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Plug&Share

™

Wireless PCI Adapter
22 Mbps Turbo 802.11b

6500B4X

User Manual

Copyright © 2003 Advanced American Telephones. All Rights Reserved.
AT&T and the Globe Design are trademarks of AT&T Corp., licensed to Advanced
American Telephones. All marks are trademarks of their respective corporations.

Summary of Contents for Plug&Share 6500B4X

Page 1: ...802 11b 6500B4X User Manual Copyright 2003 Advanced American Telephones All Rights Reserved AT T and the Globe Design are trademarks of AT T Corp licensed to Advanced American Telephones All marks ar...

Page 2: ...ONFIGURE ADAPTER FOR YOUR NETWORK 5 Installation Wizard 5 Test Internet access 6 Link Info screen 7 Configuration screen 8 Security screen 9 Site Survey screen 10 ENABLE FILE AND PRINTER SHARING 10 Fi...

Page 3: ...MB to load Adobe Acrobat Reader AT T Plug Share Wireless Router or other 802 11b or g compliant router or access point STEP 1 Install the Driver and Configuration Utility 1 Do NOT install adapter fir...

Page 4: ...uter before opening it STEP 3 Recognize the Hardware Depending on the Windows operating system version running on your computer one of several screens may appear to inform you that the computer recogn...

Page 5: ...fier up to 32 characters long The SSID is case sensitive i e cat and Cat are not the same All wireless adapters on your network must use the same SSID as your wireless router and or access point WEP E...

Page 6: ...omatically set the channel to agree with your wire less router and or access point If you see Pass in the top two fields on this screen you are ready to close this window and begin using your wire les...

Page 7: ...mission speed setting Channel The current channel setting of the wireless network Rescan Refresh the text fields Radio Off This option turns off communication between your wire less adapter and your w...

Page 8: ...s to one as far away as possible from the others in use For example if other networks use channels 6 9 and 11 try changing yours to channel 1 TX Rate If you use an AT T Plug Share router set the TX tr...

Page 9: ...mit communication to devices with identical WEP settings Phrase Key Enter a security phrase If you choose the Hex Key Format see below you must use hexadecimal digits 0 9 a f If you choose the ASCII K...

Page 10: ...clicking the Utility icon 4 vertical bars next to your computer s time display Use the tabs in the blue bar at the top of the screen to display the Wizard Link Info Configuration Security or Site Sur...

Page 11: ...nternet Connections Step 3 Click Network Connections Windows XP Windows 2000 Windows Me 98 SE Caution Before making any changes to your networking settings please review this section carefully Failure...

Page 12: ...ppears in this list and check it if it is unchecked If you do not see it in the list click the Install button and follow directions to install File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks Click OK...

Page 13: ...top then click the right mouse button Scroll down to click on Properties Step 8 Click the Change button Step 9 Enter a unique name to identify your computer Each computer must have a different name En...

Page 14: ...et work each time you restart Windows Step 11 To verify that configuration is complete double click the My Computer icon on your desktop then double click My Network Places In the next window displaye...

Page 15: ...right mouse button Scroll down to select Sharing NOTE If your printer is not listed in this window double click Add a Printer then follow the instructions to set up your printer for use Step 3 Click...

Page 16: ...select Sharing and Security NOTE This will allow others access to all files on this computer To restrict access to certain folders double click on the disk highlight a folder you want to share then fo...

Page 17: ...Double click the My Network Places icon on your desktop Step 2 Double click View Workgroup Computers to see a list of all computers connected to your network Step 3 Double click any icon to see a list...

Page 18: ...eck it if it is unchecked If you do not see it in the list click the Install button and follow directions to install File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks Click OK when File and Printer Shar...

Page 19: ...ngs Control Panel Step 6 Double click System Step 7 Click the Properties button Step 8 Enter a unique name to identify your computer Each computer must have a different name Enter a workgroup name All...

Page 20: ...work each time you restart Windows Step 10 To verify that configuration is complete double click the My Network Places icon on your desktop then double click Computers Near Me In the next window displ...

Page 21: ...then follow the instructions to set up your printer for use Step 3 Click the Shared As button then enter a unique name for this printer To continue click on the Security tab at the top of this window...

Page 22: ...restrict access to certain folders double click on the disk highlight a folder you want to share then follow steps 2 4 Step 3 Click the Share this folder button then enter a unique name for the drive...

Page 23: ...ep 1 Double click the My Network Places icon on your desktop Step 2 Double click Computers Near Me to see a list of all computers connected to your workgroup Step 3 Double click any icon to see a list...

Page 24: ...for Microsoft Networks Step 4 Click the Identification tab at the top of this screen then enter a unique name to identify your computer Each computer must have a different name Enter a workgroup name...

Page 25: ...rint Sharing button Step 7 Check the first option I want to be able to give others access to my files Check the second option if you want to share a printer connected to this computer Click OK when fi...

Page 26: ...borhood icon on your desktop In the next window displayed you should see the names of all network computers If any computers do not appear you will have to follow the steps in this section on each com...

Page 27: ...to select Sharing NOTE If your printer is not listed in this window double click Add Printer then follow the instructions to set up your printer for use Step 3 Click the Shared As button then enter a...

Page 28: ...ll allow others access to all files on this computer To restrict access to certain folders double click on the disk highlight a folder you want to share then follow steps 2 3 Step 3 Click the Shared A...

Page 29: ...6500B4X 29 To Share Network Files in Windows 98 Me Step 1 Double click the Network Neighborhood icon on your desktop Step 2 Double click any icon to see a list of all shared folders on that computer S...

Page 30: ...nnected to the Internet try rebooting the computer in which the adapter is installed Check the communication between the adapter and the router If you are using an AT T Plug Share router open your Int...

Page 31: ...em later To set your computer to automatically detect IP settings 1 Start Internet Explorer Whether you can connect to the Internet or not the browser screen will appear 2 Select Tools 3 Select Intern...

Page 32: ...T 1 etc DDNS Dynamic DNS Domain Name System DHCP DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol software automatically assigns IP addresses to client stations logging onto a TCP IP network which eliminates...

Page 33: ...TML pages to client browser for example Windows IE HTTP addresses all begin with the prefix http for example http www somedomainname com ICMP ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol is a TCP IP protoco...

Page 34: ...a portion of data that is transmitted in network communications Packets are also sometimes called frames and datagrams Packets contain not only data but also the destination IP address Ping Ping Packe...

Page 35: ...segment i e subnet A subnet mask is stored in the client machine server or router and is compared with an incoming IP address to determine whether to accept or reject the packet SysLog Server A SysLo...

Page 36: ...ransmitting data Transmissions are usually in the 2 4 GHz band WLAN devices do not need to be lined up for communications like infrared devices WLAN devices use routers which are connected to the wire...

Page 37: ...Up to 980 feet 300m Modulation Technology DSSS Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Modulation Techniques Barker 1Mbps 0db Barker 2Mbps 3db CCK 5 5Mbps 5 5db PBCC 5 5 Mbps 1 5db CCK 11Mbps 8 5db PBCC 11Mb...

Page 38: ...are att com Copyright 2003 Advanced American Telephones All Rights Reserved AT T and the Globe Design are trademarks of AT T Corp licensed to Advanced American Telephones All marks are trademarks of t...

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