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Network Connections and Wireless Security, Understanding the Smart Wizard

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Chapter 3 Network Connections and Wireless Security This chapter explains how to use your Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter to connect to your Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and how to set up wireless security for the Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter so that it matches the wireless security settings for your network. Understanding the Smart Wizard Note: These instructions explain how to use the NETGEAR Smart Wizard to change the Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter wireless settings. If you use Windows XP, and chose the Windows XP configuration utility during installation, then you must disable it now. Open the network connections from the System Tray icon, click the Properties button, click the Wireless Networks tab and then clear the "Use Windows to configure my wireless network settings" check box. When you have installed the software from the NETGEAR CD, the icon appears on your desktop and in the Windows System Tray. The Windows System Tray is located on the Windows taskbar. You can either double-click this icon on the desktop, or click it in the System Tray at any time, to use the Smart Wizard. This software automatically restarts when you reboot your computer. The Smart Wizard provides a complete and easy to use set of tools to: • Choose the network that you want to use. • Configure wireless settings for your wireless USB adapter. • Monitor wireless network connections. • Save your settings in profiles. • Remove or reinstall the wireless adapter software. The following sections in this chapter explain how to use the Smart Wizard. 3-1 v1.0, February 2006

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3-1
v1.0, February 2006
Chapter 3
Network Connections and Wireless Security
This chapter explains how to use your Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter to connect to your Wireless
Local Area Network (WLAN) and how to set up wireless security for the Wireless USB 2.0
Adapter so that it matches the wireless security settings for your network.
Understanding the Smart Wizard
When you have installed the software from the
NETGEAR CD
, the
icon appears on your
desktop and in the Windows System Tray. The Windows System Tray is located on the Windows
taskbar. You can either double-click this icon on the desktop, or click it in the System Tray at any
time, to use the Smart Wizard. This software automatically restarts when you reboot your
computer.
The Smart Wizard provides a complete and easy to use set of tools to:
•
Choose the network that you want to use.
•
Configure wireless settings for your wireless USB adapter.
•
Monitor wireless network connections.
•
Save your settings in profiles.
•
Remove or reinstall the wireless adapter software.
The following sections in this chapter explain how to use the Smart Wizard.
Note:
These instructions explain how to use the NETGEAR Smart Wizard to change the
Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter wireless settings. If you use Windows XP, and chose the
Windows XP configuration utility during installation, then you must disable it now.
Open the network connections from the System Tray icon, click the Properties button,
click the Wireless Networks tab and then clear the “Use Windows to configure my
wireless network settings” check box.