Manuale d’uso / di manutenzione del prodotto AWR-11N-USB del fabbricante Advantek Networks
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Wirele ss- N USB Ada pte r User’s Ma nu al Model # AW R- 11N-USB.
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1. Introduction This is a wire less 11n USB Adapter t hat pr ovides uns urpassed wire less performan ce fo r your Desktop PC or Noteb ook. I t complies with IEE E 802.11n draft 2.0 wirele ss standard and is b ackw ard compatible w ith IE EE 802 .11b/g.
1.3 Package Contents • One W ireless USB ad apter • One USB A-type exte nsion cab le • One CD-RO M (Driv ers, Utilit y, User’s Ma nual) 1.4 Before you start You must have the r equirements a s follow, • A computer w ith an a vailable US B 2.
(For W indows XP) (For W indows 200 0) STEP2: I nsert In stallation CD into CD- ROM dr ive t hen win dows below will a ppear. Clic k Install Dri ver to begin de vice driv er installat ion.
STEP3: Please rea d the fol lowing license agreement . Use t he scroll b ar to view the rest of this agreem ent. Select I accept th e terms o f the lice nse agree ment and click Ne xt to continue. STEP4: In W indows XP, t here is a Wind ow s Zero Confi guration Tool for you to setup wireless adapter.
STEP5: If you nee d the ad apter to o perate w ith better performan ce, place choose O ptimize for perfor mance mode to enable the Tx Bu rst mode . Or you can cho ose O ptimize for W iFi mode to run in standard wireless ne twork . STEP6: Click Install to begin the in stallation.
STEP7: Please w ait f or a while during the adapte r is c onfiguring your new software installation. STEP8: After the setup wizard has s uccessfull y install ed w ireless LAN, click Finish to exit th e wizard.
To check if the adapter is pro perly in stalled, you can r ight-click My C omputer cho ose Properties click De vice Manager . (F or Widow s XP) (For Widows 2000) The Conf iguration Util ity a ppears as an i con on the syst em tra y of W indows while the adapter is ru nning.
2.2 For Vista STEP1: Fo und New Hardw are Wizard i s d isplayed after the adapter is installe d a nd th e computer is r estarted. Please cl ick Cancel to continue . STEP2: I nsert In stallation CD into CD- ROM dr ive t hen win dows below will a ppear.
STEP3: Please rea d the fol lowing license agreement . Use t he scroll b ar to view the rest of this agreem ent. Select I accept th e terms o f the lice nse agree ment and click Ne xt to continue.
STEP5: Please w ait f or a while during the adapte r is c onfiguring your new software installation. STEP8: After the setup wizard has s uccessfull y install ed w ireless LAN, click Finish to exit th .
wizard. To c heck if the ada pter is pro perly instal led, you can right- click M y Co mputer c hoose Properties click De vice Manager . The Conf iguration Util ity a ppears as an i con on the syst em tra y of W indows while the adapter is ru nning.
Ralink w ireless utilit y needs to cooper ate with Micr osoft AutoCo nfig serv ice in order t o perform scanni ng a nd co nnecting action s, so the AutoConf ig servic e should be enabl e beforehand. Control Menu O nce Ra link wireless utility i s min imized, the u ser c an c lick the Ralink icon on the task bar to bring u p the control menu.
LAN adapter an d mon itor the link stat us and st atistics dur ing the com municatio n process. W hen the adapter is install ed, the co nfiguratio n utilit y will be displayed auto maticall y. This adapter will a uto connect to wireless device which has better signal strength and no wireless security settin g.
W hen activ ating W ZC , there are coup le differ ent on RaUI status com pare to the without W ZC running: (1) Profile button w ill be gr ay, profi le f unction is remov ed sin ce the NI C i s c ontrolled by W ZC. (2) The con nect and add p rofile fu nction wil l b e gra y.
STEP1: If conn ection i s lost or not connect ed, the sta tus promp t as below will po p up. STEP2: Right- click the network connection i con in the task bar. STEP3: Selec t “ View Av ailabl e Wireles s Netw orks ” will pop u p the dia log shown a s below.
A nyw ay ”. STEP5: AP1 i s successfu l connect ed. STEP6: If you w ant to m odify infor mation about AP, click “C han ge advanced settin gs ”.
STEP7: Choo se “ Wire less Netw orks ” tab. STEP8: Click “ Propertie s ” and t hen click “ OK ” button..
