AmbiCom WL300N-USB manuale d’uso

AmbiCom WL300N-USB Wireless N USB Adapter (This manual is only for user installs with Ralink WIFI configuration option) User Manual Version 1.0 March 18, 2008 COPYRIGHT Copyright ©2008/2009 by this company . All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system , or translated in[...]

Federal Communication Commission Interference Statement FCC Part 15 This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of FCC Rules. These lim its are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential inst allation. This equipment generates, uses[...]

The antenna(s) used for this transmitter must not be co-located or operating in conjunction with any other antenna or transmitter. R&TTE Compliance Statement This equipment complies with all the requi rements of DIRECTIVE 1999/5/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL of March 9, 1999 on radio equipment and telecommunication terminal Equi[...]

CHAPTER I: PRODUCT INFORMATION 1-1 Introduction and safety information 1-2 Safety Information 1-3 System Requirements 1-4 Package Contents 1-5 Familiar with your new wireless network card CHAPTER II: DRIVER INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION 2-1 Network Card Installation – with Ralink Configuration Tools 2-2 Connect to Wireless Access Point 2-2-1 Usi[...]

CHAPTER IV: APPENDIX 4-1 Hardware Specification 4-2 Troubleshooting 4-3 Glossary[...]

CHAPTER I: PRODUCT INFORMATION 1-1 Introduction and safety information Thank you for purchasing this high-speed 802.11b/g/n wireless network card! Excepting common wireless standards 802.11b/g, this wireless network card is also 802.11 Draft N v2.0 compatible - data receiving rate is up to 300Mbps, and that’s faster than 802.11g wireless network![...]

1-2 Safety Information In order to keep the safety of users and your properties, please follow the following safety instructions: 1. This USB wireless network card is designed for indoor use only. DO NOT expose this network card to direct sun light, rain, or snow. 2. DO NOT put this network card at or near hot or humid places, like kitchen or bathr[...]

1-3 System Requirements  USB 2.0 port (May not work on USB 1.1 port, and performance will be greatly reduced)  Windows 2000, 2003, XP, or Vista operating system  CD-ROM drive  At least 100MB of available disk space 1-4 Package Contents Before you starting to use this wireless network card, please check if there’s anything missing in t[...]

CHAPTER II: DRIVER INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION 2-1 Network Card Installation – with Ralink Configuration Tools Please follow the following instructions to install your new wireless network card: 1. Insert device driver CDROM into the CD/DVD ROM drive of your computer, and execute ‘Setup.exe’ program in ‘Driver’ folder. Please read the [...]

2. You can choose the configuration tool used to configure the wireless network card here. Ralink Configuration Tool, which provides fully access to all function of this wireless network card. If you prefer to use the wireless configuration tool provided by Windows XP or Vista, please select ‘Microsoft Zero Configuration Tool’, then click ‘Ne[...]

When you select one mode, please click ‘Next’ to continue. If you see ‘Found New Hardware’ message again, please ignore it and wait. 4. Please wait while the install procedure is running. When you see this message, please click ‘Finish’ to complete the driver installation process.[...]

5. A new icon will appear at lower-right corner of your computer desktop, you can put the mouse cursor on the icon, and the status of wireless card will be displayed as a popup balloon. HERE! When you want to configure your wireless connection, please right click on this icon, and a popup menu will appear. You can click ‘Launch Config Utilities?[...]

2-2 Connect to Wireless Access Point After the driver is correctly installed, it will try to connect to any unencrypted wireless access point automatically. If you want to connect to a specific wireless access point, or the access point you wish to connect uses encryption, you have to configure the wireless network card and input required parameter[...]

is displayed. You may have to click ‘Rescan’ for more than two times before you can see the access point you wish to use here sometimes. If you still can not see the access point you wish to use after clicking ‘Rescan’ for more than five times, please move your computer closer to the location where the wireless access point is, or see instr[...]

SSID: The Service Set IDentifier of wireless access point or other network device. You can think it as the name of access point of wireless device. BSSID: The MAC address of wireless access point or other network device. Unlike SSID, BSSID of every access point or network device is unique, and will not be the same with others. So you can identify a[...]

Tips: Wireless access point (Infrastructure) is a network device which acts as a bridge, to let wired and wireless network devices communicate with each other. A dHoc is another connection type. A computer or network device can establish a direct wireless link with other computer or network device directly, without the help of 3. Click the wireless[...]

proceed to next step. 4. If the wireless access point does not have SSID, you’ll be prompted to input it here. Please ask the owner of wireless access point and input the exact SSID here, then click ‘OK’ when ready. If the SSID you provided here is wrong, you’ll not be able to connect to this access point. If the wireless access point you s[...]

