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  • Page 1 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide...

  • Page 2: Copyright Statement

    All the photos and product specifications mentioned in this guide are for references only. Upgrades of software and hardware may occur, and if there are changes, Tenda is not responsible for notifying in advance. If you would like to know more about our product information, please visit our website at www.tenda.cn.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide Contents Chapter 1 Product Introduction..........3 1.1 Package Contents ..............3 1.2 LED Indicator Description ............3 1.3 Product Features ..............4 1.4 Product Usage ............... 4 1.5 Before Installation ..............5 1.6 Disable other manufacturers’ wireless network adapters ..5 1.7 Product Maintenance.............
  • Page 4 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide 4.1.6 Help..................41 4.2 AP mode ................41 4.2.1 Config AP ................43 4.2.2 Advanced ................45 4.2.3 Access Control List ............... 46 4.2.4 Associate List................ 48 4.2.5 AP Mode under Windows 7 ..........49 Appendix 1: Acronyms and Terms .........

  • Page 5: Chapter 1 Product Introduction

    Besides, Soft AP is supported for fast wireless network establishment, and WPS encryption supported for you to quickly encrypt and secure your wireless network. All in all, the Tenda wireless adapter is easy-to-use, and of robust signal, long transmitting distance. 1.1 Package Contents...

  • Page 6: Product Features

    Complies with Windows 7/XP/ 2000/Vista, Linux, MAC OS, etc. 1.4 Product Usage This Tenda Wireless Adapter offers a fast, reliable and extendable solution for wireless access. It is mostly used in the following circumstances: 1. Enables staff members who require higher mobility, to have access to the wireless network anywhere inside their company.

  • Page 7: Before Installation

    2.Please close or uninstall the configuration programs of other manufacturers’ before you install the configuration programs of Tenda network adapters to avoid possible UI (user interface) conflict. 3.To avoid possible network conflicts between this Tenda network adapter and those of other manufactures’, we recommend that you first disable the network adapters of other manufacturers before installaing the driver.
  • Page 8 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide 2. On the Computer Management screen ,select “ Device Manager” － “Network adapters”, and right click the network adapter you want to disable and click “Disable” 3. Click the “Yes” button on the dialogue box to disable the...

  • Page 9: Product Maintenance

    2. Protect it against hazardous substances (such as acids, alkalis etc). 3. Please don’t directly expose the adapter to the sunlight or excessive heat. 4. Please contact Tenda tech support if any problems occur.

  • Page 10: Chapter 2 Installation Guide

    Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide Chapter 2 Installation Guide This chapter will guide you through the process of installing the network adapter software package, with the included software CD. The package integrates driver and configuration software. Thus, when you are installing the driver, the configuration software will be installed automatically as well.
  • Page 11 2.3 Put the included software CD into the CD drive of your computer ,and the driver should run automatically , a Welcome screen should pop up, just click the “RUN” button.( Double click “Tenda.exe”in the software CD and manually install when it...
  • Page 12 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide doesn’t auto-run). 2.4 Select “I accept the terms of the license agreement” and click “Next”. 2.5 Two set up types are provided: one is “Install driver -10-...
  • Page 13 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide only” ,the other is “Install driver and Tenda WLAN Config Tool”. NOTE: you may select the first method when you are accustomed to use the WINDOWS built-in wireless configuration program.However, this program doesn’t support AP mode, WPS, and the WPS button on the wireless adapter.
  • Page 14 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide 2.7 Click “Finish” to complete the installation. -12-...

  • Page 15: Chapter 3 How To Use The Windows Built-In Wireless Configuration

    Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide Chapter 3 How to use the Windows Built-in Wireless Configuration This chapter explains to users who don’t install Tenda configuration program how to use Windows Built-in Wireless Configuration to connect to the wireless network .
  • Page 16 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide 3. On the right of the screen displayed are the currently scanned wireless networks. If the one you want to connect has not been scanned, click “Refresh Network List” to update the network list.
  • Page 17 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide NOTE: If the wireless device you are connecting to is not encrypted, the key dialogue box will not pop up. 5. When it shows “Connected” as the picture below, then you can enjoy wireless access to Internet now.
  • Page 18 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide settings”. 6. Select “Wireless Networks”and choose the one you want to modify, and then click “Properties”. -16-...

