Hawking Technology Hi-Gain Wireless USB adapter reviewed



Card Management

If you have WinXP, you'll be able to manage the HWU without installing its client utility. But you might want to install it anyway and let it manage the card, since it has a number of nice features shown in Figures 4and 5.

Hawking HWU36D - Client Utility Status

Figure 4: Hawking Client Utility - Status
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Hawking HWU36D - Client Utility Encryption

Figure 5: Hawking Client Utility - Encryption
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Unfortunately, support for Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) isn't included in either the driver or utility, so you'll have to settle for 64 or 128 bit WEP encryption to keep your data secure.