6. If the access point you selected does not enable encryption and does not require authentication, please skip this step.[...]

7. You’ll see ‘Connected <-> SSID’ (‘SSID’ is the SSID of the wireless access point or wireless device you connected to) message displayed at lower-left corner of configuration utility. Once the conne ctio n has made, an icon will appear[...]

2-2-2 Using Windows Zero Configuration Windows XP and Vista has a built-in wireless network configuration utility, called as ‘Windows Zero Configuration’ (WZC). You can also use WZC to configure your wireless network parameter: 1. Right-click Ralink configuration utility icon and select ‘Use Zero Configuration as Configuration utility. 2. Cli[...]

3. Click ‘Connect to a network’ under ‘Network Connections’ 4. Right-click ‘Wireless Network Connection’ (it may have a number as suffix if you have more than one wireless network card, please make sure you right-click the ‘Ralink 802.11n Wireless LAN Card), then select ‘View Available Wireless Networks’.[...]

5. All wireless access points in proximity will be displayed here. If the access point you want to use is not displayed here, please try to move your computer closer to the access point, or you can click ‘Refresh network list’ to rescan access points. Click the access point you want to use if it’s shown, then click ‘Connect’. 6. If the ac[...]

7. If you can see ‘Connected’ message, the connection between your computer and wireless access point is successfully established.[...]

2-3 Connection Profile Management If you need to connect to different wireless access points at different time, like of access point of your home, office, cybercafe, or public wireless service, you can store the connection parameters (encryption, passphrase, security etc, etc.) as a profile for every access point, so you don’t have in input these[...]

2-3-1 Make a profile for an access point or wireless device 1. Right-click the Ralink configuration utility icon located at lower-right corner of computer desktop, then click ‘Launch Config Utilities’. 2. There are two ways to add a new connection profile: Create a new profile or Add a profile from an existing wireless access point or wireless [...]

Or, you can add a connected wireless access point or wireless device to a profile by clicking ‘Site Survey’ tab, then click ‘Add to Profile’ button: Use Site Survey to scan.[...]

And you can set the parameter for this connection here: Here are descriptions of every setup items: Profile Name Please give this profile a name, up to 32 alphanumerical characters and symbols are allowed, but space is not allowed. SSID The SSID of the wireless access point or wireless device you selected will be displayed here. But if the SSID of [...]

Network Type Select network type (‘Ad Hoc’ or ‘Infrastructure’ ). If you’re adding a profile from an existing access point or wireless device, it’s automatically selected and you don’t have to change it. Preamble This option is only available when the network type is ‘Ad hoc’. You can select ‘Auto’ or ‘Long Preamble’. Plea[...]

Now click ‘Authentication and Security’ tab, and set the encryption and authentication settings. Here are descriptions of every setup items: Authentication Select the authentication type of the wireless access Type point or wireless device you wish to connect. If you’re adding a profile from an existing access point or wireless device, the va[...]

Encryption: Select the encryption type of the wireless access point or wireless device you wish to connect. If you’re adding a profile from an existing access point or wireless device, the value will be selected automatically, and please do not modify it. WPA Input WPA preshared key here. If encryption is Preshared Key not enabled, or you select [...]

Use 802.1x Enable 802.1x wireless authentication. Please click ‘802.1x Setting’ button to set 802.1x parameters. (See next section). After you finish all settings, click ‘OK’ to save settings and exit. The profile you just created will be displayed: Select the profile you wish to use, and click ‘Activate’ to use the profile you selected[...]

If you want to change the connection parameters of a specific profile, just select it and click ‘Edit’ button, you’ll be prompted to input the connection parameters, just like you’re creating a new profile. If you no longer need a profile, select the profile then click ‘Delete’. 2-3-2 Using 802.1x – Certification After you click ‘80[...]

Identity Please input 802.1x identity here. Password Please input the password of 802.1x identity here. Domain Name Please input the domain name of 802.1x authentication here. This field will be grayed out when authentication type is not ‘EAP-FAST’. Use Client If the authentication type you use is ‘PEAP’ or ‘TTLS’, you can use the certi[...]

authentication type, the protocol setting is always ‘Generic Token Card’ and can not be changed. Identity Please input the identity of tunneled (of tunneled authentication here authentication) Password Please input the password of tunneled Thentication here (of tunneled authentication) Password Mode Please select the password mode of ‘EAP-FAS[...]

