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TABLE OF CONTENTS REVISION HISTORY .............................................................................................. 4 1. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................... 5 1.1 FEATURES....................................................................................................... 5 1.2 GETTING FAMILIAR WITH YOUR NEW WIRELESS NETWORK CARD ................. 6 1.3 PACKAGE CONTENTS .....................................................
4.2 SECURITY SETTINGS .................................................................................... 64 4.3 ACCESS CONTROL ....................................................................................... 66 4.4 MAC TABLE ................................................................................................. 68 4.5 EVENT LOG................................................................................................... 69 4.6 STATISTICS ..............................................
FCC Warning This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class C 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 communication.
Modular Approval Statement: This device is intended to be used only for OEM integrator under the following conditions: 1) The antenna must be installed such that 20 cm is maintained between the antenna and users, and 2) The transmitter module may not be co-located with any other transmitter or antenna.
1. Introduction Thank you for purchasing this high-speed wireless network card! Besides common wireless standards 802.11b/g, this wireless network card is also able to access 802.11n wireless networks - data transfer rate is up to 150Mbps, which is three times faster than 802.11g wireless network! With easy-to-install PCI interface - a very common expansion port of computers - plug this wireless network card into any empty PCI slot of your computer, just that simple! 1.
1.2 Getting familiar with your new wireless network card 1. Antennas One 2dBi dipole antenna is enclosed with the PCI card. Please secure the antenna to Reverse SMA connector of the card. 2. Link & Active LED Definitions LED Light Status Description On Link to a wireless access point Off Radio is switched to off Link 6 www.encore-usa.
Blinking Transferring / receiving data Active Off No wireless activity 1.3 Package Contents Before you starting to use this wireless network card, please check if there’s anything missing in the package, and contact your dealer of purchase to claim for missing items: ‧ One PCI Wireless Network Card ‧ One 2dBi Dipole Antennas ‧ One CD-ROM (Drivers / Utility/User Manual) 7 www.encore-usa.
1.4 Before you start You must have the requirements as follow: ‧ A computer with an available PCI slot ‧ At least a 300MHz processor and 32MB memory ‧ Windows® 7 / 2000 / XP or Windows Vista™ operation system ‧ A CD-ROM drive ‧ At least 100MB of available disk space. 1.5 Hardware Installation STEP1: Turn off your computer and remove its cover STEP2: Insert the PCI wireless network card into an available PCI slot firmly.
STEP4: Install the antenna on the wireless network card, and make sure the antenna is securely installed. To improve radio reception, please adjust antenna to the proper position. STEP5: Turn on the computer. 9 www.encore-usa.
2. Installation Procedure Note: If you have installed the Wireless Adapter driver & utility before, please uninstall the old version first. STEP1: The Found New Hardware Wizard below will appear after the WLAN adapter is installed. Please click Cancel to continue. (For Windows Vista) (For Windows XP) 10 www.encore-usa.
(For Windows 2000) STEP2: Insert Installation CD into CD-ROM drive, windows below will appear. Click Utility Software and Driver to begin device driver installation. 11 www.encore-usa.
STEP3: Please read the following license agreement. Use the scroll bar to view the rest of this agreement. Select I accept the terms of the license agreement and click Next to continue. STEP4: Choose Install driver and Encore WLAN Utility and click Next to continue. 12 www.encore-usa.
STEP5: In Windows XP, there is a Windows Zero Configuration Tool for you to setup wireless adapter. You can choose to configure the adapter through the Microsoft Zero Configuration Tool or the Encore Configuration Tool. It is recommended to choose the Encore Configuration Tool for the adapter. Click Next to continue. STEP6: Click Install to begin the installation. 13 www.encore-usa.
STEP7: Please wait for a while during the Wireless LAN adapter is configuring your new software installation. STEP8: After the setup wizard has successfully installed wireless LAN, click Finish to exit the wizard. 14 www.encore-usa.
