Operation Manual

1 Introduction

Thank you for purchasing the 802.11g MIMO Wireless LAN PC Card. With the MIMO technology, this

card enables you to connect to wireless networks at farther distances than before. The card has two

antennas for signal reception and one antenna for high power signal transmission. Not only the

connection distance is enhanced, but also the “dead spots” in the network will be reduced. In addition,

the card remains backward compatible to 802.11b and 802.11g. When the card is connecting to the

standard 11g or 11b APs or Routers, it can perform much better than standard clients.

This card supports higher data throughput than the IEEE 802.11g standard (up to 54Mbps). It supports

specific ways to increase the data transfer rate at a time; compress the data and decrease the waiting

time to send the next data to the Routers or APs. This feature is called Turbo Mode. When the card is

connecting to the Routers or APs with the proprietary feature, the wireless network will be more

effective.

For WLAN security issues, this card supports 64/128-bit WEP data encryption that protects your

wireless network from eavesdropping. It also supports WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) feature that

combines IEEE 802.1x and TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol) technologies. Client users are

required to authorize before accessing to APs or AP Routers, and the data transmitted in the network is

encrypted/decrypted by a dynamically changed secret key. Furthermore, this card supports WPA2

function, WPA2 provides a stronger encryption mechanism through AES (Advanced Encryption

Standard), which is a requirement for some corporate and government users.

When you use the devices such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phones, televisions, VCRs and

MP3 players, how can you speed up the audio, video and voice data to pass through the wireless

network? IEEE 802.11e Quality of Service (QoS) (The Wi-Fi Alliance defined WMM as a profile of the

IEEE 802.11e) extensions for 802.11 networks will help to define the priorities of the data traffics by the

data categories to provide enhanced multimedia support. This card supports the advanced technology

for sure.

This card is cost-effective, together with the versatile features; it is the best solution for you to build your

wireless network.