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Golden N Wireless Mini USB Adapter
Model # AWLL6075
User’s Manual
Rev. 1.2
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Table of Contents 1. Introduction ..............................................................................................................................2 1.1 Package Contents................................................................................................................2 1.2 Features...............................................................................................................................2 2. Install the Wireless Adapter .........................
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1. Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of the Golden N Wireless Mini USB Adapter. The super compact mini design gives you more flexibility and its high bandwidth combined with extended wireless coverage delivers fast and reliable connection for all of your networking applications. The adaptor will yield a higher throughput is it is used with other Airlink101® Wireless N products. A full range of security features such as WEP, WPA-PSK, and WPA2-PSK will provide you the highes
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2. Install the Wireless Adapter This section provides instructions on how to install the Golden N Wireless Mini USB Adapter. The driver is installed along with the utility. For Windows 7, only driver will be installed. For Macintosh users, you can find the software and installation instructions for MAC under the MAC folder on the provided CD. Step 2.1 Insert the USB adapter into an available USB port of the computer. Step 2.2 Click Cancel to quit the wizard. Windows 2000/XP U
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Step 2.3 Insert the Installation CD into your CD drive. When the autorun screen pops up, select Install Utility and Driver from the menu. Windows 2000/XP Users: If the Autorun screen doesn’t appear automatically, go to Start, Run, and type D:\Utility\Setup.exe (where D is the letter of your CD drive) and click OK. Windows Vista/7 Users: When you get a warning message make sure you click Allow to give permission to continue with the installation of the driver software. 4
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Step 2.4 The Airlink101 WLAN Monitor screen will popup. Click Next at the screen. Step 2.5 Click Install to begin the installation. 5
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Step 2.6 Give Permission to Windows to install the driver software. Windows Vista/7 Users: Click the Install this driver software anyway button. Windows 2000/XP Users: Click Continue Anyway at the Windows Logo Screen. 6
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You will see the following screen when Windows is installing the driver for Airlink101 Wireless Adapter and the Airlink101 Wireless Monitor. Step 2.7 Click Finish to complete the installation. 7
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Step 2.8 Select Yes, I will restart my computer now. Click Finish to reboot the computer. The driver and utility have been installed successfully. Please continue to the next chapter. 8
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3. Connect to the Wireless Network This section describes how to connect your wireless adapter to a wireless network. For Windows 7 Users: You will need to use the utility built in Windows 7 to manage this wireless USB adapter. Currently, Airlink101 Wireless Monitor does not support on Windows 7. Step 3.1 Click on the wireless icon in the system tray at the bottom right-hand corner of your screen. A list of available network will pop up. Select the one you want to connect to and
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For Windows Vista/XP/2000 Users: Step 3.1 Open the Airlink101 Wireless Monitor utility by double clicking on the icon in the system tray at the bottom right-hand corner of your screen. 10
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Step 3.2 The Easy Setup Button (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) is a new and easy way to configure the encryption for your wireless network clients. In order to use it, you need to have a router that supports this feature. Note: If your router doesn’t support Easy Setup Button function (Wi-Fi Protected Setup), please go to Step 3.3. 1. Push the Easy Setup Button of the Adapter. The ‘Wi-Fi Protected Setup – PBC method’ window will popup to acknowledge you the Adapter is starting to estab
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3. The router will now start to synchronize the encryption settings with the wireless adapter. The connection will be established in few seconds. Continue to Step 3.5. If the connection is not able to establish, continue to Step 3.3. Step 3.3 Click the Available Network tab of the Wireless Monitor, select the wireless network that you wish to connect to, and click Add to Profile. If the network that you are attempting to connect does not have encryption enabled, you will receive a
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Please refer to the User’s Manual on the provided CD for instructions on configuring the wireless network security settings. Step 3.5 The connection should be now established. Under the utility Airlink101 Wireless Monitor, go to General tab to check the status of the connection. Verify that IP Address, Subnet Mask and Gateway have valid numbers assigned to them (instead of all 0’s). The Status should be Associated, and there should be green bars next to Signal Strength and Link Qual
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Congratulations! You have now connected to the wireless network successfully. Troubleshooting 1. If you cannot open the wireless monitor utility, make sure that the USB adapter is inserted firmly into the USB port. 2. If you cannot connect to the wireless router, you may want to double check the wireless security settings on the router. The network key you entered in Step 3.4 must match with the settings on the wireless router. 3. If you are experiencing problems with the
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4. Configure Wireless Monitor This section describes the various functions of the Airlink101 Wireless Monitor that you can configure, including the settings of wireless encryption. 4.1 General The General tab provides you with the status of the current connection, including signal, network name (SSID) and IP Address. At the bottom you have options for controlling the utility and adapter. Show Tray Icon allows you to show or hide the tray icon for the utility. Radio Off di
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4.2 Profile Settings The Profile tab lists the current profiles and allows you to create new profiles. The Available Profile(s) box lists all the profiles that you’ve created for your network. Profiles are automatically created and added to this list when you connect to new networks. You can also manually add the profiles. To modify an existing profile, select the profile from the Available Profile(s) box and click on Edit. To create a new profile, click on Add. The Pro
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Enter a Profile Name and SSID. Enter the encryption settings for the profile. Click OK to save the changes. The Configuring Encryption section (section 4.7) will give you the information of how to set the different options of the wireless network encryption settings. 17
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4.3 Available Network The Available network tab lists all of the networks that the adapter detects in your area. Clicking Refresh will refresh the list. To connect to a network, select a network from the list and click Add to Profile. 18
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4.4 Status The status section provides you with a list of information about the current status of the adapter. 19
