PCE-N10 Wireless Local Area Network Card (For 802.
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PCE-N10 WLAN Card User Manual Table of contents 1. Introduction ..........................................................................................1 1.1 Package contents ............................................................................1 1.2 System requirements .......................................................................1 1.3 Hardware .........................................................................................1 2. Installing the PCE-N10 driver and utilities .......
PCE-N10 WLAN Card User Manual Notice Federal Communication Commission Interference 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.
PCE-N10 WLAN Card User Manual DGT Warning Statement Article 12 Without permission, any company, firm or user shall not alter the frequency, increase the power, or change the characteristics and functions of the original design of the certified lower power frequency electric machinery.
PCE-N10 WLAN Card User Manual 1. Introduction 1.1 Package contents Check your PCE-N10 WLAN Card package for the following items. • ASUS PCE-N10 WLAN Card x1 • External dipole antenna x1 • Quick Start Guide x1 • Support CD x1 • Low profile bracket x1 • Warranty card x1 NOTE: If any of the above items is damaged or missing, contact your retailer immediately. 1.
PCE-N10 WLAN Card User Manual 2. Installing the PCE-N10 driver and utilities IMPORTANT: Install the ASUS PCE-N10 WLAN Card into your computer before installing the driver and utilities from the bundled Support CD. To install the driver and utilities for your ASUS PCE-N10 WLAN Card: 1. Place the bundled Support CD into the optical drive. An Autorun screen appears if the Autorun function is enabled on your computer. NOTE: If the Autorun function is not enabled on your computer, double-click SETUP.
PCE-N10 WLAN Card User Manual 3. Configuring PCE-N10 using ASUS utility 3.1 Connecting to a wireless network manually To connect PCE-N10 to a station (Ad Hoc mode) manually: 1. Right-click the ASUS WLAN Card Setting Utility icon in the Windows® system tray, then select Wireless Setting. 2. You may click Survey table, click Search button for wireless networks, select a network (AP from the available network list, then, click Connect button . 3.
PCE-N10 WLAN Card User Manual 3.2 Connecting to a wireless network using WPS The ASUS PCE-N10 WLAN Card supports the WPS function that helps you set up a secure wireless network easily. IMPORTANT: Ensure that the network(AP) you are trying to connect is to supports the WPS function. 3.2. To connect PCE-N10 to a WPS-enabled AP using the WPS push button: 2. Select Use the WPS button “, then click Next button. 1. Click the WPS tab. 3.
PCE-N10 WLAN Card User Manual 3.3 Soft AP mode (Windows® XP/Vista/7) The ASUS PCE-N10 WLAN Card supports the Soft AP mode. In this mode, the WLAN card acts as a virtual AP. IMPORTANT: Before configuring the Soft AP mode, connect your computer to a wired network to provide network access for your wireless clients. To switch to the Soft AP mode: 1. Click AP button, located on the lower left corner, switch to the Software AP mode. 2. Clink General table, then, click ICS button to enable ICS.
PCE-N10 WLAN Card User Manual In the Soft AP mode, you can limit the wireless clients that associate with the WLAN card through the access control policy page. Click Configuration table, click Edit Config button and then, click ACL button. 1.To disable the access control function, click Disable button from the Access Control Policy. 2. To allow a wireless client to associate with the WLAN card: a. Select Access button from the Access Control Policy. b. Key in its MAC address in the lower left column. c.
PCE-N10 WLAN Card User Manual 4. Software information 4.1 ASUS WLAN Control Center ASUS WLAN Control Center includes ASUS WLAN Card Setting Utility (Station mode) and ASUS Wireless Access Point Utility (Soft AP mode) which help you manage your WLAN card easily. 4.2 ASUS WLAN Card Setting Utility ASUS WLAN Card Setting Utility provides you with an easy interface to set up wireless connections. This section explains the buttons, fields, and configuration options on the user interface.
PCI-G31 WLAN Card User Manual Left-click the ASUS WLAN Card Setting Utility system tray icon to display the following options: • Wireless Radio On - Turns the wireless radio ON. • Wireless Radio Off - Turns the wireless radio OFF. • Search & Connect - Displays the available wireless networks. Double-click the icon to launch the ASUS WLAN Card Setting utility.
PCE-N10 WLAN Card User Manual Survey Displays the connection status: SSID - Displays the name of the wireless networks that the WLAN card is going to connect. MAC Address - Indicates the hardware address of the WLAN card. A Mac address is a unique identifier assigned to networking devices. It consists of six groups of two hexadecimal digits (0 through 9 and A through F) separated by colons, e.g. 00:E0:18:F0:05:C0. Channel - Displays the channel of the wireless networks.
PCE-N10 WLAN Card User Manual Config - Basic Network Type Infrastructure - Select the Infrastructure mode to establish a connection with an wireless access point. Ad Hoc - Select the Ad Hoc mode to communicate with a station. An Ad Hoc network is formed quickly and easily without pre-planning. For example, you can share meeting notes among networked computer in a meeting room. Action mode name & SSID - Key in or select a network from network list of the wireless access point you are trying to connect to.
PCE-N10 WLAN Card User Manual Config - Encryption The Encryption page allows you to set up the encryption settings for your WLAN card. For data confidentiality in a wireless environment, IEEE 802.11 specifies a Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) algorithm to offer transmission privacy similar to wired network. WEP uses keys to encrypt data packets sent and decrypt data packets received. The encryption process can scramble frame bits to avoid disclosure to others.
