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  • Page 1: User Manual

    AWU111N 150N Wireless USB Adapter Ultra-Nano Size User Manual...
  • Page 2 Version: 1.0 (March, 2011)
  • Page 3 All the photos and product specifications mentioned in this manual are for reference only. As upgrade of software and hardware progresses, there will be changes. And if there are changes, AZiO is not responsible for informing in advance. If you would like to know more about our product information, please...

  • Page 4: Federal Communication Commission

    Federal Communication Commission Interference Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.
  • Page 5 Federal Communication Commission (FCC) Radiation Exposure Statement This EUT is compliance with SAR for general population/uncontrolled exposure limits in ANSI/IEEE C95.1-1999 and had been tested in accordance with the measurement methods and procedures specified in OET Bulletin 65 Supplement C. The equipment version marketed in US is restricted to usage of the channels 1-11 only.
  • Page 6 R&TTE Compliance Statement This equipment complies with all the requirements of DIRECTIVE 1999/5/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL of March 9, 1999 on radio equipment and telecommunication terminal Equipment and the mutual recognition of their conformity (R&TTE) The R&TTE Directive repeals and replaces in the directive 98/13/EEC (Telecommunications Terminal Equipment and Satellite Earth Station Equipment) As of April 8, 2000.

  • Page 7: Table Of Contents

    CONTENTS Chapter I: Product Information ..............1   1-1 Introduction and safety information ..............1  1-2 Safety Information ................... 2  1-3 System Requirements ..................3  1-4 Package Contents ..................... 4  1-5 Familiar with your new wireless network card ..........5   ...

  • Page 8: Chapter I: Product Information

    Chapter I: Product Information 1‐1 Introduction and safety information  Thank you for purchasing the AZiO AWU111N high speed IEEE 802.11b/g/n wireless network adapter! This adapter is ultra-micro sized, enabling you to plug it into the USB port of your computer without worry of removing it due to breakage during transport. Accepting common wireless standards 802.11b/g, this wireless network card is also 802.11n...

  • Page 9: Safety Information

    1‐2 Safety Information  To promote the safety of users and prolong the life of your equipments, please review the following safety instructions: 1. This USB wireless network card is designed for indoor use only. Do not expose this network adapter to direct sun light, rain, or snow. 2.

  • Page 10: System Requirements

    1‐3 System Requirements   An available USB port  Windows XP, Vista, 7, or newer operating system  CD-ROM drive (for driver installation)  At least 100MB of available disk space...

  • Page 11: Package Contents

    1‐4 Package Contents  Before you start using this wireless network adapter, please check if there is anything missing in the package and contact your dealer of purchase or our support team to claim for missing items: USB Wireless Network adapter □ Driver/Utility/Quick Guide/User Manual CD-ROM □...

  • Page 12: Familiar With Your New Wireless Network Card

    1‐5 Familiarize with your new wireless network adapter  1. USB Connector 2. Link/Activity LED (Under the case) LED Name Light Status Description Link/ No wireless network card is installed. Activity Solid light for 5 seconds indicates WPS connection has been established successfully. Blinking Wireless network card is transferring or receiving data.

  • Page 13: Chapter Ii: Driver Installation And Configuration

    CHAPTER II: Driver Installation and Configuration 2‐1 Network Adapter Installation  Please follow these instructions to install your new wireless network adapter: 1. Insert the USB wireless adapter into an available USB port of your computer when the computer is switched on. Never use force to insert the adapter.
  • Page 14 2. The following message will appear on your computer, click ‘Cancel’. 3. Insert device driver CDROM into the CD/DVD ROM drive of your computer and run the ‘Setup.exe’ program. For Windows Vista / Windows 7 OS, you’ll be prompted to confirm installation.
  • Page 15 4. Please select the language you wish to use, then click ‘Next’. 5. Click ‘Next’ to continue.
  • Page 16 6. The software program is not installing drivers. Installation procedure will take a few minutes to complete, please be patient. 7. Click ‘Finish’ to reboot your computer and complete the installation process. If you don’t want to reboot computer now, select ‘No, I will restart my computer later’...
  • Page 17 8. A new icon will appear near the clock on the system tray: HERE! Left-clicking the icon will launch the wireless network configuration utility, or you can right-click the icon to show the quick menu of the configuration utility. This icon also uses different colors to indicate the status of the wireless connection: Wireless network card not detected No connection with access point is established (red).

