Allied Telesis AT-WCU200G - Manuals

vii Table of Contents Regulatory Notes and Statements ............................................................................................................................................................. iii Wireless LAN, Health and Authorization For Use ........................................

ix Preface This manual provides a description of the Allied Telesyn AT-WCU200G 54Mbps Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter and contains information about how to install and configure this product.

Preface x How This Guide is Organized This guide contains the following sections: Introduction , describes the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter. Before you Install , helps you get started with the basic installation of the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter. Installing the AT-WCU200G Software Driver , describes...

AT-WCP200G User’s Guide xi Document Conventions This guide uses several conventions that you should become familiar with before you begin to install the product. Note Notes provide additional information. Warning Warnings inform you that performing or omitting a specific action may result in bodily ...

Preface xii Where to Find Related Guides The Allied Telesyn web site at www.alliedtelesyn.com offers you an easy way to access the most recent documentation, software updates, and technical information for all of our products. The documents provided on our web site are available as PDF files.

AT-WCP200G User’s Guide xiii Contacting Allied Telesyn This section provides Allied Telesyn contact information for technical support as well as sales or corporate information. Online Support You can request technical support online by accessing the Allied Telesyn Knowledge Base from the following w...

1 Installing the AT-WCU200G Wireless Adapter Introduction The AT-WCU200G wireless adapter is a standards-based wireless product. See Figure 1. It can communicate with other devices enabled for 802.11g and 802.11b standards-based wireless LAN connectivity. The wireless adapter is fully compatible wit...

2 Ad-hoc Mode In the ad-hoc mode, you can enable a wireless connection between two PCs. To accomplish this, you need one AT-WCU200G wireless adapter for each PC. See Figure 2. You can use a USB cable to connect the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter to a workstation or laptop. Or, you can connect the AT-WC...

AT-WCU200G User’s Guide 3 Infrastructure Mode In the Infrastructure mode, you can use an access point to facilitate the wireless connection between two PCs. See Figure 3. Figure 3 Infrastructure Mode This chapter provides the following sections: ❑ Before you Install on page 4 ❑ Installing the AT-WCU...

4 Before you Install This section describes what to do before you install the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter. It includes: ❑ Package Contents on page 4 ❑ System Requirements on page 4 Package Contents Open the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter box and unpack it carefully. The box contains the following items...

AT-WCU200G User’s Guide 5 Installing the AT-WCU200G Software Driver and the AT-WCU200G Wireless Adapter To install the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter, you first install the software drivers that are provided on the CD ROM. Then insert the wireless adapter into your PC. Confirm that the software is inst...

AT-WCU200G User’s Guide 7 The Choose Destination Location screen is displayed. See Figure 6. Figure 6 Choose Destination Location Screen If you want to install the software in another folder, click Browse and then select a folder. 7. Click Next . 8. If you purchased the AT-WCU200G/EU CD ROM, the Cou...

8 9. Select the Channel for your country. Then click Next . A screen is displayed that states installation is in process. Then the Installation Complete screen is displayed See Figure 8. Figure 8 Installation Complete Screen 10. Click Finish to complete the installation. Installing the AT-WCU200G Wi...

AT-WCU200G User’s Guide 9 - Insert the USB cable into the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter. See Figure 9. Then connect the other end of the USB cable into an available USB port on your computer. Figure 9 Connecting the USB Cable The Welcome to the Found New Hardware Wizard screen is displayed. See Figure...

AT-WCU200G User’s Guide 11 Confirming Software Installation After you install the AT-WCU200G software driver, the Allied Telesyn AT-WCU200G Wireless Client Manager icon is displayed in your Windows System Tray. This icon is located in the bottom right hand corner of the Windows desktop screen, next ...

12 2. Choose one of the following: - Click Yes to start the AT-WCU200G Wireless Configuration utility. Then refer to the procedure described in AT-WCU200G Wireless Configuration Utility on page 12. - Click No to start the Windows Wireless Zero Configuration utility. Then refer to the procedure descr...

AT-WCU200G User’s Guide 13 . Figure 15 Allied Telesyn Wireless Client Manager, Status Tab For information about how to use the Allied Telesyn AT-WCU200G Client Manager to configure the wireless adapter, see the following sections. ❑ One-Button Quick Connection on page 13 ❑ Configuring the Wireless C...

14 Connecting to an Access Point To connect your AT-WCU200G wireless adapter to an access point, perform the following procedure. 1. Click following icon at the bottom right hand corner of your screen. The Allied Telesyn Wireless Client Manager screen is displayed with the Status Tab selected. See F...

AT-WCU200G User’s Guide 15 Wait approximately 1 minute for both computers to make the wireless network connection. 5. Double click My Network Places icon on your Windows desktop. See the following icon. The Network Tasks window is displayed. 6. Click View workgroup computers . Windows displays a mes...

AT-WCU200G User’s Guide 17 Status Tab The Status tab contains general information about the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter connection, including transmission rate and network type. To access the Status Tab, see the procedure described in Configuring the Wireless Client Manager Settings on page 16. See ...

18 Configuring Network Profiles You can configure network profiles from the Site Survey screen. From this screen, you can do the following: ❑ View Available Networks ❑ Create a Profile ❑ Edit a profile ❑ Delete a profile To configure network profiles, perform the following procedure: 1. Click the fo...

AT-WCU200G User’s Guide 19 In the Site Survey window, the Available Network area includes the following fields. Move the scroll bar to the right to see all of the fields. This window is for display purposes only. ❑ Mode : Indicates either the access point or Ad-hoc mode is currently in use. ❑ BSSID ...

