TL-WN727N 150Mbps Wireless N USB Adapter 1910010464 Rev: 3.0.
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FCC RF Radiation Exposure Statement This equipment complies with FCC radiation exposure limits set forth for an uncontrolled environment. End users must follow the specific operating instructions for satisfying RF exposure compliance. This transmitter must not be co-located or operating in conjunction with any other antenna or transmitter. This equipment has been SAR-evaluated for use in hand. SAR measurements are based on a 5mm spacing from the body and that compliance is achieved at that distance.
TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD D E C LA R A T IO N O F C O N F O R M IT Y For the following equipment: Product Description: 150Mbps Wireless 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.
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 N USB Adapter User Guide Package Contents 0B The following items should be found in your package: ¾ One TL-WN727N 150Mbps Wireless N USB Adapter ¾ One USB extension cable ¾ Quick Installation Guide ¾ One Resource CD for TL-WN727N 150Mbps Wireless N USB Adapter, including: • Drivers and Utility • User Guide • Other Helpful Information ) Note: Make sure that the package contains the above items.
TL-WN727N Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide Chapter 1 Introduction 1B 1.1 Product Overview 8B 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 150Mbps Wireless N USB Adapter complies with IEEE 802.11n, IEEE 802.11g and IEEE 802.11b standards. It can perfectly interoperate with all the 802.11n/g/b devices.
TL-WN727N Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide Chapter 2 Installation Guide 2B 2.1 Hardware Installation 1B There are two ways to install the Adapter. Method 1: Plug the Adapter into the USB port on your computer directly. Method 2: 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. The Adapter gets its power from the host and there is no external power supply.
TL-WN727N Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 2-1 Install Driver&Utility 2. Then you’ll see the screen as below. You can choose which to be installed. Figure 2-2 Setup Type 3. In the following screen, select the configuration tool.
TL-WN727N Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 2-3 Setup Type I. If you want to install the TP-LINK Wireless LAN 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. 4. Then, choose the destination location.
TL-WN727N Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide 5. After that, you will see the next screen as below. Click Install to continue. Figure 2-5 Ready to Install the Program 6. The following screen for installing will appear. Figure 2-6 Setup Status 7. After the files have been successfully copied, the screen in Figure 2-7 will appear. Click the X Finish button to finish the installation and reboot the system.
TL-WN727N Figure 2-7 Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide InstallShield Wizard Complete After installing the driver successfully, you should see an icon or in your system tray. 2.3 Uninstall Software 13B 2.3.1 Uninstall the utility software from your PC 24B 1. 2. On the Windows taskbar, click the Start button, point to All programsÆTP-LINK, and then click Uninstal-TL-WN727N. Figure 2-8 Uninstall the Utility Follow the Install Shield Wizard to uninstall the utility software from your PC. 2.3.
TL-WN727N 3. Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide Click on the Device Manager button, double-click Network adapters, and then right-click TP-LINK Wireless USB Adapter. Figure 2-9 Device Manager 4. Click Uninstall shown in above Figure 2-9, the system will uninstall the driver software of the adapter from your PC.
TL-WN727N Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide Chapter 3 Configuration 3B 3.1 Configuration of Utility 14B TL-WN727N Wireless USB Adapter can be configured by its utility for Windows XP/ Vista/ 7. 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 XP/ Vista/ 7 are similar.
TL-WN727N Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide 3.1.1 Site Survey 26B Click the Site Survey icon on the screen of the Utility and the Site Survey screen with many available wireless network choices will appear. The AP list will be updated every two seconds. The AP list includes most used fields, such as SSID, network type, channel used, wireless mode, security status and the signal percentage. The dialog box is shown in Figure 3-2.
TL-WN727N ¾ Import a profile ¾ Export a profile ¾ Add a QSS profile Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 3-3 Profile List ¾ - Click to add a new profile. ¾ - Deletes an existing profile. ¾ - Click to edit an existing profile. ¾ - Imports an existing profile. ¾ - Exports an existing profile. ¾ Profile Name - Name of profile, preset to PROF* (* indicate 1, 2, 3...). ¾ SSID - The access point or Ad-hoc name. ¾ Authentication - Indicates the authentication mode used.
