User manual TP-LINK TL-WN861N

[. . . ] 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. Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected. [. . . ] Click Next to continue the installation. 5 TL-WN861N Draft N Wireless CardBus Adapter Figure 2-5 6. Read the information about the installation, click Next to continue. Figure 2-6 7. Choose configuration tool, if you are not sure, please leave it default. Then click Next to continue. 6 TL-WN861N Draft N Wireless CardBus Adapter Figure 2-7 8. If you select "Install Single Sign On feature set" on the screen below (shown in Figure 2-8), the system will reboot later after you complete the installation; if you select the next option, the system won't reboot after the installation. Click OK to continue the Installation on the screen below. 7 TL-WN861N Draft N Wireless CardBus Adapter Figure 2-9 10. Wait a while for the setup as shown in Figure 2-10. Figure 2-10 Note: 1) For Windows XP, the Setup Wizard will notify you of how to proceed with the installation during these steps (shown in Figure 2-11). Our drivers have been tested thoroughly, and are able to work with the operating system. Click Continue Anyway to continue the Installation. 8 TL-WN861N Draft N Wireless CardBus Adapter 2) Figure 2-11 In Windows 2000, the warning screen is shown below (Figure 2-12), and please select Yes to continue installation. Figure 2-12 11. After all the steps above, you will see the screen below, click Finish to complete the installation. 9 TL-WN861N Draft N Wireless CardBus Adapter Figure 2-13 10 TL-WN861N Draft N Wireless CardBus Adapter Chapter 3. Configuration TP-LINK TL-WN861N can be configured by TP-LINK Draft N Wireless Client Utility (11NWCU). Infrastructure - All wireless clients will connect to an access point or wireless router. Ad-Hoc - Directly connecting to another computer, for peer-to-peer communication, using wireless network adapters on each computer, such as two or more TL-WN861N wireless adapters. · · Network Type: There are basically two modes of networking: · · Note: 1) 2) An Infrastructure network contains an Access Point or wireless router. All the wireless devices or clients will connect to the wireless router or access point. An Ad-Hoc network contains only clients, such as laptops with wireless desktop adapters. Wireless Mode: Specifies 2. 4 GHz 300 Mbps, 2. 4 GHz 54 Mbps or 2. 4 GHz 11 Mbps operation in an access point network. The Wireless adapter must match the wireless mode of the access point with which it associates. 17 TL-WN861N Draft N Wireless CardBus Adapter Wireless Mode when Starting an Ad Hoc Network: Specifies 2. 4 GHz 300/54/11 Mbps to start an Ad Hoc network if no matching network name is found after scanning all available modes. This mode also allows the selection of the channel that the Wireless Adapter uses. If the adapter finds no other ad hoc adapters, the channel that the adapter starts the ad hoc network with will be selected automatically. The Adapter must match the wireless mode and channel of the clients it associates. 802. 11 Authentication Mode: Select which mode the Adapter uses to authenticate to an access point: · · Automatic causes the adapter to attempt authentication using shared, but switches it to open authentication if shared fails. Open System enables an adapter to attempt authentication regardless of its WEP settings. [. . . ] The Enhanced Wireless Consortium (EWC)[3] was formed to help accelerate the IEEE 802. 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. 11 wireless LAN. Ad-hoc wireless computers operate on a peer-to-peer basis, communicating directly with each other without the use of an access point. Ad-hoc mode is also referred to as an Independent Basic Service Set (IBSS) or as peer-to-peer mode, and is useful at a departmental scale or SOHO operation. [. . . ]