3.4 Wireless LAN Adapter Utility – Site Survey
Tab
Click the
Site Survey tab
and the following screen will be displayed.
From the Site Survey page, you can search all access points and wireless LAN adapters that
are within the service range of the wireless LAN adapter. The service range the wireless LAN
card supports is up to 100 meters indoor or 300 meters outdoors. Click
Search
button, and the
wireless LAN card will start to search access points and WLAN adapters and show the result in
the list. The list includes information about the ESSID and BSSID of the access point and
WALN adapter, the signal strength, the channel where the access point and WLAN adapter
operates, and whether or not WEP encryption is used. You can highlight the access point or
WLAN adapter you want to associate and click
Connect
or double click on your choice, and
the system will take you back to the
Link Info
tab showing you the parameters of the
connection newly established. If the wireless device you attempt to connect uses WEP
function, then the system will take you to the Configuration tab/Encryption page.
In the above figure, you can see there are three access points within the service range of the
wireless LAN card. You may click the
Search
button to update this list and click the scroll bar
to right to see more information the list provides.
3.5 Wireless LAN Card Utility – Statistics Tab
Click the
Statistics tab
and the following screen will be displayed.
Wireless LAN CardBus Adapter