Operation Manual

The FRITZ!WLAN Control Software
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4 The FRITZ!WLAN Control Software
Establishing and Clearing WLAN Connections
With the FRITZ!WLAN USB Stick you can establish wireless network con-
nections (WLANs) with various WLAN devices. The FRITZ!WLAN control
software is available to manage all these WLAN connections.
With FRITZ!WLAN you can configure, establish and clear WLAN connec-
tions as well as view connection information.
If the FRITZ!WLAN control software has not yet been in-
stalled on your computer, please see the section “Micro-
soft WLAN Service” from page 24 for instructions on how
to install it now.
4.1 Operating FRITZ!WLAN
After FRITZ!WLAN USB Stick is installed, FRITZ!WLAN ap-
pears as a program icon in the notification area of the task
bar. You can open the user interface of the control soft-
ware in two ways:
Double-click the FRITZ!WLAN program icon in the no-
tification area of the Windows task bar.
Or click the FRITZ!WLAN program icon with the right
mouse button to open the context menu and select
the “Display Connection...” command.
FRITZ!WLAN user interface (connection example)
User Interface All elements of a WLAN connection are displayed as icons
in the user interface. The user interface window is divided
into three sections.