LevelOne WNC-0304USB 11g USB Adapter w/LCD WiFi Detector User Manual V1.0.
CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................. 1 1.1 F EATURES .......................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 S PECIFICATIONS ................................................................................................................. 2 1.3 P ACKAGE C ONTENTS ..........................................................................
1 Introduction Thank you for purchasing LevelOne 11g USB adapter with Wi-Fi Detector. This convenient device instantly detects wireless hotspots anywhere. The backlight LCD display tells the user detailed information about any detected hotspot. There’s no need to purchase any battery because there is a rechargeable Li-Polymer battery which recharges whenever the detector is inserted into any USB port. This Wi-Fi detector also allows the user to go online wirelessly and is designed to comply with IEEE 802.
• Suitable for Any Notebook or Desktop PC. 1.2 Specifications • Standard: IEEE 802.11g/b • LCD Size: 96x32 with EL backlight • Battery: 4.2V Rechargeable Li-Polymer Battery • Bus Type: USB 2.0 Type A • Frequency Band: 2.4000~2.4835GHz (Industrial Scientific Medical Band) • Modulation: OFDM with BPSK, QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM (11g) BPSK, QPSK, CCK (11b) • Data Rate: 54/48/36/24/18/12/11/9/6/5.5/2/1Mbps auto fallback • Security: 64/128/256-bit WEP Data Encryption, WPA (TKIP with IEEE 802.
1.3 Package Contents Before you begin the installation, please check the items of your package. The package should include the following items: • WNC-0304USB • USB Cable • CD Manual/Driver/Utility • Quick Installation Guide If any of the above items is missing, contact your supplier as soon as possible.
2 How to charge the battery of Wi-Fi Detector 1. Remove the cap from the Wi-Fi Detector, slide the power switch to the “ON” position and carefully insert the USB connector into any available USB port on your computer. You will see the recharging screen. The battery strength indicator will be animated while the Wi-Fi detector is being recharged. The “Link/Act” icon will blink when the Wi-Fi detector is being used as a wireless USB adapter to surf the internet. 2.
3 How to use the Wi-Fi Detector 1. Slide the power switch to the “ON” position. 2. The Wi-Fi detector will automatically enter scanning mode to detect Wi-Fi signals. In scanning mode the display will display the total number of both non-encrypted and encrypted Wi-Fi signals detected. 3. Once scanning mode is complete, the detector will enter its standard display mode.
3 4 2 5 1 6 7 8 The Icons on the LCD display are displayed as follows: 1. Operating Channel: Indicates the current operating channel of the detected Wi-Fi signal. 2. Number of AP’s Detected: the left digit indicates which detected Wi-Fi signal is currently displayed and the right digit indicates the total amount of Wi-Fi signals detected. 3. Encryption indicator: “WEP” for WEP encryption, “WPA” for WPA encryption, and “WPA2” for WPA2 encryption and “OPEN” indicates it is a non-encrypted signal. 4.
In “lock mode” the detector constantly re-detects and refreshes the signal strength to this specific SSID so the user can move around to find the optimal spot with strongest signal. Press and hold the “Seek/Lock” button for 4 seconds to unlock the “lock mode”.
4 How to install the driver and utility Before you proceed with the installation, please pay attention to the following descriptions. Note1: Please do not install the USB adapter into your computer before installing the software program from the CD. Note2: The following installation was operated in Windows XP. (Procedures are similar for Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP) Note3: If you have installed the Wireless PC Card driver & utility before, please uninstall the old version first.
Please click “Next” to continue the installation. If you want to install the software program in another location, click “Browse” and select an alternative destination. Then, click “Next”.
The system will display “Software Installation” screen. Click “Continue Anyway” to Click “Finish” to complete the installation. 10 continue.
4.2 Install the USB adapter Plug the USB adapter into the USB port of your computer. The “Found New Hardware Wizard” is displayed, select “Install the software automatically (Recommended)” and click “Next”. Click “Continue Anyway” and the system will start to install the USB adapter.
Click “Finish” to complete the installation.
4.3 Using the Configuration Utility To setup the USB adapter, double-click the icon in the system tray. For Windows XP, there is a “Windows Zero Configuration Tool” by default for you to setup wireless clients. If you want to use the Utility of the USB adapter, please follow one of the ways as below. First Way A. Double-click the utility icon in the system tray. B. Click “Yes” to use the utility of the USB adapter.
