Edimax Technology Network Card Wireless LAN USB Adapter User Manual

802.11b/g/n Draft 2.0  
Wireless LAN USB Adapter  
Quick Installation Guide  
Version: 1.0 (April, 2007)  
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1. Product Introduction  
Thank you for purchasing nMAX Wireless LAN USB Adapter. This USB adapter is designed to comply with  
IEEE 802.11b/g/n draft 2.0 Wireless LAN standard and easy to carry with the Mini size. It is suitable for any  
Laptop or Desktop computers.  
This adapter supports higher data throughput than the IEEE 802.11b/g/n draft 2.0 standard (up to 300Mbps). It  
supports specific ways to increase the data transfer rate at a time; compress the data and decrease the  
waiting time to send the next data to the Routers or APs. This feature is called Turbo Mode. When the adapter  
is connecting to the Routers or APs with the proprietary feature, the wireless network will be more effective.  
Main Features  
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Complies with 802.11n Draft 2.0, 802.11g and 802.11b standards.  
Provides farther coverage, less dead spaces and higher throughput with MIMO technology.  
Supports WMM, WMM-PS.  
Supports 64/128-bit WEP, WPA (TKIP with IEEE 802.1x), WPA2 (AES with IEEE 802.1x) functions for high  
level of security.  
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Supports the most popular operating system: Windows 2000/XP/XP64/Vista.  
Supports USB 2.0/1.1 interface.  
Portable and mini-size design.  
2. Product Package  
Before you starting to use this USB wireless network card, please check if there’s anything missing in the  
package, and contact your dealer of purchase to claim for missing items:  
One USB Wireless LAN Adapter with One USB Cable  
One Quick Installation Guide  
One CD-ROM (Including all the software utilities, drivers and User’s Manual)  
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3. Hardware Installation  
Please follow the following instructions to install your new USB Wireless LAN Adapter:  
Step 1. Please insert the USB Wireless LAN Adapter into an available USB 2.0 port of your computer. You can  
insert the card when the computer is power off or on.  
Step 2. If your operation system is in Windows Vista, the following message will appear on your computer,  
click ‘Don’t show this message again for this device’.’.  
Please select ‘Continue’ if Windows User Account Control indicates that ‘If you started this action,  
continue device driver software installation”.  
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If your operation system in Windows 2000/XP/XP64, the following message will appear on your computer,  
click ‘Cancel’.  
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4. Setup Wizard  
This wizard can be run in Windows 2000/XP/XP64/Vista. The following procedures are operated in  
Windows Vista.  
1. Insert the CD shipped along with the product into your CD-ROM drive. The Windows Vista will popup  
AutoPlay window, Please select “Install or run program” to execute Autorun.exe program. The Autorun.exe  
program should be executed automatically. If not, run Autorun.exe manually from “Autorun” folder in the  
CD.  
2. The following screen will be displayed. Click “Setup Utility”, please select “Vista” to run the setup wizard.  
Please select ‘Allow’ if Windows indicates that ‘an unidentified program wants access to your  
computer’.  
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3. Please read the end user license agreement and click ‘Yes’ to accept license agreement.  
4. Please click ‘install’ to run the driver installation process.  
If you see ‘Found New Hardware’ message again, please ignore it and wait.  
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5. When you see this message, please click ‘Finish’ to complete the driver installation process.  
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The following procedures are operated in Windows 2000/XP/XP64.  
1. Insert device driver CDROM into the CD/DVD ROM drive of your computer, the following screen will be  
displayed. Click “Setup Utility” to run the setup wizard.  
2. Please read the end user license agreement and click ‘Yes’ to accept license agreement.  
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3. You can choose the configuration tool used to configure the wireless network card here. It’s recommended  
to select ‘Edimax Configuration Tool’, which provides fully access to all function of this wireless network  
card. If you prefer to use the wireless configuration tool provided by Windows XP, please select ‘Microsoft  
Zero Configuration Tool’, then click ‘Next’.  
4. There are two wireless performance modes you can select here:  
Optimize for WiFi mode  
or  
Optimize for performance mode  
If you want to enhance wireless performance, please select ‘Optimize for performance mode’. However,  
wireless compatibility is not guaranteed in this mode. If you want to use this mode, you may not be able to  
communicate with older wireless devices and wireless access point, such as 802.11b devices, but the data  
transfer rate will be enhanced in this mode. You can select this mode when you only plan to communicate  
with 802.11 Draft-N devices.  
If you want to keep compatibility and communicate with older wireless devices, please select ‘Optimize for  
WiFi Mode’.  
When you select one mode, please click ‘Next>’ to continue. If you see ‘Found New Hardware’ message  
again, please ignore it and wait.  
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5. Please click ‘install’ to run the driver installation process.  
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6. Please wait while the install procedure is running. When you see this message, please click ‘Finish’ to  
complete the driver installation process.  
7. A new icon will appear at lower-right corner of your computer desktop, you can put the mouse cursor on  
the icon, and the status of wireless card will be displayed as a popup balloon.  
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8. When you want to configure your wireless connection, please right click on this icon, and a popup menu  
will appear. You can click ‘Launch Config Utilities’ to start configuration program.  
If you want to close configuration utility, please click ‘Exit’.  
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5. Connect to Wireless Access Point  
Using Configuration Utility to Connect to Wireless Access Point  
1. After installation is complete, wireless configuration utility will be shown as an icon at the lower-right corner  
of your windows desktop. Please click the icon by right mouse key, and select ‘Launch Config Utilities’  
2. Configuration utility will scan for wireless access points automatically, and all found access points will be  
displayed. Please select an access point you wish to connect, and click ‘Connect’.  
If the wireless access point you want to connect does not show here, please click ‘Rescan’  
3. You’ll be prompted to input the SSID (the name of wireless access point) if the SSID of the access point  
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you want to connect is hidden, then click ‘OK’.  
The SSID you input here must be identical to the SSID setting of the wireless access point you want to  
connect.  
4. If the wireless access point uses encryption, you have to input WEP passphrase or WPA preshared key.  
Please ask the owner of the wireless access point you want to connect, and input the correct passphrase /  
preshared key here, then click ‘OK’. If the value you inputted here is wrong, you will not be able to connect  
to wireless access point.  
Authentication type is selected automatically, please don’t change it.  
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5. If the wireless access point is successfully connected, you’ll see a ‘Connected’ message displayed at the  
lower-left corner of wireless configuration utility window. Click ‘OK’ to exit.  
For advanced settings and other features of this USB wireless network card, please refer to user manual  
enclosed in supplied CD-ROM.  
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