STEP9: After f illing a ppropriate value, click “ OK ” button. An d the st atus w ill p rompt up as below. STEP10: Click the Ralink ’s icon w ill b ring up RaUI main windo w. User can find the surrounding APs in the li st. The cur rent connected AP will also shown w ith t he green icon indicated as bel ow screen.
3.1.1 Start W hen starting R aUI, s ystem will connect to the A P with best sig nal st rength w ithout settin g profile or matchin g profile sett ing. It will i ssue a scan co mmand to w ireless NIC . Af ter two seconds, the AP list w ill updated with the result o f BSS list s can.
There are three sectio ns in RaUI. These secti ons are b riefly descri bed as be low. Button Section: inc lude Pro file page, Network pag e, Ad vanced page, Stat istics page, W MM page, W PS page, About butto n, Radio On /Off butt on and Help button .
Function Sect ion: Co rresponding button Profile Page Network Page Advanced Page.
Statistics P age WMM Page WPS Page.
About Pag e Status Section: Include Link Status, Authenticatio n Statu s, AP’s i nformatio n, Configuratio n and retr ying the conne ction whe n authen tication is f ailed.
AP’s Informat ion Retr y the Con nection Conf iguration At the m ean time of starting RaUI , th ere is a lso a small Ralink icon appears w ithin windows task bar as b elow. You m ay double cli ck it to bring up th e m ain menu if you selected to close RaUI m enu e arlier.
Besides, t he small icon w ill change color t o refle ct current w ireless netwo rk connection stat us. The st atus indi cates as fol low: - - indicate Co nnected a nd Signal St rength is Good.
[Icons and but tons] indi cate connect ion is succes sful on currentl y activated pro file indi cate connect ion is failed on current ly activa te profile indicate n etwork type is infra s.
Profile Name: User ca n chose na me for this p rofile, or use defau lt nam e defined by system. SSID: User can key i n the inte nded SSID n ame or us e pull dow n menu t o s elect from available AP s. Power Sa ve Mode: Choose from CA M [Constan tl y Awake Mode] or Power S aving Mode.
3.1.2.2 Example to A dd Profile i n Profi le Step 1: Click Add in Profile functio n Step 2: Add Profile pa ge will pop u p..
Step 3: Chan ge profile name to what you want to co nnect. P ull down the SSID a nd selec t one intended AP. The AP list is the re sult of la st Network . Step 4: Then, you can see the profi le w hich you s et appear in the pr ofile l ist. Clic k “ A ctivate ” to activate the pr ofile sett ing.
3.1.3 Net w ork Under the Netw ork functio n, system will disp lay the informa tion of surro unding AP s from last scan resu lt. List informat ion includes SSID, BSSID, Signa l, Ch annel, Encr yption .
Issu e a rescan co mmand t o wireless NIC to upd ate information on surrounding wire less netw ork . Ad d the selected AP to Prof ile setting. It w ill brin g up profile page and save user’ s setting to a ne w pr ofile. [Connected Netw ork] (1) W hen RaUI first ra n, it will s elect the be st AP to c onnect automatical ly.
Enable Tx Bur st: Ralink’s propriet ary frame bu rst mo de. Enable TCP W indow s Size: Enhance throu ghout. Fast Roaming at: Fast to roam ing, setup b y transm it power.
Reset Counte r: Reset counters t o zero [Receive Statistics] Frames Recei ved Su ccessfu lly: Fr ames received successfull y. Frames Recei ved With CRC E rror: Fr ames receive w ith CRC error. Frames Dropp ed Due To Out- Of-R esource: F rames dropped due to re source is sue.
If you want to use “W MM-Power Sa ve” or “Dir ect Link Setup” you must ena ble W MM. The setting metho ds of ena bling W MM indicating as follow : Step 1: Click “ WMM En able ” Step 2: Cha nge to “ Netw ork ” functio n. An d add an AP that suppor ts W MM featur es t o a Profile .
Step 1: Click “ WMM-Pow e r Save Enabl e ” Step 2: Please se lect wh ich ACs you want to e nabl e. The settin g o f enabl ing W MM-Power Save is succe ssfull y. [Direct Link Setup Enabl e – En able DL S (Direct Li nk Setup) ] Step 1: Click “ Direct Lin k Setup En able ” Step 2: Chang e t o “ Netw ork ” function .
