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  • Page 1 CNP-WF518N1 Wireless USB Adapter User Manual...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Introduction ....................1 Safety Precautions ..................1 Package Contents ..................2 Hardware Overview ................... 3 Getting Started ..................4 Connecting to Device ................4 Installing Device Driver ................4 Connecting to Wireless Network ............ 7 Using Ralink Utility ..................8 Scan for Other Wireless Devices ..........
  • Page 3 Appendix ...................... 57 Specification ....................57 Troubleshooting ..................57 Glossary ......................59...

  • Page 4: Introduction

    Thank you for purchasing CANYON CNP-WF518N1. We sincerely wish you to enjoy the 802.11b/g wireless network adapter. It is an easy-to-install device that connects to PC (Ad-Hoc mode for peer-to-peer file sharing) or connects to a wireless router/access point (for internet connection). To fully utilize the functions and features of CANYON CNP-WF518N1, please read through the user manual before you get started.

  • Page 5: Package Contents

    Package Contents Product Image Item Name CNP-WF518N1 Main Unit USB Extension Cable Warranty Card Quick Guide Driver and Documentation CD...

  • Page 6: Hardware Overview

    Hardware Overview USB Connector Device Cap Status LED Indicator USB Connector Connects to PC Device Cap Protects USB connector Status LED Indicator Indicates link/activity status Radio Status LED Status Device Activity Radio Off Wireless LAN function is disabled. No link to wireless AP or Router Radio On (No Connection) Flashing...

  • Page 7: Getting Started

    Getting Started Before using CANYON CNP-WF518N1, please make sure that the PC and the device are within range of an access point (802.11b, 802.11g, or 802.11b/g). Connecting to Device Power on PC. Insert the device into an USB 2.0 slot.
  • Page 8 Select installation type: Driver and Ralink WLAN Utility: Install device driver and Ralink WLAN Utility software designed specifically for the device. Driver only: Install device driver only. Click on Next to continue driver installation process. NOTE: Installing both driver and Ralink WLAN Utility is recommended.
  • Page 9 After successful installation, a desktop shortcut will be created and an icon will be also created at Notification Area. 10. Right click on the icon and click on Launch Config Utility to launch Ralink Configuration Tool or click on Exit to stop wireless network connection.

  • Page 10: Connecting To Wireless Network

    Connecting to Wireless Network After the driver is correctly installed, it will try to connect to any unencrypted wireless access point automatically. If you want to connect to a specific wireless access point, or the access point you wish to connect uses encryption, you have to configure the wireless network card and input required parameters, to get connected to the wireless access point you wish to connect.

  • Page 11: Using Ralink Utility

    Using Ralink Utility Please follow the following instructions to use Ralink configuration utility to connect to wireless access point. 1. Right-click the Ralink configuration utility icon located at lower-right corner of computer desktop and then clicks ‘Launch Config Utility’. Ralink setup utility (RaUI) will launch, and begin to scan for all wireless access points automatically.

  • Page 12: Scan For Other Wireless Devices

    You can click ‘More / Less’ button again, and setup utility window will resume to its original size. Tip: If a setup item requires more information to complete the setup procedure, the setup utility window will expand automatically. Scan for Other Wireless Devices There are two kinds of wireless connection mode: Infrastructure and Ad-Hoc.
  • Page 13 Before you can connect to any wireless access point or device by infrastructure or Ad-Hoc mode, there two things you must know: a. Wireless device’s ‘SSID’ (Service Set IDentifier, someone will call it ‘access point’s name’). You can scan for the SSID of other wireless devices nearby, but if the SSID of the wireless device you wish to connect is hidden, you must know exact SSID before you can establish connection with it.
  • Page 14 The SSID (Service Set Identifier) of wireless device. If nothing is displayed here, it means the SSID of this wireless device is hidden. If a symbol appears in front of the name of wireless device, means you’ve established connected with that wireless device. The type of this wireless device and the channel number of this wireless device.
  • Page 15 There are 4 types of technical information: General: Displays basic information about this access point, such as SSID, MAC Address, authentication / encryption type, channel etc. WPS: If this access point supports WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup), related information will be displayed here. CCX: If this access point supports CCX (Cisco Compatible eXtension), related information will be displayed here.

