Asus WL-130N manual

User Manual Wireless Local Area Network Adapter WL-130N ( For 802.1 1n draft, 802.1 1g & 802.1 1b Networks ) ® E3123/ April 2007 R WL-130N_manual.indd 1 4/10/07 12:29:30 PM[...]

2 ASUS WLAN Adapter No part of thi s manual , includ ing the pro ducts and software des cribe d in it, may be reprodu ced, tra nsmitt ed, trans cribe d, stored in a retrie val syste m, o r t r an s l a t e d i n t o a n y l a n gu a g e i n a n y f o r m o r b y a n y m e a ns , e x ce p t do cum en tat ion ke pt b y th e pu rc has er f or b ack up[...]

ASUS WLAN Adapter 3 ASUST eK COMPUTER INC. Company address: 15 Li-T e Road, Beitou, T aipei 1 1259 General (tel): +886-2-2894-3447 W eb site address: www .asus.com.tw General (fax): +886-2-2894-7798 General email: info@asus.com.tw T echnical support General support (tel): +886-2-2894-3447 Online support: http://support.asus.com ASUS COMPUTER INTERN[...]

4 ASUS WLAN Adapter 1. Introduction ..............................................................................5 Package contents ..................................................................................5 Features .................................................................................................5 2. Installation .........[...]

ASUS WLAN Adapter 5 Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 1 - Introduction Package contents Check the following items in your ASUS Wireless LAN Adapter package. Contact your retailer if any item is damaged or missing. 1 x ASUS Wireless LAN Adapter (WL-130N) 1 x Extension Cable Antenna 1 x Support CD 1 x Quick Start Guide Features Draft 802.1 1n compliant,[...]

Chapter 2 6 ASUS WLAN Adapter Chapter 2 - Installation Installation 2 . I n s t a l l a t i o n System Requirements T o begin using the WLAN Adapter , you must meet the following minimum re qu ir em en t s : • W in do ws ® X P/ 20 00 /2 0 0 3 / V is ta ( on l y d r i v e r s u p p o r t ) • P CI s lo t fo r p e r s o n a l c o m p u t e r • [...]

ASUS WLAN Adapter 7 Chapter 2 - Installation Chapter 2 Installation 7. Ca ref ull y in ser t th e WL AN Ad apt er in to yo ur c omp ut er’ s PC I s lot . Wi nd ows wi ll a ut o ma t ic a ll y d e te c t a nd c o nf i gu r e t he W L A N A d a p t e r u s i n g t h e u t i l i t i e s a n d drivers installed in the previous steps. 8 . W i n d o w [...]

Chapter 2 8 ASUS WLAN Adapter Chapter 2 - Installation Installation A S U S O n e T o u c h W i z a rd Use AS US O ne T o uch Wiz ard to set up yo ur w irel ess con necti on w ith an e xi st in g wi r e l e s s L A N . 1. L a u nc h A S US O n e T o u c h W i za r d f r om Start menu and click Next to set up your wireless network. 2. Select an AP f[...]

ASUS WLAN Adapter 9 Chapter 2 - Installation Chapter 2 Installation C o n f i g u r i n g w i t h A S U S W L A N S e t t i n g s u t i l i t y (I nf rast ruct ure) Us e ASU S WL AN Se tti ngs ut il ity to ge t con nec ted wi th an ex ist ing wi re les s n et wo rk . 6. C h e c k t h e C o n n e c t i o n t a b t o s e e t h e sign al stre ngth. Cl[...]

Chapter 2 10 ASUS WLAN Adapter Chapter 2 - Installation Installation C o nf i g u r i ng w i th A S U S W L A N S e t t i ng s u ti l i t y (Ad Hoc) The WL AN Ad apter s uppor ts Ad H oc mo de w hich all ows comm unica tion 2. Cl i c k th e C on g b ut to n an d s et th e WL A N A da p t er t o A d H o c c on n e ct i o n m o d e . 3. C li ck t [...]

