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  • Page 2 IEEE802.11n Wireless PCIBus Adapter GW-DS300N...
  • Page 3 Foreword Explanation of the signals In order to let you set up and use this product correctly, please pay attention when reading or browsing the manual as you see these signals listed below. Warning/ Danger Users should read the explanation carefully and understand it completely, otherwise users might be in danger or even be injured.

  • Page 4: Ce Mark Warning

    FCC Certifications This Equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment.

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Foreword Chapter 1 Introduction to GW-DS300N ....1 1.1 Package Contents ....2 1.2 Features .
  • Page 6 4.7 Statistics ......70 4.8 About ......72 GW-DS300N Contents...

  • Page 7: Chapter 1 Introduction To Gw-Ds300N

    APs, so it increases the data transmission rate. This function is called Turbo Mode. When GW-DS300N WLAN adapter connect to the APs or routers by using this particular function, your wireless network will be more effective.

  • Page 8: Package Contents

    1.1 Package Contents After purchasing GW-DS300N, 802.11n Wireless PCIBus Adapter, from a reseller or an agency, please open the package and check all the components listed below are included. If there is any item missing, please contact with the reseller or the agency at once.

  • Page 9: Product Functions

    1.3 Product Functions Chapter 1 Introduction to GW-DS300N...

  • Page 10: Chapter 2 Basic Installation & Configuration

    Basic Installation & Configuration Before starting to install the utility, please pay attention to the following statements: 1. If you had installed the wireless PC card driver and utility before, please uninstall the old version first. 2. The following illustrations of installation procedures are from Windows XP.

  • Page 11: How To Install The Driver & Utility

    Please follow the instructions below to install the driver and utility of GW-DS300N. 1.Insert GW-DS300N into the PCIBus port on your PC. After that, the computer will automatically detect and open the Found New Hardware Wizard, please click “Cancel” and then use the driver and utility of GW-DS300N.
  • Page 12 3.After clicking “Install” on the former page, the installation wizard starts to install the software of GW-DS300N. Chapter 2 Basic Installation & Configuration...
  • Page 13 “Finish” on the page to complete the installation. After that the driver and utility are all installed to your computer and the utility window will pop up automatically, you may start to configure the connection of GW-DS300N. GW-DS300N...
  • Page 14 “Launch Config Utilities” to start to use the utility; or you may double click on the icon to directly enter the utility. If you closed the utility of GW-DS300N and want to use it again, please click “Start All Programs PCI GW-DS300N GW-DS300N ”...

  • Page 15: How To Make A Wireless Connection

    2.2 How to make a wireless connection If you want to use GW-DS300N to make a wireless network, please follow the steps below: 1.Enter GW-DS300N Utility Right click on the utility icon the task bar, and then choose “Launch Config Utilities” to enter GW-DS300N utility;...
  • Page 16 After opening the utility, it shows the following window. You can check the information of Access Points which are automatically detected by GW-DS300N and connecting with it. Automatic connection rules After powering on GW-DS300N, it automatically detects the APs which can be connected with and firstly connect with the AP (1) with strongest signal strength, (2) non-encryption and (3) non-authentication.
  • Page 17 4.Configuration After entering the Add Profile page, you can set the “Profile Name” by your own, and configure the rest of the settings. GW-DS300N...
  • Page 18 5.Authentication and Security and Security” tab on the Add Profile page. According to the AP's requirement, enter the Key value or just leave it blank, and then click “OK” to save the settings. 6.Activate the settings Enter “Profile List” page, if you really want to use an AP to make a wireless connection, please click “Activate”...
  • Page 19 It means that you do not need to set again and again before every time you make a connection. GW-DS300N...
  • Page 20 8. If you are using Windows XP O.S. and want to check the connection status, you can left click on the “Wireless Network connection” icon on the desktop to check current connection status and packets transferring status. Chapter 2 Basic Installation & Configuration...
  • Page 21 9.Click “Support” tab on the wireless network connection status window and then you can see the IP address of the AP in use. If the connection is abnormal, you can also click “Repair” button to make the computer do the IP Release and IP Renew action. GW-DS300N...