  • Page 19: Wireless Network Connection Under Vista

    Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide 6. Modify the key in the appearing dialogue box. 3.2 Wireless Network Connection under VISTA 1. Click the Wireless Connection icon in the lower right corner of your desktop and select “Connect to a network” as shown below.
  • Page 20 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide the Refresh icon in the upper right corner to update the network list if you don’t find the specified wireless network. 3. If the wireless network that you are connecting has enabled security mode, you’ll be prompted to enter the network key .Click “Connect”...
  • Page 21 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide connected to the wireless network. 6. If you want to change the wireless network key, just right click the wireless network’s SSID and then select “Properties”. 7. You can modify the key from the appearing dialogue box.

  • Page 22: Wireless Network Connection Under Windows 7

    Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide 3.3 Wireless Network Connection under Windows 7 1. Click the wireless connection in the lower right corner of the computer’s desktop to view the available wireless networks. Select the wireless network you wish to connect and click “Connect”...
  • Page 23 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide 2、 If the wireless network you are connecting is encrypted, you’ll be prompted to enter the key. Click “Ok” after you enter the correct key. 3. It shows “Connected” after successfully connected. You can...

  • Page 24: Chapter 4 Tenda Wireless Utility

    Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide disconnect it, view its status or modify the wireless network properties by right click the wireless network Chapter 4 Tenda Wireless Utility When you are installing the driver, select “Install driver and -22-...

  • Page 25: Station Mode (Client Mode)

    PC’s desktop to start the UI. 4.1 Station mode (Client Mode) Station mode (Client Mode) Overview It is a common solution to use the wireless network adapter as a client to receive signals. Main interface for station mode -23-...

  • Page 26: Site Survey

    Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide The function buttons on the top(From L to R )are respectively Site Survey, Link Information, Profile, Advanced, About, Help, and MiniSize. While the left column displays Turn On/Off RF, Security /No security, and Signal status.
  • Page 27 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide For the networks that are not encrypted, you can directly click “Connect”. However, for the encrypted wireless networks,a “Profile” dialog will pop up and you must select the corresponding authentication type and encryption type,and then click the “Next”...
  • Page 28 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide The detailed explanations about the authentication and encryption are as follows: WEP Supports 10/26-bit Hex characters and 5/13-bit ASCII. WPA-PSK Supports 8-63-bit ASCII and 8-64-bit Hex characters. WPA2-PSK ： Supports 8-63-bit ASCII and 8-64-bit Hex characters.

  • Page 29: Link Information

    Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide ASCII characters consist of any Arabic digitals/letters and characters. 4.1.2 Link Information After successfully connected to one wireless network, you can view its detailed information by clicking the “Link Information” on the main interface.