The Configuration Utility appears as an icon on the system tray of Windows while the adapter is running. You can open the utility by double-click on the icon. Right-click the icon, there are some items for you to operate the configuration utility, z Launch Config Utilities Æ Select this option to open the Configuration Utility tool.
3. Wireless Network Configuration Utility 3.1 EncoreUI Wireless Utility & Windows Zero Configuration (WZC) The Configuration Utility is a powerful application that helps you to configure the Wireless LAN adapter and monitor the link status and statistics during the communication process. When the adapter is installed, the configuration utility will be displayed automatically. This adapter will auto connect to wireless device which has better signal strength and no wireless security setting.
If “Use Zero Configurations as Configuration utility” is selected, please continue on the section. Below picture shows that the EncoreUI status when WZC is active as main control utility. When activating WZC, there are couple different on EncoreUI status compare to the without WZC running: (1) Profile button will be gray, profile function is removed since the NIC is controlled by WZC. (2) The connect and add profile function will be gray. The reason is same as the first difference.
STEP2: Right-click the network connection icon in the task bar. STEP3: All wireless access point in proximity will be display here. If the access point you want to use is not display here, please try to move your computer closer to the access point, or you can click “Refresh Network List” to rescan access points. Click the access point you wan to use if it’s shown, then click “Connect”. STEP4: If the access point is protected by encryption, you have to input its security key or 18 www.encore-usa.
passphrase here. It must match the encryption setting on the access point. STEP5: When you see the “Connected” message, the connection between your computer and wireless access point is successfully established. STEP6: If you want to modify information about AP, click “Change advanced settings” 19 www.encore-usa.
STEP7: Choose “Wireless Networks” tab. STEP8: Click “Properties” and then click “OK” button. 20 www.encore-usa.
STEP9: After filling appropriate value, click “OK” button. And the status will prompt up as below. STEP10: Click the Encore’s icon will bring up EncoreUI main window. User can find the 21 www.encore-usa.
surrounding APs in the list. The current connected AP will also show with the green icon indicated as below screen. User may user the available tab to configure more advanced features provided by Encore’s wireless NIC. 3.2 Start EncoreUI Utility 22 www.encore-usa.
When starting EncoreUI, system will connect to the AP with best signal strength without setting profile or matching profile setting. It will issue a scan command to wireless NIC. After two seconds, the AP list will updated with the result of BSS list scan. The AP list include most used fields, such as SSID, network type, channel used, wireless mode, security status and signal percentage. The arrow icon indicates the connected BSS or IBSS network. 23 www.encore-usa.
There are three sections in EncoreUI. These sections are briefly described as below. Button Section: Include Profile page, Network page, Advanced page, Statistics page, WMM page, WPS page, SSO page, CCX Page, About button, Radio On/Off button and Help button. Î Button Section Î Move to the Left Î Move to the Right Function Section: Corresponding button Î Profile Page 24 www.encore-usa.
Î Network Page Î Advanced Page 25 www.encore-usa.
Î Statistics Page Î WMM Page 26 www.encore-usa.
Î WPS Page Î SSO Page (available on Windows XP & 2000 OS) 27 www.encore-usa.
Î CCX Page (available on Windows Vista, XP & 2000 OS) Î About Page 28 www.encore-usa.
Status Section: Include Link Status, AP’s information and Configuration. Î Link Status In the “Profile” Tab, click on an exist connected AP from “Profile List” 29 www.encore-usa.
Î AP’s Information 30 www.encore-usa.
Î Configuration 31 www.encore-usa.
At the mean time of starting EncoreUI, there is also a small Encore icon appears within windows taskbar as below. You may double click it to bring up the main menu if you selected to close EncoreUI menu earlier. You may also use mouse right button to close EncoreUI utility. ÎÎ Encore icon in system tray. Besides, the small icon will change color to reflect current wireless network connection status.
3.3 Profile Profile can book keeping your favorite wireless setting among your home, office, and other public hot-spot. You may save multiple profiles, and activate the correct one at your preference. [Definition of each field] Profile Name: Name of profile, preset to PROF﹡(﹡indicate 1,2,3,…) SSID: AP or Ad-Hoc name Network Type: Network’s type, including infrastructure and Ad-Hoc. Authentication: Authentication mode Encryption: Encryption Type Use 802.1x: Whether or not use 802.
