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802.11n Wireless

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WLn-301
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  • Page 1: Usb Adapter

    802.11n Wireless USB Adapter User Manual WLn-301 Ver : 1.0...
  • Page 2 Any software described in this manual is sold or licensed "as is". Should the programs prove defective following their purchase, the buyer (and not PheeNet, its distributor, or its dealer) assumes the entire cost of all necessary servicing, repair, and any incidental or consequential damages resulting from any defect in the software.
  • Page 3 C A T A L O G CHAPTER I: PRODUCT INFORMATION 1-1 Introduction and safety information 1-2 Safety Information 1-3 System Requirements 1-4 Package Contents 1-5 Familiar with Your New Wireless Network Card CHAPTER II: DRIVER INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION 2-1 Network Card and Driver Installation 2-2 Connect to Wireless Access Point 2-2-1 Using Ralink Utility...
  • Page 4 2-7 WPS Configuration 2-8 About CHAPTER III: APPENDIX 3-1 Hardware Specification 3-2 Troubleshooting 3-3 Glossary 3-4 FCC and Other Compliance Statements...

  • Page 5: Chapter I: Product Information

    Chapter I: Product Information 1-1 Introduction and safety information Thank you for purchasing this high-speed 802.11b/g/Draft-N wireless network card! Excepting common wireless standards 802.11b/g, this wireless network card is also 802.11 Draft-N compatible - data transfer rate is 300Mbps, and that’s six times faster than 802.11g wireless network! 802.11 Draft-N also provides wider wireless coverage, so you don’t have to worry if your computer is far from your wireless access point.
  • Page 6 1-2 Safety Information In order to keep the safety of users and your properties, please follow the following safety instructions: 1. This USB wireless network card is designed for indoor use only. DO NOT expose this network card to direct sun light, rain, or snow. 2.
  • Page 7 1-3 System Requirements An empty USB 2.0 port (May not work on USB 1.1 port, and performance will be greatly reduced) Windows 2000, 2003, XP, or Vista operating system CD-ROM drive At least 100MB of available disk space...
  • Page 8 1-4 Package Contents Before you starting to use this wireless network card, please check if there’s anything missing in the package, and contact your dealer of purchase to claim for missing items: USB wireless network card (1 pcs) ……………………………… 1 □...
  • Page 9 1-5 Familiar with your new wireless network card 1. USB Connector 2. Connector Cap (To protect USB connector when not in use) 3. Link/Activity LED LED Name Light Status Description Link/ Linked to a wireless access point / Activity Transferring data No wireless activity...

