Asus P5W DH Deluxe: Chapter 3

Chapter 3: Asus P5W DH Deluxe

Chapter 3

This chapter provides information on how

to set up the WiFi-AP Solo in your home or

ofce network.

Setting up

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3.1 About the setup utilities

After you have installed the WiFi-AP Solo drivers and utilities to your system, you

are now ready to setup the WiFi-AP Solo in your network.

Make sure that you have selected the most appropriate conguration for your

wireless network before you proceed. Refer to section 1.4 for details.

Make sure you have connected the supplied antenna to the antenna connector

on the motherboard, or the WiFi-AP Solo may not be able to detect other

wireless devices in your environment.

The WiFi-AP Solo provides two conguration approaches: the setup wizard and the

setup utility. The former scheme provides an easy approach to the most frequently

used functions while the latter allows conguring all the functions, including the

advanced settings.

For normal users, the setup wizard helps to:

1. congure the WiFi-AP Solo as an access point, or wireless station.

For advanced users, the setup utility helps to:

1. congure the WiFi-AP Solo as an access point, or wireless station;

2. enable or disable the WiFi-AP Solo; and

3. show statistics.

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3.2 Setting up with WiFi-AP Solo Wizard

You can create your own wireless local area network (WLAN) in your home using

the WiFi-AP Solo Access Point Mode (AP Mode) feature. Create your own WLAN

if:

1. your computer is connected to the Internet; and

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2. the operating system of your computer is Windows

XP/ XP 64-bit/ Server

2003/ Server 2003 64-bit.

Install the WiFi-AP Solo software from the

support CD.

WiFi-AP Solo

Setup Wizard

After completing the installation, the WiFi-

AP Solo Setup Wizard will run automatically.

AP Mode

Station Mode

To use AP Mode, refer to

To use Station Mode, refer to

Section 1.4.1.

Section 1.4.2.

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3.2.1 Setting up the AP Mode

1. To launch the WiFi-AP Solo setup

wizard, right-click the system tray

icon and select

WiFi-AP Solo

Wizard

.

2. Select

Access Point

and

click

Next

.

3. The system automatically

generates an SSID for the AP

mode. You can rename the

SSID, if desired.

4. Select a Network Security

level for your AP mode. The

congurable options are

None

,

Share-WEP

,

WPA-

PSK,

and

WPA2-PSK

. Refer

to section 3.4 for detailed

security information. Select

an appropriate level and click

Next

.

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5. If you select

Share-WEP

,

WPA-

PSK, or WPA2-PSK

in Step

4, you are required to input a

password. You can choose to

congure the password in either

ASCII or HEX mode. If you

choose HEX mode, input 10 hex

digits for 64-bit encrytion, or 26

hex digits for 128-bit encryption.

Click

Next

to continue.

6. Select your Internet connection

and click

Next

.

7. The AP mode conguration is

complete. Record the setup

information on your note and

click

Finish

to quit the ASUS

WiFi-AP Solo wizard.

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3.2.2 Setting up the station mode

In the Infrastructure mode, you can connect to the LAN or Internet, or both, through

a wireless AP.

1. To launch the WiFi-AP Solo setup wizard, right-click the system tray icon

and select

ASUS

WiFi-AP Solo Wizard

.

2. Select

Station

and click

Next

.

3. Click

Finish

.

3. Double-click the wireless icon

on the task bar to congure

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the Windows

Wireless Zero

Conguration.

Refer to Section 3.3.4 S

etting up the station mode

for how to use the

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Windows

Wireless Zero Conguration.

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3.3 Setting up via setup utility

3.3.1 How to launch Wi-AP Solo utility

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You can launch

Wi-AP Solo

either from the Windows

Program menu or the tray icon.

The tray icon is an optional quick launch to be enabled by a user.

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Windows

Program Menu

It is the absolute way to launch the

WiFi-AP Solo

from the program folder.

We recommend that you uninstall the WiFi-AP Solo utility by clicking

Start >

Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs

.

Tray Icon

The tray icon will be not be shown until you

enable the

Show Tray Icon

from the WiFi-AP

Solo. When the WiFi-AP Solo icon is shown on

the system tray, you could double-click the icon to

launch the

WiFi-AP Solo Wizard

.

3.3.2 Utility Windows

Global Control Bar

Each control items on the Global Control Bar directly affects the adapter of

the management GUI.

Show Tray Icon

When this item is checked, the WiFi-AP Solo icon will appear on the system

tray located at the right and lower corner of your Windows screen.

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Radio Off

When this item is checked, the radio

is turned off to save power. When the

radio is off, the links with other wireless

network nodes are disconnected.

Disable Adapte

r

When this item is checked, the wireless

LAN adapter is disabled to increase

performance in terms of better system

resource management and CPU

utilization.

If the wireless conguration is in AP mode, checking

Radio Off

will cause the

sub-network belonging to the AP to disconnect with the Internet/intranet.

Status page

Manufacturer: ASUS

NDIS Driver Version

Short Radio Header

Data Encryption: Current encryption

mode.

Authentication: authentication state

Channel Set: selected channel plan

currently. Please reference Appendix-A

with the detail comparisons.

MAC Address: MAC address of this adapter.

