TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter Rev:1.0.
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FCC RF Radiation Exposure Statement This device has been tested for compliance with FCC RF Exposure (SAR) limits in the typical laptop computer configuration and this device can be used in desktop or laptop computers. This device cannot be used with handheld PDAs (personal digital assistants). This device and its antenna must not be co-located or operated in conjunction with any other antenna or transmitter.
TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY For the following equipment:: Product Description: Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter Model No.: TL-WN727N Trademark: TP-LINK We declare under our own responsibility that the above products satisfy all the technical regulations applicable to the product within the scope of Council Directives: Directives 1999/5/EC The above product is in conformity with the following standards or other normative documents: ETSI EN 300 328 V1.7.1: 2006 ETSI EN 301 489-1 V1.8.
CONTENTS Package Contents .................................................................................................... 1 Chapter 1 Introduction .......................................................................................... 2 1.1 Product Overview .............................................................................................. 2 1.2 Main Features ................................................................................................... 2 1.3 LED Status .........
TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Package Contents The following items should be found in your package: ¾ One TL-WN727N Lite-N USB Adapter ¾ One USB extension cable (for one meter) ¾ One Resource CD for TL-WN727N Lite-N USB Adapter, including: • Drivers and Utility • User Guide • Other Helpful Information ) Note: Make sure that the package contains the above items. If any of the listed items are damaged or missing, please contact with your distributor.
TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Product Overview Thank you for choosing the TL-WN727N Lite-N USB Adapter. The adapter is designed to provide a high-speed and unrivaled wireless performance for your computer. With a faster wireless connection, you can get a better Internet experience, such as downloading, gaming, video streaming and so on. The TL-WN727N Lite-N USB Adapter complies with IEEE 802.11g and IEEE 802.11b standards.
TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Chapter 2 Installation Guide 2.1 Hardware Installation 1. Connect one end of the USB cable to the Adapter. 2. Connect the other end of the USB cable to the USB port on your computer. Because the Adapter gets its power from the host, there is no external power supply. The LED should light up when the Adapter is plugged in and the PC is on. ) Note: The Adapter can also be plugged into the USB port on your computer directly. 2.2 Software Installation 2.2.
TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 2-1 Choose Setup Language 2. The following screen for preparing setup will appear. Figure 2-2 Preparing Setup 3. Then you’ll see the screen as follow, you can choose what to be installed.
TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 2-3 Setup Type 4. As next screen, you can select the configuration tool here. Figure 2-4 Setup Type I. If you want to install the TL-WN727N Wireless Utility, please select the TP-LINK Configuration Tool and click Next. II. If you only want to use the Microsoft Zero Configuration Tool to configure the wireless connection, please select Microsoft Zero Configuration Tool and click Next.
TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide 5. Then, choose the destination location. Figure 2-5 Choose Destination Location 6. After that, you will see the next screen as below. Click Install to continue. Figure 2-6 Ready to Install the Program 7. The following screen for installing will appear.
TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 2-7 Setup Status ) Note: While files are copying, a warning box about Windows Logo testing (shown in Figure 2-8) may pop up, please click Continue Anyway to continue the installation for our drivers have been tested thoroughly and are able to work with the operating system. Figure 2-8 Windows XP Warning Box 8. After the files have been successfully copied, the screen in Figure 2-9 will appear. Click the Finish button to finish the wizard.
TL-WN727N Figure 2-9 Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide InstallShield Wizard Complete After installing the driver successfully, you should see an icon system tray. or appear in your 2.3 Uninstall Software 2.3.1 Uninstall the driver software from your PC 1. On the Windows taskbar, click the Start button, and then click Control Panel. 2. Double-click the System icon, click on the Hardware tab in the System window. 3.
TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 2-10 Device Manager 4. Click Uninstall shown in above Figure 2-10, the system will uninstall the driver software of the adapter from your PC. 2.3.2 Uninstall the utility software from your PC 1. 2. On the Windows taskbar, click the Start button, point to All programsÆTP-LINKÆTWCU, and then click Uninstall-TL-WN727N. Figure 2-11 Uninstall the utility Following the Install Shield Wizard to uninstall the utility software from your PC.
TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Chapter 3 Configuration 3.1 Configuration of Utility TL-WN727N Wireless USB Adapter can be configured by its utility for Windows 2000, XP, and Vista. This section will take the configuration in Windows XP for example and guide you to configure your wireless adapter for wireless connectivity with trustable data security encryption features. The configuration steps in Windows 2000 & XP & Vista are similar.
TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 3-1 Profile Tab 1. To Add a new profile: Click the Add button on the Profile tab, the Profile configuration screen will appear as shown in Figure 3-2. Enter the Profile Name and choose the SSID from the pull-down list, then click OK to add it. Figure 3-2 Add a new profile ¾ Profile Name - Identifies the configuration profile. This name must be unique. Profile names are not case-sensitive. ¾ SSID - The IEEE 802.11 wireless network name.
TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide will be fragmented. Setting the Fragmentation Threshold too low may result in poor network performance since excessive packages. 2346 is the default setting and is recommended. 2. To edit a profile: Highlight the desired profile name on Profile List, and click the Edit button, the Profile configuration screen will appear shown in Figure 3-3. Figure 3-3 Edit a Profile-System Configuration ¾ System Config: Here you can change the Profile Name and SSID.
TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 3-4 Edit a Profile-Auth.\Encry. ¾ Authentication – You can choose the Authentication Type from the pull-down list with three options, Open System, Shared-Key System or LEAP. ¾ 802.1x – It enables when Authentication Type is setting to WPA. ¾ Encryption – Displays which encryption type that the driver is using. When you select Open System, Shared-Key System as Network Authentication, there are two options: WEP and Disabled.
TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide choices will appear as Figure 3-5. Figure 3-5 Network tab ¾ Rescan: Click the Rescan button to refresh the list at any time. ¾ Add to Profile: Highlight an SSID and click the Add to Profile button to add the network to the profile. The continued steps are similar to add a new profile, please refer to the 3.1.1 Profile: To Add a new profile.
TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide 3.1.4 Statistics Click the Statistics tab of the Utility and you will see the following screen displaying the receiving and transmitting statistical information. Click the Reset Counter button to reset the count of the statistics information. Figure 3-7 Statistics tab 3.1.5 QSS Click the QSS tab of the Utility and you can configure the QSS function to joint an existing network quickly in the following screen.
TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide ) Note: To build a successful connection by QSS, you should also do the corresponding configuration of the Access Point for QSS or WPS function meanwhile. I. PBC Method If your Access Point is equipped with a push-button for Wi-Fi Protected Setup, you can connect the adapter to the Access Point by Push QSS Button method. Figure 3-9 QSS- QSS BUTTON mode Step 1 Or: Step 2 Click the QSS button (marked by the red circle) on the screen as Figure 3-9.
TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide as Figure 3-10 shown. And then click PIN button to start the wireless connection without doing any configuration for AP. Figure 3-10 QSS - Registrar mode ) Note: The default PIN code of the AP always can be found in its label or User Guide. 2) Enter the PIN into my Access Point Choose the Config Mode as Enrollee and click the PIN button on the screen as Figure 3-11. Meanwhile, enter the PIN code of the adapter into the configuration utility of the AP.
TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide 3.1.7 About Click the About tab of the Utility and you will see the following screen with some information about this adapter. Figure 3-12 About ¾ Utility Version - The version of this utility. ¾ Utility Date - The creation date of this utility. ¾ Driver Version - The version of the wireless network adapter driver. ¾ Driver Date - The creation date of the wireless network adapter driver. ¾ Firmware Version -The version of the adapter firmware.
TL-WN727N 5. Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Highlight the profile named Test on the profile list and click Activate on the Profile screen. The utility will establish a connection with this AP by configured profile. 3.2 Configure with Windows XP Wireless Zero Configuration 1. Right click the icon on the bottom of the desktop first and you will see Figure 4. Double click the Use Zero Configuration as Configuration utility option to enable Wireless Zero Configuration function.
TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 3-15 Acquiring network address 4. If the connection is finished, the icon will display like the next screen shown.
TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Chapter 4 AP Mode Click the icon to switch to AP Mode. In this mode you can use the TL-WN727N as a soft AP. Figure 4-1 ) Note: At this time, if your PC have Installed other network card (wireless or wire), you will be prompted “ICS Select WAN Adapter” to select one of them to be “WAN”. With this function TL-WN727N can serve as wireless router based on the selected card connecting to the Internet, which will make the APs of the LAN share the Internet.
TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 4-3 Config Setting Page ¾ SSID – Enter the SSID of your soft AP, or you can press “<- Use Mac Address” button to keep the Mac Address as your SSID. ¾ Channel – Select the channel from the drop-down list. This field determines which operating frequency will be used. ¾ Beacon – Enter a value between 20-1000 milliseconds for Beacon Interval here. The beacons are the packets sent by the router to synchronize a wireless network.
TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 4-4 Access Control Function ¾ ¾ Access Policy – This field allows you to start the function or not. System default is disabled. • Disable - Disable the Access Policy feature. • Allow All - Allow all the MAC addresses in the Access List to access the AP. • Reject All - Disable all the MAC addresses in the Access List to access the AP. Mac Address – Manually force the Mac address using the function, and press Add to Access List.
TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 4-5 Mac Table Function ¾ MAC Address – The station’s Mac address of the current connection. ¾ AID – Raise value by current connection. ¾ Power Saving Mode – Support Power Saving Mode on the currently connected station. ¾ Status – The link status of the current connection. 4.4 Event Log A record of all event times and messages, shown as below.
TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 4-6 Event Log Page ¾ Event Time (yy/mm/dd-hh:mm:ss) – Displays the event time recorded. ¾ Message – Displays all event messages. 4.5 Statistics The statistics page displays detailed counter information based on the 802.11 MIB counters. The information is translated into a format easier for the user to understand.
TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 4-7 Transmit and Receive statistics 4.6 About The About page displays the wireless card and driver version information as shown in Figure 4-8.
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TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Chapter 5 Example for Application 5.1 Configuration of PSP XLink Online game Please ensure the software and hardware environments are well established before configuring. For hardware, at least a PC, a TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter and a PSP device are needed. For software, the TL-WN727N Adapter driver should be properly installed. Please operate as follows: Step 1. Connect the website of X-LINK http://www.teamxlink.co.
TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Step 5. Right-click “My Computer” and select Management. In the prompt page, click Device Manager, then right-click “TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter “and select Properties. Then set the value of “PSP Xlink Mode” as Enable following the red marked instruction in the figure. Figure 5-2 Step 6. Click Start > Control Panel > Network. Figure 5-3 Step 7. Right-click Wireless Network Connection icon , and select Properties.
TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 5-4 Step 8. In the prompt page shown below, select Use the Following IP Address, and set the IP and Subnet mask. After completing setting, click OK. Figure 5-5 ) Note: Please set the IP address in different network segment with the other network card to avoid conflict. Step 9. Launch TL-WN727N Wireless Utility, then highlight the Network Name (SSID) beginning with “PSP” in the “Network” page, and click Connect.
TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 5-6 Step 10. Check whether your PSP device is detected in the Diagnostics mode of Kai as Figure 5-7 shown: Click the icon first and then click the folder . Figure 5-7 Step 11. Click the icon on the right top corner to enter the Arena Mode, highlight the arena of your wanted game, and then join or start a new game.
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TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Appendix A: Glossary 802.11b - The 802.11b standard specifies a wireless networking at 11 Mbps using direct-sequence spread-spectrum (DSSS) technology and operating in the unlicensed radio spectrum at 2.4GHz, and WEP encryption for security. 802.11b networks are also referred to as Wi-Fi networks. 802.
TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide SSID - A Service Set Identification is a thirty-two character (maximum) alphanumeric key identifying a wireless local area network. For the wireless devices in a network to communicate with each other, all devices must be configured with the same SSID. This is typically the configuration parameter for a wireless PC card. It corresponds to the ESSID in the wireless Access Point and to the wireless network name.
TL-WN727N Wireless Lite-N USB Adapter User Guide Appendix B: Specifications General Interface A-type USB 2.0 Connector Standards IEEE 802.1g, IEEE 802.
