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  • Page 2: Federal Communication Commission Interference Statement

    PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter  Copyright © 2011 by PLANET Technology Corp. All rights reserved. No part of this Copyright publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written permission of PLANET.

  • Page 3: Ce Mark Warning

    Do not dispose of WEEE as unsorted municipal waste and have to collect such WEEE separately. Revision User’s Manual for PLANET 802.11n Wireless USB Adapter Model: WNL-U554 / WNL-U554A / WNL-U554M Rev: 1.0 (March, 2011) Part No.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Chapter 2. Installation ........................... 6 Driver Installation ........................6 Connect to Wireless Access Point..................10 2.2.1 PLANET 11n USB Wireless LAN Utility ..............10 2.2.2 Windows Zero Configuration.................. 14 Chapter 3. PLANET USB Wireless LAN Utility.................. 19 Connection Profile Management ..................19 3.1.1...

  • Page 5: Chapter 1. Product Introduction

    PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter  Chapter 1. Product Introduction 1.1 Package contents The following items should be contained in the package: Wireless USB adapter Quick Installation Guide CD (includes driver/utility/user’s manual) Note: If there is any item missed or damaged, please contact the seller immediately.

  • Page 6: Chapter 2. Installation

    PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter  Chapter 2. Installation 2.1 Driver Installation 1. If you had ever installed other wireless adapters before, please uninstall the existed drivers and utilities first. 2. The following installation is performed in Windows XP. The  ...
  • Page 7 PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter    Step 3. After the software has been installed successfully, choose “Yes, I want to restart my computer now.” and click “Finish” button to restart your computer. Step 4. After restarting the computer, insert the wireless adapter into an empty USB port of your computer.
  • Page 8 PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter  Step 6. Choose “Install the software automatically (Recommended)”, and click “Next” button to install the driver. ‐   ‐    ...
  • Page 9 PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter  If  the  screen  below  appears  during  installation,  please  click  “Continue  Anyway” button to continue.      Step 7. Once the installation is finished, click “Finish” button. After the driver of wireless adapter has been installed successfully, you’ll see another message pop-up at lower-right corner of the screen.

  • Page 10: Connect To Wireless Access Point

    PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter  Left-click the new icon will launch PLANET 11n USB Wireless LAN Utility, and right-click the icon will show the quick menu of configuration utility. This icon also uses different colors to show the status of wireless connection: Wireless connection is established, good signal reception.
  • Page 11 PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter  Step 3. When the access point you’re looking for is on the list, left-click it and then double click it or click “Add to Profile”. Step 4. If a password (Network Key) is required to access the wireless access point, please input it in “Network key”...
  • Page 12 PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter  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 its purpose easily.
  • Page 13 PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter  “PASSPHRASE” you also need to select the length of the key. The passphrase must be identical with the setting of wireless access point you with to connect. Key index Select WEP key index. For most of access points you can select “1”, but please refer to the setting of the access point.

  • Page 14: Windows Zero Configuration

    Windows XP / Vista / 7 has a built-in wireless network configuration utility, called as “Windows Zero Configuration” (WZC). You can also use WZC to configure your wireless network parameter: Step 1. Right-click PLANET Wireless Utility icon, and click “Open Config Utility”. ‐   ‐  ...
  • Page 15 Check “Windows Zero Config” box. Step 3. There is message appeared indicating that you’ve been already switched to Windows Zero Config mode. To return to use PLANET wireless utility, uncheck “Windows Zero Config” box.    Step 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 16 PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter  Step 5. Double click “Network Connections”. ‐   ‐    ...
  • Page 17 Right-click “Wireless Network Connection” (it may have a number as suffix if you have more than one wireless network adapter, please make sure you right-click the PLANET Wireless LAN 802.11n USB Network Adapter), then select “View Available Wireless Networks”. Step 7.
  • Page 18 PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter  Step 8. If the access point is protected by encryption, you have to input its Network 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 network key or passphrase.

  • Page 19: Chapter 3. Planet Usb Wireless Lan Utility

    To manage profiles, right-click the PLANET wireless utility icon located at lower-right corner of the screen, then click “Open Config Utility”. Click the “Profile” label.

  • Page 20: Add A New Profile

    PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter  3.1.1 Add a new profile You can setup the connection parameters for the specific wireless access point in advance. If you want to create a new profile, click “Add” button. You’ll be prompted to input connection parameters for the wireless access point you wish to connect: ‐ ...
  • Page 21 PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter  Required parameters are as follows: 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. Network Name (SSID) The SSID (Service Set IDentifier, i.e. access point”s name).

  • Page 22: Remove An Existing Profile

    PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter  The passphrase must be identical with the setting of wireless access point you with to connect. Key index Select WEP key index. For most of access points you can select “1”, but please refer to the setting of the access point.

  • Page 23: Edit An Existing Profile

    PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter  3.1.3 Edit an existing profile If you have added a profile before, and now you wish to change the settings of the profile, you can use this function. Please select the profile from the list first, then click “Edit” button. The contents of the selected profile will appear.

  • Page 24: Make A Copy Of Existing Profile

    PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter  3.1.4 Make a copy of existing profile If you need to create a new profile which parameters are similar to any existing profile, you can make a copy of a specific profile and edit the copy to save as a new profile.

