Specifications Part 1

Dolphin® 9500/9550 Mobile Computer User’s Guide 5 - 1
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Wireless Communications with Dolphin 9500/
9550
Wireless communications with the Dolphin 9500/9550 mobile computer is versatile with co-existing WiFi™ -compliant 802.11b
WLAN and Bluetooth™ WPAN radios integrated into the terminal. That, in addition to the open software architecture, make the
Dolphin 9500/9550 a complete solution for a variety of wireless mobile data collection applications.
Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) Communications
Dolphin 9500/9550 terminals have an on-board 2.4 GHz 802.11b DSSS WLAN radio. The radio uses direct sequence spread
spectrum (DSSS) technology, which spreads its signal continuously over a wide frequency band, and provides an Ethernet-like
data rate of up to 11 megabits per second.
Dolphin 9500/9550 is interoperable with other 802.11b WiFi®-compliant products including access points, printers, PCs via PC-
card adapters and other wireless portable terminals.
Configuring WLAN Communications
Status Tab
The Status screen shows important parameters about the 802.11b radio.
Go to Start>Settings>Pegasus or click on the status icon to open the configuration utility for the 802.11b radio and the
screen shown below displays:
Note: "Click" in this document actually means "tap" with a stylus on the screen of the Dolphin 9500/9550. However, we will keep
the conventional usage of Click instead of Tap.
Status Window