[Icons and buttons] Î indicate connection is successful on currently activated profile Î indicate connection is failed on currently activate profile Î indicate network type is infrastructure mode Î indicate network type is Ad-Hoc Î indicate security-enabled wireless network Î Add a new profile Î Edit an existing profile Î Delete an existing profile Î Activate selected profile Î Show the information of Status Section Î Hide the information of Status Section 34 www.encore-usa.
3.3.1 Add/Edit Profile There are 3 methods to open Profile Editor form: Î You can open it from “Add to Profile” button in Site Survey function Î You can open it form “Add” button in Profile function Î You can open it from “Edit” button in Profile function Profile Name: User can chose name for this profile, or use default name defined by system. SSID: User can key in the intended SSID name or use pull down menu to select from available APs.
Tx Power: You can select the wireless output power here. If you’re not too far from AP (good signal reception), you can select a lower output power to save energy; for a distant access point, you can select a higher output power. It’s suggested to select “Auto” to let setup utility decide the best output power for you. Preamble: Select the preamble for Ad hoc mode here. Available options are “Auto” and “Long”.
3.3.2 Example to Add Profile in Profile Step 1: Click Add in Profile function Step 2: Add Profile page will pop up. 37 www.encore-usa.
Step 3: Change profile name to what you want to connect. Pull down the SSID and select one intended AP. The AP list is the result of last Network. Step 4: To set authentication/encryption information for the access point, please click “Auth.\Encry.” Tab. 38 www.encore-usa.
Step 5: Then, you can see the profile which you set appear in the profile list. Click “Activate” to activate the profile setting. 3.4 Network Under the Network function, system will display the information of surrounding APs from last scan result. List information includes SSID, BSSID, Signal, Channel, Encryption algorithm, Authentication and Network type as below: [Definition of each field] Sorted by >>: You can decide how to sort all listed access point by SSID, Channel, Signal (Signal strength).
Rescan: Click this button to rescan access points. You can click this button for several times, if the access point you wish to use does not show in the list. Add to Profile: You can store a specific access point to profile, so you can link to that access point directly next time without inputting authentication key again. Connect: Connect to a selected access point. You have to select an access point from the list first and then click “Connect” to connect to the selected access point.
3.5 Advanced This wireless network card provides several advanced settings for experienced wireless users. You can change these settings to increase data transfer performance, or change operation mode. Wireless Mode: Select wireless mode. Support 2.4G only. Enable Tx Burst: Encore’s proprietary frame burst mode. Enable TCP Windows Size: Enhance throughout. Fast Roaming at: Fast to roaming, setup by transmit power. Select your Country Region Code: The available channel differs from different countries.
Figure 2: Country Channel list Apply: Save the save changes Î Show the information of Status Section Î Hide the information of Status Section 42 www.encore-usa.
3.6 Statistics The configuration utility provides information about network statistics and link status. If you want to know how your wireless network card works, you can use these functions to get detailed information about the wireless connection you’re using. [Transmit Statistics] Frames Transmitted Successfully: Frames successfully sent.
Duplicate Frames Received: Duplicate received frames. Reset Counter: Reset counters to zero Î Show the information of Status Section Î Hide the information of Status Section All connection-related statistics is displayed here. You can click ‘Transmit’ or ‘Receive’ tab, to view the statistics of transmitted or received packets. You can also click ‘Reset Counter’ button, to reset the statistics of all items back to 0. 3.
WMM-Power Save Enable: Check this box to enable WMM power saving mode to save energy, and let your computer’s battery live longer.
Step 2: Change to “Network” function. And add an AP that supports WMM features to a Profile. The result will look like the below figure in Profile page. 46 www.encore-usa.
