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ALFA WiFi USB Adapter User Guide

 

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2.  Click the 

Profile 

icon of the utility and click the 

Add 

button on the screen that appears. 

3.  The  Profile  configuration  screen  will  appear,  please  select  SSID  ALFA_free  from  the  drop-

down  list.  Enter 

Test 

for  the  Profile  Name,  and  select 

Infrastructure 

for  the  Network  Type, 

then  click  Next  to  the  next  page.  Select 

WPA-PSK 

for  the  Authentication, 

AES 

for  the 

Encryption  and  click Next to continue. Enter 

0123456789 

for the Key. You can make some 

advanced  settings  in  the  following  screens  or  you  are  recommended  to  leave  the  options 

default if you are not sure about them. 

4.  Highlight the profile named 

Test 

on the profile list and click 

Active 

on the Profile screen. The 

utility will establish a connection with this AP by configured profile. 

2.2  Configure with Windows XP Wireless Zero Configuration

 

1.  Right click the icon  

 

on  the bottom of the desktop firs t  a n d  you will see Figure 2-29. Click 

the  

Use  Zero  Configuration  as  Configuration  Utility  

option  to  enable  Wireless  Zero 

Configuration function. 

Figure 2-29 Use Zero Configuration as Configuration utility 

2.    After  that,  double  click  the  icon   

,  and  the  following  Figure  2 -30  will  appear  with 

some available wireless network choices. You can highlight a network and then click 

Connect 

to add to a network. 

Figure 2-30 Choose a Wireless Network 

Содержание ALFA WiFi USB

Страница 1: ...Wireless USB Adapter User Guide...

Страница 2: ...rference by one or more of the following measures Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circui...

Страница 3: ...s transmitter must not be co located or operating in conjunction with any other antenna or transmitter This equipment has been SAR evaluated for use in hand SAR measurements are based on 5mm spacing f...

Страница 4: ...r software from your PC 6 Chapter 2 Configuration 8 2 1 Configuration of Utility 8 2 1 1 Site Survey 9 2 1 2 Profile 9 2 1 3 Link Information 20 2 1 4 Advanced 22 2 1 5 About 23 2 1 6 An example for a...

Страница 5: ...you will be prompted Found New Hardware Wizard click the Cancel button and run the Setup Wizard program on the CD ROM Note The Setup steps for Windows XP Vista 7 Win 8 Win10 are very similar so the fo...

Страница 6: ...ALFA WiFi USB Adapter User Guide 2 2 Then you ll see the screen as below You can choose which to be installed Figure 2 2 Setup Type...

Страница 7: ...dapter Utility please select the Ralink Configuration Tool and click Next II If you only want to use the Microsoft Zero Configuration Tool to configure the wireless connection please select Microsoft...

Страница 8: ...een for installing will appear Figure 2 5 Setup Status 7 After the files have been successfully copied the screen in Figure 2 6 will appear Click the Finish button to finish the installation and reboo...

Страница 9: ...ully you should see an icon or in your system tray 1 2 Uninstall Software 1 2 1 Uninstall the utility software from your PC 1 On the Windows taskbar click the Start button point to Programs Ralink Wir...

Страница 10: ...click the Start button and then click Control Panel 2 Double click the System icon click on the Hardware tab in the System window 3 Click on the Device Manager button double click Network adapters and...

Страница 11: ...by clicking Start All programs Ralink Wireless Ralink Wireless Utility If the icon still does not appear the driver or utility may be installed incorrectly or the adapter is unplugged please try agai...

Страница 12: ...h the list at any time Add to Profile Highlight an SSID and click the Add to Profile icon to add the network to the profile Connect Highlight an SSID and click the Connect icon to connect to an availa...

Страница 13: ...of profile preset to PROF indicate 1 2 3 SSID The access point or Ad hoc name Authentication Indicates the authentication mode used Encryption Indicates the encryption type used 2 1 2 1 Add a profile...

Страница 14: ...access point 2 An Ad Hoc network contains only clients such as laptops with wireless desktop adapters All the adapters must be in Ad Hoc mode to communicate 2 In the following screen select the corres...

Страница 15: ...nnection Then click the Next icon to continue Figure 2 6 Enter the Key 4 The Pre logon Connect configuration page as shown in Figure 3 7 will then appear Click the Next icon to continue Figure 2 7 Use...

