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- Page 1 ◆ User’s Guide FOR WINDOWS 98/ME/XP/2000 VERSION 1.0.0 PN 613-50653-00 Rev A USB 2.0 Adapter ® AT-WCU200G 54Mbps Wireless Adapter...
- Page 2 Copyright © 2004 Allied Telesyn, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without prior written permission from Allied Telesyn, Inc. Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows NT and Windows XP are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
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Page 3: Regulatory Notes And Statements
2.4465-2.4835GHz frequency range and must be restricted to indoor use. identified as harmful This device may not cause harmful interference This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operations. AT-WCU200G User’s Guide... - Page 4 Regulatory Notes and Statements The following equipment: AT-WCU200G 54Mbps Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter. Is herewith confirmed to comply with the requirements set out in the Council Directive on the Approximation of the Laws of the Member States relating to the Electromagnetic Compatibility (89/336/EEC). Low-...
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Page 5: Fcc Radio Frequency Exposure Statement
US or Canada without an approved US Restrictions Department of Commerce export license. Safety Information Your device contains a low power transmitter. When device is transmitted it sends out radio frequency (RF) signal. AT-WCU200G User’s Guide... -
Page 6: Ce Mark Warning
Regulatory Notes and Statements CE Mark This is a Class B product. In a domestic environment, this product may cause radio interference, in which case the user may be required to take Warning adequate measures. Protection Requirements for Health and Safety - Article 3.1a Testing for electric safety according to EN60950 has been conducted. -
Page 7: Table Of Contents
Returning Products...xiii For Sales or Corporate Information ...xiii Obtaining Management Software Updates ...xiii Tell Us What You Think...xiii Installing the AT-WCU200G Wireless Adapter ... 1 Introduction ... 1 Ad-hoc Mode ... 2 Infrastructure Mode... 3 Before you Install ... 4 Package Contents... - Page 8 Table of Contents Configuring the Profile Edit Screen... 21 Uninstalling the AT-WCU200G Wireless Adapter ... 29 Windows XP Wireless Configuration ... 30 Configuring Wireless Network Clients ... 30 Connecting to a Network... 32 Configuring Wireless Network Authentication Settings ... 34 Data Encryption...
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Page 9: Preface
Preface This manual provides a description of the Allied Telesyn AT-WCU200G 54Mbps Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter and contains information about how to install and configure this product. -
Page 10: How This Guide Is Organized
Windows 98/ME/2000 wireless configuration. Windows XP Wireless instructions for Windows XP wireless configuration. Technical environmental) specifications of the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter. Regulatory Install, helps you get started with the basic installation of the Driver, describes the LEDs of the... -
Page 11: Document Conventions
Document Conventions This guide uses several conventions that you should become familiar with before you begin to install the product. Note Notes provide additional information. Warning Warnings inform you that performing or omitting a specific action may result in bodily injury. Caution Cautions inform you that performing or omitting a specific action may result in equipment damage or loss of data. -
Page 12: Where To Find Related Guides
Preface Where to Find Related Guides The Allied Telesyn web site at www.alliedtelesyn.com offers you an easy way to access the most recent documentation, software updates, and technical information for all of our products. The documents provided on our web site are available as PDF files. -
Page 13: Contacting Allied Telesyn
Contacting Allied Telesyn This section provides Allied Telesyn contact information for technical support as well as sales or corporate information. Online Support You can request technical support online by accessing the Allied Telesyn Knowledge Base from the following web site: www.alliedtelesyn.com/kb. - Page 14 Preface...
