ZyXEL M-202 User’s Guide

Double-click on the ZyXEL Wireless LAN Utility icon in the system tray to open the ZyXEL Utility. The ZyXEL Utility screens are similar in all Microsoft Windows versions. Screens for Windows 2000 are shown.

1.6 ZyXEL Utility Screen Summary

This sections describes the ZyXEL Utility screens.

Figure 4 Menu Summary

The following table describes the menus.

Table 2 ZyXEL Utility: Menu Screen Summary

TAB

DESCRIPTION

 

 

Link Info

Use this screen to see your current connection status, configuration and data rate

 

statistics.

Site Survey

Use this screen to

 

• scan for a wireless network

 

• configure wireless security (if activated on the selected network).

 

• connect to a wireless network.

 

 

Profile

Use this screen to add, delete, edit or activate a profile with a set of wireless and

 

security settings.

Adapter

Use this screen to configure transfer rates and enable power saving modes.

 

 

1.7 Connecting to a Wireless LAN

The following sections show you how to associate with a network using the ZyXEL Utility. You can either manually connect to a network or configure a profile to have the ZyXEL M-202 automatically connect to a specific network. Otherwise, configure nothing and leave the ZyXEL M-202 to automatically scan for and connect to any other available network without security.

See the next chapters for detailed field descriptions.

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Chapter 1 Getting Started