3.4Wireless LAN Adapter Utility – Site Survey
Tab
Click the Site Survey tab and the following screen will be displayed.
From the Site Survey page, you can search all access points and wireless LAN adapters that are within the service range of the wireless LAN adapter. The service range the wireless LAN card supports is up to 100 meters indoor or 300 meters outdoors. Click Search button, and the wireless LAN card will start to search access points and WLAN adapters and show the result in the list. The list includes information about the ESSID and BSSID of the access point and WALN adapter, the signal strength, the channel where the access point and WLAN adapter operates, and whether or not WEP encryption is used. You can highlight the access point or WLAN adapter you want to associate and click Connect or double click on your choice, and the system will take you back to the Link Info tab showing you the parameters of the connection newly established. If the wireless device you attempt to connect uses WEP function, then the system will take you to the Configuration tab/Encryption page.
In the above figure, you can see there are three access points within the service range of the wireless LAN card. You may click the Search button to update this list and click the scroll bar to right to see more information the list provides.
3.5 Wireless LAN Card Utility – Statistics Tab
Click the Statistics tab and the following screen will be displayed.