Control Utility:
Dell™ TrueMobile™ 1184 Wireless Broadband Router
User's Guide
The Control Utility is a Windows-based software that monitors the status
of the connection from your computer to the Wireless Broadband Router and to Internet. It
can help you troubleshoot connection problems if Internet connectivity is
broken. For example, if your cable
modem is down, you will immediately be able to eliminate the your PC from the
troubleshooting equation.
You can install the control utility on your PC when you step through the setup process using the Setup Wizard.
Insert the TrueMobile 1184 Wireless Broadband Router Setup Wizard and User Guide CD
into the CD drive. Your CD should automatically launch the Setup
Wizard program. If it does not, complete the following steps to start the
Wizard.
Go to
Start > Run.
Type x:\setup.exe (where "x" is the driver letter of your
CD-ROM drive.)
From the main menu, click Installation, and then click either Setup
First Computer or Setup Additional Computers.
Follow the instruction on the screen until you have successfully completed
the installation process.
The control utility program is by default set up to run automatically upon each
system startup. If the utility does not start automatically, click Start
> Programs > Dell TrueMobile 1184 Wireless Broadband Router >
Dell Control Utility to invoke the utility program.
Once running, a router icon is created in the system tray. If you have a good
connection to the Internet, the system tray icon looks like this
, or
looks like this icon
if the
connection is not active.
You can use the control utility in different ways:
Mouse-over the system tray router icon for quick connection status
information.
Right-click the router icon and select Exit from the menu to
end the utility program.
Double-click the router icon to open the utility window.
View the connection status among your computer, the Wireless Broadband
Router, and your ISP.
If you do not see any of the arrows in the figure below, there is a
problem in the connection. If the first arrow (from the PC to the router) is
not visible, then you cannot even connect to the router. If the first arrow
is visible, but the 2nd one (from Router to ISP) is not visible, then the
router is unable to connect to the internet. Please click on the Troubleshooting
Tips as shown in the screen below to get more information on both
scenarios.
View the current settings of the Wireless Broadband Router. Information
such as Device Name, SSID, Channel, WEP encryption are shown.
Click Troubleshooting Tips for information on how to fix the
connection errors.
Click the Options button to display the Setting management
window.
The Setting window provides a quick and easy way to change the
Password, SSID, wireless Channel settings of the Wireless Broadband
Router. Upon completion of the modification, click Save / Restart and
enter the current password to accept the change and reboot the device.
Click the Save/Restart button to accept the update and reboot the
device.
Click the Launch WEB Configuration button to bring up the web page of
the Wireless Broadband Router for Basic and Advanced Settings configuration.
, or 
if the
connection is not active.
