2-5 View Network Statistics
The configuration utility provides information about network statistics and link status. If you want to know how your wireless network dongle works, you can use these functions to get detailed information about the wireless connection you’re using.
Right-click the Ralink configuration utility icon located at lower-right corner of computer desktop and then click ‘Launch Config Utility’.
Click ‘Statistics’ menu and the statistics of wireless connection will be displayed:
All connection-related statistics is displayed here. You can click ‘Transmit’ or ‘Receive’ tab, to view the statistics of transmitted or received packets. You can also click ‘Reset Counter’ button, to reset the statistics of all items back to 0.
2-6 WMM Setting
This wireless network dongle provides WMM (Wi-Fi Multimedia) function, which can improve the performance of certain network applications, like audio/video streaming, network telephony (VoIP), and others. When you enable the WMM function of this network dongle, you can define the priority of different kinds of data, to give higher priority to applications that require instant responding. Therefore you can improve the performance of such network applications.
Right-click the Ralink configuration utility icon located at lower-right corner of computer desktop and then click ‘Launch Config Utility’.
Click ‘WMM’ menu, and the following settings will appear:
In ‘WMM Setup Status’ block, current WMM settings will be displayed.
Here are descriptions of every setup item:
Item Name | Description |
WMM Enable | Check this box to enable WMM function. Please click ‘Apply’ button on the right of |
| this check box after you check or uncheck this box, so corresponding settings in this |
| window will be activated or deactivated respectively. |