  • Page 22: Site Survey

    To enter the utility program, please follow the instructions below. 1.Right click the mouse on the utility icon can click on the “Launch Config Utilities” to enter PCI GW-DS300N utility; or you can just double click on the utility icon and enter the utility directly.
  • Page 23 If you want to use the adapter function, please click “Switch to Station Mode”. Exit Select “Exit” to close the configuration utility tool. 2. The GW-DS300N icon changes from time to time to reflect the current wireless network connection status. The status indicates as follows: GW-DS300N The signal strengh is good..
  • Page 24 2. Open the configuration utility of GW-DS300N, the“Site Survey” page displays several settings. The items and the setup instructions are listed below. After opening the utility, the system will scan all the channels to find all the access points/stations within the accessible range and automatically connect to one of the wireless APs which has the highest signal strength.

  • Page 25: Profile

    Authentication Network Type Rescan Connect Add to Profile GW-DS300N Here it shows the number of the radio channel used for the wireless connection. The channel setting of the wireless stations within a network should be the same. This section shows whether the APs are using encryption or not.
  • Page 26 2.4 Pro le Click“Add to Profile”button on the“Site Survey”page, the“Add Profile ”window will pop up; or you can choose“Profile” tab on the homepage of utility, and click“Add”, the“Add Profile”window will pop up as well. Users can setup the general settings, encryption and authentication settings and so on.
  • Page 27 If your computer is plugging into the socket directly instead of using batteries, the PSM mode will automatically switch to CAM mode. PSM (Power Saving Mode) – When GW-DS300N often idles, you can choose PSM mode. This mode only takes effect under“Infrastructure” network type.
  • Page 28 GW-DS300N. If enabling this mode, the PSM mode will NOT take effect and the Preamble function will be enabled. TX Power Choose the TX (transmission) Power according to the real environment. If you want to lower the...
  • Page 29 OK/Cancel/Apply Click“OK”and the utility will save the settings and close the page. Click“Cancel”will exit the page and won’t save the settings. Click“Apply”to enable the settings you made on this page. GW-DS300N...
  • Page 30 Chapter 2 Basic Installation & Configuration...

  • Page 31: Authentication And Security

    WLAN. Encryption mechanisms used for WPA and WPA-PSK are the same. The only difference between the two is in WPA-PSK, authentication is reduced to a simple common password, instead of user-specific credentials. GW-DS300N...
  • Page 32 If you want to use WPA as the authentication of GW-DS300N, you can refer to the following instructions to do the configuration.
  • Page 33 Items Authentication and Security Authentication Type The authentication of GW-DS300N must set the same GW-DS300N Descriptions as the settings of the destination. 1.There are seven authentication types under Infrastructure mode: Open–It does not need authentication when connecting to the AP.
  • Page 34 Shared–Only wireless adapters using a shared key (WEP Key identified) are allowed to connecting to the AP. WPA NONE–Under this mode, you can only set encryption and WPA-Preshared Key settings. Use 802.1x This setting only takes effect when using“Open”, “Shared”, “WPA”or“WPA2”mode. Click this button and then click“802.1x Setting”, the“802.1x Setting”sub-window will pop up.
  • Page 35 WPA-Preshared Key This setting only takes effect under“WPA-PSK” WEP Key Key#1~#4 GW-DS300N or“WPA2-PSK” mode. Besides, the key should be at least 8 characters and 63 characters at maximum. This Passphrase (also called a shared secret) that must be entered in both the wireless access point and the WPA clients (computers).
  • Page 36 Show Password If you want to let the system shows the password you set, you can enable this check box. After that, the asterisk(*) will be replaced by the showing the password. Click this button and the utility will save the settings and close the page.

  • Page 37: 802.1X Setting

    2.6 802.1x Setting Click“Authentication and Security”tab on the page of“Add Profile”and then click“802.1x Setting”, and the following picture will pop up. Please refer to the following instructions to configure GW-DS300N. The 802.1x authentication is mainly focus on“WPA”and“WPA2”encryption. Items Certification Authentication Type 1.PEAP–Pronounced“peep”and short for Protected...
  • Page 38 Session Resumption After reconnecting the signal which broke up, you can set the session resumption to reduce the transferring packet to accelerate the speed. There are five types of session resumption:“Disable”, “Reauthentication”, “Roaming”, “SameSsid”and“ Always”. These are the Identity and Password for passing through the server.
  • Page 39 Server name Server name must match exactly GW-DS300N 3 . P a s s w o r d T h e p a s s w o r d u s e d f o r authentication. It may contain up to 63 ASCII characters and is case sensitive.
  • Page 40 Server name must When selected, the server name field identifies a end in specified name domain. The certificate must use a server name belonging to this domain or to one of its sub-domains (e.g. zeelans.com, where the server is blueberry. zeelans.com) but it may be any name used in the certificate name field.
  • Page 41 GW-DS300N...

