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802.11n Wireless PCI Express Adapter

WNL-9500

User’s Manual

Version: 1.00

Date: November 2007

Summary of Contents for 802.11n Wireless PCI Express Adapter WNL-9500

Page 1: ...802 11n Wireless PCI Express Adapter WNL 9500 User s Manual Version 1 00 Date November 2007 ...

Page 2: ...spective holders Federal Communication Commission Interference Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device pursuant to Part 15 of FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not ...

Page 3: ... Terminal Equipment and Satellite Earth Station Equipment As of April 8 2000 Safety This equipment is designed with the utmost care for the safety of those who install and use it However special attention must be paid to the dangers of electric shock and static electricity when working with electrical equipment All guidelines of this and of the computer manufacture must therefore be allowed at all...

Page 4: ...municipal waste and have to collect such WEEE separately Revision User s Manual for PLANET 802 11n Wireless PCI Express Adapter Model WNL 9500 Rev 1 0 November 2007 Part No EM WNL9500 ...

Page 5: ...Using 802 1x Certification 24 3 1 3 Using 802 1x CA Server 26 3 2 Site Syrvey 27 3 3 View Network Link Status and Statistics 30 3 3 1 Link Status 30 3 3 2 Statistics 32 3 4 Advanced Settings 33 3 5 QoS Setting 36 3 6 WPS Configuration 37 3 6 1 WPS Setup PBC Push Button Configuration 38 3 6 2 WPS Setup PIN 42 3 7 About 46 Chapter 4 Soft AP Function 47 4 1 Switch to AP Mode and Basic Configuration 4...

Page 6: ...mber For WLAN security issues the WNL 9500 supports 64 128 bit WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy and WPA WPA2 Wi Fi Protected Access for securing wireless network connections The driver and utility support most popular operating systems Windows 2000 XP and Vista With advanced features and high performance capability the WNL 9500 is an excellent choice for constructing a wide range of wireless solutions...

Page 7: ... serious injury or could be fatal If they throw the network card the card will be damaged PLEASE KEEP THIS NETWORK CARD OUT THE REACH OF CHILDREN 4 This network card will become hot when being used for long time This is normal and is not a malfunction DO NOT put the network card on a paper cloth or other flammable objects after the network card has been used for a long time 5 There s no user servi...

Page 8: ...tors Tx Rx Link Channels 2 412 2 462GHz FCC Canada 11 Channels 2 412 2 4835GHz Japan TELEC 14 Channels 2 412 2 472GHz Euro ETSI 13 Channels Management Built in utility or Windows XP Zero Configuration utility Operating systems Windows 2000 XP 2003 server Vista Environmental Mechanical Characteristics Temperature Operating 0 55 degree C Storage 20 70 degree C Operating Humidity Operating 0 85 Stora...

Page 9: ...ace 2 WPS Button 3 Antenna Connectors 3x 4 Link LED 5 Tx Rx LED LED Name Light Status Description On Linked to a wireless access point Link Off Not linked to any wireless access point Blinking Transferring receiving data Tx Rx Off No wireless activity ...

Page 10: ... empty PCIe slot of your computer Tip It s recommended to touch some metal material before installing the network card or the static on your body may damage the components on network card and computer 2 Fasten the antennas to the antenna connectors on the network card by clockwise direction 3 You can bend the antenna to fit actual needs ...

Page 11: ...4 To improve radio reception please adjust antennas to the position shown in the picture Rear view Top view ...

Page 12: ...is performed in Windows XP system The installations in Windows 2000 and Vista are silimar 1 Power on the computer The system will find the new hardware and display the below message Click Cancel to skip 2 Insert the bundled CD into the CD ROM drive to launch the auto run program Once completed a menu screen will appear 3 Click the 2000 XP Utility hyperlink to initiate the install wizard ...

Page 13: ...ptimize for WiFi mode or Optimize for performance mode If you want to enhance wireless performance please select Optimize for performance mode However wireless compatibility is not guaranteed in this mode If you want to use this mode you may not be able to communicate with older wireless devices and wireless access point such as 802 11b devices but the data transfer rate will be enhanced in this m...

