User manual TP-LINK TL-WN7200ND

[. . . ] This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not in-stalled 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. Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected. [. . . ] You can also run the utility by clicking the Start→ Program→TP-LINK→ TP-LINK Wireless Client Utility. The TWCU provides some integrated and easy tools to: Display current status information Edit and add configuration profiles Display current diagnostics information The section below introduces these above capabilities. 1 Current Status The Current Status tab contains general information about the program and its operations. 17 TL-WN7200ND 300Mbps Wireless N PCI Adapter Figure 3-1 The following table describes the items found on the Current Status screen. profile Name - This shows the name of current selected configuration profile. The configuration of Profile name will be described on the General tab of Profile Management. Link Status - This shows whether the station is associated to the wireless network. Network Type - The type of network and the station currently connected are shown here. The options include: • • Infrastructure (access point) Ad Hoc Note: You can configure the network type and wireless mode on the Advanced tab of Profile Management. Data Encryption - Here displays the encryption type the driver is using. Server Based Authentication - This shows whether the server based authentication is used. highlight a network name and click Activate to connect to an available network. If no configuration profile exists for that network, the Profile Management window will open the General tab screen. Fill in the Profile name and click OK to create the configuration profile for that network. Auto Profile Selection Management The auto selection feature allows the adapter to automatically select a profile from the list of profiles and use it to connect to the network. To add a new profile into the Auto Selected 26 TL-WN7200ND Profiles list, please follow these steps. The Auto Profiles Selection management window will appear (shown in Figure 3-11) with a list of all created profiles in the Available Profiles. Note: The first profile in the Auto Selected Profiles box has highest priority, while the last profile has the lowest priority. Check the Auto Select Profiles checkbox on the Profile Management tab (shown in Figure 3-2). Note: When auto profile selection is enabled by checking Auto Select Profiles on the Profile Management tab, the client adapter will scan for an available network. The profile with the highest priority and the same SSID as one of the found networks will be used to connect to the network. If the connection fails, the client adapter will try the next highest priority profile that matches the SSID until an available network is found. [. . . ] 11n development process and promote a technology specification for interoperability of next-generation wireless local area networking (WLAN) products. Ad-hoc Network - An ad-hoc network is a group of computers, each with a Wireless Adapter, connected as an independent 802. Ad-hoc wireless computers operate on a peer-to-peer basis, communicating directly with each other without the use of an access point. Even if one or more bits in the chip are damaged during transmission, statistical techniques embedded in the receiver can recover the original data without the need of retransmission. [. . . ]