Страница 16: ...ser Guide 12 Figure 2 8 Profile Added Successfully 2 1 2 2 Delete a profile Highlight the desired profile name on Profile List and click the Delete icon The profile will be removed from the list Figur...

Страница 17: ...From the Profile List screen shown in Figure 3 3 click the Import icon Then the Import 2 Profile screen will appear Browse to the directory where the profile is located 3 Highlight the profile name 4...

Страница 18: ...If the wireless card supports Wi Fi Protected Setup WPS you can establish a wireless connection between wireless card and router using either Push Button Configuration PBC method or PIN method For th...

Страница 19: ...e Access Point by Push Button Configuration PBC method Step 1 Press the WPS button on your Access Point device Figure 2 12 Press the WPS Button Step 2 Click the Add to Profile icon on the screen as Fi...

Страница 20: ...Method Figure 2 16 If your Access Point supports Wi Fi Protected Setup and the PIN method you can add the adapter to the network by the following two ways 1 Enter the PIN into my Access Point Step 1 C...

Страница 21: ...e of the adapter here takes 33716435 in the screen for example into the configuration utility of the AP For the detailed instructions of the AP configuration please refer to the User Guide of the AP F...

Страница 22: ...FA_free for example and then tick PIN numeric code on the screen below Figure 2 20 Step 3 Choose the Config Mode as Registrar and enter the PIN of AP here takes 90377211 for example into the field bes...

Страница 23: ...reen displaying the receiving and transmitting statistical information Click the Link Status icon you can view the current linking status of the Adapter as shown in the figure below Figure 2 23 Link S...

Страница 24: ...Throughput Link Quality Displays connection quality based on signal strength and TX RX packet error rate Signal Strength This shows the strength of the signal Link Speed Shows current transmit rate an...

Страница 25: ...ceived Successfully The number of frames successfully received Received With CRC Error The number of frames received with a CRC error Dropped Due To Out of Resource The number of frames dropped due to...

Страница 26: ...displaying the wireless card and driver version information Figure 2 28 About Version The version of the following items Utility Date The creation date of this utility Driver Date The creation date o...

Страница 27: ...s default if you are not sure about them 4 Highlight the profile named Test on the profile list and click Active on the Profile screen The utility will establish a connection with this AP by configure...

Страница 28: ...ve not installed SP2 for Windows XP the screen above will not be available 3 Enter the key and click Connect to continue Figure 2 31 Enter Network Key 4 If the connection is finished you will see the...

Страница 29: ...s router based on the selected card connecting to the Internet which will make the APs of the LAN share the Internet Figure 3 2 The configuration utility screen will then appear as shown in the figure...

Страница 30: ...AP for example you can name it My Network instead of the default name SoftAP 2A Step 2 Here you can select country region and set the AP s channel Figure 3 5 Channel Select the channel from the drop...

Страница 31: ...ppear Here you can make some advanced settings and click Apply to make these settings take effect Figure 3 8 Beacon Interval ms Enter a value between 20 1000 milliseconds for Beacon Interval here The...

Страница 32: ...hlight an existing Mac address in the list and click to remove it from the list as shown in Figure 3 11 When clicking you will clear all the Mac addresses in the Access Control List as Figure 3 12 Fig...

Страница 33: ...ALFA WiFi USB Adapter User Guide 29 Figure 3 10 Add an Mac Address to the List Figure 3 11 Remove an existing Mac Address from the List...

Страница 34: ...B Adapter User Guide 30 Figure 3 12 Clear All MAC Addresses 3 4 Associate List Figure 3 13 shows the link status page It displays detailed station information of current connection Figure 3 13 Mac Tab...

Страница 35: ...n AID Raise value by current connection Power Saving Mode Support Power Saving Mode on the currently connected station Status The link status of the current connection 3 5 About The About page display...

Страница 36: ...ssion statistical techniques embedded in the receiver can recover the original data without the need for retransmission To an unintended receiver DSSS appears as low power wideband noise and is reject...

Страница 37: ...vices must be configured with the same SSID This is typically the configuration parameter for a wireless PC card It corresponds to the ESSID in the wireless Access Point and to the wireless network na...

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