User manual ZYXEL AG-220

[. . . ] ZyXEL AG-220 802. 11a/g Wireless USB Adapter User's Guide Version 1. 00 Edition 1 8/2006 ZyXEL AG-220 User's Guide Copyright Copyright © 2006 by ZyXEL Communications Corporation. The contents of this publication may not be reproduced in any part or as a whole, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, translated into any language, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, photocopying, manual, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of ZyXEL Communications Corporation. Published by ZyXEL Communications Corporation. All rights reserved. Disclaimer ZyXEL does not assume any liability arising out of the application or use of any products, or software described herein. [. . . ] denotes that the wireless device is in Ad-Hoc mode and the wireless security is activated. denotes that the wireless device is in Ad-Hoc mode but the wireless security is deactivated. This field displays the SSID (Service Set IDentifier) of each wireless device. This field displays the channel number used by each wireless device. This field displays the signal strength of each wireless device. Click Scan to search for available wireless devices within transmission range. Click Connect to associate to the selected wireless device. Click an entry in the Available Network List table to display the information of the selected wireless device. This field displays the network type (Infrastructure or Ad Hoc) of the wireless device. This field displays the channel number used by each wireless device. This field shows whether data encryption is activated (WEP (WEP or 802. 1x), WPA, WPA-PSK, WPA2, WPA2-PSK) or inactive (DISABLE). SSID Channel Signal Scan Connect Site Information Network Type Channel Encryption 46 Chapter 4 Wireless Station Mode Configuration ZyXEL AG-220 User's Guide Table 5 Station Mode: Site Survey (continued) LABEL MAC address Surveyed at DESCRIPTION This field displays the MAC address of the wireless device. This field displays the time when the wireless device was scanned. 4. 3. 1 Security Settings When you configure the AG-220 to connect to a network with wireless security activated and the security settings are disabled on the AG-220, the screen varies according to the encryption method used by the selected network. 4. 3. 1. 1 WEP Encryption Figure 25 Station Mode: Security Setting: WEP The following table describes the labels in this screen. Table 6 Station Mode: Security Setting: WEP LABEL Security Settings WEP Encryption Type Pass Phrase Select 64 Bits, 128 Bits or 256 Bits to activate WEP encryption and then fill in the related fields. Refer to Section 3. 2. 3. 1. 2 on page 37 for more information. Enter a passphrase of up to 63 case-sensitive printable characters. As you enter the passphrase, the AG-220 automatically generates four different WEP keys and displays it in the key field below. Refer to Section 3. 2. 3. 1. 1 on page 37 for more information. At the time of writing, you cannot use the passphrase function to generate 256-bit WEP keys. Select a default WEP key to use for data encryption. DESCRIPTION Transmit Key Chapter 4 Wireless Station Mode Configuration 47 ZyXEL AG-220 User's Guide Table 6 Station Mode: Security Setting: WEP (continued) LABEL DESCRIPTION Key x (where x is a Select this option if you want to manually enter the WEP keys. Enter the WEP key number between 1 in the field provided. and 4) If you select 64 Bits in the WEP field. Enter either 10 hexadecimal digits in the range of "A-F", "a-f" and "0-9" (for example, 11AA22BB33) for HEX key type. [. . . ] If you have a gateway IP address, type it in the New gateway field and click Add. 5 Click OK to save and close the TCP/IP Properties window. 7 Restart your computer when prompted. Verifying Settings 1 Click Start and then Run. 2 In the Run window, type "winipcfg" and then click OK to open the IP Configuration window. You should see your computer's IP address, subnet mask and default gateway. Windows 2000/XP 1 For Windows XP, click start, Control Panel. [. . . ]