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The Site Monitor:

Dell™ TrueMobile™ 1300 Wireless USB Adapter User's

Guide

The Site Monitor allows you to monitor available wireless networks, providing information on

each network it sees and allowing you to update this information either manually or at regular

intervals. When you click on the

Site Monitor

tab, the following window appears:

After the utility scans for wireless networks, it lists the networks it has found in the

Visible

Networks

window. You can sort the list by any of the information it displays by clicking on the

name of the appropriate column in the list.

When you first display the

Site Monitor

menu, the SSID, BSSID, and Supported Rate of the

network to which you are connected appear in the

Selected Network

section of this menu.

Selecting another network from the list of visible networks displayed its information in this

section.

You can force the utility to perform a scan by clicking on the

Refresh

button. To cause the utility

to scan at regular intervals, click the check box next to the

Auto Refresh every:

field and

choose an interval for the scan from the list displayed by clicking the down arrow in the field to

the right. You can also limit the scan to ad-hoc networks by clicking the check box next to the

Computer-to-computer (ad-hoc) network only

field.

You can obtain more information on the visible networks by clicking the

Advanced Monitor...

button, which displays the following window:

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