2-3-3 Using 802.1x - CA Server If you want to use CA server, please click ‘CA Server’ tab. And the following message will be displayed: Here are descriptions of every setup items: Use certificate Check this box to enable the use of certificate chain. chain Certificate Please select the issuer of certificate from this Issuer dropdown menu. Allow[...]

2-4 View Network Statistics and Link Status The configuration utility provides information about network statistics and link status. If you want to know how your wireless network card works, you can use these functions to get detailed information about the wireless connection you’re using. 2-4-1 Network Statistics Please follow the following inst[...]

2. Click ‘Statistics’ tab, and the statistics of wireless connection will be displayed: All connection-related statistics is displayed here. You can click ‘Reset Counter’ to reset the statistics of all items back to 0. Click ‘OK’ to close the window.[...]

2-4-2 Link Status Please follow the following instructions to check network statistics: 1. Right-click the Ralink configuration utility icon located at lower-right corner of computer desktop, then click ‘Launch Config Utilities’. 2. Click ‘Link Status’ tab, and information about current wireless connection will be displayed:[...]

These information displayed here are updated every second, and here are descriptions of every item: Status Displays the SSID and BSSID of connected wireless access point or wireless device (displayed as SSID <-> BSSID as shown in above picture. If there’s no active connection currently, ‘Disconnected’ will be displayed here. Extra Info [...]

Link Speed Displays the link speed of data transmitting (Tx, in Mbps) and receiving (Rx, in Mbps). Link speed is the maximum available data transfer speed of the wireless connection, and depends on the radio signal quality of wireless connection. Throughput Displays the rate of data transmitting (Tx, in Kbps) and receiving (Rx, in Kbps). Link Quali[...]

2-5 Advanced Settings This wireless network card provides several advanced settings for experienced wireless users. You can change these settings to increase data transfer performance, or change operation mode. Please follow the following instructions to set advanced wireless settings: 1. Right-click the Ralink configuration utility icon located at[...]

2. Click ‘Advanced’ tab, and the following settings will appear: Here are descriptions of every setup items: Wireless mode Select wireless operation mode, available options are 802.11 B/G mix, 802.11 B only, and 802.11 B/G/N mix. You can select 802.11 B/G/N mix to maximize wireless compatibility with wireless access points and other wireless de[...]

Protection interference with other wireless devices when there are both 802.11b and 802.11g wireless devices in the same place. It’s recommended to set this setting to ‘Auto’ , since enabling this setting will slightly reduce the data transfer performance. TX Rate Normally, the wireless network card will adjust transfer rate automatically acc[...]

Select Your Select the country / region code of the place Country Region you’re living. Different country / region has Code different regulations on wireless devices, and it’s forbidden to use certain channel (radio frequency) in some countries or regions. The operating frequency channel will be restricted to the country / region user located b[...]

Channel access point, check this box to enable measurement Measurements on unused radio channels to improve wireless connectivity. Limit --- Limit the time used for said measurement to a milliseconds certain time. Default value is 250. After you finish the settings, click ‘Apply’ to apply new settings, and click ‘OK’ to close configuration [...]

Click ‘QoS’ tab, and the following settings will appear: Here are descriptions of every setup items: WMM Enable Check this box to enable WMM function. Please click ‘Apply’ button on the right of this check box after you check or uncheck this box, so corresponding settings in this window will be activated or deactivated respectively. WMM - P[...]

When this kind of data is transferring, power saving function will be disabled. Available data types are AC_BK (Background / Low Priority), AC_BE (Best Effort), AC_VI (Video First), and AC_VO (Voice First). Direct Link Enable or disable direct link setup (DLS) function. Setup Enable This function will greatly improve the data transfer rate between [...]

2-7 WPS Configuration Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) is the latest wireless network technology which makes wireless network setup become very simple. If you have WPS-enabled wireless access point, and you want to establish a secure connection to it, you don’t have to configure the wireless access point and setup data encryption. All you have to do i[...]

2-7-1 WPS Setup - PBC (Push-Button Configuration) 1. Right-click the Ralink configuration utility icon located at lower-right corner of computer desktop, then click ‘Launch Config Utilities’. 2. Click ‘WPS Configuration’ tab, and the following settings will appear: Make sure your devi ce support WPS[...]

