Chapter 3

Internet Access in No Time

3.1.1 Wireless Setup

Wireless client adapters

Installing your wireless client adapter

For a wireless connection to your Wi-Fi certified SpeedTouch™, you will need a wireless 802.11 b/g compatible client adapter.

As wireless client adapter, you can use a provided SpeedTouch™110g CardBus, a provided SpeedTouch™120g USB adapter (with cable), you can plug a provided SpeedTouch™121g adapter directly into your computer’s USB port (without cable) or any other Wi-Fi certified WLAN client.

To be able to install hardware on a MS Windows 2000 or a MS Windows XP operating system, you need administrative rights on your computer.

The Home Install Wizard will invite you to plug in the wireless client adapter. Proceed as follows:

1Plug in the wireless client adapter. The hardware is being installed.

If you use a SpeedTouch™110g/120g/121g adapter, the SpeedTouch™ Wireless Client Manager, an alternative to the Wireless Zero Configuration (WZC) in Windows XP, will be installed. If you’re working on Windows XP and prefer to work with the WZC, see ”Restoring Windows Zero Configuration” on page 35 to switch back to WZC.

With the provided SpeedTouch™110g/120g/121g adapter, the client manager will be configured correctly for secure WLAN connectivity to the SpeedTouch™. Also for a third party WLAN client on MS Windows XP with Service Pack 2, the WLAN configuration will be correctly done via the WZC. In other cases you will need to configure the client manager of your WLAN client without help of the wizard.

2Enter your SpeedTouch™’s serial number. This 13 digit key is printed on the bottom label of your SpeedTouch™. Then click Next.

3In a progress window you can follow the setup of the wireless connection to your SpeedTouch™.

4Continue with ”Configuring the SpeedTouch™ (and your computer)” on page 14.

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Technicolor - Thomson 580 setup guide Wireless Setup

580 specifications

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