Profile . The r esult will look like the b elow figur e in Prof ile page. The Setting of DLS ind icates as follo w: (1) Fill in the b lanks of Direct Link wit h MAC addres s of ST A. The S TA mu st conform to 2 conditions as f ollow: Connect w ith the sam e AP that support DL S featur es.
is integ er. The integer must b e between 0~65535. It r epresent s that it alwa ys connects if the value i s zero. Defa ult value of T imeout Va lue is 60 seconds.
“ Direct Link Setup ”. Step 2: Doub le-Click and the resul t will look like the belo w figure. (3) Disconn ect Direct Link Set up as follow : Step 1: Selec t a direct li nk STA.
Step 2: Click “ Tear Dow n ” button. Th e result will look like the below figure. 3.1.7 WPS WPS Co nfigur ation: The primar y g oal of W i-Fi Protecte d Setup (W i-F i Simple C onfigurat ion).
is to simply t he security setup and manage ment of W i-Fi netw orks. R alink STA as an Enro llee or external R egistrar supports t he conf iguratio n setup using PIN c onfigur ation me thod or P BC configurat ion setup using PIN configu ration method or PBC configurati on method throu gh an internal or exte rnal Reg istrar.
Progress Bar: Displa y rate of pro gress from Start to Co nnected st atus. Status Bar: Display curren tly W PS Status. [WPS Infor mation on AP] W PS information contain authe nticatio n type, encr yption type, confi g methods, device password ID, selected re gistrar, state, versio n, AP set up locked, UU ID-E and RF band s.
Device Pas swo rd ID: Indicate t he method or identifi es the sp ecific passw ord that t he selected Regi strar inte nds to u se. AP in PBC m ode mu st indicate 0x0004 w ithin tw o-minute W alk time. Selected Registra r: Ind icate if the user has r ecent ly activat ed a Registr ar t o add an Enrollee.
(1) Conn ect to Ralink ’s W ebsite: WW W .RALINKTECH.CO M (2) Displa y Configu ration Uti lity, Driver, a nd EEPROM ver sion informat ion (3) Displa y Wireless N IC MAC Address. 3.1.9 Link Status Link Status di splays th e detail inf ormation current c onnection Status: Current connect ion sta tus.
Throughout: Displa y transmits and receive thr oughput in unit of Mbps. Link Qu ality: Displa y Connection q uality based on sign al str ength an d Tx/Rx p acket er ror rate. Signal Strength 1 : Receive signa l s trength 1, user can choose to di spla y as pe rcentage or dBm format.
“ OK ” Step 3: Back to Netw ork and Dia l-up Conne ction scre en, righ t-click “ Local A r ea C onnection 2 ” (for 802.11n Wir eless LAN card ) and choose “ Prope rties ”. Step 4 : Sele ct “ Int ernet Prot ocol (TC P/IP) ” an d click “ Properties ”.
Step 5: In th e System tra y, now you can sw itch 802.11 n W ireless PCI Ad apter to AP Mode. Step 6: Aft er switch to AP m ode, R alink Wireless Utility will automa tically pup-up .
Step 7: To mak e sure your Soft AP is wor king prop erly, you ne ed to use a nother compute r which w ith W ireless LAN fe ature to a ccess SoftAP-2C AP.
Step 9: Af ter the compu ter is successful c onnecte d t o SoftAP-2C , N etwork an d Sharing Center screen will be sh own a s below. Click “ View Statu s” to see the det ail.
Step 1 0: In G eneral tab, click “ Detail… ”, and then you ca n see t he curren t Ne twork connection details. If this computer is s ucces sful con nect to S oftAP-2C Acces s Point , the DHCP server w ill be a ssigned to same IP address.
3.2 For Windows V ista Ralink w ireless ut ility is sh own as below. There are 6 setting s pages i n Ral ink wireless utility: Profile Page: Ma nage the profi le. Link Status Pa ge: Disp lay current connectio n inform ation. Site Survey Page: Displa y the availab le netw ork s.
Profiles Na me: The Profiles L ist disp lays all t he pr ofiles an d the re lative se ttings o f the profiles including Profile Name, SSI D, and Ch annel… etc; preset to P ROF* PRO F* PRO F* PRO F* ( * * * * indicate 1,2,3,…) SSID: AP to Ad-h oc name .