ASUS WLAN Adapter 1 1 Chapter 3 - Software Reference Chapter 3 So ft war e Re fe re nc e Using the Control Center The Control Center taskbar icon displays the following information: • Link qualit y of the WLAN Adapter (Exce llent , Good, Fair , Poor , Not L in ke d) • W h e t h e r t h e W L A N A d a p t e r i s c o n n e c t e d t o a n e t w[...]

12 ASUS WLAN Adapter Chapter 3 - Software Reference Chapter 3 So ft war e Re fe re nc e T askbar icon - Left-click menu L ef t- cl ic k t he ta sk b a r i co n t o s ho w t he f ol lo w i n g me nu i te ms : • Wi r e le s s R a di o O n – C l i ck t o t u rn the wireless radio ON. • Wi r el es s Ra d io O ff – C l ic k t o t u rn the wirele[...]

ASUS WLAN Adapter 13 Chapter 3 - Software Reference Chapter 3 So ft war e Re fe re nc e Status - Status Y ou ca n v ie w t he i nf or m a t i o n a bo u t t he WL AN A da pt e r f r o m th e St at us m e n u . Th e st at us  e l d s a re b la nk i f th e W L A N Ad apte r is not ins tal le d. Y ou can tu rn of f th e WLA N Ada pt er by cl ic kin[...]

14 ASUS WLAN Adapter Chapter 3 - Software Reference Chapter 3 So ft war e Re fe re nc e Sc an ni ng .. . : Th e st at io n i s t ry in g to a ut he nt ic a t e a n d a ss oc ia te w i t h a n ac ce ss p oi nt o r Ad H oc n o d e . Disconnected: The WLAN Adapter is installed to the system, but not yet co nn ec te d t o a w i r e l e s s d e v i c e [...]

ASUS WLAN Adapter 15 Chapter 3 - Software Reference Chapter 3 So ft war e Re fe re nc e Save Conguration W h e n y o u m a k e s e t t i n g s f o r a ce rt ain w or kin g en vi ron me nt , y ou ma y ne ed t o s a v e y ou r s e t t i n g s t o a p ro l e so th a t yo u ca n e a s i l y sw it ch to th e se t t i n g s wi th ou t re p e a t i [...]

16 ASUS WLAN Adapter Chapter 3 - Software Reference Chapter 3 So ft war e Re fe re nc e Status - IP Cong I P C o n f i g t a b s h o w s a l l t h e c u r r e n t host and WLA N Ada pter info rmati on inc ludi ng Ho st N ame, DNS Se rver s, IP Ad dr ess , Sub ne t Ma sk an d De fa ult G a te wa y . Button IP R e l e a s e - I f yo u w a n t to r[...]

ASUS WLAN Adapter 17 Chapter 3 - Software Reference Chapter 3 So ft war e Re fe re nc e Cong - Basic Th is pa ge en ab le s yo u to ch an ge th e WL AN A da pt e r c o n  g u r a t i o n s . Network T ype In fr ast ru ct ur e – In fra st ruc tu re me a ns t o e st a b l is h a c o nn e c t io n w i t h a n a c c e ss p oi n t. O n ce c o nn[...]

18 ASUS WLAN Adapter Chapter 3 - Software Reference Chapter 3 So ft war e Re fe re nc e En cr yp ti on – Cl ic k th is l i n k t o s h o w t h e " E n c r y p t i o n " t a b . Ad van ce d – Cli ck thi s li nk to sh ow the "A dva nc ed " ta b. In mo st cas es , the d ef au lt v al u e s d o n o t h a v e t o b e c h a n g e [...]

ASUS WLAN Adapter 19 Chapter 3 - Software Reference Chapter 3 So ft war e Re fe re nc e Network Authentication S i n c e t h e r e i s n o p r e c i s e b o u n d i n w ir el es s LA Ns , th e WL AN us er s ne ed t o i m p l e m e n t c e r t a i n m e c h a n i s m t o p r o v i d e s e c u r i t y s o l u t i o n . T h e A u t h e n t i c a t i o[...]