Second Way A. Double-click the icon. B. Click “Advance”. C. Uncheck “Use Windows to configure my wireless network settings”.
5 How to configure the utility The Configuration Utility is a powerful application that helps you configure the 11g Wireless LAN USB adapter and monitor the link status during the communication process. The Configuration Utility appears as an icon on the system tray of Windows while the adapter is running. You can open it by double-click on the icon. Right click the icon, there are some items for you to operate the configuration utility.
5.1 Wireless Connection Status When you open the Configuration Utility, the system will scan all the channels to find all the access points/stations within the accessible range of your adapter and automatically connect to the wireless device with the highest signal strength. From the screen, you may know all the infomration about the wireless connection. Parameter Description Mode Station – Set the USB adapter as a wireless client. Access Point – Turns the USB adapter to function as a wireless AP.
connecting to. The information includes Channel, Type, SSID, TX Rate and Encrypt settings. Note: Please refer to Section 5.2 for the description of each item. More Setting For setting more functions including disable/enable WEP and Power Saving Mode, etc. Please refer to Section 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 for more detail. Link Status Display the status of the wireless connection. BSSID Display the MAC Address of the network the adapter is connecting to.
5.2 General Connection Setting Click “More Setting”, users are allowed to setup the wireless connection setting, Encryption Setting of the USB adapter and other advanced functions. Parameter Description General Connection Setting Wireless Mode 802.11b+g Mix Mode, it will auto scan all available 802.11b and 802.11g wireless station. Channel Select one of the radio channel to be used for the wireless network. The channel setting of the wireless stations within a network should be the same.
When the adapter works in 11b mode, the maximum data rate is 11Mbps so that there are only “Auto/1/2/5.5/11Mbps” options you can select. SSID The SSID (up to 32 printable ASCII characters) is the unique name identified in a WLAN. The ID prevents the unintentional merging of two co-located WLANs. You may specify a SSID for the adapter and then only the device with the same SSID can interconnect to the adapter.
Parameter Description Authentication Mode This setting has to be consistent with the wireless networks that the adapter intends to connect. Open System – No authentication is needed among the wireless network. Shared Key – Only wireless stations using a shared key (WEP Key identified) are allowed to connect each other. Auto – Auto switch the authentication algorithm depending on the wireless networks that the adapter is connecting to. WEP Encryption Key Setting Click this button to setup the WEP key.
5.3 WEP and WPA Encryption WEP is an data encryption algorithm, which protects Wireless LAN data in the network against eavesdropping. WEP has been found that it has some security problems. The adapter supports WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) that combines IEEE 802.1x and TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol) technologies. Client users are required to authorize before accessing to APs or AP Routers, and the data transmitted in the network is encrypted/decrypted by a dynamically changed secret key.
Parameter Description Key Length You may select the 64-bit, 128-bit or 256-bit to encrypt transmitted data. Larger key length will provide higher level of security, but the throughput will be lower. Default Key ID Select one of the keys (1~4) as the encryption key. Key Format Hexdecimal – Only “A-F“, “a-f“ and “0-9“ are allowed to be set as WEP key. ASCII –Numerical values, characters or signs are allowed to be the WEP key. It is more recognizable for user.
meantime, the button will change to “Apply“ for you to confirm your settings.
5.3.2 WPA/WPA2 Setting The adapter can automatically detect the WPA setting of the AP which the adapter intends to connect to. To connect to the AP, you should setup the same setting as the AP. There are two kinds of WPA mode: WPA and WPA-PSK. WPA is designed for enterprise which requires a RADIUS Server and Certificate Server for the authentication. WPA-PSK is a special mode designed for home and small business users who do not have access to network authentication servers.
In “More Setting“ clicks “WPA Encryption Setting“ to setup WPA security key 25
Parameter Description Connect Information It is the setting for WPA mode. Protocol This adapter supports three kinds of protocol for authentication including TLS, TTLS and PEAP. These three protocols require a certificate which is provided by the Certificate Server. PEAP and TTLS require a set of user name and password in addition. To get the certificate and the personal user name and password, please contact with your administrator. TLS – Select a certificate from the “Certificate“ list.
