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TP-Link TL-WN7200ND User Manual

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TL-WN7200N
150Mbps High Power Wireless USB
Adapter
Rev: 1.0.0
1910010295

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  • Page 1 TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter Rev: 1.0.0 1910010295...

  • Page 2: Fcc Statement

    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: Ce Mark Warning

    FCC RF Radiation Exposure Statement This equipment complies with FCC radiation exposure limits set forth for an uncontrolled environment. End users must follow the specific operating instructions for satisfying RF exposure compliance. This transmitter must not be co-located or operating in conjunction with any other antenna or transmitter.

  • Page 4: Declaration Of Conformity

    TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY For the following equipment: Product Description: 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter Model No.: TL-WN7200N Trademark: TP-LINK We declare under our own responsibility that the above products satisfy all the technical regulations applicable to the product within the scope of Council Directives:...

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    CONTENTS Package Contents ....................1 Chapter 1 Introduction ..................2 Product Overview ....................2 Main Features ....................2 LED Status ......................3 Chapter 2 Installation Guide ................. 4 Hardware Installation ..................4 Software Installation..................4 2.2.1 Overview ......................4 2.2.2 Installation Guide ....................

  • Page 6: Package Contents

    TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Package Contents The following items should be found in your package: One TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter One USB extension cable One Resource CD for TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter, including: •...

  • Page 7: Chapter 1 Introduction

    TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Chapter 1 Introduction Product Overview Thank you for choosing the TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter. The adapter is designed to provide a high-speed and unrivaled wireless performance for your computer.

  • Page 8: Led Status

    TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide 1.3 LED Status The LED on the top of this card indicates Link/Act status. It blinks when sending and receiving data. - 3 -...

  • Page 9: Chapter 2 Installation Guide

    TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Chapter 2 Installation Guide 2.1 Hardware Installation 1. Connect one end of the USB cable to the Adapter. 2. Connect the other end of the USB cable to the USB port on your computer. Because the Adapter gets its power from the host, there is no external power supply.
  • Page 10 TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 2-1 Preparing Setup 2. Then you’ll see the screen as follow, you can choose what to be installed. Figure 2-2 Setup Type 3. As next screen, you can select the configuration tool here. - 5 -...
  • Page 11 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 2-3 Setup Type If you want to install the TP-LINK Wireless Utility, please select the TP-LINK Configuration Tool and click Next. If you only want to use the Microsoft Zero Configuration Tool to configure the wireless connection, please select Microsoft Zero Configuration Tool and click Next.
  • Page 12 TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide 5. After that, you will see the next screen as below. Click Install to continue. Figure 2-5 Ready to Install the Program 6. The following screen for installing will appear. Figure 2-6 Setup Status Note: While files are copying, a warning box about Windows Logo testing (shown in Figure 2-7) may pop up, please click Continue Anyway to continue the installation for our drivers have been...
  • Page 13 TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 2-7 Windows XP Warning Box 7. After the files have been successfully copied, the screen in Figure 2-8 will appear. Click the Finish button to finish the wizard. Figure 2-8 InstallShield Wizard Complete After installing the driver successfully, you should see an icon appear in your system tray.

  • Page 14: Uninstall Software

    Click Uninstall shown in above Figure 2-9, the system will uninstall the driver software of the adapter from your PC. 2.3.2 Uninstall the utility software from your PC On the Windows taskbar, click the Start button, point to All programs TP-LINK TWCU, and then click Uninstall-TP-LINK Wireless Utility. Figure 2-10 Uninstall the utility Following the Install Shield Wizard to uninstall the utility software from your PC.

  • Page 15: Chapter 3 Configuration

    It means the utility is running on your system. If the utility does not run, you can run the utility by clicking: Start> All programs> TP-LINK> TWCU> TP-LINK Wireless Utility. If the icon still does not appear, the driver or utility may be installed incorrectly or the adapter is unplugged, please try again.
  • Page 16 TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 3-1 Profile Tab To Add a new profile: Click the Add button on the Profile tab, the Profile configuration screen will appear as shown in Figure 3-2. Enter the Profile Name and choose the SSID from the pull-down list, then click OK to add it.
  • Page 17 TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide will be fragmented. Setting the Fragmentation Threshold too low may result in poor network performance since excessive packages. 2346 is the default setting and is recommended. To edit a profile: Highlight the desired profile name on Profile List, and click the Edit button, the Profile configuration screen will appear shown in Figure 3-3.

  • Page 18: Network

    TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 3-4 Edit a Profile-Auth.\Encry. Authentication – You can choose the Authentication Type from the pull-down list with three options, Open System, Shared-Key System or LEAP. 802.1x – It enables when Authentication Type is setting to WPA. Encryption –...

  • Page 19: Advanced

    TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide choices will appear as Figure 3-5. Figure 3-5 Network tab Rescan: Click the Rescan button to refresh the list at any time. Add to Profile: Highlight an SSID and click the Add to Profile button to add the network to the profile.

