User manual TP-LINK TL-WN8200ND

[. . . ] is a registered trademark of TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO. , LTD. Other brands and product names are trademarks or http://www. tp-link. com 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 provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. [. . . ] The TWCU utility provides a complete and easy to use set of tools to: Display current status information Edit and add configuration profiles Display current diagnostics information The section below introduces these above capabilities. 3. 1 Current Status The Current Status tab contains general information about the program and its operations. The Current Status tab does not require any configurations. Figure 3-1 The following table describes the items found on the Current Status screen. Profile Name - The name of current selected configuration profile. Set up the 11 TL-WN8200ND/TL-WN550G/TL-WN551G 54M Wireless USB Adapter User Guide configuration name on the General tab of Profile Management. Link Status - Shows whether the station is associated to the wireless network. Wireless Mode - Displays the wireless mode. Configure the wireless mode on the Advanced tab of Profile Management. Network Type - The type of network and the station currently connected. The options include: · · Infrastructure (access point) Ad Hoc Configure the network type on the Advanced tab of Profile Management. IP Address - Displays the computer's IP address. Current Channel - Shows the currently connected channel. The adapter will detect the access point if any messages are waiting periodically. · · Normal - In Normal mode, the adapter will be switched to maximum mode automatically when no large packets are retrieved. Off - turns power saving off, thus powering up the wireless adapter continuously for a short message response time. 802. 11b Preamble: Specifies the preamble setting in 802. 11b. The default setting is Short & Long (access point mode), which allows both short and long headers in the 802. 11b frames. The adapter can only use short radio headers if the access point supports and uses them. Set to Long Only to override allowing short frames. Wireless Mode: Specifies 2. 4 GHz 54 Mbps or 2. 4 GHz 11 Mbps operation in an access point network. The wireless adapter must match the wireless mode of the access point with which it associates. Wireless Mode when Starting an Ad Hoc Network: Specifies 2. 4 GHz 54/11 Mbps to start an Ad Hoc network if no matching network name is found after scanning all available modes. This mode also allows the selection of the channel the wireless adapter uses. [. . . ] Ad-hoc Network - An ad-hoc network is a group of computers, each with a wireless adapter, connected as an independent 802. 11 wireless LAN. Ad-hoc wireless computers operate on a peer-to-peer basis, communicating directly with each other without the use of an access point. Ad-hoc mode is also referred to as an Independent Basic Service Set (IBSS) or as peer-to-peer mode, and is useful at a departmental scale or SOHO operation. DSSS (Direct-Sequence Spread Spectrum) - DSSS generates a redundant bit pattern for all data transmitted. [. . . ]