3. Set ‘Config Mode’ to ‘Enrollee’, and then push the ‘WPS’ button on your wireless access point (the button used to activate WPS standby mode may have another name), or use other way to start WPS standby mode as the instruction given by your wireless access point’s user manual. 4. Before you start to establish the wireless connection[...]

5. Start PBC pairing procedure at access point side (please refer to the instruction given by your access point’s manufacturer), then click ‘PBC’ button in wireless configuration utility to start to establish wireless connection by WPS. Please be patient (This may require several seconds to one minute to complete). When you see ‘WPS status [...]

connected access point, or select another WPS-enabled wireless access point, then click ‘Connect’ to establish connection to selected access point, if there are more than one WPS-enabled access point found. You can also click ‘Rotate’ button, and next access point on the list will be selected to establish connection. If you want to delete a[...]

2. Click ‘WPS Configuration’ tab, and the following settings will appear: Pin Code The PIN number of your wireless network card is an eight-digit number located at the upper-right position of configuration utility. Remember it, and input the number to your wireless access point as the WPS PIN code (Please refer to the user manual of your wirele[...]

Pin Code Success! You may have to click ‘PIN’ for few more times to try again. If you still can not connect to access point by this way, please make sure the PIN code you provided to access point is correct.[...]

2-8 About The ‘About’ tab provides you the information about version numbers of configuration utility, firmware, and other important information about your wireless network card. Please follow the following instructions to see these information: 1. Right-click the Ralink configuration utility icon located at lower-right corner of computer deskt[...]

2. Click ‘About’ tab, and the following settings will appear: If you need assistance about network problem, you’ll need these values. You can also click ‘WWW.RALINKTECH.COM’ button to go to the web site of network card driver manufacturer and get more information about your wireless network card. Please click ‘OK’ to close configurati[...]

CHAPTER III: SOFT-AP FUNCTION Excepting becomes a wireless client of other wireless access points, this wireless card can act as a wireless service provider also! You can switch this wireless card’s operating mode to ‘AP’ mode to simulate the function of a real wireless access point by software, and all other computers and wireless devices ca[...]

A configuration window will appear after you switch the operation mode to ‘AP’ or click ‘Launch Config Utilities’ after you right-click the Ralink configuration utility, which asks you to assign an existing network card with internet connection: If your computer has another network card which is connected to Internet, please select it from [...]

Here are descriptions of every setup items: SSID Please input the SSID (the name used to identify this wireless access point) here. Up to 32 numerical characters can be accepted here, excepting space. TX Rate Please select the data transfer rate here. The maximum TX rate you can select here depends on the wireless mode you’re using. It’ s safe [...]

Channel Please select the wireless channel you wish to use. The number of channels available here will vary depends on the setting of ‘Country Region Code’. Wireless Mode Please select the wireless operating mode. You can limit the type of wireless client to 802.11b or 802.11g only, or allow 802.11b/g, and 802.11b/g/n clients. It’s safe to se[...]

The operating frequency channel will be restricted to the country / region user located before importing. Wireless Wireless protection will prevent data collision Protection when there are both 802.11b and 802.11g clients. You can select ‘Auto’ to let configuration utility to decide to use wireless protection or not. You can also select ‘ON?[...]

Apply Click this button to activate current settings. To exit, click ‘X’ button at the upper-right corner of configuration window. 3-2 Security Settings This wireless card supports wireless encryption in AP mode, which will encrypt the data being transferred over the air to enhance data security level. It’s recommended to enable data encrypti[...]

PSK / WPA2-PSK’. If you want to disable wireless data encryption, you must select ‘Open’ or ‘Shared’ . Encryption Please select an encryption mode. The Type available options in this setting item will vary depending on the authentication type you select. If you select ‘Not Use’, data will not be encrypted and people with some networki[...]

If you want to use WEP 64 bits encryption, please input 10 characters if you select HEX, or input 5 characters if you select ASCII; If you want to use WEP 128bits encryption, please input 26 characters if you select HEX, or input 13 characters if you select ASCII. 128 bits encryption is safer then 64 bits, but the data transfer speed will be slight[...]

3-3 Access Control If you’re not going to open your computer and wireless resources to the public, you can use MAC address filtering function to enforce your access control policy, so only wireless clients with MAC address you defined by this function can be connected to your software access point. Please follow the following instructions to set [...]

