User manual NETGEAR WG311T

[. . . ] Installation Guide for the NETGEAR 108 Mbps Wireless PCI Adapter WG311T NETGEAR, Inc. 4500 Great America Parkway Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA 202-10070-01 Version v3. 0 December 2004 Technical Support Please refer to the support information card that shipped with your product. By registering your product at www. netgear. com/register, we can provide you with faster expert technical support and timely notices of product and software upgrades. E-mail: support@netgear. com Web site: www. netgear. com Statement of Conditions In the interest of improving internal design, operational function, and/or reliability, NETGEAR reserves the right to make changes to the products described in this document without notice. [. . . ] If there are no additional access points for you to choose from, restart your system and connect to your desired access point again. Note: It does not usually help to shut down the utility or disable/enable the card. Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) Questions Why is my WG311T not connecting to my WPA router?I thought I chose my WPA router in XP Zero Configuration's Available networks and it is showing other devices in the Preferred networks list, why is my WG311T not connecting to my WPA router?Check your Preferred networks and remove the other non-WPA devices from the list. I thought I got my WG311T WPA connection ­ a green icon in the SystemTray. Although you have use XP zero configuration utility for your WPA settings, the open "Green-Red" flashing icon indicates that you might have entered the incorrect WPA secret key. Assure that the WPA settings are configured correctly on both the Radius Server and the Router. In addition, you may also check the Radius' port number on the Radius server and the router. Troubleshooting 4-3 Installation Guide for the NETGEAR 108 Mbps Wireless PCI Adapter WG311T How do I know that my WG311T WPA is working?Try browsing an Internet site to see if your WPA router has an Internet connection. You may also check the Radius server's DHCP settings. Note: For all WPA questions, please refer to Microsoft's Help documentation for additional WPA related information and how to configure WPA using Windows XP Zero configuration utility. 4-4 Troubleshooting Appendix A Technical Specifications This appendix provides technical specifications for the NETGEAR 108 Mbps Wireless PCI Adapter WG311T. Antennae Radio Data Rate Frequency Emissions Bus interface Provided drivers Weight LED Operating Environment Encryption Detachable antenna 1, 2, 5. 5, 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54, and 108 Mbps (Auto Rate Sensing) 2. 4GHz to 2. 5GHz CCK and OFDM Modulation) FCC, CE PCI Microsoft Windows 98SE, 2000, Me, XP 40 g Power, Activity Operating temperature: 0 to 55 degrees C, 32 to 131 degrees F 40-bit (also called 64-bit) and 128-bit WEP data encryption Technical Specifications A-1 Installation Guide for the NETGEAR 108 Mbps Wireless PCI Adapter WG311T A-2 Technical Specifications Appendix B Wireless Networking Basics This chapter provides an overview of Wireless networking. Wireless Networking Overview The WG311T Wireless PCI Adapter conforms to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802. 11b and 802. 11 g standards for wireless LANs (WLANs)WG311T. On an 802. 11b or g wireless link, data is encoded using direct-sequence spread-spectrum (DSSS) technology and is transmitted in the unlicensed radio spectrum at 2. 4GHz. The maximum data rate for the wireless link is 11 Mbps, but it will automatically back down from 11 Mbps to 5. 5, 2, and 1 Mbps when the radio signal is weak or when interference is detected. The 802. 11g auto rate sensing rates are 1, 2, 5. 5, 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54, and 108 Mbps. The 802. 11 standard is also called Wireless Ethernet or Wi-Fi by the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance (WECA, see http://www. wi-fi. net), an industry standard group promoting interoperability among 802. 11 devices. The 802. 11 standard offers two methods for configuring a wireless network - Ad-Hoc and infrastructure. Infrastructure Mode With a wireless Access Point, you can operate the wireless LAN in the infrastructure mode. This mode provides wireless connectivity to multiple wireless network devices within a fixed range or area of coverage, interacting with wireless nodes via an antenna. In the infrastructure mode, the wireless access point converts airwave data into wired Ethernet data, acting as a bridge between the wired LAN and wireless clients. Connecting multiple Access Points via a wired Ethernet backbone can further extend the wireless network coverage. As a mobile computing device moves out of the range of one access point, it moves into the range of another. As a result, wireless clients can freely roam from one Access Point domain to another and still maintain seamless network connection. Wireless Networking Basics B-1 Installation Guide for the NETGEAR 108 Mbps Wireless PCI Adapter WG311T Ad-Hoc Mode (Peer-to-Peer Workgroup) In an ad-hoc network, computers are brought together as needed; thus, there is no structure or fixed points to the network - each node can generally communicate with any other node. This mode enables you to quickly set up a small wireless workgroup and allows workgroup members to exchange data or share printers as supported by Microsoft networking in the various Windows operating systems. Some vendors also refer to ad-hoc networking as peer-to-peer group networking. In this configuration, network packets are directly sent and received by the intended transmitting and receiving stations. [. . . ] These names are alphanumeric names, up to 16 characters in length. Network Address Translation NAT. A technique by which several hosts share a single IP address for access to the Internet. NIC Network Interface Card. An adapter in a computer which provides connectivity to a network. Glossary 3 Installation Guide for the NETGEAR 108 Mbps Wireless PCI Adapter WG311T packet A block of information sent over a network. A packet typically contains a source and destination network address, some protocol and length information, a block of data, and a checksum. router A device that forwards data between networks. [. . . ]