User's Manual

Chapter 5 Wireless Adapter Utility Features
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The guideline for choosing between the Normal and Maximum
options:
The USB adapter wakes up more often and responds sooner to
network requests in Normal mode than in Maximum mode; and the
Maximum mode consumes less power than Normal mode.
Network Type
Select either Infrastructure if you are connecting to the WLAN using an
access point or Ad-hoc if you are connecting directly to another
computer equipped with a wireless adapter.
802.11b Preamble
The preamble is part of the IEEE 802.11b physical layer specification. It is
mandatory for all 802.11b devices to support the long preamble format,
but they may optionally support the short preamble. This USB adapter
supports both the short and long preambles.
• Short & Long
This option allows communication with other 802.11b devices that
support short preamble to boost the throughput.
• Long
If your device is having trouble to communicate with other 802.11b
devices, you may try to select the Long Only option.
Wireless Mode
Specifies 5GHz 54 Mbps, 2.4 GHz 54 Mbps, 2.4 GHz 11 Mbps, or Super A/G
operation in a wireless network where there is an access point.
The wireless adapter must match the wireless mode of the access point it
associates to.
802.11 Authentication Mode (Only applicable to Infrastructure mode,
after you have enabled the encryption mode)
Select which mode the wireless adapter uses to authenticate to an
access point: