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SMCWUSB-N4 300 Mbps Wireless USB Adapter User Manual 

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Installing the Driver 

Before you can use your SMCWUSB-N4 300 Mbps Wireless USB Adapter for the first time, 
install the driver from the supplied CD-ROM. When you install the driver, you will also install 
the SMC WLAN configuration tool for configuring the Adapter. To simplify installation, the 
driver is installed using a simple point-and-click wizard.  

 

If your computer is running the Microsoft Windows XP operating system, refer to the 
installation instructions below.  

 

If your computer is running the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system, see page 20.  

 

If you have an Apple Macintosh, see page 25. 

Installing the Driver on a Windows XP Computer 

To install the Adapter on a computer running Microsoft Windows XP: 

1.  Insert the Adapter into the USB port of your computer. 

 

2.  When the Found New Hardware dialog box appears, click 

Cancel

. 

Содержание SMCWUSB-N4

Страница 1: ...N4 User Manual 300 Mbps Wireless USB Adapter FastFind Links Getting Started Installing the Driver Using the SMC WLAN Configuration Tool Windows Using the SMC Wireless Utility Mac Troubleshooting Proc...

Страница 2: ...he right to change specifications at any time without notice No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying an...

Страница 3: ...Password 12 Enable Authentication and Encryption 13 General Network Security Guidelines 13 2 Installing the Driver 14 Installing the Driver on a Windows XP Computer 14 Installing the Driver on a Windo...

Страница 4: ...g a Profile 54 Modifying a Profile 55 Deleting a Profile 55 Monitoring Link Status 56 Working with Site Surveys 57 Viewing Statistics 58 Performing Advanced Operations 60 Working with WPS 63 WPS AP Li...

Страница 5: ...Wireless N speed and coverage Your SMCWUSB N4 supports speeds up to 300 Mbps six times faster than Wireless G when the network is 100 Wireless N To protect your data and privacy your SMCWUSB N4 suppo...

Страница 6: ...amples include parks athletic arenas exhibition centers disaster recovery shelters temporary offices and construction sites Accessing real time information With a wireless network workers who rely on...

Страница 7: ...lists the Adapter s specifications Appendix B defines the technical terms in this guide Document Conventions This document uses the following conventions to draw your attention to certain information...

Страница 8: ...is a placeholder for actual text provided by the user or system Angled brackets are also used to indicate variables screen code Indicates text that is displayed on screen or entered by the user angle...

Страница 9: ...s how to get started with your SMCWUSB N4 300 Mbps Wireless USB Adapter The topics covered in this chapter are Unpacking Package Contents page 10 System Requirements page 10 LED page 10 MAC Address an...

Страница 10: ...purchase Keep the carton including the original packing material in case you need to store the product or return it System Requirements To complete your installation you will need the following items...

Страница 11: ...radio waves As a result wireless networks can be more vulnerable to intruders than traditional wired networks To protect your wireless network from hackers and other unauthorized users you need to tak...

Страница 12: ...ot use your name address birth date passwords or other personal information as part of the SSID Choose an SSID that contains both letters and numbers Choose an SSID as long or nearly as long as the ma...

Страница 13: ...e only option available on older devices that do not support WPA General Network Security Guidelines Wireless network security is useless if the underlying network is not secure To secure your wireles...

Страница 14: ...ation the driver is installed using a simple point and click wizard If your computer is running the Microsoft Windows XP operating system refer to the installation instructions below If your computer...

Страница 15: ...Wireless USB Adapter User Manual 3 Insert the supplied CD ROM into your computer s CD ROM or DVD ROM drive The Welcome screen appears Note If the If the CD ROM or DVD ROM auto run feature is disabled...

Страница 16: ...B Adapter User Manual 4 Click Run The license agreement appears 5 Read the license agreement then click I accept the terms of the license agreement and click Next You must accept the terms of the lice...

Страница 17: ...Installing the Driver 17 SMCWUSB N4 300 Mbps Wireless USB Adapter User Manual 6 Click Install driver and SMC WLAN Config Tool then click Next The Ready to Install the Program screen appears...

