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Vigor N61 Wireless Adapter User’s Guide Version: 1.01 Date: 2008/02/19 Copyright 2008 All rights reserve d. This publication contains information th at is protected by copyright. No part may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval syst em, or translated into any lang u age without written permission from the copyright holde[...]
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Vigor N61 User’s Guide ii European Community Declarations Manufacturer: DrayTek Corp. Address: No. 26, Fu Shing Road, HuKou County, H sinChu Industrial Park, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan 303 Product: Vigor N61Wireless Ad ap ter DrayTek Corp. declares that Vigor N61Wireless Adapter are in compliance with the following essential requirements and other relevan [...]
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Vigor N61 User’s Guide iii T T a a b b l l e e o o f f C C o o n n t t e e n n t t s s 1 Pref ace ............................................................................................................... 5 Wireless LAN Basics ............................................................................................................ .......[...]
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Vigor N61 User’s Guide 5 1 P P r r e e f f a a c c e e Thank you for purchasing Wireless LAN Adapter. This m anual will assist you with the installation procedure and is valid for Wireless LAN adapters. W W i i r r e e l l e e s s s s L L A A N N B B a a s s i i c c s s Wireless LAN (Local Area Networks) system s offer a great num ber of advantag[...]
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Vigor N61 User’s Guide 7 2 I I n n s s t t a a l l l l a a t t i i o o n n O O v v e e r r v v i i e e w w I I n n t t r r o o d d u u c c t t i i o o n n Before installing Vigor N61, make sure that there is already an Access Point existed on the wireless network. It is needed in case of Infrastructure network mode. Here are some steps you will p[...]
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Vigor N61 User’s Guide 8 2. The setup wizard will appear as follows. Please click Next . 3. Now, you can insert Vigor N61 to the USB port of your computer. Then click Next . Connect with USB cable Connect directly[...]
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Vigor N61 User’s Guide 9 4. In this page, you have to choose “I accept…” to continue the installation. If you do not accept the agreement, you can click “I do not…” to exit the wizard. And the driver installation will not be installed to your computer. 5. There are two types of setup that you have to choose, Complete or Install Driver[...]
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Vigor N61 User’s Guide 10 6. The default destination folder will be sp ecified in this page. Also, you can click Browse... to choose another folder for storing the driver. Click Next . 7. A default program folder will be offered by the setup program. If you do not want to change it, simply click Next .[...]
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Vigor N61 User’s Guide 11 8. The setup program is executing the installation by copying corresponding files to your computer. 9. Now the system will ask you to restart your computer to com plete the whole installation. After choosing the proper setting, please click Finish . 10. After restarting your system, the system will find out the hardware [...]
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Vigor N61 User’s Guide 12 U U n n i i n n s s t t a a l l l l i i n n g g U U S S B B D D r r i i v v e e r r If you want to remove the driver for this wireless card, please do the following: 1. Run Start >> Programs>> Vigor N61 802.11n Wireless USB Adapter Utility>>Uninstall . 2. The Preparing Setup will appear. 3. When the fol[...]
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Vigor N61 User’s Guide 13 5. When the following dialog appears, please click Finish .[...]
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Vigor N61 User’s Guide 15 3 C C o o n n f f i i g g u u r r a a t t i i o o n n W W i i r r e e l l e e s s s s U U S S B B A A d d a a p p t t e e r r U U t t i i l l i i t t y y After finish the driver installation, it is the time to configure the wireless utility for accessing into Internet through wireless connection. Double click on the N61 [...]
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Vigor N61 User’s Guide 16 C C o o n n f f i i g g u u r r a a t t i i o o n n The wireless USB adapter utility will find out all the available Access Points and list them automatically for you to choose. The following figure is just an example. The real available list depends on the AP(s) that found around your computer system. In the field of Av[...]
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Vigor N61 User’s Guide 17 In the field of Profile Group Control , you can see: New It allows you to add a new profile to group several APs. Click New to open the following dialog box. T ype a new name in the box and click OK. The new group with the name you typed will be shown as the following. Rename It allows you to modify the selected profile [...]