[WMM-Power Save Enable – Enable WMM Power Save] Step 1: Click “WMM-Power Save Enable” Step 2: Please select which ACs you want to enable. The setting of enabling WMM-Power Save is successfully. 47 www.encore-usa.
[Direct Link Setup Enable – Enable DLS (Direct Link Setup)] Step 1: Click “Direct Link Setup Enable” Step 2: Change to “Network” function. And add an AP that supports DLS features to a Profile. The result will look like the below figure in Profile page. 48 www.encore-usa.
The Setting of DLS indicates as follow: (1) Fill in the blanks of Direct Link with MAC address of STA. The STA must conform to 2 conditions as follow: Î Connect with the same AP that supports DLS features. Î Have to enable DLS (2) Timeout Value represent that it disconnect automatically after some seconds. The value is integer. The integer must be between 0~65535. It represents that it always connects if the value is zero. Default value of Timeout Value is 60 seconds. 49 www.encore-usa.
(3) Click “Apply” button. The result will look like the below figure. Describe “DLS Status” as follow: (1) As the up figure, after configuring DLS successfully, show MAC address of the opposite side and Timeout Value of setting in “DLS Status”. In “DLS Status” of the opposite side, it shows MAC address of itself and Timeout Value of setting.
Step 2: Double-Click and the result will look like the below figure. (3) Disconnect Direct Link Setup as follow: Step 1: Select a direct link STA. Step 2: Click “Tear Down” button. The result will look like the below figure. 51 www.encore-usa.
3.8 WPS Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) is the latest wireless network technology which makes wireless network setup become very simple. If you have WPS-enabled wireless access point, and you want to establish a secure connection to it, you don’t have to configure the wireless access point and setup data encryption by yourself.
configuration method or PBC configuration setup using PIN configuration method or PBC configuration method through an internal or external Registrar. WPS AP List: Display the information of surrounding APs with WPS IE from last scan result. List information includes SSID, BSSID, Channel, ID (Device Password ID), Security-Enabled. Rescan: Issue a rescan command to wireless NIC to update information on surrounding wireless network. Information: Display the information about WPS IE on the selected network.
If there is an empty credential, the driver will select any non-security AP. PIN: Start to add to Registrar using PIN configuration method. IF STA Registrar, remember that enter PIN Code read from you Enrollee before starting PIN. PBC: Start to add to AP using PBC configuration method. When you click PIN or PBC, please don’t do any rescan within two-minute connection. If you want to abort this setup within the interval, restart PIN/PBC or press Disconnect to stop WPS connection.
Encryption Type: For Open and shared authentication mode, the selection of encryption are None and WEP. For WPA, WPA2, WPA-PSK, and WPA2-PSK authentication mode, the encryption type supports both TKIP and AES. Config Methods: Correspond to the methods the AP supports as an Enrollee for adding external Registrars. (A bitwise OR of values) 55 www.encore-usa.
Device Password ID: Indicate the method or identifies the specific password that the selected Registrar intends to use. AP in PBC mode must indicate 0x0004 within two-minute Walk time. Selected Registrar: Indicate if the user has recently activated a Registrar to add an Enrollee. The values are “TRUE” and “FALSE”. State: The current configuration state on AP. The values are “Unconfigured” and “Configured”. Version: WPS specified version. AP Setup Locked: Indicate if AP has entered a setup locked state.
UUID-E: The universally unique identifier (UUID) element generated by the Enrollee. There is a value. It is 16 bytes. RF-Bands: Indicate All RF bands available on the AP. A dual-band AP must provide it. The values are “2.4GHz” and “5GHz” 3.9 SSO Single Sign-On (SSO) is a session/user authentication process that permits a user to enter one name and password in order to access multiple applications.
Enable Persistent Connection: Use DI and Password in the previous activate Profile and not show any authentication dialog. Profile List (only Support LEAP or EAP-FAST authentication): Select Profile: Select a profile containing LEAP or EAP-FAST authentication. Information of selected profile: Profile information, such as Profile name, SSID or Authentication. 3.