  • Page 30: Profile

    Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide 2. “Throughput” screen displays the signal strength of each of the wireless adapter’s antennas and the link quality. 3.”Statistics” screen is used to count the total Rx and Tx data packets, including transmitted,retransmitted and fail to receive ACK after all retries.You can click the “Reset Counter”...
  • Page 31 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide automatically be added here, which helps the adapter to quickly connect to the wireless network next time. However, there’s one exception that when you have set the hidden SSID,namely the SSID can not be scanned,then you must manually connect by adding the profile name.The main interface is as shown...
  • Page 32 AP or wireless router. It can be devided into two modes:“wireless AP + wireless network adapter” and “wireless router + wireless network adapter”. Ad-Hoc is a special wireless mobile network application mode.
  • Page 33 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide resources by connecting the opposing computer’s wireless adapter. 1. Infrastructure Profile Management When you are connecting the wireless adapter to an AP or a wireless router, please select the Infrastructure mode. Click the “Add”button and select the network type as”...
  • Page 34 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide After a profile is successfully added, the profile name can be seen on the profile list,you can edit , import or export the profile,click “Active” to finish the connection,now you can also view detailed...
  • Page 35 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide NOTE: If the SSID broadcast function of the wireless router or AP you wish to connect is disabled, then the wireless adapter can not scan the SSID, thus you need to connect by creating the corresponding profile.
  • Page 36 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide that each computer should be equipped with a wireless network adapter. By connecting these wireless adapters, computers are able to share the resources. The detailed setting steps are as follows: 1）Firstly you’ll have to allocate a static IP to each wireless adapter to be connected in Ad-hoc mode.
  • Page 37 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide c.Select “Internet Protocol(TCP/IP)”and click “Properties”. d. Please enter the IP address and subnet mask, and make sure this IP address is not used by other devices in the network.For example: if your wireless adapter’s IP address is 192.168.0.1 ，...
  • Page 38 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide 192.168.0.2—192.168.0.254.Click “Ok” to save the settings. 2) Create a new Ad-hoc profile Click the “Add” button and enter the network name in the SSID field to identify the wireless network, and select Ad-hoc as the network type and then select the channel.
  • Page 39 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide Click the “Next” button to select the authentication type and encryption type and then input the correct key and click “Next”. After a profile is successfully added,the profile can be seen on the profile list ,select it and click the “Active” icon on the lower right corner.
  • Page 40 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide And then search for the wireless network on other clients. Double click the wireless network you have configured and you’ll be prompted for the key .After entering the key, click “Connect”. When the highlighted part shows “Connected“ ,it indicates the connection is successful.

  • Page 41: Advanced

    Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide 4.1.4 Advanced This section is used to set the wireless mode and country region code for the current wireless adapter. You have three options to choose from: 2.4G, 5G or 2.4G+5G. The widely used is 2.4G wireless adapter.

  • Page 42: About

    Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide 4.1.5 About This screen mainly displays the version information of the UI’s different programs as well as Tenda’s copyright statement. -40-...

  • Page 43: Help

    Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide 4.1.6 Help Click the help button to open the user manual. 4.2 AP mode When you want to use the wireless adapter’s AP function, please right click the UI icon on the taskbar of your computer desktop and select “Switch to AP Mode”.
  • Page 44 As shown in the diagram below: The PC in the left has already accessed to the Internet by using a wired network adapter, meanwhile, you install a Tenda wireless adapter (take a USB wireless adapter as an example) and its UI on this computer, and set the adapter to AP mode.

  • Page 45: Config Ap

    Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide When it is switched to AP mode, the wireless adapter will automatically set its IP address as 192.168.123.1, and other clients that connected to this AP will automatically obtain the IP addresses of: 192.168.123.X(X is any integer from 2 to 254).The function buttons on the top (From L to R )are...
  • Page 46 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide Here the authentication type is set as “Open” and the encryption type “Not Use”. -44-...

  • Page 47: Advanced

    Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide 4.2.2 Advanced This screen is used to set the advanced parameters of the wireless adapter when working in AP mode, such as No forwarding among wireless clients and TX power. -45-...

  • Page 48: Access Control List

    Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide No forwarding among wireless clients: This feature isolates the communications among the wireless clients that are connected to the wireless adapter in AP mode. TX power: To adjust the transmit power for the wireless adapter 4.2.3 Access Control List...
  • Page 49 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide Access Policy: Disable: To disable the filter function. Allow All: To permit all hosts whose wireless MAC addresses are included in the list to access the wireless network, other hosts whose wireless MAC addresses have not been added to the list will be prohibited by default.

  • Page 50: Associate List

    : to delete an existing MAC address in the list. : to delete all clients’ wireless MAC addresses in the list. Add the MAC address of the client’s wireless network adapter to the list and select “All Allow” in the access policy drop-down list, computers whose wireless MAC addresses are not included in the list will be rejected by default.

  • Page 51: Ap Mode Under Windows 7

    Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide 4.2.5 AP Mode under Windows 7 1. Under Windows 7, wireless adapters are allowed to work in both STA and AP modes. Here, the wireless adapter acts not only as a client, but also an AP to send wireless signal, which equals to an amplifier.

