Zonet ZEW2542 manual

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802.11n Wireless USB Adapte r 1 Chapter 1 Int roduction 1.1 Welcome Thank you for purchasing Zonet ZEW2542-802.11n wireless USB adapt er . ZEW2542 connects you with IEEE802. 11n(Draft 2.0) n etworks at receiving rate up to an incredi ble 300Mbps! By using the reflection signal, 802.11n's “Mult i ple I n, Multiple Out ” ( MIMO) technology i[...]

802.11n Wireless USB Adapter 2 1.4 Before You Begin You must have t he followin g:  A laptop computer/desktop P C with an available USB 2.0/1.1 slot  Mi nimum 300MHz processor and 3 2MB mem ory  A t l east 100MB of a v ailabl e disk space  Wi ndows 2 000, 2003, XP, 2 003, Vista  A CD-ROM Dri ve  U SB controll er properly in stalle[...]

802.11n Wireless USB Adapter 3 Chapter 2 Designing Your ZEW2542 ZEW2542 supports up to 30 0Mbps connections. It i s f ully compliant with the specificati ons defined in 80 2.11n (Draft 2.0) stan dard. 2 1 3 4 1. USB Connector 2. Connector Cap (T o protect USB connector when not i n u se) 3. Link/Activi ty LED 4. WPS Button (Press t o activ ate WPS [...]

802.11n Wireless USB Adapter 4 Chapter 3 Ins tallation 3.1 Install Your ZEW2542  P ower on your P C, let the operati ng syst em boot up compl etely, and log in as needed.  H old ZEW25 42 and insert i t into a USB slot.  Sel ect Cancel when “ F ound New Har dware ” wi ndow appears.[...]

802.11n Wireless USB Adapter 5 3.2 Install Driv er and Utility NOTE: Snap-shot scr eens of the following i nstallation procedure a re based on W indows XP. In stallation proce dures will be similar for ot h er windows o perating systems . 1. Insert I nstallation CD to your C D-ROM drive. B r owse CD and do uble-click setup.exe in Driver f older to [...]

802.11n Wireless USB Adapter 6 4. Select Optimize f or WiFi mode or Opti mize f or perfor man ce mode then click Next .[...]

802.11n Wireless USB Adapter 7 5. Click Finish to com plete the softw are i nstallation. You will se e a tray icon appear in your system tray at the bottom of the screen after the software and hardware installation completed su ccessfully.[...]

802.11n Wireless USB Adapter 8 Chapter 4 Configuration Right -click the tray icon and then click Launch Config Utilities to use Ral ink configur a tion utili ty . 4.1 Profile Profile can keep your favor i te wireless setting a m ong your home , office, and other public hotspot. Yo u ma y save multiple profiles a nd activate the one at your preferen[...]

802.11n Wireless USB Adapter 9 1. Defin itions : a. Profile Na me: Name of the profile, preset to PROF* (* indicate 1, 2, 3,) b. SSID: The public name of a wireless networ k, S ervice Set IDent i fier c. Network T ype: Infrastructure and/or Ad-Hoc d. Authentica tion: Open, Shared, (Leap), WPA-PSK, W PA2-PSK, WPA and WPA2 e. Encryption : WEP, TKIP, [...]

802.11n Wireless USB Adapter 10 5. RT S Threshold: you can adjust the R TS threshold number by sliding the bar or key in the v alue dir ectly . Default value = 2 347 6. F ragmen t T hreshold: you can adjust the Fr agm ent threshold number by sliding the bar or k ey in the v al ue directly . Default value = 2 346 b. Authenticat ion an d Securi ty 1.[...]

802.11n Wireless USB Adapter 1 1 c. 802.1 X 1. Authenticatio n Type: T he type selected here must be identical to the type o f the 802.1x a uthentication type y ou’re usi ng. 2. Session Resumption: Enable or Disable. 3. Domain Name : Input the domai n name of 8 02.1x authenticati on. Thi s fi eld will be gr ay ed out wh en authenticati on type is[...]

802.11n Wireless USB Adapter 12 4.2 Link Status Link status page shows detail in formation abo ut the current connect i on. 1. Status: Shows the c urrent connecte d SSID / BSSID . If there’ s no active connection currently , “Disconnected” wil l be display ed. 2. Extra Inf o: Shows link status and its trans mi t power 3. Channel : Shows the c[...]

802.11n Wireless USB Adapter 13 4.3 Site Survey Under Site Survey ta b, you will know information of all surround ing wirel ess netwo rks from the last scan. Click Rescan to update and refres h. Or Select a SSID to add to your profile. Indic ate s your curre nt connected network.[...]

802.11n Wireless USB Adapter 14 4.4 Statistics Statisti cs page displays the detail counter inform ation based on 802.1 1 MIB counters. This pag e tr anslates that MIB counter s into a for mat easier for user to understand[...]