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Vigor N61 User’s Guide 18 In the field of Preferred WLANs , you can see: SSID It displays the SSID of the AP. Security It displays security method that the AP used. New It allows you to add a new profile. Move to It allows you to move a selected profile to another profile group. After click this button, the following dialog will appear for you to[...]
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Vigor N61 User’s Guide 19 Different authentication mode will guide different data encryption, key length, default key and so on. Wireless network name (SSID) Please type the name for the AP or wireless router you want to connect. Authentication Mode There are six modes provided for you to choose for data encryption in connection. Data Encryption [...]
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Vigor N61 User’s Guide 20 Key Length Choose the key length for the wireless card. The method you choose here must be the same as the method set in the connected AP. The number you typed here should be t he same as the number set in the connected AP. According to the input me thod you selected, the characters that you have to set will differ. For [...]
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Vigor N61 User’s Guide 21 WPA Passphrase - Type the password for authentication with AP while using WPA PSK mode. Check Passphrase - Check this box to make the characters of passwords being visible. EAP Type - A type for authentication between station and radius server while executing 802.1X mode. For some EAP types, you have to choose a sub-item[...]
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Vigor N61 User’s Guide 22 Obtain an IP address automatically – Check this button to get IP address automatically for such wireless card. If y ou do not check this button, you have to t y pe IP address, subnet mask and default gateway manually. IP Address – Type the LAN IP address for the wireless card. Subnet mask – Type the subnet mask for[...]
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Vigor N61 User’s Guide 23 Automatically detect settings – Check this box to let the system detect proxy settings automatically. Use automatic configuration script – Check this box to use the configuration script automatically according to the IP address typed below. Address - Type the LAN IP address to get the configuration information for pr[...]
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Vigor N61 User’s Guide 24 S S t t a a t t u u s s This page provides connection status and hardwa re information for the device. Simply click Status tab on the Wireless USB Adapter window. Connection Status It displays current status of connection. SSID It displays the SSID of the AP that your computer connected. BSSID It displays the MAC address[...]
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Vigor N61 User’s Guide 25 O O p p t t i i o o n n Simply click Option tab on the Wireless USB Adapter window. Auto launch when Windows start up Check this button to launch the wireless connection when Windows starts up. If you do not check this box, you can launch wireless connection manually. Remember mini status position Remember and fix the po[...]
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Vigor N61 User’s Guide 26 wireless card. Fragmentation Threshold Set the value for fragmentation th reshold. The default value is 2346. RTS Threshold Set the value for RTS threshold. The default value is 2347. Frequency Please choose the wireless frequency for this card. Ad-hoc Channel Please choose one channel. It must match the channel set in A[...]
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Vigor N61 User’s Guide 27 A A b b o o u u t t This page provides software information such as utility version and driver versions. Simply click About tab on the Wireless USB Adapter window. Utility Version It displays the version number of this utility. Driver Version It displays the driver version of this wireless card.[...]
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Vigor N61 User’s Guide 29 4 M M i i s s c c e e l l l l a a n n e e o o u u s s W W i i n n d d o o w w s s Z Z e e r r o o C C o o n n f f i i g g u u r r a a t t i i o o n n Each time you power on your computer, the wireless monitor utility will activate automatically after you configured for your PC. If you do not want to activate it but want [...]
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Vigor N61 User’s Guide 30 2. Next, the following window will appear. 3. Click Change Advanced Settings and the following window will be shown. Press the Wireless Networks tab.[...]
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Vigor N61 User’s Guide 31 4. Click Add to open next window. In this window, t ype the SSID of the AP that you want to connect with the wireless card. Here, Tom is entered as an example. And choose WPA-PSK as the Network Authentication and TKIP as the Data encryption. Then, ty pe the encryption key characters. The type for Network Authentication, [...]
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Vigor N61 User’s Guide 32 5. Press the Authentication tab. Choose the EAP type which is the same as configured in the AP. 6. After click OK , the wireless station can associate with the AP. 7. Open Wireless Connection window. Please choose “ Tom ” (as an example) and click Connect .[...]
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Vigor N61 User’s Guide 33 8. The wireless connection starts. Please wait for it completes. 9. The wireless connection has been established.[...]