Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product Wireless LAN USB Adaptor ALFA
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Wireless LAN USB Adapt o r User Manual V1.0 1.
USING THIS DOCUMENT This document provides detailed user guidelines for Wireless LAN USB Adapt o r operation and se tting-up. Though every effort has been made to ensure that this document is up-to-date and accurate, more information may have become available subsequent to the production of this guide.
Chapter 1 Introduction Thank you for purchasing Wi reless LAN USB Adapt o r. Wireless LAN USB Adapt o r is a perfect combination of both performance and cost-effective product intr oduced. It is sincerely hoped that you can enjoy the wireless world through this solid ly profiled wireless adaptor .
Chapter 2 Specifications Host system connections Interface Fully complies with USB 2.0 or 1.1 USB date transfer rate USB high speed (480Mbps), and full speed (12Mbps) Wireless LAN (WLAN) environment c.
5 Ch a p te r 3 I n s ta ll at i on / U n i ns ta ll at i on 3 . 1 I ns ta l la t i o n Be fo r e y o u p r o ce e d wi t h t h e i n s t al l a t i o n , p l ease n ot i c e t h e f o ll o wi n g d e sc r i pt i o n s. N ot e1 : T h e f o ll o wi n g i n s t alla t i o n was op e r a t e d un d e r Wi n do ws XP .
6 3. Choose a se t up l a n guage. 4 . Cl i ck OK . 5 . Cl i ck Next to p r ocess t h e i nst a l l a t i o n ..
7 6 . T he syste m sta r ts soft w a r e i nst a l l a t i o n of t h e W L A N U SB adapto r . 7 . On W i n do w s Logo S oft w a r e In s t a l l a t i on s c r e e n, cl i c k C o n t i nu e A n y w ay to con t i nue . Note: Not a l l t h e d r i v e r s w i l l have t h i s m essage bo x .
8 8 Cl i ck F i n ish to co m p l ete the i nst a l l a tion. 9 . A fte r setup, r est a r t yo u r co m pute r ..
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3.2 Uninstallation A. Uninstall the WLAN USB Adaptor Driver from “S tart” “All Programs” From “Wireless Network Driver and Utility” or “Control Panel” ”Change or Remove Programs”. C lick “Uninstall” (or “Change/Remove”) to remove W ireless LAN USB Adaptor driver .
B. C lick “OK” if you want to remove W ireless LAN USB Adaptor Driver . C. C lick “Finish” to complete the uninstallation. 1 1.
C h a p t e r 4 R t W L A N : W i r e l e s s L A N Management GUI 4.1 Introduction of Main Window A. Main Menu The main menu includes five submenus. Refresh When clicking the refresh menu, you can update and re-enumerate the contents of adapt o r list area.
View (V) Enable/disable the presen ce of status bar. Without the che ck mark (v) the status bar will be hidden. Help (H) Click the menu item “About RtWLan” to show the about dialog.
version and license information are shown in the about dialog. B. Adapt o r List Area All connected adapt o rs on this system with multiple adapt o r installations are displayed in this area. It is easy for users to change the selected adapt o r by one click.
configuration sections fo r both Station and AP mode. D. Global Control Bar Each control item on this bar affects the adapt o r or management GUI directly.
The hints or status of the management GUI are presented in the status bar. 4.2 Station M ode The following explanations focus on the properties area. Infrastructure and Ad-Hoc With both Infrastructure and Ad-Hoc types, the properties should look like the picture above .
A. General P age This page represents the general information of this adapter. 1. Status The status of station connection to AP . 2. Speed Current transition speed in M bps (Mega-Bits-Per-Second) . 3. Type Current wireless LAN configuration type . 4. Encryption Current encryption mode used .
B. Profile P age This page provides profiles management such as add, remove, edit and duplicate just by pressing the respected button. Available Profile(s) The list box shows all the created profiles. 1. Add Add a new profile for AP or IBSS (Ad-Hoc mode).
C. Available Network(s) Show network connection around this system 1. Refresh Rescan network connection around this system . 2. Add to Profile Create profile for selected network connec tion and add it to to profile list.
1. Power Save None: without power save function . Min: wake up more frequently to receive packets . Max: wake up less frequently to receive packets . 2. Wireless Mode 802.11b 802.11g/b 3. 802.11b Preamble Mode Long: higher quality but with lower performance than preamble short mode .
E. Status P age NDIS Driver V ersion: Driver version Short Radio Header : No Encryption: Current encryption mode. Authenticate: A uthentication state Channel Set: S elected channel plan currently . MAC Address: MAC address of this adapter .
4.3 AP M ode A. General Page This page provides general informati on of this AP , including name, MAC address and list of joined stations. 1. SSID The name of this AP . 2. BSSID Six two-digital numbers of the MAC address of this AP . 3. Association Table It is the list of joined station s to this AP .
The AID field is a value assigned by an AP during associatio n that represents 16-bit ID of a station. It is a unique value assigned by AP. 5. MAC address It is the six two-digit numbers that assemb le the MAC address of respected joined station.
without network authentication. Encryption ~ WEP: you decide to set up the basic data encryption with a defined network key. ■ Shared Key + WEP You decide to apply both authentic ation and data encryption to prevent unauthouized login.
1. Beacon Interval This filed indicates the interval between each beacon that this AP sends out in unit of TU (1024 micro-seconds). 2. DTIM Period The DTIM Period field is the number of Beacon intervals between successive DTIMs. 3. Preamble Mode ■ Long: higher quality but with lower performance than preamble short mode .
D. SoftAP Page 1. ConnName List all network connections to this system. You can pick up one from the listed item(s) wh ose network domain you would want to connect to . 2. Select Make the desired network connect ion to public network. 3. ICS Internet Connection Sharing.
Appendix 1: How to U se 802.1x ( Step by S tep ) Step 1 : Set Network Authentication mode to WPA 802.1x ,or WPA2 802.1x Step 2 : Set Data E ncryption to TKIP ,or AES Step 3 : Set EAP Type to MD5 , GTC.
Step 3.1.1 : When set TTLS , s et Tunnel Type to CHAP , MSCHAP , MSCHAP-V2 , PAP , or EAP-MD5 Step 3.1.2 : When set PEAP , s et Tunnel Type to MD5 , GTC , TLS , or MSCHAP-V2 Step 3.2 If you do not set PEAP to TLS ,you could use certificate. Step 4 : After you finish above steps.
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