  • Page 10: Chapter Ii: Driver Installation And Configuration

    CHAPTER II: DRIVER INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION 2-1 Network Card Installation Please follow the following instructions to install your new wireless network card: 1. Insert the USB wireless network card into an empty USB 2.0 port of your computer when computer is switched on. Never use force to insert the card, if you feel it’s stuck, flip the card over and try again.
  • Page 11 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 execute ‘Setup.exe’ program in ‘Driver’ folder. Please read the end user license agreement and click ‘Yes’ to accept license agreement.
  • Page 12 network card here. It’s recommended to select ‘Ralink Configuration Tool’, which provides fully access to all function of this wireless network card. If you prefer to use the wireless configuration tool provided by Windows XP or Vista, please select ‘Microsoft Zero Configuration Tool’, then click ‘Next’.
  • Page 13 see ‘Found New Hardware’ message again, please ignore it and wait. 6. Please wait while the install procedure is running. When you see this message, please click ‘Finish’ to complete the driver installation process.
  • Page 14 7. A new icon will appear at lower-right corner of your computer desktop, you can put the mouse cursor on the icon, and the status of wireless card will be displayed as a popup balloon. HERE! 8. When you want to configure your wireless connection, please right click on this icon, and a popup menu will appear.
  • Page 15 2-2 Connect to Wireless Access Point There are two ways you can configure your wireless network card to connect to wireless access point: using the Ralink configuration utility which comes with wireless card driver, and using built-in windows zero configuration utility. 2-2-1 Using Ralink Utility Please follow the following instructions to use Ralink configuration...
  • Page 16 Here are descriptions of every setup item: SSID: The Service Set IDentifier of wireless access point or other network device. You can think it as the name of access point of wireless device. BSSID: The MAC address of wireless access point or other network device.
  • Page 17 device. Larger number means better radio strength, which often means you’re not too far from that access point or wireless device. Channel: Shows the channel number that access point or wireless device uses. Encryption: Shows the encryption method that access point or wireless device uses.
  • Page 18 If the access point you selected does not enable encryption (The content of ‘Encryption’ field of the access point you selected is ‘None’, you’ll be connected to this wireless access point within one minute. Please jump to step 6. If the access point you selected enables encryption, please proceed to next step.
  • Page 19 5. If the wireless access point uses encryption, you have to input WEP passphrase or WPA preshared key. Please ask the owner of the wireless access point you want to connect, and input the correct passphrase / preshared key here, then click ‘OK’. If the value you inputted here is wrong, you will not be able to connect to this wireless access point.
  • Page 20 6. You’ll see ‘Connected <-> SSID’ (‘SSID’ is the SSID of the wireless access point or wireless device you connected to) message displayed at lower-left corner of configuration utility, congratulations, you’re successfully connected to the access point or wireless device you selected! 7.
  • Page 21 2-2-2 Using Windows Zero Configuration Windows XP and Vista 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: 1. Right-click Ralink configuration utility icon and select ‘Use Zero Configuration as Configuration utility.
  • Page 22 3. Click ‘Connect to a network’ under ‘Network Connections’ 4. 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 23 network list’ to rescan access points. Click the access point you want to use if it’s shown, then click ‘Connect’. 6. 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.
  • Page 24 7. If you can see ‘Connected’ message, the connection between your computer and wireless access point is successfully established.
  • Page 25 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 in input these parameters every time you want to connect to a specific wireless access point.
  • Page 26 Or, you can add a connected wireless access point or wireless device to a profile by clicking ‘Site Survey’ tab, then click ‘Add to Profile’ button:...
  • Page 27 And you can set the parameter for this connection here:...
  • Page 28 Here are descriptions of every setup items: Profile Name Please give this profile a name, up to 32 alphanumerical characters and symbols are allowed, but space is not allowed. SSID The SSID of the wireless access point or wireless device you selected will be displayed here. But if the SSID of access point or wireless device is not available, you have to input it here manually.
  • Page 29 RTS Threshold Check the box and you can set RTS threshold manually here. Do not modify default setting unless you know what it is. Fragment Check the box and you can set fragment threshold Threshold manually here. Do not modify default setting unless you know what it is.
  • Page 30 If you select ‘LEAP’, the following message will be displayed. Please input LEAP identity, password, domain name, and select encryption type. You can check ‘Show Password’ box so the password you inputted will be displayed as you type, but not replace by asterisk.
  • Page 31 WEP Key You can select key type (Hex 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. Show Password Check this box and all passphrases or security keys you inputted will be displayed as you type, but not replace your input with asterisk.
  • Page 32 Select the profile you wish to use, and click ‘Activate’ to use the profile you selected. You can only activate a profile a time, and the profile which is activated currently will have a green check ( ) before its name. If the wireless access point is not reachable, a red check ( ) will be displayed before its name.
  • Page 33 2-3-2 Using 802.1x – Certification After you click ‘802.1x Setting’, a new window will appear: Here are descriptions of every setup items: Authentication Please select an 802.1x authentication type here. Type The type you select here must be identical to the type of the 802.1x authentication type you’re using.
  • Page 34 Domain Name Please input the domain name of 802.1x authentication here. This field will be grayed out when authentication type is not ‘EAP-FAST’. Use Client If the authentication type you use is ‘PEAP’ or ‘TTLS’, you can use the certificate stored on your computer.
  • Page 35 Password Please input the password of tunneled authentication (of tunneled here. authentication) Password Mode Please select the password mode of ‘EAP-FAST’ authentication mode. This setting is hidden when the authentication type is not ‘EAP-FAST’. After you finish all settings, click ‘OK’ to save settings and exit.
  • Page 36 2-3-3 Using 802.1x - CA Server If you want to use CA server, please click ‘CA Server’ tab. And the following message will be displayed: Here are descriptions of every setup items: Use certificate Check this box to enable the use of certificate chain. chain Certificate Please select the issuer of certificate from this...
  • Page 37 2-4 View Network Statistics and Link 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.
  • Page 38 All connection-related statistics is displayed here. You can click ‘Reset Counter’ to reset the statistics of all items back to 0. Click ‘OK’ to close the window.
  • Page 39 2-4-2 Link Status Please follow the following instructions to check network statistics: 1. Right-click the Ralink configuration utility icon located at lower-right corner of computer desktop, then click ‘Launch Config Utilities’. 2. Click ‘Link Status’ tab, and information about current wireless connection will be displayed:...
  • Page 40 These information displayed here are updated every second, and here are descriptions of every item: Status Displays the SSID and BSSID of connected wireless access point or wireless device (displayed as SSID <-> BSSID as shown in above picture. If there’s no active connection currently, ‘Disconnected’...
  • Page 41 signal. If the value of this item is high, data transfer rate will drop. Check this box and the value of signal strength and noise level will be displayed in dBm level instead of percentage. There are several wireless statuses available at the bottom of this window. For their explanations, please see chapter 3-3 ‘Glossary’.
  • Page 42 2-5 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, then click ‘Launch Config Utilities’.
  • Page 43 Here are descriptions of every setup items: Wireless mode Select wireless operation mode, available options are 802.11 B/G mix, 802.11 B only, and 802.11 B/G/N mix. You can select 802.11 B/G/N mix to maximize wireless compatibility with wireless access points and other wireless devices. Anyway, you can set this setting to ‘802.11 B only’...
  • Page 44 when this wireless network card should switch to another wireless access point with better signal quality. Only adjust value when you understand what it means. Turn off RF Click this button to switch wireless radio off, click it again switch wireless radio on. Select Your Select the country / region code of the place you’re Country Region...
  • Page 45 Non-Serving When you’re connecting to CCX-compatible Channel access point, check this box to enable measurement Measurements on unused radio channels to improve wireless connectivity. Limit --- Limit the time used for said measurement to a milliseconds certain time. Default value is 250. After you finish the settings, click ‘Apply’...
  • Page 46 2-6 QoS Setting This wireless network card provides QoS (Quality of Service) function, which can improve the performance of certain network applications, like audio / video streaming, network telephony (VoIP), and others. When you enable WMM (Wi-Fi MultiMedia) 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 47 Here are descriptions of every setup items: 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 48 Effort), AC_VI (Video First), and AC_VO (Voice First). Direct Link Enable or disable direct link setup (DLS) function. Setup Enable This function will greatly improve the data transfer rate between WMM-enabled wireless devices. 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 49 2-7 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.
  • Page 50 2-7-1 WPS Setup - PBC (Push-Button Configuration) 1. Right-click the Ralink configuration utility icon located at lower-right corner of computer desktop, then click ‘Launch Config Utilities’. 2. Click ‘WPS Configuration’ tab, and the following settings will appear:...
  • Page 51 3. 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 standby mode as the instruction given by your wireless access point’s user manual. 4.
  • Page 52 WPS, and please be patient (This may require several seconds to one minute to complete). When you see ‘WPS status is connected successfully’ message, means the connection between your wireless network card and access point is successfully connected by WPS, and the information about access point you connected to will be displayed.
  • Page 53 2-7-2 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, then click ‘Launch Config Utilities’. 2.
  • Page 54 The PIN number of your wireless network card is an eight-digit number located at the upper-right position of configuration utility. Remember it, and input the number to your wireless access point as the WPS PIN code (Please refer to the user manual of your wireless access point for instructions about how to do this).
  • Page 55 2-8 About The ‘About’ tab provides you the information about version numbers of configuration utility, firmware, 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, then click ‘Launch Config Utilities’.
  • Page 56 If you need assistance about network problem, you’ll need these values. You can also click ‘WWW.RALINKTECH.COM’ button to go to the web site of network card driver manufacturer and get more information about your wireless network card. Please click ‘OK’ to close configuration utility.