Page 14: ...reless devices please select Optimize for WiFi Mode After you finish the selection please click Next to continue If you see Found New Hardware message again please ignore it and wait 7 Click Install to begin the installation 8 Please click Finish to finish the installation ...

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Page 16: ... chapter for details Exit close the Configuration Utility tool 3 1 Connection Profile Management If you need to connect to different wireless access points at different time like to access point of your home office cybercafe or public wireless service you can store the connection parameters encryption passphrase security etc etc as a profile for every access point so you don t have to input these ...

Page 17: ...ign indicates the activated profile is not been connecting Add Delete Edit Button Click these buttons to add delete edit the selected profiles Activate Button Click Activate to connect to the selected profile When a profile is activated the card will be initially connected to the profile Or you can add a connected wireless access point or wireless device to a profile by clicking Site Survey tab th...

Page 18: ...And you can set the parameter for this profile here ...

Page 19: ...twork nearby to the profile list pull down the menu all the networks will be listed for you to add one of them to the profile list PSM Power Saving Mode The power saving function is only available when the network type is in Infrastructure CAM Constantly Awake Mode The card will always set in active mode PSM Power Saving Mode Enable the card in the power saving mode when it is idle Network Type In...

Page 20: ...m packet size required for an RTS Request To Send For packets smaller than this threshold an RTS is not sent and the packet is transmitted directly to the wireless network Select a setting within a range of 0 to 2347 bytes Minor change is recommended Fragment Threshold The value defines the maximum size of packets any packet size larger than the value will be fragmented If you have decreased this ...

Page 21: ...in name and select encryption type You can check Show Password box so the password you inputted will be displayed as you type but not replace by asterisk WPA WPA provides a scheme of mutual authentication using either IEEE 802 1x Extensible Authentication Protocol EAP authentication or pre shared key PSK technology It provides a high level of assurance to enterprises small businesses and home user...

Page 22: ... 1x Setting button to set 802 1x parameters See next section Encryption Mode None Disable the encryption mode WEP Enable the WEP Data Encryption When the item is selected you have to continue setting the WEP Encryption keys TKIP TKIP Temporal Key Integrity Protocol changes the temporal key every 10 000 packets a packet is a kind of message transmitted over a network This insures much greater secur...

Page 23: ...he A F a f and 0 9 range or 13 digit ASCII characters including a z and 0 9 as the encryption keys For example 01234567890123456789abcdef or administrator After you finish all settings click OK to save settings and exit The profile you just created will be displayed Select the profile you wish to use and click Activate to use the profile you selected You can only activate a profile a time and the ...

Page 24: ...eter Description Authentication Type hentication protocols this card has supported are included as EAP TTLS PEAP and TTLS are similar and easier than TLS in that The EAP aut follows This setting has to be consistent with the wireless APs or Routers that the card intends to connect P they specify a stand alone authentication protocol be used within an encrypted tunnel TTLS supports any protocol wit...

Page 25: ...ways selections for you to choose whether to recovery the session i different status Id E P E U A client certificate is required for TLS and is optional for TTLS and PEAP unneled Authentication hen the authentication type is PEAP or TTLS select a protocol to be entity his is the protected user EAP Identity used for authentication The assword he password used for authentication It may contain up to...

Page 26: ... Choose the server from the list to issue the certificate If Any Trusted CA is selected any CA included in the list provided by the Microsoft Certificate Store is permitted Allow Intermediate Certificates A server designates an issuer as a trusted root authority by placing the issuer s self signed certificate which contains the issuer s public key into the trusted root certification authority cert...

Page 27: ...elans com where the server is blueberry zeelans com but it may be any name used in the certificate name field 3 2 Site Syrvey From the Site Survey screen all the networks nearby will be listed You can change the connection to another network or add one of the networks to your own profile list Parameter Description Available Networks This list shows all available wireless networks within range of y...

Page 28: ...t within one minute 2 If the access point you selected enables encryption please proceed to next step 3 If the wireless access point does not have SSID you ll be prompted to input it here Please ask the administrator of this AP and input the exact SSID here then click OK when ready If the SSID you provided here is wrong you ll not be able to connect to this access point If the wireless access poin...