  • Page 16: Connect To An Access Point

    And here are descriptions of every setup item in setup area: Item Name Description Sorted by >> You can decide how to sort all listed access point by ‘SSID’, ‘Channel’, or ‘Signal’ (signal strength). Show dBm Check this box to show the signal strength of access point, instead of percentage.
  • Page 17 If the access point you selected does not use encryption, you’ll be connected to this wireless access point within one minute. If the access point you selected uses encryption, please proceed to step 3. 2. If the wireless access point does not have SSID, you’ll be prompted to input it now.
  • Page 18 4. Please ask the owner of the wireless access point you want to connect, and input the correct key here and then click ‘OK’. By checking ‘Show Password’ box, the encryption key you inputted here will be displayed. If the value you inputted here is wrong, you will not be able to connect to this wireless access point.

  • Page 19: Add An Access Point To Profile

    Add an Access Point to Profile If you will connect to some specific wireless access point frequently, you can add their information to the profile. Just like the telephone directory, the profile saves all information of access points, and you can recall them anytime you wish to establish connection.
  • Page 20 The setup utility will expand: Here are descriptions of every setup item: Item Name Description Profile Name You can give this profile a name. Every profile needs a unique name. SSID Please input the SSID of this access point. If you selected an access point from the list, and its SSID is not hidden, the SSID will be filled automatically;...
  • Page 21 keep this field unchanged. Tx Power You can select the wireless output power here. If you’re not too far from access point (good signal reception), you can select a lower output power to save energy; for a distant access point, you can select a higher output power.
  • Page 22 To set authentication / encryption information for the access point. Please click ‘Auth. \ Encry.’ tab: Here are descriptions of every setup item: Item Name Description Authentication Select the authentication type of the wireless access point or wireless device you wish to connect. When you’re adding a profile from an existing access point or wireless device, authentication type will be selected automatically, and please do not change it.
  • Page 23 WEP Key You can select key type (Hexadecimal or ASCII) and input WEP key here. If encryption is not enabled, or you select ‘WPA’ as encryption type, this field will be disabled and grayed out. You can set up to 4 WEP keys here.
  • Page 24 Tunnel Select 802.1x tunnel authentication type from dropdown menu. Authentication Please ask the administrator of the access point you wish to connect to select a correct tunnel authentication method. This pull down menu is only available when authentication type you use is 'PEAP', ‘TLS / Smart Card', or 'TTLS'.

  • Page 25: Using Windows Zero Configuration

    CA server’s name must be the same with the value you set in ‘Server name’ field; If only the domain name part of full server name must the same with the value you set in ‘Server name’ field, select ‘Domain name must end in specified name’.
  • Page 26 HERE! 3. Click ‘Start’ button (should be located at the bottom-left corner of windows desktop), click ‘Control Panel’, then click ‘Network and Internet Connections’ in Control Panel.
  • Page 27 4. Click ‘Network Connections’. 5. 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 ‘Ralink 802.11n Wireless LAN Card), then select ‘View Available Wireless Networks’.
  • Page 28 7. If the access point is protected by encryption, you have to input its security key or passphrase here. It must match the encryption setting on the access point. If the access point you selected does not use encryption, you’ll not be prompted for security key or passphrase.

  • Page 30: Profile Management

    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 31: Add A Profile

    Add a profile If you want to click new profile, click ‘Profile’ menu, then click ‘Add’ button. You’ll be prompted to input detailed information of access point, as described in Section 2-2-1-3.

  • Page 32: Edit An Existing Profile

    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 33: Delete An Existing Profile

    Delete an existing profile If you no longer need a profile, you can delete it. Select the profile you wish to delete from the list, and click ‘Delete’ button to delete it.

  • Page 34: Activate A Profile

    Activate a profile When you want to connect to a specific wireless device in the profile list, you can select it and click ‘Activate’ button, to establish connection with it. When you selected a profile and click ‘Activate’ button to activate the profile, a icon will be displayed in front of the profile to show that the connection is failed;...

