Xircom 925-609-7550 User's Manual
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1. e With some devices such as printers and DSLR cameras Wireless USB provided a throughput that was almost identical to wired USB Printers 80 90 of wired DSLR 81 of wired e Hard Drives were the fastest USB 2 0 type of devices The measured throughput with Wireless USB was close to 7OMbs which was roughly 28 of the wired throughput Wireless USE Manager Host ID A BE CC DD EE DD Shows ial i A Connected a Wireless USB Dongle all Advanced Settings Wireless USB Management screen displaying link connectivity WWW CABLESUNLIMITED COM 925 609 7550 PAGE 6 USE CASES AND USER EXPERIENCE The following section outlines the testing performed with different types of USB devices illustrating the use case and describing the measured performance MULTI FUNCTION PRINTER Testing was performed first with a USB cable then with the adapter set connected to an HP All in One printer model C8180 For wireless the printer was placed in one side of a meeting room and files were sent to print from a laptop while sitting at the other side of the room In addition testing was performed for wirelessly scanning and reading data from the printer s built in card reader Two measurements commonly used by the print industry were used first page out measuring the time from sending the file ii from the printer till the first page completes printing and Pages per Minute PPM ik The table below sh2. Z UNLIMITED Wireless USB Adapter Set Reviewer Reference Guide US WWW CABLESUNLIMITED COM 925 609 7550 PAGE 1 CONTENTS lg ge RE EA 2 ak ee 8 eg aie cere oes serine peau E E NS 3 InstallationandSetup 4 Penor CO e Bn iy nr al le 5 UseCasesand serExperience 7 MultifunctionPrinter 7 EternalHardDiskDrive 8 Gn Ne da kal o ur li 9 Digital Still Camera DSC eee 10 External DVD CD Writer 10 YA AE PE tones MGR ASEM re MOR A 11 Card RG e 2 e ER ER YE ORA SR EE AR VEEE 11 Digital e ge sascncsassscuntoassansnaceaPsnaneueenaenesensinnatousaasenaniay 12 Multi DeviceConnectivity 13 TestedDevices eee 14 WWW CABLESUNLIMITED COM 925 609 7550 PAGE 2 NTRODUCTION The Wireless USB adapter set provides wireless access to existing USB devices This allows you to place USB devices anywhere in the room free up your table from cable clutter and enjoy the freedom of wireless mobility with access to devices This document provides a reference review of the adapter set providing information regarding installation and setup the usage scenarios with different USB devices and the expected performance a
3. Other Devices USB SATA Bridges Oxford Semiconductor USB To SATA USB SATA Bridges Oxford Semiconductor USB To 2xSATA 2xFirewire B 1xFirewire A SATA RAID incl Card Reader Reader Writer F5U249 Belkin Card Reader Card Reader SB 2 0 Card Reader MCR 6U U2 Buffalo Card Reader Card Reader I O Multi card reader Card Reader Multi Memory Card USB 2 0 Reader Writer Storage Drive DVDRW16XU2 lomega DVD RW DVD Multi WWW CABLESUNLIMITED COM 925 609 7550 PAGE 16
4. shot DSC G1 digital camera was placed in its cradle in one side of the room The Wireless USB device adapter was then connected to the cradle Using a laptop with an adapter photos were uploaded from the camera Transferring 400 Mb took 140 seconds over the wireless connection vs 65 seconds with the cradle connected with a USB cable EXTERNAL DVD CD WRITER With new laptops being sold without a built in CD DVD Wireless USB enables placing the external CD DVD player anywhere in the room with wireless access Testing was done with a Panasonic LF P968C portable DVD with read write operations performed wirelessly Reading 1GB of data from the player took 5 15 minutes with wireless compared to 4 minutes with a wired USB connection WWW CABLESUNLIMITED COM 925 609 7550 PAGE 10 IPOD Using the adapter set music files or podcasts can be synchronized wirelessly while the iPod is placed away from the computer For instance when the iPod is placed in a docking station music podcasts can be played from speakers while the iPod is charged At the same time content can be synchronized wirelessly with iTunes installed on a PC placed at the other side of the room To test iPod connectivity 100 MB of MP3 music files 23 songs were downloaded from the web to iTunes and were synched to the iPod CARD READER With a card reader connected to the device adapter content can be read or written from multiple memory