3.11 About About function display the wireless card and driver version information. (1) Connect to Encore’s Website: www.encore-usa.com (2) Display Configuration Utility, Driver, and EEPROM version information (3) Display Wireless NIC MAC Address. 3.12 Link Status Link Status displays the detail information current connection 59 www.encore-usa.
Status: Current connection status. If no connection, it will show Disconnected. Otherwise, the SSID and BSSID will show here. Extra Info: Display link status in use. Channel: Display current channel in use. Authentication: Authentication mode in use. Encryption: Encryption type in use. Network Type: Network type in use. IP Address: IP address about current connection. Sub Mask: Sub Mast about current connection. Default Gateway: Default gateway about current connection.
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A configuration window will appear after you switch the operation mode to ‘AP’, which asks you to assign an existing network card with internet connection After you click ‘OK’, you’ll see the basic configuration menu of the AP function. 62 www.encore-usa.
SSID: Please input the SSID (the name used to identify this wireless access point) here. Up to 32 numerical characters can be accepted here, excepting space. Channel: Please select the wireless channel you wish to use. The number of channels available here will vary depends on the setting of ‘Country Region Code’. Wireless Mode: Select the operation mode of the access point here. Use Mac Address: Click this button to use the MAC address of the wireless card as SSID.
chapter 4-2 ‘Security Settings’ for details. Country Region Code: Please select the country code of the country or region you live. Available options are 0-7, which will affect the available wireless channels you can use: 0: FCC (US, Canada, and other countries uses FCC radio communication standards) 1: ETSI (Europe) 2: SPAIN 3: FRANCE 4: MKK 5: MKKI (TELEC) 6: ISERAL (Channel 3 to 9) 7: ISERAL (Channel 5 to 13) Please note that only change the country code if you are in different country.
Authentication Type: Please select a wireless authentication type you wish to use. Available options are ‘Open’, ‘Shared’, WPA-PSK’, ‘WPA2-PSK’, and ‘WPA-PSK / WPA2-PSK’. If you want to disable wireless data encryption, you must select ‘Open’. Encryption Type: Please select an encryption mode. The available options in this setting item will vary depending on the authentication type you select.
wireless clients here. You can click the button ’10 seconds’ or ‘Kpackets’ to change the unit of time interval. (Every 10 seconds or a thousand data packets times the value you specified in ‘Group Rekey Interval’ field). WEP Key: Please input the WEP encryption key here when you select ‘WEP’ as encryption type. There are 2 types of WEP key: Hex (number 0 to 9, and ASCII characters A to F) and ASCII (all alphanumerical characters plus symbols).
If you’re not going to open your computer and wireless resources to the public, you can use MAC address filtering function to enforce your access control policy, so only wireless clients with MAC address you defined by this function can be connected to your software access point Access Policy: Select the policy type of your access rule. Disable: Allow any wireless client with proper authentication settings to connect to this access point.
here. No colon (:) or hyphen (-) required. Add: Add the MAC address you inputted in ‘MAC address’ field to the list. Delete: Please select a MAC address from the list, then click ‘Delete’ button to remove it. Remove All: Delete all MAC addresses in the list. 4.4 MAC Table If you want to see the list of all wireless clients connected to this access point, please select ‘Mac Table’ tab from the utility MAC Address: Displays the MAC address of this wireless client.
Power Saving Mode: Displays the capability of power-saving function of this wireless client. Status: Displays additional information of this wireless Connection, like current wireless operating mode and data transfer rate. 4.5 Event Log This software access point will log all wireless-related activities as a log. Click ‘Event Log’ tab, and the event log will be displayed. You can click ‘Clear’ to remove all entries in the log. 4.6 Statistics 69 www.encore-usa.
If you want to know detailed information about how your software access point works, click ‘Statistics’ tab, and the event log will be displayed. Click ‘RESET COUNTERS’ button to reset all counters to zero. 4.7 About 70 www.encore-usa.
The ‘About’ tab provides you the information about version number of the configuration utility, driver, and other important information about your wireless access point. 71 www.encore-usa.
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