Encore N150 Specifications

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9www.encore-usa.com STEP4: Install the antenna on the wireless network card, and make sure the antenna is securely installed. To improve radio recep

www.encore-usa.com 102. Installation Procedure Note: If you have installed the Wireless Adapter driver & utility before, please uninstall the ol

11www.encore-usa.com (For Windows 2000) STEP2: Insert Installation CD into CD-ROM drive, windows below will appear. Click Utility Software and D

www.encore-usa.com 12STEP3: Please read the following license agreement. Use the scroll bar to view the rest of this agreement. Select I accept the

13www.encore-usa.com STEP5: In Windows XP, there is a Windows Zero Configuration Tool for you to setup wireless adapter. You can choose to configure

www.encore-usa.com 14STEP7: Please wait for a while during the Wireless LAN adapter is configuring your new software installation. STEP8: After th

15www.encore-usa.com The Configuration Utility appears as an icon on the system tray of Windows while the adapter is running. You can open the utili

www.encore-usa.com 163. Wireless Network Configuration Utility 3.1 EncoreUI Wireless Utility & Windows Zero Configuration (WZC) The Configurat

17www.encore-usa.com If “Use Zero Configurations as Configuration utility” is selected, please continue on the section. Below picture shows that the

www.encore-usa.com 18STEP2: Right-click the network connection icon in the task bar. STEP3: All wireless access point in proximity will be display

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19www.encore-usa.com passphrase here. It must match the encryption setting on the access point. STEP5: When you see the “Connected” message, the c

www.encore-usa.com 20 STEP7: Choose “Wireless Networks” tab. STEP8: Click “Properties” and then click “OK” button.

21www.encore-usa.com STEP9: After filling appropriate value, click “OK” button. And the status will prompt up as below. STEP10: Click the

www.encore-usa.com 22surrounding APs in the list. The current connected AP will also show with the green icon indicated as below screen. User may us

23www.encore-usa.com When starting EncoreUI, system will connect to the AP with best signal strength without setting profile or matching profile set

www.encore-usa.com 24There are three sections in EncoreUI. These sections are briefly described as below.  Button Section: Include Profile page, Ne

25www.encore-usa.com Î Network Page Î Advanced Page

www.encore-usa.com 26Î Statistics Page Î WMM Page

27www.encore-usa.com Î WPS Page Î SSO Page (available on Windows XP & 2000 OS)

www.encore-usa.com 28Î CCX Page (available on Windows Vista, XP & 2000 OS) Î About Page

www.encore-usa.com 24.2 SECURITY SETTINGS ...64 4.3 ACCESS CONTROL

29www.encore-usa.com  Status Section: Include Link Status, AP’s information and Configuration. Î Link Status In the “Profile” Tab, click on an exi

www.encore-usa.com 30 Î AP’s Information

31www.encore-usa.com Î Configuration

www.encore-usa.com 32 At the mean time of starting EncoreUI, there is also a small Encore icon appears within windows taskbar as below. You may dou

33www.encore-usa.com 3.3 Profile Profile can book keeping your favorite wireless setting among your home, office, and other public hot-spot. You may

www.encore-usa.com 34[Icons and buttons] Î indicate connection is successful on currently activated profile Î indicate connection is failed on c

35www.encore-usa.com 3.3.1 Add/Edit Profile There are 3 methods to open Profile Editor form: Î You can open it from “Add to Profile” button in Site

www.encore-usa.com 36 Tx Power: You can select the wireless output power here. If you’re not too far from AP (good signal reception), you can select

37www.encore-usa.com 3.3.2 Example to Add Profile in Profile Step 1: Click Add in Profile function Step 2: Add Profile page will pop up.

www.encore-usa.com 38Step 3: Change profile name to what you want to connect. Pull down the SSID and select one intended AP. The AP list is the resu

3www.encore-usa.com FCC Warning This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class C digital device, pursuant to part 15

39www.encore-usa.com Step 5: Then, you can see the profile which you set appear in the profile list. Click “Activate” to activate the profile settin

www.encore-usa.com 40Rescan: Click this button to rescan access points. You can click this button for several times, if the access point you wish to

41www.encore-usa.com 3.5 Advanced This wireless network card provides several advanced settings for experienced wireless users. You can change these

www.encore-usa.com 42 Figure 2: Country Channel list Apply: Save the save changes Î Show the information of Status Section Î Hide the informati

43www.encore-usa.com 3.6 Statistics The configuration utility provides information about network statistics and link status. If you want to know how

www.encore-usa.com 44Duplicate Frames Received: Duplicate received frames. Reset Counter: Reset counters to zero Î Show the information of Statu