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Page 15: Installing The At-Wcu200G Wireless Adapter
Installing the AT-WCU200G Wireless Adapter Introduction The AT-WCU200G wireless adapter is a standards-based wireless product. See Figure 1. It can communicate with other devices enabled for 802.11g and 802.11b standards-based wireless LAN connectivity. The wireless adapter is fully compatible with the IEEE 802.11b RFC, so it can be connected to your existing 802.11b-compliant devices. -
Page 16: Ad-Hoc Mode
PCs. To accomplish this, you need one AT-WCU200G wireless adapter for each PC. See Figure 2. You can use a USB cable to connect the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter to a workstation or laptop. Or, you can connect the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter directly to the USB port on your PC. -
Page 17: Infrastructure Mode
PCs. See Figure 3. Mode This chapter provides the following sections: ❑ Before you Install ❑ Installing the AT-WCU200G Software Driver and the AT-WCU200G Wireless Adapter ❑ AT-WCU200G Wireless Configuration Utility ❑ Uninstalling the AT-WCU200G Wireless Adapter ❑... -
Page 18: Before You Install
Before you Install This section describes what to do before you install the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter. It includes: Package Open the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter box and unpack it carefully. The box contains the following items: Contents If any item is found missing or damaged, please contact your local reseller for replacement. -
Page 19: Installing The At-Wcu200G Software Driver And The At-Wcu200G Wireless Adapter
Installing the AT-WCU200G Software Driver and the AT-WCU200G Wireless Adapter To install the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter, you first install the software drivers that are provided on the CD ROM. Then insert the wireless adapter into your PC. Confirm that the software is installed by looking for the ATI icon. - Page 20 From the Windows Start Menu, select Run. The Run window is displayed. Type the following: D:\Setup.exe where the D:\ drive is your CD ROM Drive. Click Install Driver Utility. The Welcome screen is displayed. See Figure 5. Figure 5 Welcome Screen Click Next.
- Page 21 Click Next. If you purchased the AT-WCU200G/EU CD ROM, the Country/Domain Selection screen is displayed. See Figure 7. If you purchased the AT-WCU200G/NA CD ROM, go to step 10. Figure 7 Country/Domain Selection Screen AT-WCU200G User’s Guide...
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Page 22: Installing The At-Wcu200G Wireless Adapter
Remove the AT-WCU200G/NA or AT-WCU200G/EU Installation CD from the CD ROM drive. Remove the plastic cover from the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter. Choose one of the following: - Insert the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter into an available USB port on your computer. - Page 23 AT-WCU200G User’s Guide - Insert the USB cable into the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter. See Figure 9. Then connect the other end of the USB cable into an available USB port on your computer. Figure 9 Connecting the USB Cable The Welcome to the Found New Hardware Wizard screen is displayed.
- Page 24 AT-WCU200G LEDs The AT-WCU200G wireless adapter contains two LEDs. See Table 1. Link A screen is displayed that states installation is in process. Then the Completing the Found New Hardware Wizard screen is displayed. See Figure 11. Figure 11 Completing the Found New Hardware Wizard Screen Select Finish to complete the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter Installation.
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Page 25: Confirming Software Installation
Confirming After you install the AT-WCU200G software driver, the Allied Telesyn AT- WCU200G Wireless Client Manager icon is displayed in your Windows Software System Tray. This icon is located in the bottom right hand corner of the Installation Windows desktop screen, next to the time display. See Figure 12. -
Page 26: At-Wcu200G Wireless Configuration Utility
AT-WCU200G Wireless Configuration Utility If you want to change the default settings of the AT-WCU200G Software drivers or optimize their performance, you can use the AT-WCU200G Wireless Configuration utility. If your PC is equipped with the Windows XP Operating System, you can also use the Windows Configuration Utility (Zero Configuration). -
Page 27: One-Button Quick Connection
Figure 15 Allied Telesyn Wireless Client Manager, Status Tab For information about how to use the Allied Telesyn AT-WCU200G Client Manager to configure the wireless adapter, see the following sections. ❑ One-Button Quick Connection ❑ Configuring the Wireless Client Manager Settings... -
Page 28: Connecting To An Access Point
Connecting to an Access Point To connect your AT-WCU200G wireless adapter to an access point, perform the following procedure. Connecting to a PC To connect your AT-WCU200G wireless adapter to another PC equipped with a USB adapter for peer-to-peer communication, perform the following procedure. - Page 29 Reconnecting the AT-WCU200G Wireless Adapter After you have closed the Allied Telesyn AT-WCU200G Client Manager screen, use the following procedure to reconnect to it. Click on the Allied Telesyn icon on the desktop. See the following icon.
- Page 30 ❑ Site Survey ❑ Configuration ❑ Host Information ❑ Version Information To access the Allied Telesyn AT-WCU200G Wireless Client Manager, perform the following procedure: Click the following icon at the bottom right hand corner of your screen. The Allied Telesyn Wireless Client Manager screen is displayed with the Status Tab selected.