Страница 18: ...Installing the Driver 18 SMCWUSB N4 300 Mbps Wireless USB Adapter User Manual 7 Click Next to install the driver If the following screen appears click Continue Anyway...

Страница 19: ...screen appears 8 Click Finish to complete the installation 9 If the Welcome screen is still displayed click Exit to close the screen When a prompt asks whether you are sure you want to exit the progr...

Страница 20: ...iver 20 SMCWUSB N4 300 Mbps Wireless USB Adapter User Manual Installing the Driver on a Windows 7 To install the Adapter on a computer running Microsoft Windows7 1 Insert the Adapter into the USB port...

Страница 21: ...User Manual 2 Insert the supplied CD ROM into your computer s CD ROM or DVD ROM drive The Welcome screen appears Note If the If the CD ROM or DVD ROM auto run feature is disabled run wizard exe in the...

Страница 22: ...300 Mbps Wireless USB Adapter User Manual 4 Read the license agreement then click I accept the terms of the license agreement and click Next You must accept the terms of the license agreement to cont...

Страница 23: ...Installing the Driver 23 SMCWUSB N4 300 Mbps Wireless USB Adapter User Manual 5 Click Install driver and SMC WLAN Config Tool then click Next The Ready to Install the Program screen appears...

Страница 24: ...nstallation completes the InstallShield Wizard Complete screen appears 7 Click Finish to complete the installation 8 If the Welcome screen is still displayed click Exit to close the screen When a prom...

Страница 25: ...Adapter User Manual Installing the Driver on an Apple Macintosh To install the Adapter on an Apple Macintosh computer running Snow Leopard 1 Insert the Adapter into the USB port of your Mac 2 Insert t...

Страница 26: ...N4 300 Mbps Wireless USB Adapter User Manual 3 Double click the appropriate USBWireless SnowLeopard pkg file in the CD ROM s Macintosh directory The Welcome screen page appears 4 Click Continue The Se...

Страница 27: ...SB N4 300 Mbps Wireless USB Adapter User Manual 5 Be sure your Mac has the amount of available disk space shown in the screen Then select how you want to install this software and click Continue The S...

Страница 28: ...ion and choose another location When you are ready to install the software click Install A message informs you that you will have to restart your computer after installing the software Note If you are...

Страница 29: ...lling the Driver 29 SMCWUSB N4 300 Mbps Wireless USB Adapter User Manual 8 Click Restart This completes the driver installation for Macs For information about using the SMC wireless utility see Chapte...

Страница 30: ...sks are performed when the Adapter is in AP Mode You select the mode using the SMC WLAN configuration tool The topics covered in this chapter are Accessing the SMC WLAN Configuration Tool page 31 SMC...

Страница 31: ...B N4 SMC WLAN Configuration Tool Main Screen The following figure shows the main screen of the SMC WLAN configuration tool Buttons at the top let you switch between the Adapter s two operating modes S...

Страница 32: ...customize any of the settings for specific areas you can assign a profile name to these saved settings You can then reapply the settings by selecting the appropriate profile name 37 Station Statistic...

Страница 33: ...r into the USB port on your computer 2 Click AP mode at the top of the main screen see Figure 3 1 3 If the ICS Select WAN Adapter dialog box appears use the top drop down list to select a WAN adapter...

Страница 34: ...SSID name of the wireless network to which the Adapter is connected Subnet Mask subnet mask of the wireless network to which the Adapter is connected Authentication Type type of authentication the ada...

Страница 35: ...Using the SMC WLAN Configuration Tool Windows 35 SMCWUSB N4 300 Mbps Wireless USB Adapter User Manual...

Страница 36: ...vey Mode Station mode Tab Site Survey The Site Survey tab lets you scan other wireless networks to which you can connect When you select a site in the left side of the screen details about the site ap...

Страница 37: ...profiles so that you can easily switch between networks depending on your location or situation For example you may want to set up a profile with settings for specific areas such as one configuration...