TL-WN727N ¾ - Back to the previous page. ¾ - Continue to the next page. Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide 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. This field has a maximum limit of 32 characters. ¾ Network Type: There are basically two modes of networking: • Infrastructure - All wireless clients will connect to an access point or wireless router.
TL-WN727N 3. Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide In the screen that follows, enter the key of the AP in the empty field. Here takes Key 1234567890 for example. If the wireless network you are trying to connect is security-enabled, you must enter the corresponding key to establish a successful connection. Then click the Next icon 4. to continue. Figure 3-6 Enter the Key The Pre-logon Connect configuration page as shown in Figure 3-7 will then appear. Click the X Next icon to continue.
TL-WN727N Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide ¾ Tx Power - Manually force the AP’s transmitting power. ¾ Use RTS Threshold - Here you can specify the RTS (Request to Send) Threshold. If you are not sure, please leave it default here. ¾ Use Fragment Threshold - This value is the maximum size determining whether packets will be fragmented. Setting the Fragment Threshold too low may result in poor network performance because of excessive packages.
TL-WN727N Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide configuration screen will appear as shown in Figure 3-11. You can make some changes of the X X profile, for instance, you can change the Profile Name to name it like My Network. Figure 3-11 Edit a Profile 3.1.2.4. Import a profile 35B 1. From the Profile List screen (shown in Figure 3-3), click the Import icon X X . Then the Import Profile screen will appear below. 2. Browse to the directory where the profile is located. 3. Highlight the profile name.
TL-WN727N 4. Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide Click Save. The profile should then be exported to the specified location. Figure 3-13 Export a Profile 3.1.2.6. Add a QSS profile 37B Click the Add QSS Profile icon of the Utility and you can configure the QSS function to join an existing network quickly in the following screen.
TL-WN727N I. Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide 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-Button Configuration (PBC) method. Step 1 Press the QSS button on your Access Point device. Figure 3-15 Press the QSS Button Step 2 Click the Add to Profile icon on the screen as Figure 3-14. Step 3 Select Push-Button Configuration (PBC) on the screen below.
TL-WN727N Step 5 Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide The Adapter will search for the AP to establish connection automatically. Figure 3-18 Step 6 Then wait a moment until Figure 3-19 appears. X X Figure 3-19 II. PIN Method If your Access Point supports Wi-Fi Protected Setup and the PIN method, you can add the adapter to the network by the following two ways: 1) Enter the PIN into my Access Point Step 1 Click the Add to Profile icon on the screen as Figure 3-14.
TL-WN727N Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 3-20 Step 3 Choose the Config Mode as Enrollee and click the Next icon on the screen below. Meanwhile, enter the PIN code of the adapter (here takes 39566720 in the screen for example) into the configuration utility of the AP. For the detailed instructions of the AP configuration, please refer to the User Guide of the AP. Figure 3-21 Enrollee Mode Step 4 Click Start PIN on the following screen.
TL-WN727N 2) Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide Enter a PIN from my Access Point Step 1 Click the Add to Profile icon on the screen as Figure 3-14. Step 2 Select the desired SSID from the QSS AP List (take TP-LINK_Network1 for example) X X and then tick PIN/numeric code on the screen below. Figure 3-23 Step 3 Choose the Config Mode as Registrar and enter the PIN of AP (here takes 90377211 for example) into the field beside the Pin Code as Figure 3-10 shows.
TL-WN727N Step 4 Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide Click Start PIN on the following screen. Figure 3-25 Start PIN Step 5 When Figure 3-19 appears, the configuration is complete. X X ) Note: The default PIN code of the AP always can be found in its label or User Guide. 3.1.3 Link Information 28B Click the Link Information icon of the Utility and you will see the following screen displaying the receiving and transmitting statistical information.
TL-WN727N ¾ Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide Network Type - The type of network and the station currently connected are shown here. The options include: ¾ • Infrastructure (access point) • Ad Hoc Central Channel - The channel of the currently connected AP. , you can view the Link Quality, Signal Strength and Link Speed to Click the Throughput icon see whether the Adapter is working well.