802.11n Wireless USB Adapter 15 4.5 Advanced The followi ng figure shows Adv ance f unction of UI 1. Wireless mode: Select from 802.1 1 B only, 802.11 B/G mixed, 802.11 B/G/N mixed, and 802.1 1G only 2. Enable Tx BURST: Ralink’s proprietary f rame burst mode. Suggest using with an Access Point that has the same tech nology. 3. Enable TCP Window S[...]

802.11n Wireless USB Adapter 16 4.6 QoS 1. WMM Enable: Enable Wi -Fi Multi-Medi a 2. WMM - Power S ave Enable: Enab le WMM P o wer Sa v e 3. Direct Link Setup Enable: Enable DLS (D i rect Link Setup). This function w ill greatly im prove t he data tr ansfer r ate between WMM- enabl ed wirel ess devices. MAC Address: Input the MAC addr ess of anothe[...]

802.11n Wireless USB Adapter 17 4.7 WPS Config uration WPS pag e supports t he configuration setup using PIN configura tion meth od or PBC configur a tion method. WPS(Wi-Fi Protected Setup) is to s i mplify the security setup and management of Wi-Fi networks. 1. WPS AP List: Display the informati on of surrounding APs w i th WPS IE from last scan r[...]

802.11n Wireless USB Adapter 18 9. Disconnect: Stop WPS acti on and disconnect this activ e link. 10. Export Profile: Export all credentials to P rofile. 11. Delete: Delete a n existi ng credential . 12. PIN: Start t o add to AP usi ng PIN config urati on method 13. PBC: Start to ad d to AP usi ng PBC confi gurati on method Note: When clicking PIN [...]

802.11n Wireless USB Adapter 19 Chapter 5 Use Zero Config uration Windows XP and Vista has a built-i n w irel ess network configu r ation utility “Windows Zero Configur ation” (WZC). It is a built in serv ice to configure your wireless clients fro m Windows 1. Start using WZ C, r ight click the tray utility and select Us e Zero Configuratio n a[...]

802.11n Wireless USB Adapter 20 4. T o configure t he wireless connect properti es, pleas e rig ht click the wireless i con in the system tra y and choose Stat us to open the page Wi reless Networ k Connection Statu s . 5. Click Properties button in General page and choose the tab Wireless Networks t o add the S SID of availabl e network by clickin[...]

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802.11n Wireless USB Adapter 22 6. Advanced page confi gures f irewall and connection sha ring.[...]

802.11n Wireless USB Adapte r 23 Chapter 6 Soft AP ZEW2542 has two mo des: working station and Soft AP . After start Soft AP , ZEW2542 will be an AP to accept any wi reless devi ce access. 6.1 Start Soft A P After starti ng ZEW2542 driver, you will see icon in th e system tray. Right click the icon and choos e Swi tch to AP Mode , the tray icon wil[...]

802.11n Wireless USB Adapter 24 6.2 Configurati on In soft AP configu ration Util ity page, you ca n ma ke some basic confi gurations, such as wireless networ k name, mode, channel a nd authentica tion. Click Security S etting button to make d i fferent security configurations of wireless communi cation, and you can choos e the authenti cation type[...]

802.11n Wireless USB Adapter 25 6.3 Access Control Choose Access Control tab to start MAC control. Access control includes Allow All and Reject All . After edi ting the M AC address a ccess li st, only the MAC in th e Allow All list could access the Soft AP .[...]

802.11n Wireless USB Adapter 26 6.4 MAC Table MAC Table page shows the information of the wireless devices acces sed to this s o f t AP . 6.5 Switch to W orking Stat ion mode In the Soft AP mode, ri ght-click the i con in th e system tray and choose Switc h to Station Mode , then ZEW2542 is swit ching to working stat i on mode with an interf ace of[...]

802.11n Wireless USB Adapter 27 Chapter 7. Specifications Gener al Featu res Standards IEEE 802. 11n, IEEE 802. 11g, IEEE 802. 11b standards Interface USB2.0 OS Windo ws 20 00/ X P/ Vista User interface Easy to use user configuration software roaming Support multipoint auto roaming and configuration; Support wireless network environments auto detec[...]

802.11n Wireless USB Adapter 28 Chapter 8. TroubleShoot ing This chapt er provi des solutions to probl ems that m ay occur d uring the i nstallation and oper ation of ZEW2542. R ead the descrip tions below to solve y our problems. 1. The ZEW2542 does n ot work properly. Rei nsert ZEW25 42 into y our PC’ s USB slot. Right click on M y Computer and[...]

802.11n Wireless USB Adapter 29 4. I can’t find any wireless access point / wireless device in Site Survey function.  Click Re scan for few more ti mes and see if you can fi nd any wireless access point or wireless devi ce.  Please m ov e closer to any known wi reless access point.  Ad-hoc functi on must be enab led for the wireless devi[...]