  • Page 18: 2-2 Connect To Wireless Access Point

    2‐2 Connecting to a Wireless Access Point  To use wireless network, you have to connect to a wireless access point first. You can either use the AWU111N configuration utility or Windows Zero Config utility (comes with Windows operating system). 2‐2‐1 Using the AWU111N Configuration Utility  Please follow the instructions below to use the configuration utility to connect to a wireless access point.
  • Page 19 3. Please wait for a while and all available wireless access points within range will be displayed here. If the wireless access point you wish to connect does not appear, you can click the ‘Refresh’ button to scan for wireless access points again; if the wireless access point you’re looking for still does not appear, try moving the computer closer to the access point.
  • Page 20 All options in this page will be filled automatically according to the access point you wish to add to profile. However, you can still modify any of them to meet your requirement. Profile name You can give a name to this profile, so you can remember this connection easily.
  • Page 21 point you with to connect. Data encryption Select the data encryption type from drop-down menu. This setting must be identical with the setting of wireless access point you with to connect. ASCII / When the encryption type is ‘WEP’, it’s PASSPHRASE required to input a set of ‘passphrase’...
  • Page 22 5. Network card will attempt to connect to access point now, this may require few seconds to minutes, please be patient. When the ‘Status’ become ‘Associated’, your computer is connected to access point you selected. Click ‘Close’ to close configuration menu. NOTE: If you connected to an access point but the connection has been dropped soon, please check security settings and re-check password spelling.

  • Page 23: 2-2-2 Using Windows Zero Configuration

    2-2-2 Using Windows Zero Configuration Windows XP, Vista and 7 have a built-in wireless network configuration utility, called ‘Windows Zero Configuration’ (WZC). You can also use WZC to configure your wireless network parameter: 1. Right-click the configuration utility icon, and click ‘Open Config Utility’.
  • Page 24 3. A message indicating that you’ve been switched to Windows Zero Configuration mode will appear. Click ‘OK’ to continue. NOTE: To return to use the configuration utility, uncheck ‘Windows Zero Config’ box. 4. Click ‘Start’ button (should be located at the bottom-left corner of windows desktop), click ‘Control Panel’, then click ‘Network and Internet Connections’...
  • Page 25 5. Double click ‘Network Connections’. 6. Right-click ‘Wireless Network Connection’ (it may have a number as suffix if you have more than one wireless network card, please make sure you right-click the ‘802.11n Wireless LAN USB Card’, then select ‘View Available Wireless Networks’).
  • Page 26 7. All wireless access points in proximity will be displayed here. If the access point you want to use is not displayed here, please try to move your computer closer to the access point, or you can click ‘Refresh network list’ to rescan access points. Click the access point you want to use if it’s shown, then click ‘Connect’.
  • Page 27 9. If you can see ‘Connected’ message, the connection between your computer and wireless access point is successfully established.

  • Page 28: 2-3 Connection Profile Management

    2‐3 Connection Profile Management  If you need to connect to different wireless access points at different time, like of access point of your home, office, cybercafe, or public wireless service, you can store the connection parameters (encryption, passphrase, security etc, etc.) as a profile for every access point, so you don’t have to input these parameters every time when you want to connect to a specific wireless access point.

  • Page 29: Add A New Profile

    2‐3‐1 Add a new profile  By this function you can setup the connection parameters for a specific wireless access point in advance, without contacting it first. If you want to create a new profile, click ‘Profile’ menu, then click ‘Add’ button.
  • Page 30 You’ll be prompted to input connection parameters for the wireless access point you wish to connect: Required parameters are: Profile name You can give a name to this profile, so you can remember its purpose easily. It can be any phrase to help you remember.
  • Page 31 Data encryption Select the data encryption type from drop-down menu. This setting must be identical with the setting of wireless access point you with to connect. ASCII / When the encryption type is ‘WEP’, it’s PASSPHRASE required to input a set of ‘passphrase’ to connect to wireless access point.

