User manual ASUS ARCTIC SQUARE INSTALLATION

[. . . ] SPECIFICATIONS AND INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS MANUAL ARE FURNISHED FOR INFORMATIONAL USE ONLY, AND ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE, AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY ASUS. ASUS ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR ANY ERRORS OR INACCURACIES THAT MAY APPEAR IN THIS MANUAL, INCLUDING THE PRODUCTS AND SOFTWARE DESCRIBED IN IT. Products and corporate names appearing in this manual may or may not be registered trademarks or copyrights of their respective companies, and are used only for identification or explanation and to the owners' benefit, without intent to infringe. ii Contents WiFi-AP Solo specifications summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v Features About this guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] The radio tower with a signal icon identifies the currently connected access point. Click Properties to set the authentication of the wireless connection. 3-13 3. The Authentication page allows you to add security settings. Read Windows help for more information. 4. The Advanced page allows you to set firewall and sharing. Read Windows help for more information. In the station mode, the Windows® Zero Configuration does not support WPA2 PSK and cannot connect the access point with WPA2 PSK. Visit the Microsoft download center to download the WPA2 package. 3-14 3. 4 Setting up wireless security To protect your wireless network, you need to setup a security mechanism on your WiFi-AP Solo. Under Station mode, all the security modes listed below are supported. Network authentication Open: Network authentication uses certain types of mechanism to identify authenticated wireless clients. WiFi-AP Solo supports the following authentication methods: This option disables authentication protection for your wireless network. Under the Open mode, any IEEE802. 11b/g wireless client can connect to your wireless network. Shared: Shared means using the same WEP keys for authentication and encryption. 802. 1X: 802. 1X uses RADIUS (Remote Access Dial-Up User Service) server to authenticate wireless clients with a user name and password. WPA provides two security modes for Home/SOHO user and enterprise network. The 802. 11a/g standard specifies that all 802. 11a/g-compliant products must support these basic data rates. The standard also lets the vendor extend the modulation scheme beyond 24 Mbps. Remember, the more bits per cycle (hertz) that are encoded, the more susceptible the signal will be to interference and fading, and ultimately, the shorter the range, unless power output is increased. Default Key This option allows you to select the default WEP key. This option allows you to use WEP keys without having to remember or write them down. The WEP keys generated using the Pass Phrase is compatible with other WLAN products. The Pass Phrase option is not as secure as manual assignment. Device Name Also known as DHCP client ID or network name. Sometimes provided by an ISP when using DHCP to assign addresses. DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) This protocol allows a computer (or many computers on your network) to be automatically assigned a single IP address from a DHCP server. DNS Server Address (Domain Name System) DNS allows Internet host computers to have a domain name and one or more IP addresses. A DNS server keeps a database of host computers and their respective domain names and IP addresses, so that when a user enters a domain name into the Internet browser, the user is sent to the proper IP address. The DNS server address used by the computers on your home network is the location of the DNS server your ISP has assigned. DSL Modem (Digital Subscriber Line) A DSL modem uses your existing phone lines to transmit data at high speeds. Direct-Sequence Spread Spectrum (for 802. 11b) Spread spectrum (broadband) uses a narrowband signal to spread the transmission over a segment of the radio frequency band or spectrum. Direct-sequence is a spread spectrum technique where the transmitted signal is spread over a particular frequency range. 4-3 Direct-sequence systems communicate by continuously transmitting a redundant pattern of bits called a chipping sequence. Each bit of transmitted data is mapped into chips and rearranged into a pseudorandom spreading code to form the chipping sequence. [. . . ] A wireless network is referred to as LAN or WLAN. 4-9 4-10 Appendix The Appendix lists the wireless LAN channels available for use in your country or location, and safety warning statements A-1 Wireless LAN channels The IEEE 802. 11b/g standard for wireless LAN allocated the 2. 4 GHz frequency band into 13 overlapping operating channels. The table below shows the center frequencies of each channel. Channel 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Center Frequency 2. 412 GHz 2. 417 GHz 2. 422 GHz 2. 427 GHz 2. 432 GHz 2. 437 GHz 2. 442 GHz Channel 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Center Frequency 2. 447 GHz 2. 452 GHz 2. 457 GHz 2. 462 GHz 2. 467 GHz 2. 472 GHz 2. 484 GHz If several Wi-Fi devices are operating in the same vicinity, the distance between the center frequencies of channels used must be at least 25MHz to avoid interference. The number of channels available for the wireless LAN adapter varies by country/ region. Refer to the table below to determine the number of channels available in your location. Country/Region (Regulating Body) Australia (ACA) Belgium (RTT&E/EMC/LVD) Bulgaria (RTT&E/EMC/LVD) Canada (CSA/cUL 950 3rd Edition) China (MII) Cyprus (RTT&E/EMC/LVD) Czech Republic (RTT&E/EMC/LVD) Denmark (RTT&E/EMC/LVD) Finland (RTT&E/EMC/LVD) France (RTT&E/EMC/LVD) Germany (RTT&E/EMC/LVD) Greece (RTT&E/EMC/LVD) Hong Kong (OFTA) (continued next page) Available Channels Channels 1 to 13 Channels 1 to 13 Channels 1 to 13 Channels 1 to 11 Channels 1 to 11 Channels 1 to 13 Channels 1 to 13 Channels 1 to 13 Channels 1 to 13 Channels 1 to 13 Channels 1 to 13 Channels 1 to 13 Channels 1 to 13 A-2 Country/Region (Regulating Body) Hungary (RTT&E/EMC/LVD) Iceland (RTT&E/EMC/LVD) Ireland (RTT&E/EMC/LVD) Italy (RTT&E/EMC/LVD) Japan (TELEC) Luxembourg (RTT&E/EMC/LVD) Malaysia (SIRIM/CMC) Mexico Netherlands Antilles (RTT&E/EMC/LVD) Netherlands/Holland (RTT&E/EMC/LVD) New Zealand (PTC) Norway (RTT&E/EMC/LVD) Portugal (RTT&E/EMC/LVD) Saudi Arabia Singapore South Korea (KS) Spain (RTT&E/EMC/LVD) Sweden (RTT&E/EMC/LVD) Switzerland (RTT&E/EMC/LVD) Taiwan (DGT) Turkey (TTAS) United Kingdom (RTT&E/EMC/LVD) United States (FCC) Available Channels Channels 1 to 13 Channels 1 to 13 Channels 1 to 13 Channels 1 to 13 Channels 1 to 14 Channels 1 to 13 Channels 1 to 13 Channels 9 to 11 Channels 1 to 13 Channels 1 to 13 Channels 1 to 13 Channels 1 to 13 Channels 1 to 13 Channels 1 to 13 Channels 1 to 13 Channels 1 to 13 Channels 1 to 13 Channels 1 to 13 Channels 1 to 13 Channels 1 to 11 Channels 1 to 13 Channels 1 to 13 Channels 1 to 11 Channels 1, 6 and 11 are independent and do not overlap each other. We recommended that you tune your wireless LAN adapter to these channels. A-3 Safety statements Federal Communications Commission Statement · · This device may not cause harmful interference, and This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. [. . . ]