  • Page 52: Appendix 1: Acronyms And Terms

    Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide Appendix 1: Acronyms and Terms WLAN Wireless Local Area Network 802.11 A family of specifications developed by the IEEE for -50-...
  • Page 53 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide WLAN technology. 802.11a An extension to 802.11 WLAN standards that provides up to 54 Mbps transmission in the 5 GHz UNI radio band. 802.11b An extension to 802.11 WLAN standard that provides up to 11 Mbps transmission in the 2.4 GHz ISM radio band.

  • Page 54: Appendix 2: How To Set Wps

    PBC mode in WPS settings screen(For detailed settings,please refer to your router’s user guide). 1.2 Perform PBC connection on the UI of the wireless adapter 1) On the main interface of Tenda’s UI, click “Profile”—“Add WPS Profile”. -52-...
  • Page 55 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide Profile screen, select “Push-Button Configuration”(PBC) and then click the “Next” button, select “Start PBC” two minutes after the router enables the WPS function. The connection is established when the negotiating process finishes. Start PBC:...
  • Page 56 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide Negotiating process: profile forms automatically after connection successfully established. 1.3 Using the wireless adapter’s WPS button to perform PBC connection. If your wireless adapter provides a WPS button,you may use the button to perform PBC connection.
  • Page 57 “Enrollee” as the Config Mode, you need to copy this PIN code and input it in the PIN code field of the router’s WPS setting screen. Here we take Tenda W311R as an example. First enter its WPS -55-...
  • Page 58 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide configuration screen,enable WPS settings and select PIN for WPS mode and then input 18686791 in the PIN code field,and then click the “Save” button. When the WPS indicator of the Router starts flashing,it indicates that WPS feature is enabled.
  • Page 59 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide 2.2 Registrar Mode On the “Add WPS Profile” screen, select the SSID of the AP that need negotiate mode instead selecting”Auto”.Then select”PIN” as the WPS method and click the next button to display the folowing screen: Select “Registrar”...
  • Page 60 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide Now you can view the SSID ,authenticaiton type,and encrytion type that need to be negotiated by the WPS in registrar mode.These values can be modified but we recommend using the default.Here we use the defaut setting and then click the next buton.
  • Page 61 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide Then click “Start PIN” on the screen below to perform WPS connection. NOTE: 1.Under the WPS connection mode, when multiple routers simultaneously enable the WPS function, it may cause connection failure. 2.If the router connect to the adapter using the WPS, only one...

  • Page 62: Appendix 3: Faq

    Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide Appendix 3: FAQ Q1: Microsoft ICS service is pending. A1: If ICS service cannot be enabled after a long time, please re-switch from Station Mode to AP Mode ,if not successful ,please restart the computer.
  • Page 63 1.Please manually cancel or restart and cancel ICS, then re-switch to AP mode. 2. This dialogue box appears because virtual wi-fi miniport adapter can only be used by one wireless network adapter at a time. Please disable any other non-Tenda wireless network adapters and re-switch to AP mode.
  • Page 64 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide A6: Keep the mouse on the displayed SSID for about 2 seconds, as the below picture shows,and you’ll see the full SSID on the appearing box. Q7: Under Windows 2000 system, IP address can not be obtained when it is switched to AP Mode.
  • Page 65 Q9: How to exit the UI? A9: Right click the system tray icon and click “Exit” on the appearing dialog. Q10: Now that the Tenda W326U wireless adapter’s driver can be installed without the Software CD, why it still provide the CD?
  • Page 66 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide Q11: Why I can not normally use the Drive integrated in W326U under MAC operating system? A11:W326U can only integrates the drive under Windows system, to use W326U under MAC system, please insert the W326U to the computer with MAC OS; the system will identify the adapter as a CD, pop this CD out, and then install the MAC drive included in the CD.

  • Page 67: Appendix 4 :Regulatory Information

    Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide Appendix 4 :Regulatory Information Eu Declaration or Declaration of Conformity Hereby, SHENZHEN TENDA TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD, declares that this Wireless Adapter is in compliance with the essential requirements and other relevant provisions of Directive 1999/5/EC.
  • Page 68 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide -Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver. -Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected. -Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.
  • Page 69 Tenda Wireless Network Adapter User Guide interference caused by unauthorized modifications to this equipment. Such modifications could void the user authority to operate the equipment. -67-...

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