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Using the Control Center
The Control Center taskbar icon displays the following information:
•  Link  quality  of  the  WLAN  Adapter  (Excellent,  Good,  Fair,  Poor,  Not 
Linked)
•  W h e t h e r  t h e  W L A N A d a p t e r  i s  c o n n e c t e d  t o  a  n e t w o r k  ( B l u e : 
Connected, Gray: Not Connected)
Taskbar Icon and Status 
Wireless Status Icons (on the taskbar)
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Taskbar icon - Left-click menu
Left-click the taskbar icon to show the following 
menu items:
• Wireless  Radio  On – Click  to turn 
the wireless radio ON.
• Wireless  Radio  Off – Click  to turn 
the wireless radio OFF.
• Search & Connect – Click toview the 
properties of available access points.
• Wireless  Option (Windows®  XP  only)  – Click  to choose  Windows®  Wireless  Zero  Configuration  (WZC)  service  or  ASUS...

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Status - Status
You can view the information about the 
WLAN Adapter  from  the  Status  menu. 
The status fields are blank if the WLAN 
Adapter  is  not  installed.  You  can  turn 
off  the  WLAN  Adapter  by  clicking  the  
“Disable Radio” button.
Association State
Displays  the  connection  status  as 
follows:
   Connected - The adapter is now associated with one wireless LAN device. When operating in 
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    Scanning... : The station is trying to authenticate and associate with an access point or Ad Hoc 
node.
   Disconnected: The WLAN Adapter is installed to the system, but not yet connected to a wireless 
device.
SSID: Displays the Service Set Identifier (SSID) of the device that the adapter 
is either associated or intending to join.
MAC  address: Shows  the  hardware  address  of  the  WLAN Adapter.  MAC 
address is a...

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Save Configuration
W h e n  y o u  m a k e  s e t t i n g s  f o r  a 
certain  working  environment,  you 
may need to save your settings to a 
profile  so  that  you  can  easily  switch 
to  the  settings  without  repeating  the 
configurations.  For  example,  you 
can  set  profiles  for  work,  home  and 
other situations. When you travel from home to work, choose the "office" profile  
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Status - IP Config
IP  Config  tab  shows  all  the  current 
host  and  WLAN  Adapter  information 
including  host  name,  DNS  servers, 
IP  address,  subnet  mask  and  default 
gateway.
Button
IP Release - If you want to remove the 
current  IP  address,  click  this  button  to 
release the IP address from DHCP server.
IP Renew - If you want to obtain a new IP address from DHCP server, click this 
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Config - Basic
This  page  enables  you  to  change  the 
WLAN Adapter configurations.
Network Type
Infrastructure  –  Infrastructure  means 
to establish a connection with an access 
point.  Once  connected,  the  access 
point  allows  you  to  access  wireless 
LAN  and  wired  LAN  (Ethernet).  The 
C h a n n e l  f i e l d  t u r n s  t o A u t o  i f  t h e 
connection is based on Infrastructure.
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Others
Encryption – Click this link to show the "Encryption" tab.
Advanced  –  Click  this  link  to  show  the  "Advanced"  tab.  In  most  cases,  the 
default values do not have to be changed.
Troubleshooting – Click on this to show the Troubleshooting utility.
Config - Advanced
Click Advanced  link  on  Config-Basic 
page  to  show  this  tab.  This  tab  allows 
you to set up additional parameters for...

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Network Authentication
Since  there  is  no  precise  bound  in 
wireless  LANs,  the  WLAN  users  need 
t o  i m p l e m e n t  c e r t a i n  m e c h a n i s m 
t o  p r o v i d e  s e c u r i t y  s o l u t i o n .  T h e 
A u t h e n t i c a t i o n  p o l i c i e s  i n  t h i s  t a b 
provide  protection  of  different  levels 
such  as  Open,  Shared,  WPA-PSK,  
WPA, WPA2 and WPA2-PSK.
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Data encryption
For  Open  and  Shared  authentication  mode,  the  configuration  options  of 
encryption  type  are  Disabled  and  WEP.  For  WPA,  WPA-PSK,  WPA2  and 
WPA2-PSK  authentication  mode,  Temporal  Key  Integrity  Protocol  (TKIP) 
encryption and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption are supported.
Disabled - Disable the encryption function.
WEP - WEP Key is used to encrypt your data before it is...