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!AcroLAN Card Users Guide Version 20002.5
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5.4 AcroLAN Configuration Utility
Acrowave install shied program installs wireless LAN driver program and Configuration
Utility program. You can see the icon at the right bottom of your screen. Click on that
icon will show you the screen as show below.
Status shows wireless LAN card’s MAC address information.
Current Tx Rate shows transmit data rate.
Current Channel shows selected channel number.
Channel number is the channel available for the communications between the client
and AP or between the clients only. In case of the Infrastructure Network Mode, the
channel number scanned automatically, while in case of the Ad-hoc Network Mode, the
channel number is set by the client and can be changed by the client user.
If you click on Rescan button, LAN card program searches other new channel that
currently used one.
Throughput (Byte/sec) shows transmit/receive data rate.
Link Quality shows measured radio link quality. If the link quality is bad, your computer
may not communicate with other client computers. Otherwise (; fair, good…), there is
no problem to communicate with other clients.
Signal Strength is similar to Link Quality information but slightly differ from it. But
Wireless Link Status
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