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Chapter 1 Introduction   

Thank you for purchasing Wireless LAN USB Adapt

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Wireless LAN USB

 

Adapt

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perfect combination of both 

performance and cost-effective product introduced. 

It is sincerely hoped that

 you  

can enjoy the 

wireless world through this solid

ly

 profiled wireless 

adaptor

.   

It

 provides a full solution of all the IEEE 802.11 b/g protocols

, that 

pass

 

the W

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 tests

 and are

 compatible with all the wireless 

products with W

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i

 logo. If you have a Wireless LAN USB

 Adaptor

 

on hand, it means you can connect to the wireless world without any 
difficulty.  

It also

 provides all the data rates in the IEEE 802.11 b/g standards

, with

 

both

 

short and long preambles to ensure the compatibility of legacy 

wireless

products and new ones, saving the panic works for end users to find 
compatible products.   

Since the security

 issue

 has bec

o

me one of the most important 

one

 in the wireless 

society, 

it 

provides you with the full security coverage from the 64/128bits 

WEP encryptions, second generation WPA-PSK encryption, to the most 
advanced WPA2-AES encryption. WPA2 is the latest security standard currently 
approved by W

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 standard

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Saving mode, Adhoc wireless Lan, Wake on Lan

 

(WOL) and other exciting 

features are also included in this Wireless LAN USB Adapter. 

This user manual will

 

gui

de

 you through these exciting features in the following chapters and we 

is believed

 

that you will 

be greatly satisfied

 with its performance and ease of use.   

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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Summary of Contents for AWUS036E

Page 1: ...Wireless LAN USB Adaptor User Manual V1 0 1...

Page 2: ...e more information may have become available subsequent to the production of this guide Content Chapter 1 Introduction 3 Chapter 2 Specifications 4 Chapter 3 Installation Uninstallation 5 3 1 Installa...

Page 3: ...g standards with both short and long preambles to ensure the compatibility of legacy wireless products and new ones saving the panic works for end users to find compatible products Since the security...

Page 4: ...pter 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 connections...

Page 5: ...e installed the WLAN USB driver utility before please uninstall the old version first 1 If you insert the Wireless LAN Network Adaptor into your computer USB port before installing the software progra...

Page 6: ...6 3 Choose a set up language 4 Click OK 5 Click Next to process the installation...

Page 7: ...7 6 The system starts software installation of the WLAN USB adaptor 7 On Windows Logo Software Installation screen click Continue Anyway to continue Note Not all the drivers will have this message box...

Page 8: ...8 8 Click Finish to complete the installation 9 After setup restart your computer...

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Page 10: ...ninstall the WLAN USB Adaptor Driver from Start All Programs From Wireless Network Driver and Utility or Control Panel Change or Remove Programs Click Uninstall or Change Remove to remove Wireless LAN...

Page 11: ...B Click OK if you want to remove Wireless LAN USB Adaptor Driver C Click Finish to complete the uninstallation 11...

Page 12: ...uction 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 adaptor list area Mode M Wireless configur...

Page 13: ...View V Enable disable the presence of status bar Without the check mark v the status bar will be hidden Help H Click the menu item About RtWLan to show the about dialog The application 13...

Page 14: ...click The contents of properties area are dependant on wireless configuration that the selected adaptor is set up If only single adaptor is installed on the system only one adaptor is always selected...

Page 15: ...of Windows If not management GUI will shut down while clicking Close button with unchecked condition Turn off the radio to save power While the radio is off the links with other wireless network node...

Page 16: ...k like the picture above Six property pages present different information of current wireless network status Please read the following explanations before you reviewing these pages it could help you t...

Page 17: ...nal quality of packets received from wireless network We recommend connecting AP with over 70 signal strength 7 Throughput Diagram Current throughput including transmission Tx and total traffic Total...

Page 18: ...profiles 1 Add Add a new profile for AP or IBSS Ad Hoc mode 2 Remove Remove the selected profile 3 Edit Edit contents of selected profile 4 Duplicate Make copy of selected profile 5 Set Default Set th...

Page 19: ...ork s Show network connection around this system 1 Refresh Rescan network connection around this system 2 Add to Profile Create profile for selected network connection and add it to to profile list D...

Page 20: ...quality However in a poor signal quality environment data throughput might be worse on high fragment threshold than low fragment threshold 5 RTS Threshold Threshold of Request To Send mechanism The RT...

Page 21: ...annel Frequency Current channel number Status Wireless network status SSID name of connecting AP Network Type Indicate current network configuration type Power Save Mode Current setting power save mod...

Page 22: ...nformation 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...

Page 23: ...ave any interaction with the AP in 10 minutes it will be disassociated from the Infra structure BSS 7 Config A dialog of this AP is shown for configuration modification 7 1 Network Name SSID Name of t...

Page 24: ...vide either 5 or 13 ASCII characters on Network key edit box PASSPHRASE You could input words on Network Key edit box 64 bits The generated pass key is 64 bit to be complied with data packets 128 bits...

Page 25: ...vals between successive DTIMs 3 Preamble Mode Long higher quality but with lower performance than preamble short mode Short Normal quality but with higher performance then preamble long mode Auto sele...

Page 26: ...etwork connection to public network 3 ICS Internet Connection Sharing It enables this AP to create the domain to share this internet intranet network connection 4 Firewall Any of a number of security...

Page 27: ...ndix 1 How to Use 802 1x Step by Step Step 1 Set Network Authentication mode to WPA 802 1x or WPA2 802 1x Step 2 Set Data Encryption to TKIP or AES Step 3 Set EAP Type to MD5 GTC TLS LEAP TTLS or PEAP...

Page 28: ...o 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 You should fill up the following fields Username Identity Password User...

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