- Page 31 Status Tab The Status tab contains general information about the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter connection, including transmission rate and network type. To access the Status Tab, see the procedure described in Configuring the Wireless Client Manager Settings 15 on page 13.
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Page 32: Configuring Network Profiles
The Allied Telesyn Wireless Client Manager screen is displayed with the Status Tab selected. See Figure 15 on page 13. Click the Site Survey Tab from the AT-WCU200G Wireless Client Manager screen. The Site Survey screen is displayed. See Figure 16. -
Page 33: Creating A Network Profile
❑ Encryption: Indicates the type of encryption implemented. To modify the Encryption setting, see ❑ Ch: Indicates which channel is currently in use. ❑ Type: Indicates the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter is in either the 802.11g or 802.11 mode. ❑ Signal Strength: Indicates the wireless signal between the access point and AT-WCU200G wireless adapter. - Page 34 Editing a Network Profile To edit a profile, perform the following procedure from the Site Survey screen: Figure 17 Profile Edit with General Tab Selected For information about how to configure this screen, Profile Edit Screen on page 21. Click Refresh. Select a profile from the Profile Name area.
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Page 35: Configuring The Profile Edit Screen
802.11 Infrastructure mode or Ad-hoc mode. setting is 6. In Ad-hoc mode, you must set both PCs to the same channel. The wireless adapter selects the channel to match the channel setting on the selected access point automatically. AT-WCU200G User’s Guide... - Page 36 To display the Profile Edit screen, see page 18. This screen is displayed in Figure 17 on page 20. To set the encryption mode for the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter, perform the following procedure: ❑ Tx Rate: Indicates the data transfer rate between the node and another device.
- Page 37 3. - To edit an existing network profile, perform steps 4 and 5. Click Configuration on the side bar on the Allied Telesyn AT-WCU200G Wireless Client Manager. Click Encryption. The Encryption tab is displayed. See Figure 18. Figure 18 Encryption Tab Configure the following fields as needed: ❑...
- Page 38 which is used to authenticate another device. Choose either TKIP or AES as the encryption mode in the Data encryption field. To use a WPA Pre-Shared key, enter a password in the WPA Pre-shared key field that is between 8 and 63 characters. ❑...
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Page 39: Configuring Advanced Settings
ASCII format. This value can be a minimum of 8 characters and a maximum of 63 characters in length. Click Apply. Configuring Advanced Settings To configure the advanced settings on the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter, perform the following procedure. Click the following icon at the bottom right hand corner of your screen. - Page 40 ❑ RTS / CTS Threshold: Indicates RTS/CTS (Request to Send/Clear Figure 19 Advance Tab Configure the following fields as needed: AT-WCU200G wireless adapter. Choose from the following options: - Disable: This setting consumes the most power. This is the default setting.
- Page 41 AT-WCU200G User’s Guide to Send) value. The default setting is 2347 (when the Power Consumption field is set to disable). Through the proper use of the RTS/CTS Threshold setting, you can fine tune the operation of your wireless LAN. If you find a relatively large number of collisions, you can enable RTS/CTS by setting a specific packet size threshold of 0 to 2347 bytes.
- Page 42 Displaying and Configuring Host Information The Host Information Screen displays information about your computer. It also allows you to assign an IP address to your computer or release an IP address that is assigned to your computer to the DHCP server. To display the Host Information Screen and configure an IP address, perform the following procedure: Click the following icon at the bottom right hand corner of your...
- Page 43 To display the information about the software, perform the following procedure: To access the Version Information Screen, click on Version Information in the side bar of the Wireless Client Manager page. The Version Information screen is displayed. See Figure 21. Figure 21 Version Information Screen AT-WCU200G User’s Guide...
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Page 44: Uninstalling The At-Wcu200G Wireless Adapter
Under normal circumstances, you do not need to uninstall the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter. The procedure in this section describes how to uninstall the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter. After you perform this procedure, you remove the AT-WCU200G Software driver, AT-WCU200G Wireless Configuration utility, and the ATI icon from the desktop of your computer. -
Page 45: Windows Xp Wireless Configuration
AT-WCU200G User’s Guide Windows XP Wireless Configuration Configuring Automatic wireless network configuration supports the IEEE 802.11 standard for wireless networks and minimizes the configuration that is Wireless required to access wireless networks. When you enable automatic Network Clients wireless network configuration on your computer, you can roam across different wireless networks without the need to reconfigure the network connection settings on your computer for each location. - Page 46 Starting Microsoft’s Wireless Configuration Utility You configure the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter by using Microsoft's Zero Configuration utility supplied with Windows XP. To access the Zero Configuration Utility, perform the following procedure: Select Start, Settings then Network Connections as shown in Figure 22.
