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TP-Link TL-WN727N User Manual

TP-Link TL-WN727N User Manual

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TL-WN727N
Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter
Rev:1.0.1
1910010132

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  • Page 1 TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter Rev:1.0.1 1910010132...

  • Page 2: Fcc Statement

    Specifications are subject to change without notice. is a registered trademark of TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Other brands and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. No part of the specifications may be reproduced in any form or by any means or used to make any derivative such as translation, transformation, or adaptation without permission from TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.

  • Page 3: Ce Mark Warning

    FCC RF Radiation Exposure Statement This device has been tested for compliance with FCC RF Exposure (SAR) limits in the typical laptop computer configuration and this device can be used in desktop or laptop computers with side mounted PCMCIA slots. This device cannot be used with handheld PDAs (personal digital assistants).

  • Page 4: Declaration Of Conformity

    TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY For the following equipment: Product Description: Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter Model No.: TL-WN727N Trademark: TP-LINK We declare under our own responsibility that the above products satisfy all the technical regulations applicable to the product within the scope of Council Directives:...

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    CONTENTS Package Contents ....................1 Chapter 1 Introduction ..................2 Product Overview ....................2 Main Features ....................2 LED Status ......................2 Chapter 2 Installation Guide ................. 3 Hardware Installation ..................3 Software Installation ..................3 2.2.1 Overview ......................3 2.2.2 Installation Guide ....................

  • Page 6: Package Contents

    Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Package Contents The following items should be found in your package: One TL-WN727N Lite-N USB Adapter One USB extension cable (for one meter) One Resource CD for TL-WN727N Lite-N USB Adapter, including: • Drivers and Utility • User Guide •...

  • Page 7: Chapter 1 Introduction

    TKIP, AES，WPA and WPA2 encryption to prevent outside intrusion and protect your personal information from being exposed. The adapter is easy to install and manage. The TL-WN727N supports QSS function, which can help you create a wireless connection immediately. Quick Setup Wizard is supported and detailed instructions are provided step by step in this user guide.

  • Page 8: Chapter 2 Installation Guide

    Windows XP for example. 2.2.2 Installation Guide 1. Insert the Resource CD into your CD-ROM drive, and open the folder named TL-WN727N. Double-click Setup.exe in the proper folder according to your operating system to start the installation, then following screen will appear. Select English and click the NEXT button to continue.
  • Page 9 TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 2-1 Choose Setup Language 2. The following screen for preparing setup will appear. Figure 2-2 Preparing Setup 3. Then you’ll see the screen as follow, you can choose what to be installed.
  • Page 10 4. As next screen, you can select the configuration tool here. Figure 2-4 Setup Type If you want to install the TL-WN727N Wireless Utility, please select the TP-LINK Configuration Tool and click Next. If you only want to use the Microsoft Zero Configuration Tool to configure the wireless connection, please select Microsoft Zero Configuration Tool and click Next.
  • Page 11 TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide 5. Then, choose the destination location. Figure 2-5 Choose Destination Location 6. After that, you will see the next screen as below. Click Install to continue. Figure 2-6 Ready to Install the Program 7.
  • Page 12 TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 2-7 Setup Status Note: While files are copying, a warning box about Windows Logo testing (shown in Figure 2-8) may pop up, please click Continue Anyway to continue the installation for our drivers have been tested thoroughly and are able to work with the operating system.

  • Page 13: Uninstall Software

    On the Windows taskbar, click the Start button, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the System icon, click on the Hardware tab in the System window. Click on the Device Manager button, double-click Network Adapters, and then right-click TL-WN727N Wireless USB Adapter. - 8 -...

  • Page 14: Uninstall The Utility Software From Your Pc

    Click Uninstall shown in above Figure 2-10, the system will uninstall the driver software of the adapter from your PC. 2.3.2 Uninstall the utility software from your PC On the Windows taskbar, click the Start button, point to All programs TP-LINK TWCU, and then click Uninstall-TL-WN727N. Figure 2-11 Uninstall the utility Following the Install Shield Wizard to uninstall the utility software from your PC.

  • Page 15: Chapter 3 Configuration

    Chapter 3 Configuration 3.1 Configuration of Utility TL-WN727N Wireless USB Adapter can be configured by its utility for Windows 2000, XP, and Vista. This section will take the configuration in Windows XP for example and guide you to configure your wireless adapter for wireless connectivity with trustable data security encryption features.
  • Page 16 TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 3-1 Profile Tab To Add a new profile: Click the Add button on the Profile tab, the Profile configuration screen will appear as shown in Figure 3-2. Enter the Profile Name and choose the SSID from the pull-down list, then click OK to add it.
  • Page 17 TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide will be fragmented. Setting the Fragmentation Threshold too low may result in poor network performance since excessive packages. 2346 is the default setting and is recommended. To edit a profile: Highlight the desired profile name on Profile List, and click the Edit button, the Profile configuration screen will appear shown in Figure 3-3.

  • Page 18: Network

    TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 3-4 Edit a Profile-Auth.\Encry. Authentication – You can choose the Authentication Type from the pull-down list with three options, Open System, Shared-Key System or LEAP. 802.1x – It enables when Authentication Type is setting to WPA.

  • Page 19: Advanced

    TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide choices will appear as Figure 3-5. Figure 3-5 Network tab Rescan: Click the Rescan button to refresh the list at any time. Add to Profile: Highlight an SSID and click the Add to Profile button to add the network to the profile.

