Ports & interfaces
| Host interface |
USB |
| Internal |
N |
Antenna
| Antenna |
Y |
| Gain |
3 dBi |
| Detachable antenna(s) |
Y |
| Antenna connector type |
RP-SMA |
Networking
| Modulation |
CCK, DQPSK, OFDM, DBPSK |
| Frequency band |
2.412 - 2.4835 GHz |
Wireless LAN features
| Top Wi-Fi standard |
IEEE 802.11n |
| Wi-Fi standards |
IEEE 802.11n, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.11b |
| Wi-Fi |
Y |
Power
| Input voltage |
5 V |
| USB powered |
Y |
Performance
| Mac operating systems supported |
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard |
Additionally
| Wireless technologies |
Wired |
| Transfer rate (Mbps) |
150 Mbit/s |
802.11n Wireless USB Adapter
<b>High Speed 802.11n Wireless Experience</b>
PLANET WNL-U554A Wireless USB Adapter offers a reliable and cost effective wireless extending solution. It adopts IEEE 802.11n technology and is backward compatible with IEEE 802.11b and 802.11g. The WNL-U554A supports USB 2.0 interface that integrates with one transmit channel and one concurrent receive channel to enable the speed to go up to 150Mbps for both data upload and download.
<b>Wireless Coverage Plus !</b>
The WNL-554A is equipped with external 3dBi hi-gain antenna which provides strong signal and excellent performance even in the long range or bad environment. With detachable RP-SMA connector design in the WNL-U554A, it allows users to manually exchange higher gain antenna for further wireless coverage range.
<b>Advanced Wireless Security</b>
The WNL-U554A provides advanced security features including 64/128-bit WEP, WPA / WPA2 and WPA-PSK / WPA2-PSK with TKIP/AES encryption. Furthermore, in order to simplify the security configurations, WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) function is included to offer a convenient and fast connection method for users as well.
<b>Multiple OS Compliances</b>
The WNL-U554A supports the most popular operating systems including Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Win7, Linux, and MAC OS X. With high speed capability, users can have higher wireless transmission speed anywhere, anytime.
<b>Software Access Point Function for Wireless Connection Sharing</b>
More than just being an adapter for PC and laptop connecting to high speed wireless network, the WNL-U554A can also become a wireless access point. With the USB Wireless LAN Utility included in the package, users can switch the WNL-U554A operation mode between Station mode and Access Point mode. When the WNL-U554A is in the Access Point mode, it turns to a Wi-Fi Hotspot. The Wi-Fi supported devices such as iPhone / Android / Symbian / Windows Phone / iPod Touch / iPad / NDS / PSP can connect to it and share the wireless access easily. Therefore, travelers would then be worry-free to connect to Internet wirelessly via the WNL-U554A when there is only wired Internet available anywhere.
<b>Easy Installation Wizard</b>
The WNL-U554A provides an easy installation wizard in 35 languages. It guides users step by step to easily complete the product installation through the whole process.