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Page 47: Connecting To A Network
If this field is not selected, select it by clicking in the check box. Note This check box must be selected to configure the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter with the Microsoft’s Wireless Configuration utility. under Available networks, select the network name and then Configure. - Page 48 ❑ If a network does not broadcast its network name, it will not ❑ To connect to an existing computer-to-computer (ad hoc) To configure a new wireless network connection, select Add and then do the following: ❑ In Wireless Network Properties, specify the network name ❑...
- Page 49 To automatically connect to available networks that do not appear in the Preferred networks list, select Advanced then Automatically connect to non-preferred networks check box. Configuring Security options for AT-WCU200G wireless adapter include authentication services which are based on WEP Open and Shared, WPA, Wireless and WPA-PSK.
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Page 50: Data Encryption
Under the Shared Key authentication, each wireless station is assumed to have received a secret shared key over a secure channel that is independent from the 802.11 wireless network communications channel. To use Shared Key authentication, you must have a network key. -
Page 51: Configure Wpa
AT-WCU200G User’s Guide Under 802.11, a wireless station can be configured with up to four keys (the key index values are 0, 1, 2, and 3). When an access point or a wireless station transmits an encrypted message using a key that is stored in a specific key index, the transmitted message indicates the key index that was used to encrypt the message body. - Page 52 WPA Network Authentication: When choosing WPA Network Authentication a certificate is required from a certificate server and additional parameters must be configured in the Authentication tab. There are two selections for data encryption, choose one of the following: TKIP - Temporal Key Integrity Protocol. TKIP addresses the WEP static key problem by dynamically updating the key, based on WEP's own RC4 encryption across all devices once for every 10,000 packets transmitted WEP (802.1x) - Wireless Encryption Protocol.
- Page 53 Wireless Networks tab. The name of the network will appear in Visible networks and Preferred networks, and it will be preceded by an icon with a circle around it. See Figure 25 on page 40. AT-WCU200G User’s Guide...
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Page 54: Configure Wpa-Psk On Windows Xp
Figure 25 Wireless Network Properties, Authentication Tab Configure WPA- Select the Wireless Networks tab in the Wireless Network Connection Properties and highlight the appropriate wireless network in the PSK on Available Networks window. Select Configure and then select in Windows XP Authentication. - Page 55 AT-WCU200G User’s Guide WPA-PSK Network Authentication: When choosing WPA-PSK this option does not require a certificate, but it implements a Pre-shared Key which is a user defined encryption parameter. This is commonly used when a certificate is not available for clients. When selecting WPA-PSK TKIP, the Pre-shared Key must be entered into the Network Key field.
- Page 56 WEP - Wireless Encryption Protocol. WEP incorporates a static key that must match on all devices that are within the same wireless network as identified by the SSID. The key you entered for an AP must match the key you enter for the client adapter. See Figure 27. Wireless Figure 27 Data Encryption Field...
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Page 57: Technical Specifications
Technical Specifications This section lists the technical specifications of the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter. General Bus Interface Radio Technology Network Architecture Data Transfer Rate & Modulation Type Operating Channels Security Operating System Physical and Environmental Driver Support Operating Voltage AT-WCU200G User’s Guide Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0... - Page 58 Temperature Humidity Dimensions Weight Certifications Operating: 0 to 45 C (32 to 113 Storage: 5% to 90% RH, no condensation W x H x D 80 mm x 30 mm x 13 mm (2.98 in x 1.1 in x 0.48 in) 25g (0.88oz) FCC Part 15.247 for US, ETS 300 328 for Europe...
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Page 59: Regulatory Domains
This appendix lists the IEEE 802.11g channels supported by the world’s regulatory domains. Channel 802.11b Identifier Frequency 2412 2417 2422 2427 2432 2437 2442 2447 2452 2457 2462 2467 2472 2484 Regulatory Domains FCC (North ETSI (Europe) France America) AT-WCU200G User’s Guide Israel MKK (Japan)