  • Page 57: Chapter Iii: Appendix

    CHAPTER III: APPENDIX 3-1 Hardware Specification Standards: IEEE 802.11b/g/Draft-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): MCS0-15, 32 with Half Guard Interval Support (up to 144Mbps) 11n (40MHz): MCS0-15, 32 with Half Guard Interval Support (up to 300Mbps)
  • Page 58 3-2 Troubleshooting If you encounter any problem when you’re using this wireless network card, don’t panic! Before you call your dealer of purchase for help, please check this troubleshooting table, the solution of your problem could be very simple, and you can solve the problem by yourself! Scenario Solution I can’t find any wireless...
  • Page 59 wireless access point connect is hidden (nothing displayed in ‘SSID’ field in ‘Site Survey’ function), you have to input correct SSID of the access point you wish to connect. Please contact the owner of access point to ask for correct SSID. 3.
  • Page 60 3-3 Glossary 1. What is the IEEE 802.11g standard? 802.11g is the new IEEE standard for high-speed wireless LAN communications that provides for up to 54 Mbps data rate in the 2.4 GHz band. 802.11g is quickly becoming the next mainstream wireless LAN technology for the home, office and public networks.
  • Page 61 5. What is Infrastructure? An integrated wireless and wireless and wired LAN is called an Infrastructure configuration. Infrastructure is applicable to enterprise scale for wireless access to central database, or wireless application for mobile workers. 6. What is BSS ID? A specific Ad hoc LAN is called a Basic Service Set (BSS).
  • Page 62 12. What is DSSS? What is FHSS? And what are their differences? Frequency-hopping spread-spectrum (FHSS) uses a narrowband carrier that changes frequency in a pattern that is known to both transmitter and receiver. Properly synchronized, the net effect is to maintain a single logical channel.
  • Page 63 15. What is WMM Power Save? WMM Power Save is a set of features for Wi-Fi networks that increase the efficiency and flexibility of data transmission in order to conserve power. WMM Power Save has been optimized for mobile devices running latency-sensitive applications such as voice, audio, or video, but can benefit any Wi-Fi device.

  • Page 64: Federal Communication Commission

    3-4 FCC and Other Compliance Statements 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 65 Federal Communication Commission (FCC) Radiation Exposure Statement This equipment complies with FCC radiation exposure set forth for an uncontrolled environment. In order to avoid the possibility of exceeding the FCC radio frequency exposure limits, human proximity to the antenna shall not be less than 20cm (8 inches) during normal operation.
  • Page 66 EU Countries Not intended for use None.