Here are descriptions of every setup items: Access Policy Select the policy type of your access rule: Disable: Allow any wireless client with proper authentication settings to connect to this access point. Allow All: Only allow wireless clients with MAC address listed here to connect to this access point. Reject All: Reject wireless clients with MA[...]

MAC address Input the MAC address of the wireless client you you wish to allow or reject here. No colon (:) or hyphen (-) required. Add Add the MAC address you inputted in ‘MAC address’ field to the list. Delete Please select a MAC address from the list, then Click ‘Delete’ button to remove it. Remove All Delete all MAC addresses in the lis[...]

2. Click ‘Mac Table’ tab, and a list containing all connected wireless clients will appear: Here are descriptions of every fields: MAC Address Displays the MAC address of this wireless client. AID The serial number of this wireless connection. Power Saving Displays the capability of power-saving Mode function of this wireless client. Status Dis[...]

3-5 Event Log This software access point will log all wireless-related activities as a log. You can follow the following instructions to view the content of the event log: 1. Right-Click Ralink configuration utility icon, and select ‘Launch Config Utilities’[...]

2. Click ‘Event Log’ tab, and the event log will be displayed: You can click ‘Clear’ to remove all entries in the log.[...]

3-6 Statistics If you want to know detailed information about how your software access point works, you can follow the following instructions to view the statistics of the access point: 1. Right-Click Ralink configuration utility icon, and select ‘Launch Config Utilities’ 2. Click ‘Statistics’ tab, and the event log will be displayed:[...]

You can click ‘RESET COUNTERS’ button to reset all counters to zero. CHAPTER IV: APPENDIX 4-1 Hardware Specification  Standards: IEEE 802.11b/g/Draft-N  Interface: USB 2.0 (USB 1.1 Compatible)  Frequency Band: 2.4000 ~ 2.4835GHz (Industr ial Scientific Medical Band)  Data Rate: 11b: 1/2/5.5/11Mbps  11g: 6/9/12/24/36/48/54Mbps [...]

 Cisco CCX Support  Antenna: Internal 2 Antennas with Two TX and Two RX  Drivers: Windows 2000/ XP/2003/Vista Server  LEDs: Link/Activity  Temperature: 32~131 ° F (0 ~ 55 ° C)  Humidity: 10-95% (NonCondensing)  Certification: FCC, CE 4-2 Troubleshooting If you encounter any problem when you’re using this wireless network ca[...]

configuration utility’s icon is black, the network card is not detected by your computer. 2. Reboot the computer and try again. 3. Remove the card and insert it into another USB port. 4. Remove the driver and re-install. 5. Contact the dealer of purchase for help. I can not establish connection with a certain wireless access point 1. Click ‘Con[...]

5. Enable ‘WMM’ in ‘QoS’ tab if you need to use multimedia / telephony related applications. 6. Disable ‘WMM – Power Save Enable’ in ‘QoS’ tab. There could be too much people using the same radio channel. Ask the owner of the access point to change the channel number. Please try one or more solutions listed above.[...]

4-3 Glossary 1. What is the IEEE 802.11g standard? 802.11g is the new IEEE standard for high-speed wireless LAN communications that provides for up to 54 Mbps data rate in the 2.4 GHz band. 802.11g is quickly becoming the next mainstream wireless LAN technology for the home, office and public networks. 802.11g defines the use of the same OFDM modul[...]

4. What is Ad-hoc? An Ad-hoc integrated wireless LAN is a group of computers, each has a Wireless LAN card, Connected as an independent wireless LAN. Ad hoc wireless LAN is applicable at a departmental scale for a branch or SOHO operation. 5. What is Infrastructure? An integrated wireless and wireless and wired LAN is called an Infrastructure confi[...]

2000, or other LAN operating systems to support printer or file sharing. 11. Would the information be intercepted while transmitting on air? WLAN features two-fold protection in security. On the hardware side, as with Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum technology, it has the inherent security feature of scrambling. On the software side, WLAN series of[...]

14. What is WMM? Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM), a group of features for wireless networks that improve the user experience for audio, video and voice applications. WMM is based on a subset of the IEEE 802.11e WLAN QoS draft standard. WMM adds prioritized capabilities to Wi-Fi networks and optimizes their performance when multiple concurring applications, [...]

18. What is WPS? WPS stands for Wi-Fi Protected Setup. It provides a simple way to establish unencrypted or encrypted connections between wireless clients and access point automatically. User can press a software or hardware button to activate WPS function, and WPS- compatible wireless clients and access point will establish connection by themselve[...]