5. throughput to wired x A LI WWW CABLESUNLIMITED COM 925 609 7550 PAGE 12 MULTI DEVICE CONNECTIVITY The adapter set supports simultaneous connectivity to up to 3 devices for example a printer hard drive and camera This requires each of the devices to be connected to a device adapter as can be seen in photo below In testing performed with 3 external disk drives connected simultaneously each of the disks provided a throughput of 35 Mbps for a total of over 100 Mbps WWW CABLESUNLIMITED COM 925 609 7550 PAGE 13 TESTED DEVICES The following lists some of the devices that were tested with the Wireless USB adapter set Printers ML 2250 SamSung Printer Hewlett Packard PRT018 SW 825C WWW CABLESUNLIMITED COM 925 609 7550 PAGE 14 Hard Disk Drives Safe Mobile Hard Drive fingerprint access LACIE USB HDD Maxtor One Touch d2 Hard Drive Extreme with Triple Interface 300790U LACIE USB HDD l O DATA HDPG S T3160026A RK Seagate USB HDD Verbatim HDD 250G ST940801U2 RK Seagate USB HDD HDC UXW320 1 0 DATA USB HDD ST650211 USB 2 0 Pocket Hard Drive Seagate USB HDD Western Digital Passport 160GB S T3200823A RK Seagate USB HDD LACIE 80GB MyBook Premium ES Edition WD3200F032 Western MyBook Pro Edition WD2500E32 Digital USB HDD Western Digital USB HDD HDMK3006GAL EXS Toshiba USB HDD MP3 Player s Hubs dd WWW CABLESUNLIMITED COM 925 609 7550 PAGE 15 Digital Still Cameras lt a
6. Confirm File Add Your Maxtor OneTouch contains a file named TiiMaxSyncioT_ Ms W _MYDOC how do i download a podcast to my ipod or other portable audiovideo player hti which does not exist on your computer Would you like to add this file to your Sync S ZE 17 KB Modified Thursday August 14 2008 04 14 Pe Clicking Yes will copy the file ta your computer In this usage scenario the wireless connectivity enables a more user friendly backup process which is initiated automatically In addition backup is performed in small increments each time new data is added to the PC without the need to physically connect to the hard disk each time WWW CABLESUNLIMITED COM 925 609 7550 PAGE 8 USB HUB USB hub testing was performed by attaching the device adapter to the upstream port of a Belkin 4 port hub as can be seen in the photos below Then a multi function printer and digital camera were attached to the hub This provided wireless access to all devices from a laptop When existing and returning back to theroom all devices became available for access a Performance was not affected by the existence of multiple devices and depended on the specific type of device connected Since wireless connectivity was already established with the wireless hub different devices could be attached each time to the hub for wireless access WWW CABLESUNLIMITED COM 925 609 7550 PAGE 9 DIGITAL STILL CAMERA DSC A Sony Cyber
7. cards Reading 250 MB from an SD card placed in an Elcom MR DU2A7BK card reader took 111 seconds with a wireless connection compared to 42 5 seconds with the wired connection WWW CABLESUNLIMITED COM 925 609 7550 PAGE 11 DIGITAL SLR CAMERA With Wireless USB the camera can be placed on a shelf away from the desk or PCS laptop and be wirelessly accessed for downloading photos In addition Wireless USB can be used for remote shooting DSLR cameras like Canon or Nikon are supplied with software that allows shooting remotely from the PC see image on right The limitation of this scenario with standard USB is the short USB cable My Pictures connecting the PC to the camera By connecting the camera to the device adapter shooting and photo transfer can be done wirelessly with the PC placed up to 10 meters from the camera To test this with Wireless USB a Canon EOS KissX2 450D camera was placed on a tripod in one side of a meeting room connected to a device adapter A laptop rom SEE EE with the PC adapter was then used in the other side of the room to wirelessly Picture Style Standard WB SHIFT 0 0 take photos and instantly view the photo on the PC Viewing photos wirelessly is instant without any noticeable difference between wired and wireless Downloading larger data chunks 200 MB took 120 seconds with a wireless connection and 98 seconds with a wired connection translating to 81 when comparing wireless data
8. chnology which is a personal area network PAN technology designed to provide wireless coverage in the range of 10 meters 30 feet As such the adapter set provides full room coverage both with line of site and with no line of site note that it is not designed to operate across rooms This allows you to locate USB devices in the room without the limitation of the USB cable length To test performance the adapter set was used in a large meeting room measuring 10x4 meters 30x12 feet The laptop and PC adapter were placed in one side of the room and each time a different device was placed in the other side of the room To verify line of site and non line of site behavior devices were sometimes placed ona shelf or within a closet and people were sitting and passing within the wireless link Performance was not affected by increasing the range or by a lack of line of site between adapters ee eo ee USB device location 2 USB device USB device location 3 location 1 gt a 7 Link establishment was tested by exiting the room with the laptop to intentionally break the wireless link between the notebook and an external hard disk drive Then once returning to the room the wireless link was automatically re established enabling connectivity to the hard drive without requiring any involvement This simulates a common scenario where your notebook is connected to a peripheral device and you leave the ro