  • Page 20: Statistics

    TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide 3.1.4 Statistics Click the Statistics tab of the Utility and you will see the following screen displaying the receiving and transmitting statistical information. Click the Reset Counter button to reset the count of the statistics information.
  • Page 21 TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Note: To build a successful connection by QSS, you should also do the corresponding configuration of the Access Point for QSS or WPS function meanwhile. PBC Method If your Access Point is equipped with a push-button for Wi-Fi Protected Setup, you can connect the adapter to the Access Point by Push QSS Button method.

  • Page 22: Radio On/Off

    TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide as Figure 3-10 shown. And then click PIN button to start the wireless connection without doing any configuration for AP. Figure 3-10 QSS - Registrar mode Note: The default PIN code of the AP always can be found in its label or User Guide.

  • Page 23: About

    EEPROM Version - The version of this EEPROM. Phy_Address - The MAC address of the wireless network adapter. Note: For more help information, you can click the http://www.tp-link.com button on the screen to connect to website of our company. 3.1.8 An example for application Suppose you have an installed and using AP, the SSID is TPLINK and it adopts 64-bit encryption with the key 0123456789.

  • Page 24: Configure With Windows Xp Wireless Zero Configuration

    TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Highlight the profile named Test on the profile list and click Activate on the Profile screen. The utility will establish a connection with this AP by configured profile. 3.2 Configure with Windows XP Wireless Zero Configuration 1.
  • Page 25 TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 3-15 Acquiring network address 4. If the connection is finished, the icon will display like the next screen shown. Figure 3-16 Finish - 20 -...

  • Page 26: Chapter 4 Ap Mode

    Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Chapter 4 AP Mode Click the icon to switch to AP Mode. In this mode you can use the TL-WN727N as a soft AP. Figure 4-1 Note: At this time, if your PC have Installed other network card (wireless or wire), you will be prompted “ICS Select WAN Adapter”...

  • Page 27: Access Control

    TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 4-3 Config Setting Page SSID – Enter the SSID of your soft AP, or you can press “<- Use Mac Address” button to keep the Mac Address as your SSID. Channel – Select the channel from the drop-down list . This field determines which operating frequency will be used.

  • Page 28: Mac Table

    TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 4-4 Access Control Function Access Policy – This field allows you to start the function or not. System default is disabled. • Disable - Disable the Access Policy feature. • Allow All - Allow all the MAC addresses in the Access List to access the AP.

  • Page 29: Event Log

    TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 4-5 Mac Table Function MAC Address – The station’s Mac address of the current connection. AID – Raise value by current connection. Power Saving Mode – Support Power Saving Mode on the currently connected station.

  • Page 30: Statistics

    TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 4-6 Event Log Page Event Time (yy/mm/dd-hh:mm:ss) – Displays the event time recorded. Message – Displays all event messages. 4.5 Statistics The statistics page displays detailed counter information based on the 802.11 MIB counters. The information is translated into a format easier for the user to understand.

  • Page 31: About

    TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 4-7 Transmit and Receive statistics 4.6 About The About page displays the wireless card and driver version information as shown in Figure 4-8. - 26 -...
  • Page 32 TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 4-8 About Page - 27 -...

  • Page 33: Chapter 5 Example For Application

    Please ensure the software and hardware environments are well established before configuring. For hardware, at least a PC, a TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter and a PSP device are needed. For software, the TL-WN727N Adapter driver should be properly installed.
  • Page 34 Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Step 5. Right-click “My Computer” and select Management. In the prompt page, click Device Manager, then right-click “TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter “and select Properties. Then set the value of “PSP Xlink Mode” as Enable following the red marked instruction in the figure.
  • Page 35 Note: Please set the IP address in different network segment with the other network card to avoid conflict. Step 9. Launch TL-WN727N Wireless Utility, then highlight the Network Name (SSID) beginning with “PSP” in the “Network” page, and click Connect.
  • Page 36 TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 5-6 Step 10. Check whether your PSP device is detected in the Diagnostics mode of Kai as Figure 5-7 shown: Click the icon first and then click the folder Figure 5-7 Step 11. Click the icon on the right top corner to enter the Arena Mode, highlight the arena of your wanted game, and then join or start a new game.
  • Page 37 TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 5-8 - 32 -...

  • Page 38: Appendix A: Glossary

    TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Appendix A: Glossary 802.11b - The 802.11b standard specifies a wireless networking at 11 Mbps using direct-sequence spread-spectrum (DSSS) technology and operating in the unlicensed radio spectrum at 2.4GHz, and WEP encryption for security. 802.11b networks are also referred to as Wi-Fi networks.
  • Page 39 TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide SSID - A Service Set Identification is a thirty-two character (maximum) alphanumeric key identifying a wireless local area network. For the wireless devices in a network to communicate with each other, all devices must be configured with the same SSID. This is typically the configuration parameter for a wireless PC card.

  • Page 40: Appendix B: Specifications

    TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Appendix B: Specifications General Interface A-type USB 2.0 Connector Standards IEEE 802.1g, IEEE 802.1b Operating System Windows 2000, XP, Vista Safety & Emission FCC, CE Frequency 2.4 ~ 2.4835 GHz 150M -68dBm Sensitivity...

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