20 ASUS WLAN Adapter Chapter 3 - Software Reference Chapter 3 So ft war e Re fe re nc e Data Encryption Fo r O pen a nd Sh are d a uth en tic at ion m ode , t he co nfi gu rat io n o pti ons o f e nc ry pt io n ty pe ar e Di sa bl ed an d WE P . Fo r WP A- En t e r p r i s e , WP A- Pe r s o n a l , WP A2-Ente rpri se and WP A2-Pers onal authe ntic[...]

ASUS WLAN Adapter 21 Chapter 3 - Software Reference Chapter 3 So ft war e Re fe re nc e 2 . A u t o m a t i c G e n e r a t i o n - Ty p e a c o m b i n a t i o n o f u p t o 6 4 l e t t e r s , n um be rs , or sy mb ol s in th e Pa ss p h r a s e bo x , th e Wi r e l e s s Se t t i n g s Ut il i t y a ut om at ic al l y u s e s a n a l g o r i t h[...]

22 ASUS WLAN Adapter Chapter 3 - Software Reference Chapter 3 So ft war e Re fe re nc e Survey - Site Survey U se th e Si te Su rv ey ta b to vi ew st at is t i c s o n th e wi re l e s s n e t w o r k s a v a i l a b l e to th e WL AN A da pt e r a n d t h e i r p a r a m e t e r s . • S S I D : T h e S S I D o f t h e a v a i l a b l e n et wo [...]

ASUS WLAN Adapter 23 Chapter 3 - Software Reference Chapter 3 So ft war e Re fe re nc e Buttons S ea rc h – T o sc a n a ll a va il a bl e w i re le s s n et w o rk s a nd s ho w t he s ca n r e su lt in t h e “A v ai la b l e N e t w o r k ” l i s t . C on n e c t – T o a s s o c i a t e w i t h a n e t w o r k , s e l e c t t h e n e t w [...]

24 ASUS WLAN Adapter Chapter 3 - Software Reference Chapter 3 So ft war e Re fe re nc e Link State WL AN Ad a p t e r “ L i n k St at e” ic on a p p e a r s o n th e le ft si d e of th e WL A N A da pt e r S et ti ng s . U se th e i c o n t o v ie w t he c u r r e n t si gn al s ta t u s . Exit Wireless Settings T o e x i t W i r e l e s s S e [...]

ASUS WLAN Adapter 25 Chapter 3 - Software Reference Chapter 3 So ft war e Re fe re nc e Windows ® XP/2003 Wireless Options The wireless options window shown below is only available for Windows ® XP /2 00 3. It ap pe ar s wh en yo u r u n th e Co nt ro l Ce nt er ut il it y at th e r s t ti me . Se le ct t he u t i l i t y y o u w a n t t o u s[...]

26 ASUS WLAN Adapter Chapter 3 - Software Reference Chapter 3 So ft war e Re fe re nc e T o s et up t h e w ir el es s c on ne c t i o n p ro pe rt i e s , r ig ht -c l i c k t he wi re le ss i co n o n t h e ta sk ba r an d se le ct O pe n Ne tw or k Co nn ec ti o n . Th en ri gh t- cl ic k th e ne tw o r k co nn ec ti on i co n a n d s el ec t P [...]

ASUS WLAN Adapter 27 Chapter 4 - T roubleshooting Chapter 4 T roubleshooting 4 . T r o u b l e s h o ot i n g Th e fol lowi ng tr oubl esh oo ting gu id es pr ov ide ans we rs to som e of the mor e co mm on pr o b l e m s , wh ic h yo u ma y en co u n t e r wh il e in s t a l l i n g or us in g WL AN Ad apt er pr od uc ts . If yo u enc ou nt er dif[...]

ASUS WLAN Adapter Chapter 4 - T roubleshooting Chapter 4 T roubleshooting 28 Cannot connect to a Station (WLAN Adapter) Fo ll ow t he p r o c e d u r e b e l o w t o c o n  g u r e y o u r W L A N Ad ap t e r . a . V er i f y t h a t t h e “ N e t w o r k T y pe ” is i n “ A d H o c ” m o d e . b . V er i f y th at th e “S SI D” of y[...]

