Asus WL-160W- User Manual

Table of Contents:

• Page 2 – ASUS WLAN Adapter; Copyright Information
• Page 3 – ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.; Technical support; Contact Information
• Page 4 – One Touch Wizard; Table of Contents
• Page 5 – Chapter 1 - Introduction; Package contents; Contact your retailer if any item is damaged or missing.; Features
• Page 6 – Chapter 2 - Installation; Installation; System Requirements; • USB 2.0 for personal computer or notebook computer; Adapter into your computer.; Installing the WLAN utilities and driver; the CD automatically displays the utility menu. Click; Install ASUS WLAN Card
• Page 7 – Chapter 2 Installation; Reading the WLAN status indicators
• Page 8 – Note: If the access point you want to connect has set up encryption
• Page 9 – Configuring with the WLAN utility (Infrastructure)
• Page 10 – Configuring with the WLAN utility (Ad Hoc); The WLAN Adapter supports Ad Hoc mode which allows communication
• Page 11 – Chapter - Software Reference; Using the Control Center; Taskbar Icon and Status; ASUS WLAN Control Center; Starting the Control Center; . Software Reference
• Page 12 – configure your WLAN Adapter.; Taskbar Icon - Launch Wireless Settings; Activate Configuration; choose a preset profile.
• Page 13 – The status fields are blank if the WLAN; Association State; mode, this field shows the virtual MAC address used by; ASUS Wireless Settings Utility; Starting Wireless Settings; NOTE: If you have more than one ASUS WLAN device installed on your
• Page 14 – Buttons; Rescan –; NOTE: For 802.11n performance, select 0MHz bandwidth in wireless
• Page 15 – Save Configuration; profile so that you can easily switch; you want to connect to a specified AP using; Frame Error; Transmitted; Connection Quality
• Page 16 – Button; IP Release; NOTE: The IP Release and IP Renew buttons can only be used on the; Config tab to open this page. The Ping; Type the IP address of the device you; Click the “Clear” button to clear the session field.
• Page 17 – WLAN Adapter configurations.; Network Type; Infrastructure; Channel; Click Apply to save and activate the new configurations.
• Page 18 – Others; Encryption –
• Page 19 – Network Authentication; Open
• Page 20 – Data encryption; Disabled; AES is a symmetric 128-bit block encryption technique which works; Wireless Network Key; digits which is used to encrypt and decrypt data packets.; Key Format; characters to setup keys by defining the Key Format.; Key Length; Two ways to assign WEP keys; - When you select this option, the cursor appears
• Page 21 – Automatic Generation; - Type a combination of up to 64 letters,; Select one as your Default Key; Wireless Settings Utility uses asterisks to mask your keys.
• Page 22 – Config - Authentication; Authentication Type
• Page 23 – Search; to. The value is then normalized to a dBm value.
• Page 24 – Link State; WLAN Adapter “Link State” icon appears on the left side of; Exit Wireless Settings; To exit Wireless Settings, you can click; OK; or; Cancel
• Page 25 – Windows; utility you want to use for configuring your WLAN Adapter.; Only use Windows wireless function; Zero Configuration service to configure; Only use our WLAN utilities and; Only use ASUS WLAN utilities to configure the WLAN Adapter.; Wireless Option; Configuring with Windows; Connect
• Page 26 – taskbar and select; Open Network Connection; connection icon and select; Property; to open the Wireless Network Connection
• Page 27 – Chapter - Troubleshooting; Chapter; Device Driver Wizard” to complete the driver installation.
• Page 28 – Cannot connect to a Station (WLAN Adapter); Follow the procedure below to configure your WLAN Adapter.; Bad link quality or bad signal strength
• Page 29 – cells that enable roaming throughout a facility.; Ad Hoc; This option allows you to specify the data transmission rate.; A set of stations controlled by a single coordination function.; Broadband; several channels of data at once.; recovery, thanks to its encoding scheme and error correction.
• Page 30 – Default Key; The Pass Phrase option is not as secure as manual assignment.; Device Name; ISP when using DHCP to assign addresses.; DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol); automatically assigned a single IP address from a DHCP server.; server your ISP has assigned.
• Page 31 – Encryption
• Page 32 – Ethernet; and possibly damaging or viewing your files.; Gateway; Internet and connects one network to another.; IEEE; between systems of the same type.
• Page 33 – power and encoding scheme.; wireless network traffic in the immediate neighborhood.
• Page 34 – IP Address; device (which can be a server or a workstation) within that network.
• Page 35 – Packet; based on the typed combination.; typically a personal computer connected by phone line to a server.; Preamble; default preamble mode is Long.; Response to Broadcast SSID requests; option allows the device to broadcast; Station; create IP address numbers used only within a particular network.
• Page 36 – WECA (Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance); enterprise security solutions.; Requirements; such as Funk Software’s Odyssey Client.
• Page 37 – FCC Warning Statement
• Page 38 – are considered relevant and sufficient.; CE Mark Warning