9. nd range gt saydepv annaa g o KK ED A F A gt S 3 5 A Wireless USB PC and device adapters WWW CABLESUNLIMITED COM 925 609 7550 PAGE 3 NSTALLATION AND SETUP The initial set up of the Wireless USB adapter set isa standard Windows installation process similar to driver installation of USB devices It does not reguire any technical skills or understanding of wireless technology and can be easily performed with the help of the Getting Started leaflet on the right The entire process setup takes 5 7 minutes 1 The package includes the two adapters a table adapter CD and power supply 2 Enter CD and follow instructions to install drivers amp software 3 Connect the PC adapter to PC 4 Perform association pairing between the PC adapter and the device adapter Pairing is done for security purposes and is performed by attaching both adapters simultaneously to the PC After a few seconds a message is displayed that pairing is complete 5 Remove the device adapter from the PC and place it in the table adapter 6 Attach a USB cable to connect a USB device e g printer hard disk drive to the table adapter 7 Connect the power supply to the table adapter 8 Wireless USB communication is enabled and the PC can communicate with the USB device WWW CABLESUNLIMITED COM 925 609 7550 PAGE 4 PERFORMANCE The Wireless USB adapter set is based on Ultra wideband te
10. om with the notebook returning after a while With wired USB you have to disconnect and connect devices while with Wireless USB the adapter set automatically re connects you to the device once back in range with no further action WWW CABLESUNLIMITED COM 925 609 7550 PAGE 5 Link robustness was tested using a thumb drive flash as it proved as a stable device Testing was performed ausing a variety of methods as described below e Blockinginsidethelink Device adapter was blocked for 30 seconds by placing both hands over the adapter to break the link After removing hands the connection recovered automatically Same was performed with the PC adapter e The PC adapter was taken out of the PC and then plugged back The link was re established automatically e The device adapter was taken out of its table stand and then returned after several seconds The link was re established automatically e The device power cable was removed from the table stand and then returned after several seconds The link was re established automatically e The PC was switched each time to a different power management state shut down reset hibernate and standby After returning back to operating mode the wireless link was established automatically in each of these scenarios Data rate was measured with a variety of USB devices e With the majority of devices such as camcorders digital cameras Wireless USB achieved at least 45 of wired connection
11. ows that there was hardly any difference in user experience between wired and Wireless USB connectivity Also note that wireless performance remains the same when increasing the distance from 3 meters to 8 10 meters MULTI FUNCTION PRINTER HP ALL IN ONE C8180 TEST RESULTS out Sec Time Sec PPM KR a a a SS a ee eee WWW CABLESUNLIMITED COM 925 609 7550 PAGE 7 The multi function printer was also tested with wireless scanning and reading data from the built in card reader EXTERNAL HARD DISK DRIVE A Maxtor OneTouch Mini IIl hard drive was connected to the Wireless USB device adapter and the following scenarios were tested Wired vs Wireless throughput comparison Moving 1GB of data a folder containing video files from the PC to the hard drive took 180 seconds with the adapter set over the Wireless USB link vs 48 seconds with wired USB Link disconnect connect Exiting the room with the laptop forced the wireless link to disconnect Then after il E entering the room the link was automatically re established and the disk was again available without any user involvement Automatic backup The EasyManage software provided with the Maxtor disk together with the OneTouch backup enabled entering the room with the laptop automatically being connected to the hard disk drive and receiving a popup message on the need to backup a new file that was added to the PC but was not moved yet to the hard disk Sync
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