  • Page 35: Advanced Settings

    Advanced Settings This wireless network card provides several advanced settings for experienced wireless users. You can change these settings to increase data transfer performance, or change operation mode. Please follow the following instructions to set advanced wireless settings: 1. Right-click the Ralink configuration utility icon located at lower-right corner of computer desktop and then click ‘Launch Config Utility’.
  • Page 36 Here are descriptions of every setup item: Item Name Description Wireless mode Display the wireless operation mode of the network card. Enable Tx Burst Check this box to accelerate the data transmit rate. It may not work with all wireless access point and wireless devices.
  • Page 37 connectivity. Non-Serving Channel Measurements Limit: When you’re connecting to CCX-compatible access point, check this box to enable measurement on unused radio channels to improve wireless connectivity. After you finish the settings, click ‘Apply’ to apply new settings.

  • Page 38: View Network Statistics

    View Network Statistics 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. Please follow the following instructions to check network statistics: 1.

  • Page 39: Wmm Setting

    WMM Setting This wireless network card provides WMM (Wi-Fi Multimedia) function, which can improve the performance of certain network applications, like audio/video streaming, network telephony (VoIP), and others. When you enable the WMM function of this network card, you can define the priority of different kinds of data, to give higher priority to applications which require instant responding.
  • Page 40 In ‘WMM Setup Status’ block, current WMM settings will be displayed. And here are descriptions of every setup item: Item Name Description WMM Enable Check this box to enable WMM function. Please click ‘Apply’ button on the right of this check box after you check or uncheck this box, so corresponding settings in this window will be activated or deactivated respectively.

  • Page 41: Wps Configuration

    WPS Configuration 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 42: Wps Setup - Pbc (Push-Button Configuration)

    WPS Setup - PBC (Push-Button Configuration) 1. Right-click the Ralink configuration utility icon located at lower-right corner of computer desktop and then click ‘Launch Config Utility’. 2. Click ‘WPS’ menu, and the following settings will appear. 3. Set ‘Config Mode’ to ‘Enrollee’, and then push the ‘WPS’ button on your wireless access point (the button used to activate WPS standby mode may have another name), or use other way to start WPS PBC standby mode as the instruction given by your wireless access point’s user manual.
  • Page 43 All access points with WPS function enabled will be displayed here. Please make sure the access point you wish to connect is displayed. If not, please click ‘Rescan’ few more times. You can also click ‘Information’ button to see the detailed information about selected access point.
  • Page 44 You can click ‘PBC’ button few more times to try again. When an access point is connected, you can click ‘Disconnect’ to disconnect your wireless network card from a connected access point, or select another WPS-enabled wireless access point, then click ‘Connect’ to establish connection to selected access point, if there are more than one WPS-enabled access point found.

  • Page 45: Wps Setup - Pin

    WPS Setup - PIN If the wireless access point you wish to connect supports PIN, please follow the following instructions to establish connection to it: 1. Right-click the Ralink configuration utility icon located at lower-right corner of computer desktop and then click ‘Launch Config Utility’. 2.
  • Page 46 5. You may have to click ‘PIN’ for few more times to try again. If you still can not connect to access point by this way, please make sure the PIN code you provided to access point is correct. There are also some options available for WPS configuration: WPS associate IE: Check this box to send the association request with WPS IE during WPS setup.

  • Page 47: Radio On/Off

    Radio ON/OFF You can switch the wireless radio transceiver on and off by the utility, so if you want to disable wireless network function, you don’t have to remove the network card physically. 1. Right-click the Ralink configuration utility icon located at lower-right corner of computer desktop and then click ‘Launch Config Utility’.

  • Page 48: About

    About The ‘About’ tab provides you the information about version number of the configuration utility, driver, and other important information about your wireless network card. Please follow the following instructions to see these information: 1. Right-click the Ralink configuration utility icon located at lower-right corner of computer desktop and then click ‘Launch Config Utility’.

  • Page 49: Online Help

    Online Help If you need to know the directions of how to use specific function in the utility, please click ‘Help’ button. On-line help documents will be presented in Windows help format. Click this button to view on-line help documents.