5.4 Advanced Settings The “Advanced Setting” allows user to enable/disable country roaming and power consumption mode, setup the fragmentation threshold and RTS/CTS threshold of the adapter. Parameter Description User Interface Select the display language of the utility. Two languages are enabled: English and Chinese. Country Roaming IEEE 802.
saving mode when it is idle, but some components of the adapter is still alive. In this mode, the power consumption is larger than “Maximum Power-Saving“ mode. PSP XLink Mode XLink is an infrastructure tunneling program which allows you to play Adhoc PSP multiplayer games through the Internet.
5.5 Software AP Mode This adapter can run as a wireless AP. The relative configurations of the AP including channel, SSID, MAC Address Filtering, WEP encryption and so on are described as follows. 5.5.2 AP Connection Status Parameter Description Mode Station – Set the USB adapter a wireless client. Access Point – Turns the USB adapter to function as a wireless AP. Network Adapter Display the product information of the USB Adapter.
5.5.2 AP General Connection Setting Click “More Setting”, users are allowed to setup the AP connection setting, Encryption Setting and other advanced functions. Parameter Description General Connection Setting Channel Select the number of the radio channel used by the AP. The wireless adapters which connects to the AP should set up the same channel. Parameter Description SSID The SSID (up to 32 printable ASCII characters) is the unique name identified in a WLAN.
Hide SSID If “Hide SSID“ check box is enabled, the AP will not appear in the site survey list of any wireless adapters. It means Only the wireless adapters set the same SSID can connect to the AP. It aviods the AP being connected by unauthorized users. Change/Apply Clcik “Change“ will enable you to setup the parameters of “General Connection Setting“. In the meantime, the button will change to “Apply“ for you to confirm your settings.
should use the shorter preamble type. MAC Address Filter This AP can protect from the unauthorized users by MAC Address filtering. Please refer to Section 6.5.3. Bridge Adapter Wireless adapters connect to the AP can access to the wired network through the bridge adapter. You can select an Ethernet adapter in the list be the bridge between the wireless and wired networks.
5.5.3 MAC Address Filter Parameter Description Filter Type Disable – Disable the MAC Address filter function. Accept – Only the wireless adapters with the MAC Address setup in the table can connect to the AP. Reject – The wireless adapters with the MAC Address setup in the table will be rejected to connect to the AP. Filter MAC Address MAC Address is a unique identification for hardware devices in the network. It is a 12-digit hexadecimal values.
6 X-Link Installation Clicks “Advanced Setting” and check the “PSP XLink Mode” & “WMM QoS Mode” 1) Open Control Panel --Æ Internet Connection Right Click “Wireless Network Connection” and select “Properties” 34
2) Under “General”, select “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click “Properties” 35
3) Select “Use the following IP address:” and enter “192.168.0.1” for IP address: “255.255.255.
5) Select “Computer-to-computer (ad hoc) networks only” Enable “Automatically connect to non-preferred networks” Clicks “Close” back to previous page and clicks “OK” to confirm setting 6) Setting completed, please turn your PSP into online status 7) Please go to X-Link official site to download X-Link software and register to X-Link http://www.teamxlink.co.
9) Enter username and password when you registered to X-Link official site Clicks “OK” to start online gaming 38
7 Troubleshooting This chapter provides solutions to problems usually encountered during the installation and operation of the adapter. 1. What is the IEEE 802.11g standard? 802.11g is the new IEEE standard for high-speed wireless LAN communications that provides for up to 54 Mbps data rate in the 2.4 GHz band. 802.11g is quickly becoming the next mainstream wireless LAN technology for the home, office and public networks. 802.
5. What is Infrastructure？ An integrated wireless and wireless and wired LAN is called an Infrastructure configuration. Infrastructure is applicable to enterprise scale for wireless access to central database, or wireless application for mobile workers. 6. What is BSS ID？ A specific Ad hoc LAN is called a Basic Service Set (BSS). Computers in a BSS must be configured with the same BSS ID. 7.
12. What is DSSS？What is FHSS？And what are their differences？ Frequency-hopping spread-spectrum (FHSS) uses a narrowband carrier that changes frequency in a pattern that is known to both transmitter and receiver. Properly synchronized, the net effect is to maintain a single logical channel. To an unintended receiver, FHSS appears to be short-duration impulse noise. Direct-sequence spread-spectrum (DSSS) generates a redundant bit pattern for each bit to be transmitted.
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