Hand Held Products 9500 - Manual (Page 103)

Dolphin® 9500 Series User’s Guide 7 - 1
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Wireless LAN Communications with 802.11b
Overview
Dolphin 9500 Series terminals are available with an on-board 2.4 GHz 802.11b (Wireless Local Area Network) WLAN radio that
uses Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) technology to spread the signal continuously over a wide frequency band at a
data rate of up to 11 Mbps. In addition, the open software architecture makes the Dolphin 9500 Series a complete solution for a
variety of wireless mobile data collection applications.
The Dolphin 9500 Series is interoperable with other 802.11b Wi-Fi-compliant products including Access Points (APs), printers,
PCs (via PC card adapters) and other wireless portable terminals.
Enabling the 802.11b Radio
The radio driver for 802.11b is installed when the Dolphin terminal is first initialized. The 802.11b radio must be enabled before
you can configure it. For more information, see
Enabling Radios and Radio Combinations on page 4-15.
Configuration Utilities
There are two configuration utilities for the 802.11b radio:
802.11b Settings
Use this configuration utility when you are not using Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) or standard WEP (64/128 bit)
with no authentication. For more details, see
802.11b Settings on page 7-2.
802.11b Wireless Security Supplement
Use this configuration utility when you are using WEP (beyond the standard), Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), and
authentication. For details, see
802.11b Wireless Security Supplement on page 7-12.