User manual IOGEAR GWP512

[. . . ] Wireless-G Notebook Network Card User Manual (GWP512) Welcome Thank you for choosing IOGEAR® to serve your wireless needs. We hope you will have as much fun using your IOGEAR® Wireless-G Notebook Network Card, as we had designing it. Rest assured, your IOGEAR® Wireless-G Notebook Network Card is built rock-solid to ensure maximum uptime for you to stay up-and-running. If for any reason you have a problem, we stand behind our products with an industry-leading 3 year factory warranty, so you can have peace-of-mind with your current and future IOGEAR® purchases. [. . . ] Only digits 0-9 and letters A-F are valid entries if you select hexadecimal format. - Key Size: Click the down-arrow button to select 40-bit or 104-bit key size. 44 Configuration Utility · Transmit Key 1-4: These four fields allow you to set four different 40-bit or 104-bit keys for encryption. This item is a very convenient and useful function when you want to match the WEP keys with different APs. After setting the WEP keys for specific AP or wireless LAN card, instead of entering the WEP key every time, you can just click the button in front of WEP key to enable the association. Protocol: · Do not change settings: If the box is checked, then, all settings on this tab can't be change. · Use below settings: - Power Save Mode: This field provides two options of power management: Continuous Access and Max Power Save. - Transmit Rate: This field provides options for selecting data-transmitting rate of the wireless LAN adapter. By default, the data rate is set to Auto allowing Tx rate to the highest possible rate. 45 Configuration Utility > Fragment Threshold: This field is to define the maximum data frame size this wireless LAN adapter will transmit and to improve the efficiency of data transmitting. > RTS/CTS Threshold: This field is to set the packet size at which the AP issues a Request-To-Send (or Clear-To-Send) frame before sending the packet. Type the value in this field and the effective range is from 0 to 2347. > Rest Button: Click Reset button returns the protocol settings to their default values. 46 Configuration Utility Site Survey Tab: Click the Site Survey tab and the following screen will be displayed. Connected 802. 11g access point Icon 802. 11b Access point Icon 47 Configuration Utility From the Site Survey page, you can search all access points and network adapters that are within the service range of the network adapter. Click Refresh button, and the network adapter will start to search access points and WLAN adapters and show the result on the list. The list includes information about the Network SSID and MAC address of the access point and WALN adapter, the signal strength, the channel where the access point and WLAN adapter operates, and whether or not WEP encryption is used. You can highlight the access point or WLAN adapter you want to associate and click Associate or double click on your choice to connect that device. In the figure, you can see there are one 802. 11b access point and one 802. 11g access point within the service range of the network adapter. You may click the Refresh button to update this list and use the scroll bar to see more information. 48 Access Point Filter This option lets you customize which sites will be displayed in the site survey list. Check the checkbox to enable individual wireless mode. Configuration Utility Advanced Filter Click the Filter button and the Advanced Filter dialog box will be brought up. It helps you take more control of searching AP or network adapter in range. · Find network with this SSID: The utility will search the specific SSID. [. . . ] WPA To connect with an AP through RADIUS server, click the items in Authentication box. 71 WPA Configuration 1. Check Permit login using my certificate. 72 WPA Configuration 4. The network adapter now connects to the WPAenabled AP through the RDAIUS server. 73 Specification 74 Technical Support If you need technical support, please check out our IOGEAR Tech Info Library (T. I. L. ) at www. iogear. com/support for the latest tips, tricks, and troubleshooting. [. . . ]