  • Page 42: Link Status

    Click on the“Link Status”tab on the homepage of the utility, the page will display a lot of parameters. Items Status Here displays the SSID and MAC ID of the network which GW-DS300N is connecting to. Extra Info Here displays the current link status. Channel Here shows the current channel in use.
  • Page 43 Noise Level GW-DS300N Here display the noise level in the wireless environment. Click“OK”button and the utility will save the settings and close the page.

  • Page 44: Statistics

    2.8 Statistics Click on the“Statistics”tab on the homepage of the utility, the page will display the transmitted and received results. Items Transmit Statistics Frames Transmitted Frames successfully sent. Successfully Frames Fail To Frames failed to transmit after hitting retry limit. Receive ACK (ACKnowledge) After All Retries...
  • Page 45 Resource Duplicate Frames Received Buttons Reset Counter GW-DS300N Frames dropped due to resource problem. Frames received more than twice. Click the button to reset counters to zero. Click “OK” button and the utility will save the settings and close the page.

  • Page 46: Chapter 3 Advanced Configuration

    Advanced Configuration 3.1 Advanced Click on the“Advanced”tab on the homepage of the utility, and you can do more detailed settings. Items Wireless mode Scroll down the list and you can choose the wireless mode:“802.11 B/G mix”, “802.11 B only” or “ 802.11 B/G/N mix”.
  • Page 47 Tx Rate Tx Burst Enable TCP Window Site Fast Roaming at ~ GW-DS300N Auto–Based on the status of the network and automatically disable/enable protection mode. On–Always enable the protection mode. Off–Always disable the protection mode. There are several options including Auto/1/2/5.5/11/ 6/9/12/18/24/36/48/54Mbps for you to select.
  • Page 48 GW-DS300N will fast roaming to the near network when the receive sensitivity (signal strength) is lower to the value you have set up.
  • Page 49 Turn on/Turn off RF Turn radio ON/OFF for FAA requirement. Apply GW-DS300N environment and discover any new APs that are transmitting beacons. Now the radio is on, and click to turn it off. Now the radio is off, and click to turn it on.

  • Page 50: Qos

    3.2 QoS Click on the“QoS”tab on the homepage of the utility, and you can do more detailed settings. Items WMM Enable WMM is short for Wi-Fi Multimedia. It is a standard created to define quality of service (QoS) in Wi-Fi networks.
  • Page 51 MAC Address Timeout Value DLS Status GW-DS300N Enter the remote system which you want to connect with. When you want to enable this function, you have to make sure that your wireless network supports WMM function and then enter the MAC address of the adapter which wants to connect with the remote system.

  • Page 52: Wps Con Guration

    (GW-DS300N within 2 minutes to click “PBC” button. You can also click the button on the rear panel of MZK-W04N to start PBC connection. However, you should also go to the configuration page of GW-DS300N to click “PBC” to make the connection. Chapter 3 Advanced Configuration...
  • Page 53 2.Open the utility of GW-DS300N. Click the button of “PBC” and then GW-DS300N will automatically start to make a connection with MZK-W04N and use the same wireless settings and encryption configuration with it. If they successfully make a connection, GW-DS300N will show a green check before the AP's SSID.

  • Page 54: Wps Configuration

    II. Start PIN 1.Open the utility of GW-DS300N and click “WPS Configuration” tab. Copy the “Pin Code” on the right side of the page. Chapter 3 Advanced Configuration...
  • Page 55 GW-DS300N into the blank of “Configure via Client PinCode”. Also you have to go back to GW-DS300N configuration page to click “PIN” button on the left side of the page. After that, GW-DS300N will automatically start to make a connection with MZK-W04N and use the same wireless settings and encryption configuration with it.
  • Page 56 Chapter 3 Advanced Configuration...

  • Page 57: About

    3.4 About Click on the“About”tab on the homepage of the utility, and you can check all the information about GW-DS300N. Items Website Links RaConfig Version / This section shows the version and released date of Driver Version / EEPROM Version /...
  • Page 58 Chapter 3 Advanced Configuration...

