User's Manual

Octopus Series Wireless LAN Card
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• Current Channel: shows the channel on which the connection is made. In Infrastructure mode, this
number changes as the radio scans the available channels.
• Throughput: shows the short term transmit and receive throughput in bytes/second, and is
continuously updated.
• Link Quality: is based on the quality of the received signal of the Access Point beacon.
• Signal Strength: is based on the received signal strength measurement of the baseband processor of
the Beacon signal.
You can click the Disable Radio button to turn off the wireless radio. When you click this button, the
State field indicates that the radio has been stopped and the remaining fields in this window display
either a zero or Not Applicable. Click this button again to turn the radio back on. However, if the radio
has been disabled by the hardware switch on the adapter, clicking this button displays a popup message
telling you that the radio cannot be enabled.
You can click the Rescan button to force the radio to rescan all available channels. If your link quality
or signal strength is poor, rescanning can be used to push the radio off a weak Access Point and search
for a better link with another Access Point.
Configuration Tab
The Configuration menu lets you specify the operating parameters for your Octopus WLAN Interface
adapter. You can display this menu by choosing the Advanced Configuration ... command from the
pop-up menu, or by clicking on the Configuration tab when the Configuration Utility is displayed on
your desktop.