User's Manual

Laputa MiniPCI
TwinMOS
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Link Tab
The Link Info Tab displays the current state of your wireless adapter.
The fields in this menu provide the following information:
State
Shows the association state of your computer with the wireless LAN. When operating
in Infrastructure mode, this field shows the MAC address of the Access Point with
which you are communicating. When operating in AdHoc mode, this field shows the
virtual MAC address used by computers participating in the AdHoc network. In both
cases, the MAC address will be shown in hex format (BSSID.) If the word scanning
appears in this field, it indicates that networking has not been achieved. The adapter is
searching for an available Access Point, within range. (Note: If there is a problem
with the driver installation, this field will display an error message.)
Current Channel
Shows the channel on which the connection is made. In Infrastructure mode, this
number changes as the radio scans the available channels.
Current TX Rate
Shows the highest transmit rate of the current association.
Throughput
Shows the short term transmit and receive throughput in bytes/second, and is
continuously updated.
Link Quality
Is based on the quality of the received signal of the Access Point beacon.
Signal Strength
Is active only when in Infrastructure Mode. The graph displays normalized signal
strength averaged over all frames that over 100 bytes long that are received by the
Access Point.