TL-WN727N Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide ¾ Retransmitted Successfully - Successfully retransmitted frames numbers. ¾ Fail To Receive ACK After All Retries - Frames failed transmit after hitting retry limit. Figure 3-29 Receive Statistics ¾ Received Successfully - The number of frames successfully received. ¾ Received With CRC Error - The number of frames received with a CRC error. ¾ Dropped Due To Out-of-Resource - The number of frames dropped due to a resource issue.
TL-WN727N ¾ Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide Wireless Mode - Specifies 2.4 GHz 150 Mbps, 2.4 GHz 54 Mbps or 2.4 GHz 11 Mbps operation in an access point network. The Wireless adapter must match the wireless mode of the access point with which it associates. ¾ Enable TX Burst - It can translate more data when it is enabled. ¾ Enable TCP Window Size - It can enhance the TCP throughput when it is enabled.
TL-WN727N Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide 2. Click the Profile icon of the utility and click the Add button on the screen that appears. 3. The Profile configuration screen will appear, please select SSID TPLINK from the drop-down list. Enter Test for the Profile Name, and select Infrastructure for the Network Type, then click Next to the next page. Select WPA-PSK for the Authentication, AES for the Encryption and click Next to continue. Enter 0123456789 for the Key.
TL-WN727N Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide ) Note: If you have not installed SP2 for Windows XP, the screen above will not be available. 3. Enter the key and click Connect to continue. Figure 3-34 Enter Network Key 4. If the connection is finished, you will see the screen as Figure 3-35 shows.
TL-WN727N Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide Chapter 4 AP Mode 4B 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 Step 1. Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide Click Config AP icon, the following screen will pop up. Click Next to continue. Figure 4-4 Config AP SSID - Enter the SSID of your soft AP, for example, you can name it My Network instead of the default name SoftAP-2A. Step 2. Here you can select country region and set the AP’s channel. Figure 4-5 Channel - Select the channel from the drop-down list. This field determines which operating frequency will be used. Step 3.
TL-WN727N Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide establish a successful connection with your AP. Figure 4-7 4.2 Advanced 17B Click the Advanced icon, the following screen will appear. Here you can make some advanced settings and click Apply to make these settings take effect. Figure 4-8 Beacon Interval(ms)- Enter a value between 20-1000 milliseconds for Beacon Interval here. ¾ The beacons are the packets sent by the router to synchronize a wireless network.
TL-WN727N Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 4-9 Access Control Function 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. ¾ Mac Address - Manually force the Mac address using the function.
TL-WN727N Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 4-10 Add an Mac Address to the List Figure 4-11 Remove an existing Mac Address from the List - 31 -
TL-WN727N Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide Figure 4-12 Clear All MAC Addresses 4.4 Associate List 19B Figure 4-13 shows the link status page. It displays detailed station information of current X X connection.
TL-WN727N Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide 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. 4.5 About 20B The About page displays the wireless card and driver version information as shown in Figure X 4-14.
TL-WN727N Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide Chapter 5 Example for Application 5B 5.1 Configuration of PSP XLink Online game 21B Please ensure the software and hardware environments are well established before configuring. For hardware, at least a PC, a TL-WN727N 150Mbps Wireless 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 N USB Adapter User Guide Step 5. Right-click “My Computer” and select Management. In the prompt page, click Device Manager, then right-click “TP-LINK 150Mbps Wireless Lite N 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 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 TP-LINK Wireless Client Utility, then highlight the Network Name (SSID) beginning with “PSP” in the “Network” page, and click Connect.
TL-WN727N Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide Step 10. Check whether your PSP device is detected in the Diagnostics mode of Kai as Figure X 5-7 shown: Click the icon X first and then click the folder . Figure 5-6 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.
TL-WN727N Appendix A: 6B Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide 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 N USB Adapter User Guide Spectrum (FHSS). 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 Appendix B: B 7 Wireless N USB Adapter User Guide Specifications General Interface USB 2.0 Connector Standards IEEE 802.11n, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.11b Operating System Windows XP/ Vista/ 7 Safety & Emission FCC, CE Frequency 2.412 ~ 2.462 GHz for FCC&NCC; 2.412~2.