  • Page 59: Config

    Channel, SSID, MAC access control, WEP encryption, and so 4.1 How to use AP mode If you want to use the Soft AP function of GW-DS300N, please follow the steps below to install the driver and the utility of GW-DS300N.
  • Page 60 Wireless Utility” on the desktop to open the utility. 4.2 Con g After switch GW-DS300N to the AP mode, users can set up the general settings, encryption, authentication, and so on. If you want to check the advanced setup and information, please refer to the following chapters.
  • Page 61 Wireless Mode S c ro ll d ow n the lis t t o c h o o s e t h e w i r e l e s s m o d e f o r t h e A P. T h e r e a r e f o u r k i n d s of modes : “802.11 B/G Mixed”, “802.11 B only”, “802.11 G only”...

  • Page 62: Security Setting

    Please manually choose the transmitting power for GW-DS300N.There are“100% 25% and Lowest”. The system default is 100% which means GW-DS300N has the maximum TX Power on wireless network. you go offline. Enter a maximum period of time (seconds) to define the maximum idle time. If the idle time is above the defined maximum idle There are several options including Auto/1/2/5.5/11/...
  • Page 63 Not forwarding If enable this function, though the wireless clients among wireless are connecting to the same AP, still they cannot share clients information with each other. The system default is not forwarding data between stations. Hide SSID If the check box of“Hide SSID”is enabled, the AP will not appear in the list of all the other wireless adapters.
  • Page 64 GW-DS300N...

  • Page 65: Security Setting

    Click “Security Setting” tab on the “Config” page and you can start configuring authentication. Please refer to the following instructions. Items Authentication Authentication Type The authentication of GW-DS300N must set the same as the settings of the destination. Open – It does not need authentication when connecting to the AP.
  • Page 66 Group Rekey Interval T h i s f u n c t i o n o n l y t a k e s e ff e c t w h e n u s i n g WEP Key Key#1~#4 Show Password GW-DS300N computers but the length requirement is changed. The more random your WPA pre-shared key, the safer it is to use.
  • Page 67 Click this button and the utility will save the settings and close the page. Cancel Click“Cancel”will exit the page and won't save the settings. Chapter 4 Soft AP Mode...

  • Page 68: Access Control

    MAC address is a unique identification for hardware devices on the network. It is a 12-digit hexadecimal value. Fill in the MAC addresses of wireless adapters you want to accept or reject to access GW-DS300N in this table. Here displays all the accepted or rejected MAC addresses.
  • Page 69 Apply Click“Apply”to enable the settings you made on this page. Click this button and the utility will save the settings and close the page. Chapter 4 Soft AP Mode...

  • Page 70: Mac Table

    4.5 MAC Table Click on the“MAC Table”tab on the homepage of the AP mode, the page will display the clients which are connecting with GW-DS300N. The MAC Table will show you the MAC address, AID and Power Saving Mode status..
  • Page 71 Chapter 4 Soft AP Mode...

  • Page 72: Event Log

    4.6 Event Log Click on the“Event Log”tab on the homepage of the AP mode, the page will display the happened events after start up GW-DS300N The Event Log page will show you the time and the description of every event happened on Soft AP.
  • Page 73 Chapter 4 Soft AP Mode...

  • Page 74: Statistics

    Transmitted Successfully After Retry Receive Statistics Frames Receive Successfully GW-DS300N Descriptions Frames failed to transmit after hitting retry limit. Successfully receive CTS (Clear To Send) after sending RTS (Request To Send) frame. Failed to receive CTS (Request To Send) after sending RTS (Clear To Send).
  • Page 75 Frames Receive Frames received with CRC error. With CRC Error Frames Dropped Frames dropped due to resource problem. Due To Out-of- Resource Duplicate Frames Frames received more than twice. Received Buttons Reset Counters Click the button to reset counters to zero. Click“OK”button and the utility will save the settings and close the page.

  • Page 76: About

    4.8 About Click on the“About”tab on the homepage of the AP mode, and you can check all the information about GW-DS300N. Items Website Links Utility Version / M A C A d d r e s s GW-DS300N Descriptions Click the button and the web browser will be opened automatically and connect to PLANEX Communications Inc.
  • Page 77 Chapter 4 Soft AP Mode...

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