45www.encore-usa.com WMM-Power Save Enable: Check this box to enable WMM power saving mode to save energy, and let your computer’s battery live long

www.encore-usa.com 46Step 2: Change to “Network” function. And add an AP that supports WMM features to a Profile. The result will look like the belo

47www.encore-usa.com [WMM-Power Save Enable – Enable WMM Power Save] Step 1: Click “WMM-Power Save Enable” Step 2: Please select which ACs you wan

www.encore-usa.com 48[Direct Link Setup Enable – Enable DLS (Direct Link Setup)] Step 1: Click “Direct Link Setup Enable” Step 2: Change to “Netwo

www.encore-usa.com 4Modular Approval Statement: This device is intended to be used only for OEM integrator under the following conditions: 1) The an

49www.encore-usa.com The Setting of DLS indicates as follow: (1) Fill in the blanks of Direct Link with MAC address of STA. The STA must conform to

www.encore-usa.com 50(3) Click “Apply” button. The result will look like the below figure. Describe “DLS Status” as follow: (1) As the up figure

51www.encore-usa.com Step 2: Double-Click and the result will look like the below figure. (3) Disconnect Direct Link Setup as follow: Step 1:

www.encore-usa.com 523.8 WPS Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) is the latest wireless network technology which makes wireless network setup become very si

53www.encore-usa.com configuration method or PBC configuration setup using PIN configuration method or PBC configuration method through an internal

www.encore-usa.com 54If there is an empty credential, the driver will select any non-security AP. PIN: Start to add to Registrar using PIN configura

55www.encore-usa.com Encryption Type: For Open and shared authentication mode, the selection of encryption are None and WEP. For WPA, WPA2, WPA-PSK

www.encore-usa.com 56 Device Password ID: Indicate the method or identifies the specific password that the selected Registrar intends to use. AP in

57www.encore-usa.com UUID-E: The universally unique identifier (UUID) element generated by the Enrollee. There is a value. It is 16 bytes. RF-Bands

www.encore-usa.com 58Enable Persistent Connection: Use DI and Password in the previous activate Profile and not show any authentication dialog. Pro

5www.encore-usa.com 1. Introduction Thank you for purchasing this high-speed wireless network card! Besides common wireless standards 802.11b/g, th

59www.encore-usa.com 3.11 About About function display the wireless card and driver version information. (1) Connect to Encore’s Websit

www.encore-usa.com 60 Status: Current connection status. If no connection, it will show Disconnected. Otherwise, the SSID and BSSID will show here.

61www.encore-usa.com 4. Soft-AP Function Besides becoming a wireless client of other wireless access points, this wireless card can act as a wirele

www.encore-usa.com 62 A configuration window will appear after you switch the operation mode to ‘AP’, which asks you to assign an existing network c

63www.encore-usa.com SSID: Please input the SSID (the name used to identify this wireless access point) here. Up to 32 numerical characters can be

www.encore-usa.com 64chapter 4-2 ‘Security Settings’ for details. Country Region Code: Please select the country code of the country or region you l

65www.encore-usa.com Authentication Type: Please select a wireless authentication type you wish to use. Available options are ‘Open’, ‘Shared’, WPA

www.encore-usa.com 66wireless clients here. You can click the button ’10 seconds’ or ‘Kpackets’ to change the unit of time interval. (Every 10 secon

67www.encore-usa.com If you’re not going to open your computer and wireless resources to the public, you can use MAC address filtering function to e

www.encore-usa.com 68here. No colon (:) or hyphen (-) required. Add: Add the MAC address you inputted in ‘MAC address’ field to the list. Delete: Pl

www.encore-usa.com 6 1.2 Getting familiar with your new wireless network card 1. Antennas One 2dBi dipole antenna is enclosed with the PCI card

69www.encore-usa.com Power Saving Mode: Displays the capability of power-saving function of this wireless client. Status: Displays additional infor

www.encore-usa.com 70If you want to know detailed information about how your software access point works, click ‘Statistics’ tab, and the event log

71www.encore-usa.com The ‘About’ tab provides you the information about version number of the configuration utility, driver, and other important inf

72 www.encore-usa.com * Local tech-support numbers are provided in selectively countries. Service may change without prior notice. Please visit www

7www.encore-usa.com Blinking Transferring / receiving data Active Off No wireless activity 1.3 Package Contents Before you starting to use this w

www.encore-usa.com 8 1.4 Before you start You must have the requirements as follow: ‧ A computer with an available PCI slot ‧ At least a 300MHz pr