  • Page 32: Remove An Existing Profile

    2‐3‐2 Remove an existing profile  When you no longer need an existing profile, you can remove it. If you want to remove a profile, click ‘Profile’ menu, then select an existing profile which you wish to remove, and then click ‘Remove’ button.

  • Page 33: Edit An Existing Profile

    2‐3‐3 Edit an existing profile  If you have added a profile before, and you wish to change the content of the profile, you can use this function. Please select a profile from the list first, then click ‘Edit’ button. You’ll be provided with the contents of selected profile, and you can edit them.

  • Page 34: Make A Copy Of Existing Profile

    2‐3‐4 Make a copy of existing profile  If you need to make a copy of a specific profile, you can use this function. This function is very convenient when you need to build a new profile which parameters are similar to any existing profile. To do this, select an existing profile, then click ‘Duplicate’ button. You’ll be prompted to input a profile name, please use an identical name that does not exist in profile list.

  • Page 35: Set As Default Profile

    2‐3‐5 Set as default profile  If you wish to use a specific profile as default connection, you can select a profile in the list, and click ‘Set Default’. Selected profile will become default selection and the configuration utility will attempt to connect to selected access point.

  • Page 36: 2-4 View Network Statistics, General Information, And Status

    2‐4 View Network Statistics, General Information, and Status  The configuration utility provides information about network statistics and link status. If you want to know how your wireless network card works, you can use these functions to get detailed information about the wireless connection you’re using. 2‐4‐1 General Information  If you want to know the general information of the access point you’re connecting to, click ‘General’...

  • Page 37: Status

    2‐4‐2 Status  If you want to know the status of your wireless network card, click the ‘Status’ menu:  ...

  • Page 38: View Network Statistics

    2‐4‐3 View Network Statistics  To view the statistical data of wireless network card, click the ‘Statistics’ menu, and the statistics of the wireless connection will be displayed: All connection-related statistics are displayed here. You can click the ‘Reset’ button, to reset the statistics of all values back to 0.

  • Page 39: 2-5 Miscellaneous Settings

    2‐5 Miscellaneous Settings  There are few functions provided by the configuration utility. You can access these functions from the bottom of configuration menu: The descriptions of these functions are listed below. Show Tray Icon Check this box to show an icon on your system tray.

  • Page 40: 2-6 Establish Secure Connection With Ap By Wps

    2‐6 Establish secure connection with AP by WPS  Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) is the latest wireless network technology which makes wireless network setup become very simple. If you have WPS-enabled wireless access point, and you want to establish a secure connection to it, you don’t have to configure the wireless access point and setup data encryption by yourself.
  • Page 41 2. Click ‘Wi-Fi Protect Setup’ menu. 3. You can use either PIN code or Push-Button configuration. The WPS-compatible wireless access point must use the same type of WPS. For instructions on setup each type of WPS, see next 2 chapters for detailed instructions.

  • Page 42: Pin Code

    2‐6‐1 PIN Code  To use a PIN Code, please click ‘Pin Input Config (PIN)’ button: You’ll be prompted to select the access point you wish to connect to. If you know its SSID, click ‘Yes’, otherwise click ‘No’. If you select ‘Yes’, a list of all WPS-compatible Access Points nearby will be displayed.
  • Page 43 If you select ‘No’, the wireless network card will prompt you to enter 8-digit PIN code into your AP, without selecting an AP in advance. After you select ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ in the previous step, the network card will attempt to connect to the WPS-compatible AP, and an 8-digit number will appear.

  • Page 44: Push Button

    2‐6‐2 Push Button  To use Push-Button WPS configuration, please click ‘Push Button Config (PBC)’ button. This is the easiest way to establish secure connection by WPS, but if there’re more than one WPS-compatible AP using Push-Button config, please use PIN Code method instead.
  • Page 45 After you click Push Button Config, a message box will appear: Please activate Push-Button function on wireless access point now, and wireless network card will establish secure connection with access point within one minute.