3.2.1.1 A dd a profile By e ither pushi ng the “ Add ” button on Profile Page or the “ Add to Prof ile ” bu tton o n Site Surve y Pa ge, it bring s up the profile setting sheet which conta ins two setting page s - - “ Configurat ion ” page and “ Authentic ation and Secur ity ” page.
[Configu ration page] Profile Name : Name of t he profile SSID: Name o f the desir e network Network Type: Netowork of the de sired netw ork, either infrastructure or Ad-H oc. Infrastructur e – This oper ation mode requ ires the prese nce of a wire less Access Point.
[Authenti cation and S ecurity page] A uthen ticati on Type: The authenti cation of the des ired netwo rk. F or infrastructur e network , the availab le modes are Open, Shared, W PA, W PA-PSK, W PA2, and W PA2-PSK. Open: No authen tication is n eeded amo ng the w ireless dev ices.
traveling between authorized devices. WPA2 – Like WPA, W PA2 supp orts IE EE 802.1 x/EAP authen tication or PSK technology. It a lso includes a new advanced encryption mecha nism using the Advanced Encr yption St andard (AES). AES is re quired t o the corpora te u ser or government user s.
“ 0123456789012 3456789a bcdef ” or “ administr ator ”. 3.2.1.2 Edit a profile Selecting an ex iting profile then click ing the “ Edit ” button on Profile Page brin gs up the profile settin g sheet filled w ith th e profile infor mation for user modif ication.
3.2.1.4 A ctive a profile Selecting an e xiting pro file then cli cking the “ A c tive ” button on Profile Pa ge activat es the profile..
3.2.2 Link Status In this section, you can im mediatel y mo nitor the curr ent c onne cted link status, such as Link Speed, Throughpu t, Link Qualit y, Signal Strengt h, Noise L evel …etc.
Status: Current connect ion sta tus. I f no con nection, it will show D isconn ected. Other wise, the SSID and BS SID will show here. Extra Info: Display the link statu s and curre nt channe l in use. Channel: Display the n umber of th e radio ch annel an d the freque nc y used for the netw orking.
3.2.3 Site Survey W hen you open the Config uration Ut ilit y, t he s ystem will scan all t he channels to find all the access points/stations within the ac cessibl e range of y our adapter a nd automatica lly connect to the w ireless d evice with th e h ighest s ignal strength.
wireless netw ork . Re-Scanning : Clicking t he re- scan button to perform t he re-scann ing acti on. A dd to Profile: Add th e s elected AP to Pro file s etting. It w ill bring u p pro file p age and save user’s setting t o a new profile. [Connect A Network] (1) Whe n Raconfig first ra n, it w ill select the be st AP to connect a utomatical ly.
Example 2: WEP-Enc rypted Step 1 – Ch oose “ Open ” or “ Shar ed ” auth entication t ype Step 2 – Ch oose “ WE P ” encryption t ype Step 3 –Enter t he W EP KEY.
Step 4 – After the prof ile is saved, cli ck the “ Ac ti vate ” button on Pro file Page to active the profi le. Example 3: WP A -P SK/WP A2-PSK Step 1 – Ch oose “ WP A-PSK ” or “ WPA.
Step 4 – After the prof ile is saved, cli ck the “ Ac ti vate ” button on Pro file Page to active the profi le. Example 4: WP A/WPA2 Step 1 – Ch oose “ WP A ” or “ WP A2 ” authenti.
Step 3 – After the prof ile is saved, cli ck the “ Ac ti vate ” button on Pro file Page to active the profi le. Step 4 –The W indow s profile setting dialog is poppe d-up for user to modif y.
3.2.4 Statistics Statistics p age dis plays t he de tail count er infor mation based on 802 .11 MI B co unters. Thi s page translate s the MIB counter s into a format easi er for user to under stand. Yo u may r eset the counter s to Zero b y click ing “Reset Co unter” .
3.2.5 WPS Configuration The p rimar y goa l of W i-Fi Protecte d Setup (Wi- Fi Si mple Configu ration) is to simply the security setup and ma nagement of W i-Fi Network s. WPS Associ ate IE: If the “W PS Associate I E” op tion is check ed, station w ill send the association re quest with W PS IE dur ing W PS setup.
Encryption Type : For O pen & Sha red authentication modes, the available encryption types are None and W EP . For WPA , W PA2 , W PA-PSK a nd W PA2-PSK authenticatio n mode s, the availa ble encr yption types are TKIP an d AES .
