5. Troubleshooting

This section provides solutions to problems usually encountered during the installation and operation of the USB adapter. Read the description below to diffuse your doubts.

What is the IEEE 802.11g standard?

802.11g is the latest IEEE standard for high-speed WLAN communications that provides up to 54Mbps data rate in the 2.4GHZ band. It has become the mainstream technology of current WLAN networks. It uses OFDM modulation to reach higher data transmission rate and backward compatible with 802.11b

What is the IEEE 802.11b standard?

The IEEE 802.11b WLAN standard subcommittee, which formulates a standard for the industry. The objective is to enable WLAN hardware from different manufacturers to interoperate.

What features does the IEEE 802.11 standard provide?

The product supports the following IEEE 802.11 functions:

‧CSMA/CA plus Acknowledge protocol

‧Multi-Channel Roaming

‧Automatic Rate Selection

‧RTS/CTS feature

‧Fragmentation

‧Power Management

What is Ad-hoc?

An Ad-hoc mode is a wireless network type in which a group of computers equipped with wireless adapters are connected as an independent wireless LAN without any access point. All computers operating in this mode must be configured to share the same radio channel and SSID.

What is Infrastructure?

The difference between Infrastructure network and Ad-hoc network is that the former requires an Access point. The Infrastructure mode is appropriate for enterprise-scale wireless access to a central database or provides various wireless applications for mobile users.

What is BSS ID?

An Infrastructure network is called a Basic Service Set (BSS). All the wireless stations in a BSS must share the same BSS ID.

What is TKIP?

It is another encryption method to overcome the inherent weaknesses of WEP, a next generation of WEP. It adopts new algorithm (Michael) to generate 128/192-bit encryption keys and provides per-packet key mixing, a message integrity check and a re-keying mechanism.

What is AES?

AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) is a chip-based encryption method of

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