20 Figure 17 Profile Edit with General Tab Selected For information about how to configure this screen, Configuring the Profile Edit Screen on page 21. Editing a Network Profile To edit a profile, perform the following procedure from the Site Survey screen: 1. Click Refresh . 2. Select a profile fro...

AT-WCU200G User’s Guide 21 Deleting a Network Profile To delete a profile, perform the following procedure from the Site Survey screen: 1. Click on a profile from the Profile Name area. Note You cannot delete the active profile. 2. Click Delete . Configuring the Profile Edit Screen The Profile Edit ...

22 ❑ Tx Rate : Indicates the data transfer rate between the node and another device. The default is Auto. The Tx Rate is determined by the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter automatically, depending on the distance to the access point or wireless router. 2. Click Okay . Setting Encryption This section disc...

AT-WCU200G User’s Guide 23 Choose one of the following: - To configure encryption on a new network profile, perform steps 2 and 3. - To edit an existing network profile, perform steps 4 and 5. 2. Click Configuration on the side bar on the Allied Telesyn AT-WCU200G Wireless Client Manager. 3. Click E...

24 which is used to authenticate another device. Choose either TKIP or AES as the encryption mode in the Data encryption field. To use a WPA Pre-Shared key, enter a password in the WPA Pre-shared key field that is between 8 and 63 characters. ❑ Data encryption : Indicates the data encryption method....

AT-WCU200G User’s Guide 25 — PEAP: Indicates Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol. Once you select PEAP, click Configuration . Then enter a User Name and Password. Click OK . ❑ Pre-shared key : This field only appears when you configure the Authentication Mode field as WPA-PSK. Enter a pre-s...

AT-WCU200G User’s Guide 27 to Send) value. The default setting is 2347 (when the Power Consumption field is set to disable). Through the proper use of the RTS/CTS Threshold setting, you can fine tune the operation of your wireless LAN. If you find a relatively large number of collisions, you can ena...

28 Displaying and Configuring Host Information The Host Information Screen displays information about your computer. It also allows you to assign an IP address to your computer or release an IP address that is assigned to your computer to the DHCP server. To display the Host Information Screen and c...

AT-WCU200G User’s Guide 29 3. If no IP address is displayed, click Renew to assign an IP address to your computer from the DHCP server. Note Click Release to release an assigned an IP address to the DHCP server. Displaying Version Information To display the information about the software, perform th...

30 Uninstalling the AT-WCU200G Wireless Adapter Under normal circumstances, you do not need to uninstall the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter. The procedure in this section describes how to uninstall the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter. After you perform this procedure, you remove the AT-WCU200G Software dri...

AT-WCU200G User’s Guide 31 Windows XP Wireless Configuration Configuring Wireless Network Clients Automatic wireless network configuration supports the IEEE 802.11 standard for wireless networks and minimizes the configuration that is required to access wireless networks. When you enable automatic w...

32 Starting Microsoft’s Wireless Configuration Utility You configure the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter by using Microsoft's Zero Configuration utility supplied with Windows XP. To access the Zero Configuration Utility, perform the following procedure: 1. Select Start , Settings then Network Connection...

AT-WCU200G User’s Guide 33 3. Click on the Wireless Networks Tab . The Wireless Networks screen is displayed. See Figure 23. Figure 23 Wireless Connection Properties Screen 4. On the Wireless Networks tab, make sure “Use Windows to configure my wireless network settings” is selected at the top of th...

36 Under the Shared Key authentication, each wireless station is assumed to have received a secret shared key over a secure channel that is independent from the 802.11 wireless network communications channel. To use Shared Key authentication, you must have a network key. WPA and WPA-PSK Authenticati...

AT-WCU200G User’s Guide 37 Under 802.11, a wireless station can be configured with up to four keys (the key index values are 0, 1, 2, and 3). When an access point or a wireless station transmits an encrypted message using a key that is stored in a specific key index, the transmitted message indicate...

38 WPA Network Authentication: When choosing WPA Network Authentication a certificate is required from a certificate server and additional parameters must be configured in the Authentication tab. There are two selections for data encryption, choose one of the following: TKIP - Temporal Key Integrity...

40 Figure 25 Wireless Network Properties, Authentication Tab Configure WPA- PSK on Windows XP Select the Wireless Networks tab in the Wireless Network Connection Properties and highlight the appropriate wireless network in the Available Networks window. Select Configure and then select in Authentica...

AT-WCU200G User’s Guide 41 WPA-PSK Network Authentication : When choosing WPA-PSK this option does not require a certificate, but it implements a Pre-shared Key which is a user defined encryption parameter. This is commonly used when a certificate is not available for clients. When selecting WPA-PSK...

42 WEP - Wireless Encryption Protocol. WEP incorporates a static key that must match on all devices that are within the same wireless network as identified by the SSID. The key you entered for an AP must match the key you enter for the client adapter. See Figure 27. Figure 27 Data Encryption Field W...

AT-WCU200G User’s Guide 43 Technical Specifications This section lists the technical specifications of the AT-WCU200G wireless adapter. General Bus Interface Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 Radio Technology IEEE 802.11b Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS)/CCK IEEE 802.11g Orthogonal Frequency Divi...

AT-WCU200G User’s Guide 45 Regulatory Domains This appendix lists the IEEE 802.11g channels supported by the world’s regulatory domains. Channel Identifier 802.11b Frequency Regulatory Domains FCC (North America) ETSI (Europe) France Israel MKK (Japan) 1 2412 X X X 2 2417 X X X 3 2422 X X X X 4 2427...