User manual AIRLIVE WN-360USB

[. . . ] WN-360USB Wireless 11N USB Dongle User's Manual COPYRIGHT Copyright ©2008/2009 by this company. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written permission of this company. This company makes no representations or warranties, either expressed or implied, with respect to the contents hereof and specifically disclaims any warranties, merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. Any software described in this manual is sold or licensed "as is". [. . . ] Click `Show Password' to show the password you typed. Client Certification tab Use this tab to select a local certificate from dropdown menu. If the access point you wish to connect required a specific client certificate, the certificate must be installed on your computer, and you can select the certificate here. Server Certification tab Use this tab to use server-based certification. Please select a CA (Certificate Authority) from dropdown menu. If intermediate certificates are allowed, please select `Allow intermediate certificates'. Also, if you need to specify CA server's name, you can specify it in `Server name' field. You can select `Server name must match', so the CA server's name must be the same with the value you set in `Server name' field; If only the domain name part of full server name must the same with the value you set in `Server name' field, select `Domain name must end in specified name'. 27 WN-360USB User's Manual After you complete all information related to the access point, click `OK' to save the profile, or click `cancel' to cancel adding a new profile. If the profile is created, you will see the information in the Profile List. 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 AirLive configuration utility icon and select `Use Zero Configuration as Configuration utility'. WN-360USB User's Manual 28 2. Right click Windows Zero Configuration icon and select `View Available Wireless Networks'. If you can not find the icon, please follow the procedures from step 3 to step 5. 3. Click `Start' button (should be located at the bottom-left corner of windows desktop), click `Control Panel', then click `Network and Internet Connections' in Control Panel. 29 WN-360USB User's Manual 4. Click `Network Connections'. 5. 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 `AirLive 802. 11n Wireless LAN Card), then select `View Available Wireless Networks'. WN-360USB User's Manual 30 6. 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'. 7. If the access point is protected by encryption, you have to input its security key or passphrase here. It must match the encryption setting on the access point. If the access point you selected does not use encryption, you'll not be prompted for security key or passphrase. 31 WN-360USB User's Manual 8. If you can see `Connected' message, the connection between your computer and wireless access point is successfully established. WN-360USB User's Manual 32 2. 3 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 to input these parameters every time when you want to connect to a specific wireless access point. To manage profiles, right-click the AirLive configuration utility icon located at lower-right corner of computer desktop, then click `Launch Config Utility'. Click the `Profile' menu. All profiles will be listed in `Profile List', and you can select a profile from the list, all information about selected profile will be listed. 33 WN-360USB User's Manual 2. 3. 1 Add a profile If you want to click new profile, click `Profile' menu, then click `Add' button. You'll be prompted to input detailed information of access point, as described in Section 2. 2. 1. 3. WN-360USB User's Manual 34 2. 3. 2 Edit an existing profile If you have added a profile before, and you wish to change the content of the profile, you can use this function. Please select a profile from the list first, then click `Edit' button. You'll be provided with the contents of selected profile, and you can edit them. Click `OK' to save changes, or click `Cancel' to discard changes. 35 WN-360USB User's Manual 2. 3. 3 Delete an existing profile If you no longer need a profile, you can delete it. [. . . ] The longer the chip is, the greater the probability that the original data can be recovered. Even if one or more bits in the chip are damaged during transmission, statistical techniques embedded in the radio can recover the original data without-the need for retransmission. To an unintended receiver, DSSS appears as low power wideband noise and is rejected (ignored) by most narrowband receivers. Spread Spectrum technology is a wideband radio frequency technique developed by the military for use in reliable, secure, mission-critical communication systems. [. . . ]