User manual TP-LINK TL-WN781ND

[. . . ] http://www. tp-link. com is a registered trademark of TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO. , LTD. Other brands and product names are FCC STATEMENT This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to pro-vide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not in-stalled and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. [. . . ] In this mode, all wireless communication between two computers has to be via the AP. It doesn't matter if the AP is stand-alone or wired to an Ethernet network. If used in stand-alone, the AP can extend the range of independent wireless LANs by acting as a repeater, which effectively doubles the distance between wireless stations. -3 - TL-WN781ND High-Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide The image below depicts a network in infrastructure mode. Figure 1-2 Infrastructure mode. -4 - TL-WN781ND High-Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Chapter 2 Installation Guide 2. 1 Before You Begin During the installation, Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista may need to copy systems files from its installation CD. Therefore, you may need a copy of the Windows installation CD at hand before installing the drivers. 2. 2 Installation for Windows XP Follow the steps below in order to install the TL-WN781ND High-Power Wireless USB Adapter drivers: 1. Insert the Resource CD into your CD-ROM drive, and open the folder named TL-WN781ND. Then double-click Setup. exe in the proper folder according to your operating system to start the installation. Once the setup begins you will see the Install Shield Wizard, as the image depicts as below. Figure 2-1 Install driver wizard 2. Select the location where you would like the driver installed. Click on the Browse button to change the directory, or click on the Next button to continue using the default directory. -5 - TL-WN781ND High-Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 2-2 Install Shield--Choose Destination Location 4. Wait a few minutes until the files are copied to the computer. Figure 2-3 Install Shield--Setup Status 5. Click on the Finish button to complete the installation. -6 - TL-WN781ND High-Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 2-4 Installation Complete Now, carefully insert the device into the USB port of your computer. Windows will automatically detect the device and display the icon and below in the taskbar. 2. 3 Installation for Windows Vista After you complete the hardware installation, follow the steps below in order to install the TL-WN781ND Wireless USB Adapter drivers for Windows Vista: 1. Encryption: Select an encryption type from the drop-down list. Options available are: Disable, WEP, TKIP, and AES. You can click "Change" button to change general connection settings as shown below. - 18 - TL-WN781ND High-Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 4-3 More setting--WEP 4. 1. 2. 2 WEP Encryption You can select 64, 128 or 256 bit WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) key to encrypt data (Default setting is Disable). Authentication: Select Open System or Shared Key from the drop-down list. If you are not sure which to choose, please select auto. Encryption: Select WEP from the drop-down list. Click on the WEP Encryption Key Setting button. You will see the figure below. - 19 - TL-WN781ND High-Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Figure 4-4 WEP Key Setting Key Length: Select an encryption key length: 64, 128 or 256 bit. The setting must be the same as the Access Point. Default Key ID: Since you can specify up to 4 different WEP keys, select the WEP key value that you want to use in the current network configuration. Key Format: Select Hexadecimal or ASCII. [. . . ] After the configuration that was set above, we can connect to web successfully. Till now, we have finished the configuration of PSP mode. - 32 - TL-WN781ND High-Power Wireless USB Adapter User Guide Chapter 6 Configuration for Windows Vista After the Adapter's driver has been installed, Windows Vista will display a wireless Network Connection message like this one. Figure 6-1 Icon means the connection has been established. To establish a connection, please follow the steps below. Right-click the icon in your system tray, then click Connect to a network. Figure 6-2 2. [. . . ]