Data Rate: wireless LAN transition speed

Channel (Frequency): current channel number

Status: wireless network status

Network Name (SSID): name of connecting access point

Basic Service Set Identication (BSSID)

Network Type: indicate current network conguration type

Power Save Mode: current setting power save mode

Associated AP MAC: MAC address of connecting access point

Associated AP IP: IP address of connecting access point

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Up Time

Cong page

This page displays the basic information of

the WiFi-AP Solo:

Statistics page

You could watch the Tx/Rx status of current

wireless connection. It provides a statistic

analysis of packet transition.

Advanced page

This page presents all the access points in

the system.

Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)

page

This page is enabled when the WiFi-AP Solo

is switched to AP mode. This page allows

you to congure your Internet connection

which you wish to share.

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3.3.3 Setting up AP Mode

Open the setup utility by double-clicking the utility icon on the

desktop. The setup utility contains six buttons - Status, Cong,

Survey, Statistics, Advanced and ICS in the left column. The Survey

button is greyed out in AP mode and the ICS button is disabled

when in the station mode.

1. Open the setup utility and click

Cong

button. Click the

AP/

Station Mode

switch button -

To

Access Point Mode

. The WiFi-

AP Solo is switched to AP mode

in several seconds.

2. Click

ICS

button to congure your

Internet connection which you

wish to share. Select the correct

connection and click

Apply

button.

3. Click

Cong

button and enter

the

Network Monitor

tab. Click

Cong

button to enter the

Wireless Network Properties

page of the AP mode.

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4. You are directed to the

Wireless

Network Properties

page to set

up the AP mode. In this page,

you can change the SSID, select

the communication channel and

specify the network security. When

conguration is complete, click

OK

to apply the settings and return to

the setup wizard.

5. The AP mode conguration is

nished. You can view in the

Association Table

of the Cong

page all the wireless stations that

have connected to the WiFi-AP

Solo (AP mode).

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3.3.4 Setting up the station mode

Open the setup utility by double-clicking the utility icon on the desktop. A

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message pops up asking you to set up the station mode via the Windows

Wireless Zero Conguration (WZC) service.

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The actual screens of Windows

Wireless Zero Conguration service may differ

according to the Operating System (OS) of your computer.

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To congure the Windows

Wireless Zero Conguration (WZC) service, follow the

instruction below to make the settings.

1. Double-click the wireless network

icon on the task bar to view

available networks.Select the AP

and click

Connect

.

2. A window prompts out asking

you for the key if you have set

up encryption on your wireless

router, input the keys and click

Connect

. The connection is

complete.

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To set up the wireless connection properties, right-click the wireless icon on the

task bar and select

Open Network Connection

. Then right-click the network

connection icon and select

Properties

to open the Wireless Network Connection

Status page.

1. The

General

page shows status,

duration, speed, and signal

strength. Signal strength is

represented by green bars with

5 bars indicating excellent signal

and 1 bar meaning poor signal.

2. Select “Wireless Networks” tab

to show

Preferred networks

.

Use the

Add

button to add the

“SSID” of available networks and

set the connection preference

order with the

Move up

and

Move down

buttons. The radio

tower with a signal icon identies

the currently connected access

point. Click

Properties

to set the

authentication of the wireless

connection.

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3. The

Authentication

page allows

you to add security settings.

Read Windows help for more

information.

4. The

Advanced

page allows

you to set rewall and sharing.

Read Windows help for more

information.

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In the station mode, the Windows

Zero Conguration does not support WPA2

PSK and cannot connect the access point with WPA2 PSK. Visit the Microsoft

download center to download the WPA2 package.

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3.4 Setting up wireless security

To protect your wireless network, you need to setup a security mechanism on your

WiFi-AP Solo. Under AP mode, only Open, Shared, and WPA-PSK are supported.

Under Station mode, all the security modes listed below are supported.

Network authentication

Network authentication uses certain types of mechanism to identify authenticated wireless

clients. WiFi-AP Solo supports the following authentication methods:

Open:

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. It can

authenticate user with different levels of access right.

WPA:

WPA stands for WiFi-Protected Access. WPA provides two security

modes for Home/SOHO user and enterprise network. The former solution

adopts Pre-Shared Key for authentication, and the later uses the existing

802.1X RADIUS server in the enterprise network to process the

authentication requests.

WPA - PSK:

WPA-PSK (Pre-Shared Key) is the solution for home and SOHO

users who have no 802.11X authentication server within the

LAN. To setup WPA-PSK, you need to input a passphrase and let

the system generate the key. Combination of letters, numbers and non

alphnumeric charecters is recommended for ensuring security.

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Encryption

Encryption is used to convert plain text data into unreadable codes with certain

type of algorithm before capsulation for wireless transmission. WiFi-AP Solo

supports the following encryption methods:

WEP:

WEP stands for Wired Equivalent Privacy. It uses 64 or 128-bit

static keys. You can let the system generate the WEP keys by inputting a

Passphrase.

TKIP:

Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) dynamically generates unique

keys to encypt every data packet in a wireless session.

AES:

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a dependable encryption

adopted in WPA2 or IEEE802.11i standard. It offers stronger protection

and greatly increases the complexity of wireless encryption.

TKIP + AES:

For a network where WPA clients (using TKIP encryption) and WPA2

clients (using AES encryption) co-exit. Select this option to enable both.

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