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ZyAIR 100 Wireless PC Card

Preface

About Your ZyAIR 100

Congratulations on your purchase of the ZyAIR 100 Wireless PC Card.

Online Registration

Do not forget to register your ZyAIR 100 (fast, easy online registration at www.zyxel.com for free future product updates and information.

With the built-in Access Point and the powerful routing feature of the Prestige series models, you can place a wireless Prestige anywhere on a local network to create a wireless infrastructure for real time database accessing, file sharing, email sending/retrieving, printer sharing, and fast Internet accessing. A mobile investment saves you office construction cost, maintenance effort, and it's easy to extend the connection nodes by just adding a ZyAIR 100 on a laptop. A mobile office can highly increase the office efficiency. It is designed for:

qHome offices and small businesses with Cable, DSL and wireless modem as Internet access media.

qWireless LAN connectivity allows you to work anywhere in the coverage area.

qMultiple office/department connections via access devices.

qE-commerce/EDI applications.

Your ZyAIR 100 is easy to install and to configure.

About This User's Manual

This manual is designed to guide you through the hardware and software installation of your ZyAIR 100 for its various applications.

Structure of this Manual

This manual is structured as follows:

Part I. Getting Started (Chapters 1 to 3) is structured as a step-by-step guide to help you connect, install and setup your ZyAIR 100 to operate on your notebook computer.

Part II. Advanced Management and Troubleshooting (Chapters 4 and 5) provides information on Configuring Parameters, System Diagnosis and solving common problems as well as some Appendices, a Glossary and an Index.

Regardless of your particular application, it is important that you follow the steps outlined in Chapters 2 and 3 to install your ZyAIR 100. You can then refer to the appropriate chapters of the manual, depending on your applications.

Preface