Disconnect from W PS AP: Clicking the “D isconnect” butt on w ill stop the W PS connection. Delete W PS profile: Cl icking the “Delete” bu tton wil l delete the selected WPS p rofile. 3.2.6 QoS The Q oS Page of RaConfig . It involves “WM M Enable” , “ WMM – Pow er Save Enab le ” and “ DLS setup Enable ”.
Step3: C hange to “Sit e Sur vey Page” . And add an AP tha t support s W MM feature s to a Profile. The result w ill look like the be low figure in Profile pag e.
Enable WMM – Po wer Save Step1: Click “WMM – Power Sa ve Enable” . And Click “Setting… ” button. Step2: After clicking “Setti ng…” button, show “Pow er Save Setting” dialog. Please select whi ch ACs you w ant to en able. The n click “Apply” butt on.
Enable DLS (Direct Lin k Setup) Step1: Click “Direct L ink Setup En able” . A nd Click “Apply” bu tton Step2: Chan ge t o “Site Survey Pa ge” . And add a n A P th at supports D LS featur es to a Profile. The re sult will look lik e the below fi gure in Prof ile page.
The Setting of DLS ind icates as follow : 1. Fill i n th e blank s of Dir ect Link with MAC A d dre ss of STA. T he STA must co nform to tw o conditions as f ollow: Step1: Connec t with the same AP that su pport DLS fea tures. Step2: Have to enable DL S.
3. Click “ A p pl y” button. The result wil l look lik e the below figure. Describe “DL S Status ” as foll ow: 1. As the up fig ure, aft er conf iguring D LS successfull y, show MAC addre ss of the oppo site side and T imeout Value of sett ing in “ DLS Stat us” .
Step2: Doub le click. An d the result wi ll look like the bel ow figure..
3. Disconnect Dire ct Link Set up as follow : Step1: Select a direct link STA. Step2: Click “Tear Dow n” butto n. The re sult will look like the be low figure.
3.2.7 A b out In the “A bou t” , y ou can click the h yperlink to conn ect the website f or th e informa tion of the w ireless chipset ve ndor an d re view ba sic inform ation ab out th e Ut ilit y such a s the RaConfig V ersion, Driver Version, EEPROM Versio n, IP A ddress, S ub Mask, a nd Def ault Gateway.
3.2.8 How to Manage Window s Profile W indows pro file manager c an be rea ched via connect ion icon on the t ask bar or control panel. [via Netw ork icon] Step 1: Right -click conn ection ico n on th.
Step 3: Right -click t he mouse to bring up t he profile manag e menu. [via Control Pan el] Step 1: Select “Contr ol Panel” on start me nu..
Step 2: Doub le-click “ Network and Sharing Center ” icon. Step 3: Selec t “ Manag e Wireles s netw ork ”..
Step 4: Right -click t he mouse to bring up t he profile manag ing menu..
4. Troubleshooting This c hapter prov ides solutions to pr oblem s us uall y enco untered durin g the installat ion and operation of th e adapter. 1. Symptom: The LED is Of f. Possible Rem edy: Make s ure t he W ireless adapt er is inserted properly. Otherwise, pl ease contact y o ur vendor.
4. Symptom: The W ireless adapter is link ing, but can’t shar e files w ith others. Possible Rem edy: Make sure the File and p rinter- sharing fun ction is en abled. 5. Symptom: Slow or unstab le perform ance. Possible Rem edy: Try to chang e the chann el of th e communic ating grou p or mov e your dev ice closer t o the communicat ing device.
Step 9- High light the SSI D of your w ireles s network and click connect Step 10- Click OK if al l the settin gs are corre ct 9. What is the IE EE 802.11g stand ard? 802.11g is th e new IEE E standard f or h igh-spee d w ireless L AN co mmun ications t hat provides for up t o 5 4 Mbp s dat a rate in the 2.
13. What is B SS ID? A sp ecific Ad hoc L AN i s called a Ba sic S ervice Set (BS S). Comput ers i n a BSS must b e configured w ith the sa me BSS I D. 14. What is W EP? W EP is W ired Equivalent P rivacy, a dat a pr ivac y me chanism based on a 40 bit shared key algorithm, a s descr ibed in t he IEEE 802.
Model Name: Serial Number : PC Settings: Other:.
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