  • Page 46: Chapter Iii: Soft-Ap Function

    CHAPTER III: Soft-AP Function Instead becoming a wireless client of other wireless access points, this wireless card can act as a wireless access point as well! You can switch this wireless card’s operating mode to ‘AP’ mode to simulate the function of a real wireless access point through software, and all other computers and wireless devices can connect to your computer wirelessly, even share the internet connection you have.
  • Page 47 2. Select ‘Mode’, and then select ‘Access Point’. It requires few seconds to switch to AP mode, please be patient.
  • Page 48 After the mode switch is complete, you’ll see general information of software AP, which shows AP’s SSID and connected wireless clients.

  • Page 49: Configure Ssid And Channel

    3‐1‐1 Configure SSID and Channel  To configure software AP, click ‘Config’ button:...
  • Page 50 Wireless Network Properties’ will be displayed. Please note that Ad-Hoc mode is not available when the network card is in AP mode. The description of the major items are listed below: Network Name Please input the SSID (the name used to identify (SSID) this wireless access point) here.

  • Page 51: Setup Soft-Ap Security

    3‐1‐2 Setup Soft‐AP Security  To setup security options for Soft-AP, configure the ‘Wireless Network Security’ section as follows: Details of wireless security items are listed below: Network Select a network authentication mode from Authentication drop-down menu. Data Encryption Select a data encryption method from dropdown menu.

  • Page 52: 3-2 Advanced Settings

    3‐2 Advanced Settings  If you want to setup advanced settings for the software access point, select ‘Advanced’ menu. If you are unsure about these settings, keep them untouched. Here are the descriptions of all settings below: Beacon Interval Please input wireless beacon time interval here. DTIM Period Please input DTIM (Delivery Traffic Indication Message) here.

  • Page 53: 3-3 Wireless Statistics

    3‐3 Wireless Statistics  Select ‘Statistics’ menu and the data statistics about software access point will be displayed. Click ‘Reset’ to reset the value of every item back to ‘0’.

  • Page 54: 3-4 Internet Connection Sharing (Ics)

    3‐4 Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)  In this page, you can assign a network card on your computer as the path for all wireless clients to get connected to Internet. If you have only one network card, you don’t have to select network card here. If you have more than one network card, select the one you wish to be used as the internet gateway.

  • Page 55: Chapter Iv: Specification, Troubleshooting & Support

    CHAPTER IV: Specification, Troubleshooting & Support 4‐1 Hardware Specification  Standards: IEEE 802.11b/g/n Interface: USB 2.0 (USB 1.1 Compatible) Frequency Band: 2.4000 ~ 2.4835GHz (Industrial Scientific Medical Band) Data Rate: 11b: 1/2/5.5/11Mbps 11g: 6/9/12/24/36/48/54Mbps 11n (20MHz): MCS0-7 (Up to 72Mbps) 11n (40MHz): MCS0-7 (Up to 150Mbps) Security: WEP 64/128, WPA, WPA2 and IEEE 802.1x Antenna: Internal Antenna (1T1R) Drivers: Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7...

  • Page 56: 4-2 Troubleshooting

    4‐2 Troubleshooting  If you encounter any problem using this wireless network card, don’t panic! Before calling in for support, please go through the troubleshooting table. The problem may get resolved following the helpful hints here. Scenario Solution I can’t find any wireless 1.
  • Page 57 4. Uninstall the Realtek driver & utility and re-install the driver using the Windows driver & utility instead. (Or vice versa) 5. Ensure that another wireless adapter’s software is not installed, because this will lead to conflicts. Go through your Control Panel’s uninstall list to ensure this is not the case.
  • Page 58 4‐3 Frequently Asked Question  1. In plain words, how do I get to the internet? 1. Purchase internet service from your phone or cable provider 2. Purchase a wireless router (sometimes given to you by your internet service provider). 3. Make sure your computer has a wireless adapter (what this product is) 4.
  • Page 59 6. What is Ad-hoc? An Ad-hoc integrated wireless LAN is a group of computers, each with its own Wireless LAN card, which are directly connected to each other through the wireless network. Ad hoc wireless LAN is applicable at a departmental scale for a branch or SOHO operation. 7.
  • Page 60 User must bear the shipping cost of the return of the defective unit to AZIO for inspection. AZIO at their sole discretion may replace them with a new or like new item which may be an “open box”...

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