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Appendix A - Wireless Basics
Where is wireless used? 
  
Wireless technology is expanding everywhere not just at home or office. People like the freedom of mobility and it’s becoming so popular that more 
and more public facilities now provide wireless access to attract people. The wireless connection in public places is usually called “hotspots”.
Using a D-Link Cardbus Adapter with your laptop, you can access the hotspot to connect to Internet from remote locations like:...

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Appendix A - Wireless Basics
There are basically two modes of networking: 
• Infrastructure – All wireless clients will connect to an access point or wireless router.
• Ad-Hoc – Directly connecting to another computer, for peer-to-peer communication, using wireless network adapters on each 
computer, such as two or more DIR-655 wireless network Cardbus adapters.
An Infrastructure network contains an Access Point or wireless router. All the wireless devices, or clients, will...

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Appendix B - Networking Basics
Networking Basics
Check your IP address
After  you  install  your  new  D-Link  adapter,  by  default,  the TCP/IP  settings  should  be  set  to  obtain  an  IP  address  from  a  DHCP  server  (i.e.  wireless 
router) automatically. To verify your IP address, please follow the steps below.
Click on Start > Run. In the run box type cmd and click OK. (Windows Vista® users type cmd in the Start Search box.)
At the prompt, type ipconfig and press...

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Appendix B - Networking Basics
Statically Assign an IP address
If you are not using a DHCP capable gateway/router, or you need to assign a static IP address, please follow the steps below:
Step 1
Windows® 7 - Click on Start > Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network and Sharing Center.
Windows Vista® - Click on Start > Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network and Sharing Center > Manage Network Connections.
Windows® XP - Click on Start > Control Panel > Network...

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Appendix C - Technical Specifications
Technical Specifications
Standards
 • IEEE 802.11n
 • IEEE 802.11g
 • IEEE 802.3
 • IEEE 802.3u
Security
 • WPA-Personal
 • WPA2-Personal
 • WPA-Enterprise
 • WPA2-Enterprise
 
Wireless Signal Rates*
 • 300Mbps  • 12Mbps
 • 108Mbps  • 11Mbps
 • 54Mbps   • 9Mbps
 • 48Mbps  • 6Mbps
 • 36Mbps  • 5.5Mbps
 • 24Mbps  • 2Mbps      
 • 18Mbps   • 1Mbps
       
MSC (0-15)
 • 130Mbps (270)  • 117Mbps (243)
 • 104Mbps (216)  • 78Mbps (162)
 •...

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Appendix D - Contacting Technical Support
Contacting Technical Support
U.S. and Canadian customers can contact D-Link technical support through our web site or by phone.
Before you contact technical support, please have the following ready:
 • Model number of the product (e.g. DIR-655)
 • Hardware Revision (located on the label on the bottom of the router (e.g. rev B1))
 • Serial Number (s/n number located on the label on the bottom of the router). 
You  can  find  software...

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Appendix E - GNU General Public License
This D-Link product includes software code developed by third parties, including software code subject to the GNU General Public License (“GPL” 
or GNU Lesser General Public License (“LGPL”). As applicable, the terms of the GPL and LGPL, and information on obtaining access to the GPL code 
and LGPL code used in this product, are available to you at:
http://tsd.dlink.com.tw/GPL.asp
The GPL code and LGPL code used in this product is...

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Appendix E - GNU General Public License
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
0. Definitions.
"This License" refers to version 3 of the GNU General Public License.
"Copyright" also means copyright-like laws that apply to other kinds of works, such as semiconductor masks.
"The Program" refers to any copyrightable work licensed under this License.  Each licensee is addressed as "you".  "Licensees" and "recipients" may 
be individuals or...

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Appendix E - GNU General Public License
The "System Libraries" of an executable work include anything, other than the work as a whole, that (a) is included in the normal form of packaging 
a Major Component, but which is not part of that Major Component, and (b) serves only to enable use of the work with that Major Component, 
or to implement a Standard Interface for which an implementation is available to the public in source code form.  A "Major Component",...

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Appendix E - GNU General Public License
3. Protecting Users' Legal Rights From Anti-Circumvention Law.
No covered work shall be deemed part of an effective technological measure under any applicable law fulfilling obligations under article 11 of the 
WIPO copyright treaty adopted on 20 December 1996, or similar laws prohibiting or restricting circumvention of such measures.
When you convey a covered work, you waive any legal power to forbid circumvention of technological...