Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product F5D7010 Belkin
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U ser Manual F5D7010 Belkin Corporation 501 West W alnut Str eet Compton • CA • 90220 • USA T el: 310.898.1100 Fax: 310.898.1111 Belkin Components, Ltd. Express Business P ark Shipton Way • Rushd en • NN10 6GL United Ki ngdom T el: +44 (0) 1933 35 2000 Fax: +44 (0) 1933 31 2000 Belkin Components B .
T ABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION Intr odu ction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Features .
OVERVIEW Applications and Adv antages • Wireless r oaming with a laptop around the home or o ffice Offers the fr eedom o f networkin g without cables . • Connection rates o f up to 54Mbps Provi des imm ediate , higher-speed wir eless connectivity at h ome , work, and hot spot location s without compr omising th e use of e xisting 802.
KNOWING YOUR CARD (a) P ow er LED When th e Card r eceives power , this ligh t will be on. (b) Link LED When th e Card has a link to a wir eless network, th e ligh t will be solid . When n ot linked to a wir eless network, th e ligh t will slowly flash.
Installin g your Card is d one in thr ee easy steps. 1. Install th e softwar e FIRST . If you plug your Card in to your laptop befor e you install th e softwar e , it will not work. 2. Plug the Car d into your laptop. 3. Let Wind ows operatin g system finish installin g the Car d.
INST ALLING AND SETTING UP THE CARD 8. After the so ftware in stallation is complete , click “Finish” . Y ou are n ow read y to install th e Wireless LAN n otebook adapter har dwar e . 9. After connectin g your Card , Wind ows will detect that n ew hard war e has been installed .
INST ALLING AND SETTING UP THE CARD 11 12. When th e installati on is complete , a small i con in your system tray (bottom righ t corner o f most scr eens) will appear . This is your sh ortcut to the Belkin WLAN Monitor . I t also indi cates the status o f your connecti on.
USING THE BELKIN WIRELESS LAN CONFIGURA TION UTILITY Proceed with th e followin g instru ction s for confi gurin g your network pr ofiles . The instru ction s explain h ow to open the U tility and h ow to use it to confi gure a network pr ofile .
Note: Under Windows XP , clicking on the “ Advanced” button f or the first time will display the following window . The “Use Windows to configure my wireless network settings” option will be enabled by default. Click on the check bo x to disable it and use the Belkin Wireless Network Utility instead.
USING THE BELKIN WIRELESS LAN UTILITY (c) Preferr ed Network s Displays a list of th e networks that you have confi gured . Y ou may rank th e networks by selectin g the n etwork nam e in the “Pr eferred N etworks” list th en clickin g on the “M ove UP” and “M ove Down” buttons .
USING THE BELKIN WIRELESS LAN UTILITY Encryption T o configure a pr ofile f or a listed network that r equires a WEP k ey: 1. After opening th e Utility , select th e network fr om the “ A vailable networks” list and cli ck “Configur e” . 2. Select the “Data en cryption (WEP en abled)” box.
USING THE BELKIN WIRELESS LAN UTILITY (e) Channel Shows th e curren t channel th e Card is oper ating on. Wh en oper ating in Infrastru cture m ode , the channel is set autom atically by th e access point or wireless r outer that the Car d is connected to.
The Site Surve y T ab Clickin g on the Site Survey tab will display a list o f all available access points in your area. Th e followin g inform ation about each is displayed: (a) SSID The Servi ce Set Id entifi er (wireless n etwork nam e) o f the access poin t.
USING THE BELKIN WIRELESS LAN UTILITY Diagnostics P age This P age allows you to perf orm several di agnosti c tests that are available f or your Belkin Wireless N etwork adapter .
TROUBLESHOOTING Cannot Connect to the Network If your Card appears to be fun ctionin g properly but you cann ot connect to th e network, th e problem m ay be that ther e is a mismatch between th e “.
TROUBLESHOOTING 29 29 Data transfer is alw ays very slo w . Computers ar e not communicating with the network. In Window s 2000, I get the follo wing error message: “Medium cable disconnected” . Also, there is a r ed X on my netw ork icon in the sy stem tray .
INFORMA TION 30 FCC Statement DECLARA TION OF CONFORMITY WITH FCC RULES FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC COMP A TIBILITY W e, Belkin Corpor ation, o f 501 West W alnut Street, Compton, CA 90220, declar e und er our sole respon sibility that the prod uct, F5D7010 to which this d eclaration r elates, complies with P art 15 of th e FCC Rules.
INFORMA TION 32 Belkin Corporation Limited Lifetime Pr oduct W arranty Belkin Corporati on warrants this pr odu ct against d efects in materials an d workman ship for its lifetime .
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