  • Page 25: Set As The Default Profile

    If you wish to use a specific profile as the default wireless connection, you can select the profile in the list, and click “Set Default”. The selected profile will become default selection and PLANET wireless utility will attempt to connect to the selected access point. ‐ ...

  • Page 26: General Information, Status, And Network Statistics

    PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter  3.2 General Information, Status, and Network Statistics The PLANET wireless utility provides the detailed information about the wireless connection you’re using. 3.2.1 General Information If you want to know the general information of the access point you’re connecting to, click “General”...

  • Page 27: Status

    PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter  All general information like signal strength and link quality will be displayed here. The information is very useful when you encounter some problems in connecting to access point. If you wish to get a new IP address from DHCP server, you can click “ReNew IP” button.

  • Page 28: Network Transmission Statistics

    PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter  3.2.3 Network Transmission Statistics To view the statistical data of wireless adapter, click “Statistics” label, and the statistics of wireless connection will be displayed: ‐   ‐    ...

  • Page 29: Miscellaneous Settings

    All connection-related statistics is displayed here. You can click “Reset” button to reset the statistics of all items back to 0. 3.3 Miscellaneous Settings There are some other functions provided by PLANET wireless utility, and you can access these functions from the bottom of configuration window: ‐ ...

  • Page 30: Wi-Fi Protected Setup (Wps)

    There are two kinds of WPS method supported, “PIN Input Config (PIN)” and “Push Button Config (PBC)”. Please follow the instructions below to establish the secure connection between WPS-supported wireless access point and the PLANET wireless adapter. Step 1. Right-click PLANET wireless utility icon, and click “Open Config Utility”.

  • Page 31: Pin Input Config (Pin)

    PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter  Step 2. Click “Wi-Fi Protect Setup” label. Step 3. You can choose which WPS method to use, PIN Input Config (PIN) or Push Button Config (PBC), and WPS-supported wireless access point must use the same method.
  • Page 32 PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter  If you select “Yes”, a list of all WPS-supported AP nearby will be displayed. You can click “Refresh” button to rescan. Click an access point you want to connect and click “Select” button. If you select “No”, wireless adapter will prompt you to enter 8-digit PIN code into your access point, without selecting an access point in advance.

  • Page 33: Push Button Config (Pbc)

    PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter  3.4.2 Push Button Config (PBC) This is the easiest way to establish secure connection by WPS, but if there’re more than one WPS-supported access point using Push-Button config, please use PIN Input Config (PIN) instead.
  • Page 34 PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter  Then a message window will appear: Please activate WPS function of wireless access point now, and the secure connection between wireless adapter and the WPS-supported access point will be established automatically. ‐   ‐    ...

  • Page 35: Chapter 4. Soft Access Point

    PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter  Chapter 4. Soft Access Point Excepting be a wireless client of other wireless access points, the PLANET wireless adapter can also act as a wireless service provider. You can switch the operation mode of wireless adapter to “Access Point”...
  • Page 36 PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter  It requires few seconds to switch mode. After the mode switch is complete, the window of general information about software access point will appear, includes SSID and connected wireless clients. ‐   ‐    ...

  • Page 37: Configure Ssid And Channel

    PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter  Station mode icon: Access Point icon: 4.1.1 Configure SSID and Channel To configure software Access Point, click “Config” button, and the “Wireless Network Properties” will be displayed. ‐   ‐    ...

  • Page 38: Soft Access Point Security

    PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter  Please note that Ad-Hoc mode is not available when the wireless adapter is in Access Point mode. The setup options are listed below: Network Name (SSID) Please input the SSID (the name used to identify this wireless access point) here.
  • Page 39 PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter  The setup items about wireless security are listed below: Network Authentication Select network authentication mode from dropdown menu. Data Encryption Select data encryption method from dropdown menu. ASCII / PASSPHRASE If the encryption method is WEP, check either “ASCII” or “PASSPHRASE”...

  • Page 40: Advanced Settings

    PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter  4.2 Advanced Settings Click “Advanced” label to setup advanced settings of software access point. If you don’t know the meaning and affects of these settings, please keep them as default. The setup items are listed below: Beacon Interval Please input wireless beacon time interval here.

  • Page 41: Internet Connection Sharing (Ics)

    PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter  Click “Reset” button to reset the value of every item back to “0”. 4.4 Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) You can assign a network adapter on your computer as the path for all wireless clients to get connected to Internet.
  • Page 42 PLANET  802.11n  Wireless  USB  Adapter  Click “Apply” button to save changes (“Apply” button is grayed out when no changes are made in this label). ‐   ‐    ...

  • Page 43: Ec Declaration Of Conformity

    EC Declaration of Conformity For the following equipment: *Type of Product 802.11n Wireless USB Adapter *Model Number WNL-U554 / WNL-U554A / WNL-U554M * Produced by: Manufacturer‘s Name : Planet Technology Corp. Manufacturer‘s Address: 10F., No.96, Minquan Rd., Xindian Dist., New Taipei City 231, Taiwan (R.O.C.) is herewith confirmed to comply with the requirements set out in the Council Directive on the 1999/5/EC R&TTE.

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