Owner's Manual

Operating Your Computer 2-23
Using the Wireless LAN
Depending on your model, an internal mini PCI-E wireless LAN (WLAN) card
may have been pre-installed by your computer manufacturer at the factory.
This card allows you to access corporate networks or the Internet in a
wireless environment.
The WLAN features include:
z Peer-to-Peer (Ad-Hoc) and Access Point (Infrastructure) modes support
z WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) 64/128-bit data encryption
z IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n standard compliance
Technology
Stated
Maximum
Throughput
(Mbps)
Data Rates
(Mbps) Band
(GHz)
Modulation
Technology
802.11a 54 54, 48, 36,
24, 18, 12,
9, 6
5.15 ~
5.35
OFDM (Orthogonal
Frequency Division
Multiplexing)
802.11b 11 11, 5.5, 2, 1 2.412 ~
2.462
DSSS (Direct
Sequence Spread
Spectrum)
802.11g 54 54, 36, 18, 9 2.4 OFDM (Orthogonal
Frequency Division
Multiplexing)
802.11n 100 Mbps
or more
100 ~ 210 2.4 / 5 Spatial multiplexing,
uses MIMO
(multiple-input
multiple-output)
NOTE: 802.11g mode is backward compatible with 802.11b mode.
If your WLAN card was provided by your dealer instead of the computer
manufacturer, contact your dealer for the correct driver to use.