Page 29: ...not require authentication please skip this step 5 You ll see Connected SSID SSID is the SSID of the AP you connected to message displayed at lower left corner of configuration utility Now you re successfully connected to the access point or wireless device you selected ...

Page 30: ...3 3 View Network Link Status and Statistics The configuration utility provides information about network statistics and link status 3 3 1 Link Status ...

Page 31: ...l and the frequency used for the networking Link Speed Mbps Display the transmission and reception rate of the network Throughput Kbits sec Display the speed of data transmitted and received Link Quality This bar indicates the quality of the link The higher the percentage the better the quality dBm If you want to know the signal strength in the unit of dBm select this check box ...

Page 32: ...eived by the card This indicator helps to find the proper position of the wireless device for quality network operation Noise Level Display the noise level in the wireless environment 3 3 2 Statistics All connection related statistics is displayed here You can click Reset Counter to reset the statistics of all items back to 0 ...

Page 33: ...ther wireless devices it is recommended to setting the card to this mode This mode is also the default setting 802 11 B G mix If you have a mix of 802 11b and 802 11g wireless stations in your network it is recommended to setting the card to this mode 802 11 B only This card can be compatible with both 802 11g and 802 11b wireless stations If there are only 802 11b wireless stations in the network...

Page 34: ... AP also supports TCP Window Size The larger TCP Window the better performance Fast Roaming at 70dBm When you want to fast roaming to the network nearby without intercepting the wireless connection especially the card is applied to the multimedia application or a voice call you can enable the parameter The card will fast roaming to the near network when the receive sensitivity signal strength is l...

Page 35: ...t there is no perceptible delay in voice or other time sensitive applications Enable Radio Measurement When this parameter is enabled the Cisco AP can run the radio monitoring through the associated CCX compliant clients to continuously monitor the WLAN radio environment and discover any new APs that are transmitting beacons Non Serving Channel Measurements The Cisco AP can perform monitoring meas...

Page 36: ...erent kinds of data to give higher priority to applications which require instant responding Therefore you can improve the performance of such network applications Parameter Description WMM Enable Check this box to enable WMM function Please click Apply button on the right of this check box after you check or uncheck this box so corresponding settings in this window will be activated or deactivate...

Page 37: ... not responding after this time it will be removed from DLS table Tear Down If you want to remove a specific wireless device from DLS table select the device and click this button to remove it Note This function does not support in Windows VISTA 3 6 WPS Configuration Wi Fi Protected Setup WPS is the latest wireless network technology which makes wireless network setup become very simple If you hav...

Page 38: ...ig Mode to Enrollee and then push the WPS button on your wireless access point the button used to activate WPS standby mode may have another name or use other way to start WPS standby mode as the instruction given by your wireless access point s user manual ...

Page 39: ...fore you start to establish the wireless connection by using WPS you can click Rescan button to search for WPS enabled access points near you to make sure the WPS function of your access point is activated ...

Page 40: ...rmation about selected access point 4 Click PBC button now to start to establish wireless connection by WPS and please be patient This may require several seconds to one minute to complete When you see WPS status is connected successfully message it means the connection between your WNL 9500 and access point is successfully connected by WPS and the information about access point you connected to w...

Page 41: ...nnect your wireless network card from a connected access point or select another WPS enabled wireless access point then click Connect to establish connection to selected access point if there are more than one WPS enabled access point found You can also click Rotate button and next access point on the list will be selected to establish connection ...

Page 42: ...p PIN The PIN number of your WNL 9500 is an eight digit number located at the upper right position of configuration utility Remember it and input the number to your wireless access point as the WPS PIN code Please refer to the user manual of your wireless access point for instructions about how to do this ...

Page 43: ...Click PIN button now and wait for few seconds to one minute If a wireless access point with correct PIN code is found you ll be connected to that access point ...

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Page 45: ...You may have to click PIN for few more times to try again If you still can not connect to access point by this way please make sure the PIN code you provided to access point is correct ...

Page 46: ... hyperlink to connect the PLANET website You can also obtain basic information about the WNL 9500 such as the Driver Utility and EEPROM Version The MAC Address of the card is displayed in the screen as well Please click OK to close configuration utility ...