ASUS WLAN Adapter 29 Chapter 5 Chapter 5 - Glossary Glossary 5 . G l o s s a r y Access Point (AP) A networking device that seamlessly connects wired and wireless networks. access points combine d wi th a distri buted syste m su pport the c reation of multipl e r adio cells that enable roaming throughout a facility . Ad Hoc A wireless network compo[...]

30 ASUS WLAN Adapter Chapter 5 Chapter 5 - Glossary Glossary Each subchannel in the COFDM implementation is about 300 KHz wide. At the low end of the speed gradient, BPSK (binary phase shift keying) is used to encode 125 Kbps of data per channel, resulting in a 6,000-Kbps, or 6 Mbps, data rate. Using quadrature phase shift keying, you can double th[...]

ASUS WLAN Adapter 31 Chapter 5 Chapter 5 - Glossary Glossary Direct-sequence s ystems com municate by continuousl y transmi tting a redundant pattern of bits called a chipping sequence. Each bit of transmitted data is mapped i n t o c h i p s a n d r e a r r a n g e d i n t o a p s e u d o r a n d o m s p r e a d i n g c o d e t o f o r m t h e chi[...]

32 ASUS WLAN Adapter Chapter 5 Chapter 5 - Glossary Glossary Ethernet The most widely u sed LAN a ccess metho d, which is dened by the IEEE 802.3 stand ard. Ethe rnet is n ormally a share d me dia LAN me aning al l d evices on the ne two rk s egm ent sh are t ot al ba nd wid th. E th ern et n etw ork s op era te a t 1 0Mb ps using CSMA/CD to run[...]

ASUS WLAN Adapter 33 Chapter 5 Chapter 5 - Glossary Glossary The 802.1 1b spectrum is plagued by saturation from wireless phones, microwave ovens and other emerging wireless technologies, such as Bluetooth. In contrast, 802.1 1a spectrum is relatively free of interference. The 802.1 1a standard gains some of its performance from the higher frequenc[...]

34 ASUS WLAN Adapter Chapter 5 Chapter 5 - Glossary Glossary Infrastructure A wireless network centered about an access point. In this environment, t he access point not only provides communication with the wired network but also mediates wireless network trafc in the immediate neighborhood. IP (Internet Protocol) T h e T C P / I P s t a n d a r[...]

ASUS WLAN Adapter 35 Chapter 5 Chapter 5 - Glossary Glossary NIC (Network Interface Card) A network adapter inserted into a computer so that the computer can be connected to a network. It is responsible for conv erting data from stored in the comput er to the form transmitted or received. Packet A b a s ic m e s s a ge u n i t f o r c o m m un i c [...]

36 ASUS WLAN Adapter Chapter 5 Chapter 5 - Glossary Glossary Subnet Mask A subnet mask is a set of four numbers congured like an IP address. It is used to create IP address numbers used only within a particular network. TCP (T ransmission Control Protocol) The standard transport level protocol that provides the full duplex, stream service o n w [...]

ASUS WLAN Adapter 37 Chapter 6 - Appendix Chapter 6 Appendix 6 . A p p e n di x FCC W arning Statement Th is d ev ic e c o m p l i e s w it h Pa rt 1 5 of t h e F C C R ul es . Op e r a t i o n i s su bj ec t t o t he fo ll ow in g t w o c o n d i t i o n s : (1 ) th is d e v i c e m a y n o t c a u s e h a r m f u l i n t e r f e r e n c e , a n d[...]

38 ASUS WLAN Adapter Chapter 6 - Appendix Chapter 6 Appendix T e s t i n g f or e le c t r i c s af et y a c c o r d i n g t o EN 6 0 9 5 0 - 1 h as b ee n c on du ct ed . Th es e a re c on si de r e d r e l e v a n t a n d s u f  c i e n t . Pr ot ec ti on r e q u i r e m e n t s f o r e l e c t r o m a g n e t i c c o m p a t i b i l i t y –[...]