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5.2 WiFi Connection Procedure

ENABLING WiFi

From the Home Screen, select the Enable WiFi menu item . Your device will scan for available WiFi networks.

The first time you use your device, you may get a message “No configured networks found”. Highlight View

available networks and tap on it again. The list of available networks will be displayed.

If your ARCHOS device finds networks that you have previously used and configured, it will connect auto- matically to one of them.

If you get the message “Could not connect to any Wifi network!”, highlight View available networks and tap on it again. The list of available networks will be displayed.

Once you are connected to a WiFi network, the status bar icon (WiFi not connected) will become (WiFi connected). There is no status bar icon at all when WiFi is not enabled.

THE LIST OF AVAILABLe NETWORKS

The list of available networks shows all the wireless networks in range of your device.

To refresh the list, select the Scan for networks menu item.

In the list of available networks, for each net- work you will see the following information:

1 configuration status:

configured network

unconfigured network

2 the name of the network (SSID), if it is broadcasted (if the SSID is not broadcasted, you will be prompt- ed to enter it in the next configuration screen)

3the type of encryption key that is required:

Open network

WEP key

WPA key

WPA2 key

4the strength of the signal

5this icon will appear if you are currently connected to this network

6the channel used by the network

7the type of network (Infrastructure or Ad-Hoc)(Ad-Hoc networks are not supported at this time)

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Archos 704 WiFi Connection Procedure, To refresh the list, select the Scan for networks menu item, Enabling WiFi