  • Page 20: Statistics

    TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide 3.1.4 Statistics Click the Statistics tab of the Utility and you will see the following screen displaying the receiving and transmitting statistical information. Click the Reset Counter button to reset the count of the statistics information.
  • Page 21 TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Note: To build a successful connection by QSS, you should also do the corresponding configuration of the Access Point for QSS or WPS function meanwhile. PBC Method If your Access Point is equipped with a push-button for Wi-Fi Protected Setup, you can connect the adapter to the Access Point by Push QSS Button method.
  • Page 22 TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Enter a PIN from my Access Point Choose the Config Mode as Registrar and enter the PIN of AP into the field under the Pin Code as Figure 3-10 shown. And then click PIN button to start the wireless connection without doing any configuration for AP.

  • Page 23: Radio On/Off

    EEPROM Version - The version of this EEPROM. Phy_Address - The MAC address of the wireless network adapter. Note: For more help information, you can click the http://www.tp-link.com button on the screen to connect to website of our company. 3.1.8 An example for application Suppose you have an installed and using AP, the SSID is TPLINK and it adopts 64-bit encryption with the key 0123456789.

  • Page 24: Configure With Windows Xp Wireless Zero Configuration

    TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide The Profile configuration screen will appear, please enter Test for the Profile Name, TPLINK for the SSID, select Infrastructure for the Network Mode, select WEP for the Data Encryption and enter 0123456789 for Network key. Click OK to save this profile.
  • Page 25 TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 3-15 Acquiring network address 4. If the connection is finished, the icon will display like the next screen shown. Figure 3-16 Finish - 20 -...

  • Page 26: Chapter 4 Ap Mode

    TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Chapter 4 AP Mode Click the icon to switch to AP Mode. In this mode you can use the TL-WN7200N as a soft Figure 4-1 Note: At this time, if your PC have Installed other network card (wireless or wire), you will be prompted “ICS Select WAN Adapter”...

  • Page 27: Access Control

    TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 4-3 Config Setting Page SSID – Enter the SSID of your soft AP, or you can press “<- Use Mac Address” button to keep the Mac Address as your SSID. Channel –...

  • Page 28: Mac Table

    TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 4-4 Access Control Function Access Policy – This field allows you to start the function or not. System default is disabled. • Disable - Disable the Access Policy feature. • Allow All - Allow all the MAC addresses in the Access List to access the AP. •...

  • Page 29: Event Log

    TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 4-5 Mac Table Function MAC Address – The station’s Mac address of the current connection. AID – Raise value by current connection. Power Saving Mode – Support Power Saving Mode on the currently connected station. Status –...

  • Page 30: Statistics

    TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 4-6 Event Log Page Event Time (yy/mm/dd-hh:mm:ss) – Displays the event time recorded. Message – Displays all event messages. 4.5 Statistics The statistics page displays detailed counter information based on the 802.11 MIB counters. The information is translated into a format easier for the user to understand.

  • Page 31: About

    TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 4-7 Transmit and Receive statistics 4.6 About The About page displays the wireless card and driver version information as shown in Figure 4-8. - 26 -...
  • Page 32 TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 4-8 About Page - 27 -...

  • Page 33: Chapter 5 Example For Application

    TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Chapter 5 Example for Application Configuration of PSP XLink Online game Please ensure the software and hardware environments are well established before configuring. For hardware, at least a PC, a TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter and a PSP device are needed.
  • Page 34 Step 5. Right-click “My Computer” and select Management. In the prompt page, click Device Manager, then right-click “TP-LINK 150Mbps Wireless Lite N Adapter “and select Properties. Then set the value of “PSP Xlink Mode” as Enable following the red marked instruction in the figure.
  • Page 35 Note: Please set the IP address in different network segment with the other network card to avoid conflict. Step 9. Launch TP-LINK Wireless Utility, then highlight the Network Name (SSID) beginning with “PSP” in the “Network” page, and click Connect.
  • Page 36 TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 5-6 Step 10. Check whether your PSP device is detected in the Diagnostics mode of Kai as Figure 5-7 shown: Click the icon first and then click the folder Figure 5-7 Step 11.
  • Page 37 TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 5-8 - 32 -...

  • Page 38: Appendix A: Glossary

    TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Appendix A: Glossary 802.11b - The 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. 802.11b networks are also referred to as Wi-Fi networks.
  • Page 39 TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Spectrum (FHSS). SSID - A Service Set Identification is a thirty-two character (maximum) alphanumeric key 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.
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  • Page 41: Appendix B: Specifications

    TL-WN7200N 150Mbps High Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Appendix B: Specifications General Interface Mini-USB Connector Standards IEEE 802.11n, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.11b Operating System Windows 2000/ XP/ Vista/ 7 Safety & Emission FCC, CE Frequency 2.4 ~ 2.4835 GHz 150M -67dBm Sensitivity 54M -75dBm...

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