PCE-N10 WLAN Card User Manual Data Encryption - In the Open and Shared authentication modes, options are: Disabled and WEP. Disabled - Disables the encryption protection for your WLAN card. WEP - Encrypts the data before it is transmitted over the air. You can communicate with wireless devices that use the same WEP keys. In the WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK authentication modes, options are: Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).
PCE-N10 WLAN Card User Manual Config - Advanced This Advanced page is intended for experienced users to set up additional parameters for the WLAN card. We recommend that you keep the default values. RTS Threshold (0-2347) - The Request to Send/Clear to Send (RTS/CTS) function is used to minimize collisions among wireless stations. When RTS/CTS is enabled, the router refrains from sending a data frame until another RTS/CTS handshake is completed. Enable RTS/CTS by setting a specific packet size threshold.
PCE-N10 WLAN Card User Manual 6. Troubleshooting This chapter provides solutions to problems which you may encounter when installing or using the ASUS PCI-G31 WLAN card. Contact a qualified service technician for assistance if the problem still exists after you have performed the troubleshooting solutions. How do I verify that my WLAN card is installed properly? 1. Right-click My Computer from the Start menu, then select Properties. 2. Select the Hardware tab, then click Device Manager. 3.
PCI-G31 WLAN Card User Manual My WLAN card cannot connect to a station or WLAN card. • Check if Network Type is set to the Ad Hoc mode. • Check if the SSID of your WLAN card is the same as that of the station or the WLAN card you want to connect to. • Check if the Channel of your WLAN card is the same as that of the station or the WLAN card you want to connect to. • Check if the Encryption settings of your WLAN card are the same as those of the station or the WLAN card you want to connect to.
PCI-G31 WLAN Card User Manual 7. Glossary Access Point (AP) A networking device that seamlessly connects wired and wireless networks. Access Points combined with a distributed system support the creation of multiple radio cells that enable roaming throughout a facility. Ad Hoc A wireless network composed solely of stations within mutual communication range of each other (no Access Point). Basic Rate Set This option allows you to specify the data transmission rate.
PCI-G31 WLAN Card User Manual COFDM (for 802.11a or 802.11g) Signal power alone is not enough to maintain 802.11b-like distances in an 802.11a/g environment. To compensate, a new physical-layer encoding technology was designed that departs from the traditional direct-sequence technology being deployed today. This technology is called COFDM (coded OFDM). COFDM was developed specifically for indoor wireless use and offers performance much superior to that of spread-spectrum solutions.
PCI-G31 WLAN Card User Manual DNS Server Address (Domain Name System) DNS allows Internet host computers to have a domain name and one or more IP addresses. A DNS server keeps a database of host computers and their respective domain names and IP addresses, so that when a user enters a domain name into the Internet browser, the user is sent to the proper IP address. The DNS server address used by the computers on your home network is the location of the DNS server your ISP has assigned.
PCI-G31 WLAN Card User Manual Encryption This provides wireless data transmissions with a level of security. This option allows you to specify a 64-bit or a 128-bit WEP key. A 64-bit encryption contains 10 hexadecimal digits or 5 ASCII characters. A 128-bit encryption contains 26 hexadecimal digits or 13 ASCII characters. 64-bit and 40-bit WEP keys use the same encryption method and can interoperate on wireless networks.
PCI-G31 WLAN Card User Manual ICS ICS is used to share one computer’s Internet connection with the rest of the computers on your network. When this computer is connected to the Internet, all the communications to and from the Internet on your network are sent through this computer which is called the host computer. The rest of the computers can send and receive e-mail messages and access the web as if it were connected directly to the Internet. IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
PCI-G31 WLAN Card User Manual The 802.11a standard gains some of its performance from the higher frequencies at which it operates. The laws of information theory tie frequency, radiated power and distance together in an inverse relationship. Thus, moving up to the 5GHz spectrum from 2.4GHz will lead to shorter distances, given the same radiated power and encoding scheme. Compared with 802.11g: 802.11a is a standard for access points and radio NICs that is ahead of 802.
PCI-G31 WLAN Card User Manual IP (Internet Protocol) The TCP/IP standard protocol that defines the IP datagram as the unit of information passed across an Internet and provides the basis for connectionless packet delivery service. IP includes the ICMP control and error message protocol as an integral part. It provides the functional equivalent of ISO OSI Network Services. IP Address An IP address is a 32-bit number that identifies each sender or receiver of information that is sent across the Internet.
PCI-G31 WLAN Card User Manual NIC (Network Interface Card) A network adapter inserted into a computer so that the computer can be connected to a network. It is responsible for converting data from stored in the computer to the form transmitted or received. Packet A basic message unit for communication across a network. A packet usually includes routing information, data, and sometimes error detection information.
PCI-G31 WLAN Card User Manual Radio Frequency (RF) Terms: GHz, MHz, Hz The international unit for measuring frequency is Hertz (Hz), equivalent to the older unit of cycles per second. One megahertz (MHz) is one million Hertz. One gigahertz (GHz) is one billion Hertz. The standard US electrical power frequency is 60Hz, the AM broadcast radio frequency band is 0.55-1.6MHz, the FM broadcast radio frequency band is 88-108MHz, and wireless 802.11 LANs operate at 2.4GHz.
PCI-G31 WLAN Card User Manual WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is an improved security system for 802.11. It is part of the 802.11i draft security standard. WPA encompasses TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol) along with MIC (Message Integrity Check) and other fixes to WEP such as Weak IV (Initialization Vector) filtering and Random IV generation. TKIP uses 802.1x to deploy and change temporary keys as opposed to static WEP keys once used in the past.
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