Conceptronic Wireless 54Mbps USB Adapter
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The Wireless network name field must contain the SSID of the AP you are
configuring a connection for. This SSID is entered by default and in the case shown
above, is default.
Authentication Modes
There are four available types of user authentication supported by your C54RU
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Open System, Shared, WPA, and WPA-PSK. Authentication is a process very similar
to entering a username and password when you log on to your PC. It is intended to
prevent unauthorized people from accessing your WLAN network. You should
select the same Authentication mode here that you have selected for your WLAN
Access Point.
If you have enabled WEP on your AP, you can enable WEP on the C54RU and enter
the necessary wireless encryption keys on this screen. You will need to know the
length of the keys that will be entered. The drop-down menu allows you to specify
the key length from 64 bits (10 hexadecimal digits)
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to 128 bits (16 ASCII
alphanumeric characters).
You must enter the encryption keys
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including specifying the default key
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exactly
as you entered them into your Access Point. If you have any difficultly making a
connection between your C54RU and your Access Point, disable WEP and verify that
the connection can be made without any encryption. Then re-enter the WEP keys
into your Access Point and your C54RU such that they are exactly the same.
If your WLAN network will not use the Infrastructure mode (using an Access Point),
but will use the peer-to-peer (Ad-hoc) mode, you can click the This is a computer
to computer (ad hoc) network; no access points are used click-box.
Setting the IP Address and Proxy Server
The C54RU’s WLAN Utility allows you to make IP address and proxy server settings
for each of the WLAN links you want to connect to. This allows you to have
multiple IP address and proxy server settings for multiple WLAN Access Points. For
example, if you have an Wireless Access Point at work, you will need one set of IP
address and proxy server settings to connect to your companies LAN. If you also
have a Wireless Access Point at home, you will need a different set of settings to
connect to that Access Point. For each of the WLAN links that are listed in the
Preferred WLANs field of the Configuration page, you can enter a different set of IP
address and proxy server settings. Each time that link is established, the settings
saved for use with that link will become active.
Enabling the Profile Settings
In order to make use of the IP address and proxy server settings for each WLAN link
you want to configure, you will need to enable this on the Options page. Clicking
the Option tab will open the following page.
