Octagon WL038 Manual

Manual is about: 802.11b/g/n Wireless USB Adapter

Summary of WL038

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    802.11b/g/n wireless usb adapter www.Octagon-germany.De 1 content chapter 1 product introduction .................................................................................................... 2 1.1 package contents ..................................................................................

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    802.11b/g/n wireless usb adapter www.Octagon-germany.De 2 chapter 1 product introduction thank you for choosing our wireless adapter! The wireless adapter supports ieee wireless standards, and is able to quickly process file transfer, video, multi-media and other applications that require higher ban...

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    802.11b/g/n wireless usb adapter www.Octagon-germany.De 3 2. Please close or uninstall the configuration programs of other manufacturers’ before you install the configuration programs of the network adapters to avoid possible ui (user interface) conflict. 3. To avoid possible network conflicts betwe...

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    802.11b/g/n wireless usb adapter www.Octagon-germany.De 4 1.6 product maintenance 1. Please keep the product away from water and humid environment to guarantee its normal performance 2. Protect it against hazardous substances (such as acids, alkalis etc). 3. Please don’t directly expose the adapter ...

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    802.11b/g/n wireless usb adapter www.Octagon-germany.De 5 2.1.3 put the software program cd, then auto installation window pops up on following. Just click windows, the driver should run automatically. (double click “setup.Exe” in the software cd and manually install when it doesn’t auto-run). 2.1.4...

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    802.11b/g/n wireless usb adapter www.Octagon-germany.De 6 2.1.5 click “next” to process the installation. 2.1.6 it shows that it is installing. 2.1.7 click “finish” to complete the installation..

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    802.11b/g/n wireless usb adapter www.Octagon-germany.De 7 chapter 3 wireless lan utility select “start”—“programs” —“realtek usb wireless lan utility”— “realtek usb wireless lan utility”, or click the “realtek usb wireless lan utility” shortcut on your pc’s desktop to start the ui. 3.1 station mode ...

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    802.11b/g/n wireless usb adapter www.Octagon-germany.De 8 infrastructure and ad-hoc with both infrastructure and ad-hoc types, the properties should look like the picture above. Six property pages present different information of current wireless network status. Please read the following explanation...

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    802.11b/g/n wireless usb adapter www.Octagon-germany.De 9 a: general page 1. Status the status of station connection to ap. 2. Speed current transition speed in mbps (mega-bits-per-second). 3. Type current wireless lan configuration type. 4. Encryption current encryption mode used. 5. Ssid name of w...

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    802.11b/g/n wireless usb adapter www.Octagon-germany.De 10 b. Profile page this page provides profiles management such as add, remove, edit and duplicate just by pressing the respected button. Available profile(s) the list box shows all the created profiles. 1. Add add a new profile for ap or ibss (...

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    802.11b/g/n wireless usb adapter www.Octagon-germany.De 11 1. Refresh rescan network connection around this system. 2. Add to profile create profile for selected network connection and add it to profile list..

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    802.11b/g/n wireless usb adapter www.Octagon-germany.De 12 d. Status page ndis driver version: driver version short radio header: no encryption: current encryption mode. Authenticate: authentication state channel set: selected channel plan currently. Mac address: mac address of this adapter. Data ra...

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    802.11b/g/n wireless usb adapter www.Octagon-germany.De 13 e. Wi-fi protect setup page f. Virtual wifi page.

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    802.11b/g/n wireless usb adapter www.Octagon-germany.De 14 3.2 introduction of main window a. Main menu the main menu includes five submenus. 1. Refresh(r) when clicking the refresh menu, you can update and re-enumerate the contents of adapter list area. 2. Mode(m) wireless configuration is quickly ...

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    802.11b/g/n wireless usb adapter www.Octagon-germany.De 15 b. Adapter list area all connected adapters on this system with multiple adapter installations are displayed in this area. It is easy for users to change the selected adapter by one click. The contents of properties area are dependent on wir...

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    802.11b/g/n wireless usb adapter www.Octagon-germany.De 16 d. Global control bar each control item on this bar affects the adapter or management gui directly. Show tray icon checking "show tray icon" and clicking “close” button, the management gui will be minimized and stay on the tray icon located ...

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    802.11b/g/n wireless usb adapter www.Octagon-germany.De 17 virtual wifi allowed switch utility to virtual wifi setting tool. Close whether to check or uncheck "show tray icon" is to shut down or hide the management gui. 3.3. Ap mode click main menu mode(m) and choose “access point” to switch ap mode...

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    802.11b/g/n wireless usb adapter www.Octagon-germany.De 18 1. Ssid the name of this ap. 2. Bssid six two-digital numbers of the mac address of this ap. 3. Association table it is the list of joined stations to this ap. 4. Aid (association id) the aid field is a value assigned by an ap during associa...

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    802.11b/g/n wireless usb adapter www.Octagon-germany.De 19 7.1. Network name (ssid) name of the ap is searchable by other wireless modes. The length of ssid should be shorter than 32 characters. 7.2. Channel select the wireless channel within current channel plan. 7.3. Network authentication & data ...

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    802.11b/g/n wireless usb adapter www.Octagon-germany.De 20 7.4. Ascii/ passphrase the most advanced authentication and data encryption that provide the best security protection. ■ ascii: you should provide either 5 or 13 ascii characters on network key edit box. ■ passphrase: you could input words...

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    802.11b/g/n wireless usb adapter www.Octagon-germany.De 21 transition is listed..