another network, instead of entering the credentials each time. TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter User Guide - 20 -...

  • Page 26: Advanced Settings

    Delete: To delete an existing profile, select it from the drop-down list and then click on the Delete button. 4.1.1.6 Advanced Settings The Advanced Settings allows you to configure the user interface language, power consumption, and threshold values. TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 4-10 More Setting—Profile - 21 -...

  • Page 27: Wireless Network Mode Configuration

    Maximum Power-Saving Mode, or Fast Power-Saving Mode. 4.2 Wireless network mode configuration The screen of wireless network mode displays as below： Figure 4-14 Wireless network mode The more setting screen： TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 4-11 Advanced Setting - 22 -...
  • Page 28 TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 4-15 Access point setting - 23 -...

  • Page 29: Chapter 5 Examples For Application

    Double click “TEST” in available network taskbar to connect this network. Step 1：Double click ”TEST” to connect this network. Click “No” to continue. TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 5-1 Step 2： Click ”No” to continue. Figure 5-2...
  • Page 30 Click the close button in top right left of the screen, and it will return to the screen of wireless utility. till now we have finished WEP encryption configuration. Click the “ ” TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 5-3 Figure 5-4 - 25 - Step 3：Click...

  • Page 31: Configuration Of Psp Mode

    54M Wireless USB Adapter User Guide 5.2 Configuration of PSP Mode There is two parts of this setting： Part 1：Configuration of our TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter Step One： Select “Access Point” from the drop down list. Figure 5-5 Step Two： Select “More Setting”, you can use default network SSID WLAN-AP, channel 6, and then choose WEP Encryption, and enter WEP keys.
  • Page 32 TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 5-6 Remark: You can change the default network SSID and channel by yourself. If you didn’t startup WEP Encryption, any PSP could link in, and the wireless network won’t be protected by encryption key.
  • Page 33 Step Four： Select SCAN, and let PSP scan the nearer AP automatic，then choose the default network SSID WLAN_AP of TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter. Step Five： ”WLAN Security Setting” If you haven’t set pass phrase. select the first ”None” .if you have set the pass phase, select the second “WEP”, the pass phase must identical with WEP key that you have set.
  • Page 34 Step Ten： Select ”Test Connection” Step Eleven： Test network connection. After the configuration that was set above, we can connect to web successfully. Till now, we have finished the configuration of PSP mode. TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter User Guide - 29 -...

  • Page 35: Appendix A: Glossary

    TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Appendix A: Glossary IEEE 802.11b - The IEEE 802.11b standard specifies a wireless 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. IEEE 802.11b networks are also referred to as Wi-Fi networks.
  • Page 36 TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter User Guide PSK- Pre-Shared Key TKIP- Temporal Key Integrity Protocol AES- Advanced Encryption Standard TLS- Transport Layer Security TTLS- Tunnel Transport Layer Security PEAP- Protected Extended Authentication Protocol RADIUS- Remote Authentication Dial In User Service...

  • Page 37: Appendix B: Specifications

    FCC, CE Safety & Emissions 0℃～55℃ (32℉～104 ) Operating Temp Storage Temp -40℃～70℃ (-40℉～158 ) 5%～90% RH, Non-condensing Humidity Dimensions 3.4×1.0×0.5 inch (85.7×25.9×11.8 mm) (W×D×H) TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Normal Physical Environmental ℉ ℉ - 32 -...

  • Page 38: Appendix C: Contact Information

    TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Appendix C: Contact Information For help with the Installation or operation of the TP-LINK TL-WN322G 54M Wireless USB Adapter, please contact us. Website: http://www.tp-link.com - 33 -...

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