BenQ AWL300R User manual

BenQ Wireless LAN USB Adapter
AWL300
User Manual
Version 1.0 –2002

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Requirements, Part 15
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a class B
digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide
reasonable protectionagainst 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 communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in
a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or
television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the
user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following
measures:
---Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
---Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.
---Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the
receiver is connected.
---Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.
Regulatory information / Disclaimers
Installation and use of this Wireless LAN device must be in strict accordance with the
instructions included in the user documentation provided with the product. Any changes
or modifications (including the antennas) made to this device that are not expressly
approved by the manufacturer may void the user’s authority to operate the equipment.
The manufacturer is not responsible for any radio or television interference caused by
unauthorized modification of this device, or the substitution of the connecting cables and
equipment other than manufacturer specified. It is the responsibility of the user to correct
any interference caused by such unauthorized modification, substitution or attachment.
Manufacturer and its authorized resellers or distributors will assume no liability for any
damage or violation of government regulations arising from failing to comply with these
guidelines.
CAUTION: To maintain compliance with FCC’s RF exposure guidelines, this
equipment should be installed and operated with minimum distance 20cm between the
radiator and your body. Use on the supplied antenna. Unauthorized antenna,
mod
ification, or attachments could damage the transmitter and may violate FCC
regulations.

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Contents
Contents ..........................................................................................................................i
1. Installation..................................................................................................................1
1.1 Driver Installation....................................................................................1
1.2 Application Installation............................................................................3
1.3 Application & USB Driver Installation...................................................7
2. Uninstallation...........................................................................................................13
3. Configuration & Monitor Utility .............................................................................16
3.1 Monitor...................................................................................................16
3.2 Statistics .................................................................................................18
3.3 Site Survey.............................................................................................19
3.4 Encryption..............................................................................................20
3.5 Advanced ...............................................................................................21
3.6 Version...................................................................................................22

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1. Installation
1.1 Driver Installation
Insert AWL300 USB Adapter into your PC, and then Windows will show the dialog –
‘Add New Hardware Wizard’.
Select ‘Specify the location of the driver’ and press Next button.

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Select ‘Specify a location’ and browse the Benq Wireless LAN CD to find AWL300.
For example, if your CD-ROM is drive D, the location is D:\AWL300.
Windows has found Benq AWL300 Wireless LAN USB Adapter. Press Next button.
Please wait while coping files.

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Press Finish.
Press Yes and restart your computer.
1.2 Application Installation
Execute Setup.exe in the AWL300 directory in Benq Wireless LAN CD. For example,
if your CD-ROM is drive D, please execute D:\AWL300\Setup.exe.

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Press Next button
Select ‘Application & USB Drivers’ to install both of them if you don’t have USB
Drivers installed yet. Select ‘Application Only’ to insta ll only AWL300 applications.

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Press Browse if you want to change destination location of applications, and then
press Next button.
The folder name will be AWL300. Press Next button if you don’t want to change it.

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Press Next button.
Press Finish and restart your computer.

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1.3 Application & USB Driver Installation
Execute Setup.exe in the AWL300 directory in Benq Wireless LAN CD. For example,
if your CD-ROM is drive D, please execute D:\AWL300\Setup.exe.
Press Next button

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Select ‘Application & USB Drivers’ to install both of them if you don’t have USB
Drivers installed yet.
Press Next button
Press Next button

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Press Next button
Select the operating mode and then press Next button

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Specify ESSID and then press Next button
Press Next button

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Press Finish and restart your computer.

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After complete installation, you will get the following screen.

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2. Uninstallation
To uninstall AWL300, you can run the “Uninstall Configuration & Monitor Utility” as
the following figure.
Press OK if you really want to remove AWL300.

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Press OK when uninstall successfully completed.
You must restart your computer. Press OK to do it.

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You can also remove AWL300 from Add/Remove Programs Properties in Control
Panel

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3. Configuration & Monitor Utility
3.1 Monitor
Operating Mode
Infrastructure Mode
In this mode, the driver will scan all available channels continuously until one or
more Access Points which matches its SSID are found. When it gets to that point, it
will try to authenticate and associate with the Access Point.
Ad Hoc Mode
In this mode, the driver will scan for 5 seconds to look for an existing Ad Hoc
network which uses the same SSID.
Channel
This field shows the current radio channel used for an active connection.

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SSID
Service Set Identity
Tx Rate
This field shows the current transmit rate which are being used for an active
connection.
Power Mgmt Mode
Power Management Mode –Active or Power Save
MAC Address
MAC Address of this USB Wireless LAN Adapter
Status
The current state of the driver is displayed in this field. If the state reveals
“Associated,“ it means that the normal flow of operation is in Infrastructure mode.
This shows that the PC is already connected to access point and BSSID is also shown
in the form of hex digits. At the same time, the networking is available for the device.
In “Scanning ” state, it means that the node can not detect the SSID to get an access
point within range and is searching for an available access point. Also, if the driver
failed to initialize for some unknown reasons, this field will display an error message.
Link Quality
This field reveals the quality of the current connection. Only when the node is in
Infrastructure Mode does the Link Quality bar graph become active. The bar graph
displays the link quality between the node and its Access Point.
Signal Strength
Only when the node is in Infrastructure Mode does the Signal Strength bar graph
become active. This bar graph shows normalized signal strength as reported by the
radio, averaged over all frames over 100 bytes long which are received from the
Access Point.