  • Page 50: Soft-Ap Function

    Soft-AP Function Excepting become a wireless client of other wireless access points, this wireless card can act as a wireless service provider also! You can switch this wireless card’s operating mode to ‘AP’ mode to simulate the function of a real wireless access point by software, and all other computers and wireless devices can connect to your computer wirelessly, even share the internet connection you have! Please follow the instructions in following chapters to use the AP function of your...
  • Page 51 If your computer has another network card which is connected to Internet, please select it from ‘Name’ dropdown menu, and click ‘Enable ICS’; if your computer does not have another network card with Internet connection, please click ‘Not enable ICS’. After you click ‘Enable ICS’...
  • Page 52 Here are descriptions of every setup item: Item Name Description SSID Please input the SSID (the name used to identify this wireless access point) here. Up to 32 numerical characters can be accepted here, excepting space. Channel Please select the wireless channel you wish to use. The number of channels available here will vary depends on the setting of ‘Country Region Code’.

  • Page 53: Security Setting

    Allow BW 40 MHz Check this box to allow BW 40MHz capability. Tx BURST Check this box to accelerate the data transmit rate. It may not work with all wireless access point and wireless devices. Beacon(ms) You can define the time interval that a beacon signal should be send.
  • Page 54 Here are descriptions of every setup item: Item Name Description Authentication Type Please select a wireless authentication type you wish to use. Available options are ‘Open’, ‘Shared’, WPA-PSK’, ‘WPA2-PSK’, and ‘WPA-PSK / WPA2-PSK’. If you want to disable wireless data encryption, you must select ‘Open’. Encryption Type Please select an encryption mode.

  • Page 55: Access Control

    When you finish with setting and want to save changes, click ‘OK’ button, or click ‘Cancel’ button to discard all changes you made. Access Control If you’re not going to open your computer and wireless resources to the public, you can use MAC address filtering function to enforce your access control policy, so only wireless clients with MAC address you defined by this function can be connected to your software access point.

  • Page 56: Connection Table

    Reject All: Reject wireless clients with MAC address listed here to be connected to this access point. MAC address Input the MAC address of the wireless client you wish to allow or reject here. No colon (:) or hyphen (-) required. Add the MAC address you inputted in ‘MAC address’...

  • Page 57: Event Log

    Here are descriptions of every field: Item Name Description MAC Address Displays the MAC address of this wireless client. The serial number of this wireless connection. Power Saving Mode Displays the capability of power-saving function of this wireless client. Status Displays additional information of this wireless Connection, like current wireless operating mode and data transfer rate.

  • Page 58: Statistics

    Statistics If you want to know detailed information about how your software access point works, click ‘Statistics’ tab, and the event log will be displayed. You can click ‘RESET COUNTERS’ button to reset all counters to zero. About The ‘About’ tab provides you the information about version number of the configuration utility, driver, and other important information about your wireless access point.

  • Page 60: Troubleshooting

    Appendix Specification Standards: IEEE 802.11b/g 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) Securities: WEP 64/128, WPA, WPA2 Cisco CCX Support Antenna: Internal Printed Antenna Drivers: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista...
  • Page 61 4. Please adjust the position of network card (you may have to move your computer if you’re using a notebook computer) and click ‘Rescan’ button for few more times. If you can find the wireless access point or wireless device you want to connect by doing this, try to move closer to the place where the wireless access point or wireless device is located.
  • Page 62 The network is slow / having 1. Move closer to the place where access point is problem when transferring located. large files 2. Disable ‘Tx Burst’ in ‘Advanced’ tab. 3. Enable ‘WMM’ in ‘WMM’ tab if you need to use multimedia / telephony related applications.
  • Page 63 3. What does IEEE 802.11 feature support? The product supports the following IEEE 802.11 functions: CSMA/CA plus Acknowledge Protocol Multi-Channel Roaming Automatic Rate Selection RTS/CTS Feature Fragmentation Power Management 4. What is Ad-hoc? An Ad-hoc integrated wireless LAN is a group of computers, each has a Wireless LAN card, Connected as an independent wireless LAN.
  • Page 64 10. Can Wireless products support printer sharing? Wireless products perform the same function as LAN products. Therefore, Wireless products can work with Netware, Windows 2000, or other LAN operating systems to support printer or file sharing. 11. Would the information be intercepted while transmitting on air? WLAN features two-fold protection in security.
  • Page 65 14. What is WMM? Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM), a group of features for wireless networks that improve the user experience for audio, video and voice applications. WMM is based on a subset of the IEEE 802.11e WLAN QoS draft standard. WMM adds prioritized capabilities to Wi-Fi networks and optimizes their performance when multiple concurring applications, each with different latency and throughput requirements, compete for network resources.

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