Страница 38: ...ill create SSID Enter the name of the network to which you will connect using this profile Network Type Select whether the network is an Infrastructure or Ad Hoc type of network refer to the Glossary...

Страница 39: ...k the profile you want to modify and click Modify The Site Config dialog box appears with the settings for the selected profile 2 Complete the fields in the Site Status and Security Setting tabs For m...

Страница 40: ...USB Adapter User Manual Viewing Statistics Mode Station mode Tab Statistics The Statistics tab is a read only screen that shows the status of packets sent and received by the Adapter A Clear button i...

Страница 41: ...u want to connect 2 Click the Rescan button WPS Setting tab to scan the wireless signal of the device to which you want to connect 3 Under WPS AP click the device to which you want to connect 4 Click...

Страница 42: ...MCWUSB N4 300 Mbps Wireless USB Adapter User Manual and other information such as IP address see Viewing Wireless Network Status on page 34 The WPS Setting tab also provides a Disconnect that lets you...

Страница 43: ...frequency for example 2 4G Channel Select a radio channel used by the Adapter to transmit data Changing the channel is only effective in ad hoc peer to peer networks Networks that operate in Infrastr...

Страница 44: ...apter User Manual Table 3 2 Regulatory Channel Frequency Channel Frequency MHz FCC Canada ETSI France Spain 1 2412 X X X 2 2417 X X X 3 2422 X X X 4 2427 X X X 5 2432 X X X 6 2437 X X X 7 2442 X X X 8...

Страница 45: ...f eavesdropping and hacking However wireless networks provide different challenges than wired networks especially in securing data in transit To safeguard your wireless connections use the Security Se...

Страница 46: ...isks Table 3 3 Authentication Types Authentication Type Description Encryption Choice s Open Open systems authentication Allows the Adapter to connect to the network as long as the Adapter knows the S...

Страница 47: ...ormed from characters of the ASCI character set 13 ASCII characters are used to specify a 128 bit key or 5 characters are used to specify a 64 bit key TKIP Offers strong encryption However TKIP may no...

Страница 48: ...ess appears below Filter Policy 3 Click Apply Deleting a MAC Address To delete a MAC address from the list 1 Below Filter Policy select the MAC address you want to delete 2 Click Delete The MAC addres...

Страница 49: ...dows 49 SMCWUSB N4 300 Mbps Wireless USB Adapter User Manual Viewing Adapter Information The About tab shows information about your Adapter hardware driver and firmware It also shows the Adapter s IP...

Страница 50: ...eless USB Adapter the SMC WLAN configuration tool launches automatically each time you insert the Adapter into the Mac Using this utility you can monitor the following information covered in this chap...

Страница 51: ...uthentication and security settings If you will be connecting to different wireless networks in different areas you can create profiles so you can easily switch between networks depending on your loca...

Страница 52: ...profile that will let you identify it from other profiles you have or will create 4 For SSID select the name of the wireless network scanned by the Adapter 5 Complete the fields in the System Configu...

Страница 53: ...d period of inactivity and then wake up periodically to see whether the infrastructure has queued any traffic for it Network Type Select the type of network to which you want the Adapter to connect Ch...

Страница 54: ...ose the authentication method to secure wireless communications Choices are TKIP offers strong encryption However TKIP may not address all of the security issues facing wireless networks and may not b...

Страница 55: ...the selected profile 2 Complete the fields in the System Configuration and Authentication Security tabs For more information see Adding a Profile on page 51 3 Click OK Deleting a Profile If you no lo...

Страница 56: ...ing the SMC Wireless Utility Mac 56 SMCWUSB N4 300 Mbps Wireless USB Adapter User Manual Monitoring Link Status The Link Status tab is a read only screen that shows status information about the Adapte...

Страница 57: ...match the settings on the wireless network Encryption Shows whether encryption is enabled on the wireless network If encryption is enabled the encryption settings of your Adapter must match the settin...