Page 47: ... mode of the wireless card is Station Mode becoming a client of other wireless access points by default If you want to switch to AP mode please right click WNL 9500 utility icon and select Switch to AP Mode After you select Switch to AP Mode the WNL 9500 available options will change If you want to switch the wireless card back to station mode become a client of other wireless access points click ...

Page 48: ...t please select it from Name dropdown menu and click Enable ICS if your computer does not have another network card with Internet connection please click Not enable ICS After you click Enable ICS or Not enable ICS you ll see the basic configuration menu of the AP function ...

Page 49: ...r of channels available here will vary depends on the setting of Country Region Code Wireless Mode Please select the wireless operating mode You can limit the type of wireless client to 802 11b or 802 11g only or allow 802 11b g and 802 11b g n clients It s safe to select 802 11 B G N mix to allow all kinds of wireless client to connect to your computer unless you want to limit the type of wireles...

Page 50: ...egion user located before importing Beacon ms You can define the time interval that a beacon signal should be send Default value is 100 Do not modify this value unless you know what will be affected Idle Time Select the idle time of your wireless network card Default value is 300 Do not modify this value unless you know what will be affected No forwarding among wireless clients Check this box and ...

Page 51: ...ansferred over the air to enhance data security level It s recommended to enable data encryption unless you wish to open your computer and its internet connection to the public When you click Security Setting in WNL 9500 configuration utility the following window will appear Parameter Description Authentication Type Please select a wireless authentication type you wish to use Available options are...

Page 52: ...nd data packets times the value you specified in Group Rekey Interval field WEP Key 1 4 Please input the WEP encryption key here when you select WEP If you want to use WEP 64 bits encryption please input 10 characters if you select HEX or input 5 characters if you select ASCII If you want to use WEP 128bits encryption please input 26 characters if you select HEX or input 13 characters if you selec...

Page 53: ...h proper authentication settings to connect to this access point Allow All Only allow wireless clients with MAC address listed here to connect to this access point Reject All Reject wireless clients with MAC address listed here to be connected to this access point MAC Address Input the MAC address of the wireless client you wish to allow or reject here No colon or hyphen required ...

Page 54: ...e button to remove it Remove all Delete all MAC addresses in the list Apply Save and apply changes you made 4 4 Connection table If you want to see the list of all wireless clients connected to this access point please follow the following instructions Click Mac Table tab and a list containing all connected wireless clients will appear ...

Page 55: ...s client AID The serial number of this wireless connection Power Saving Mode Displays the capability of power saving function of this wireless client Status Displays additional information of this wireless Connection like current wireless operating mode and data transfer rate ...

Page 56: ...nt will log all wireless related activities as a log You can follow the following instructions to view the content of the event log Click Event Log tab and the event log will be displayed You can click Clear to remove all entries in the log ...

Page 57: ...ion about how your software access point works you can follow the following instructions to view the statistics of the access point Click Statistics tab and the event log will be displayed You can click RESET COUNTERS button to reset all counters to zero ...

Page 58: ... PC 5 Restart your PC and repeat the hardware and software installation as specified in this User Guide Q I cannot communicate with the other computers linked via Ethernet in the Infrastructure configuration A 1 Make sure that the PC to which the Adapter is associated is powered on 2 Make sure that your Adapter is configured on the same channel and with the same security options as with the other ...

Page 59: ... connect by doing this try to move closer to the place where the wireless access point or wireless device is located Q Nothing happens when I click Launch config utilities A 1 Please make sure the wireless network card is firmly inserted into your computer s PCI slot If the Planet configuration utility s icon is black the network card is not detected by your computer Switch the computer off and in...

Page 60: ... resources By using WMM end user satisfaction is maintained in a wider variety of environments and traffic conditions WMM makes it possible for home network users and enterprise network managers to decide which data streams are most important and assign them a higher traffic priority 2 What is WMM Power Save WMM Power Save is a set of features for Wi Fi networks that increase the efficiency and fl...

Page 61: ...copies of data by multiple antenna to improve data transfer performance By using multiple antennas not only data transfer rate is improved but also the wireless stability ...

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