Страница 58: ...Frames successfully sent by the Adapter Frames Transmitted Successfully Without Retry Number of frames sent by the Adapter successfully without having to resend them Frames Transmitted Successfully A...

Страница 59: ...ld Description Frames Received Successfully Frames successfully received by the Adapter Frames Received With CRC Error Number of frames with CRC errors received by the Adapter Frames Dropped Due To Ou...

Страница 60: ...capabilities Select Your Country Region Code The available channel differs from different countries For example USA FCC is channel 1 11 Europe ETSI is channel 1 13 The operating frequency channel is r...

Страница 61: ...Lithuania 1 CH1 13 Bahrain 1 CH1 13 Luxembourg 1 CH1 13 Belarus 1 CH1 13 Macedonia 1 CH1 13 Belgium 1 CH1 13 Malaysia 1 CH1 13 Bolivia 1 CH1 13 Mexico 0 CH1 11 Brazil 0 CH1 11 Morocco 1 CH1 13 Bulgar...

Страница 62: ...g Kong 1 CH1 13 South Korea 1 CH1 13 Hungary 1 CH1 13 Spain 2 CH10 11 Iceland 1 CH1 13 Sweden 1 CH1 13 India 1 CH1 13 Switzerland 1 CH1 13 Indonesia 1 CH1 13 Taiwan 0 CH1 11 Ireland 1 CH1 13 Thailand...

Страница 63: ...onfiguration method or PBC configuration method through an internal or external Registrar The following section describe the components on the WPS tab WPS AP List The WPS AP List shows information abo...

Страница 64: ...Registrar the utility creates a new credential with a WPA2 PSK AES 64Hex Key and does not change until the STA Registrar changes Note Entries in the WPS Profile List are not displayed when the Config...

Страница 65: ...om your Enrollee before clicking this button Note After you click the PIN button wait two minutes before clicking Rescan to rescan networks To cancel this setup within the interval restart PIN PBC or...

Страница 66: ...ual Progress and Status Bars Progress and status bars appear to the right of the check boxes The top bar is the progress bar and has OK at the right side This bar shows the rate of progress from Start...

Страница 67: ...Mac 67 SMCWUSB N4 300 Mbps Wireless USB Adapter User Manual Viewing Adapter Information The About tab shows version information about the wireless utility your Adapter s NIC driver and EEPROM The Adap...

Страница 68: ...you inserted the driver CD ROM Some programs may prevent the auto run feature of the Adapter s CD ROM from starting automatically Close any open applications and reinsert the CD ROM If the CD ROM sti...

Страница 69: ...ng with Profiles on page 51 Mac Be sure no equipment that can cause radio frequency interference is located nearby Equipment such as mobile phones and microwave ovens can degrade wireless connection q...

Страница 70: ...02 11g IEEE802 11b IEEE802 11n Port USB2 0 Frequency Range 2 4 2 4835GHz Transmission Rate Provides 300 Mbps receiving rate and 300Mbps sending rate Transmission Power Max 18dbm Modulation Method OFDM...

Страница 71: ...ssion errors Encryption A way to protect confidential information against unauthorized access by converting data into cyphertext so that it cannot be easily read With encryption data packets can be se...

Страница 72: ...facturer TKIP Temporal Key Integrity Protocol A suite of algorithms that uses the original WEP encryption but wraps additional code at the beginning and end to encapsulate and modify it TKIP encrypts...

Страница 73: ...package contents 10 physical address 49 specifications 71 subnet mask 49 system requirements 10 Adding profiles 38 51 Advanced operations 60 AES 47 AP mode 32 Authentication 46 Authentication type 34...

Страница 74: ...n method 41 Profiles activating 54 adding 38 51 deleting 39 55 modifying 39 55 R Regulatory channel frequency 44 Repeat packets 40 58 Requirements 10 Retry error 40 58 Rx throughput 34 S Security sett...

Страница 75: ...20 Mason Irvine CA 92618 U S A http www smc com Document number SMCWUSB N406172011...

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