Airlink101 AR580W3G User Manual

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Wireless N 150 3G/3.5G Travel Router

Model # AR580W3G

User’s Manual

Ver. 1A

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Copyright ©2009/2010 by this company. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written permission of this company

This company makes no representations or warranties, either expressed or implied, with respect to the contents hereof and specifically disclaims any warranties, merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. Any software described in this manual is sold or licensed "as is". Should the programs prove defective following their purchase, the buyer (and not this company, its distributor, or its dealer) assumes the entire cost of all necessary servicing, repair, and any incidental or consequential damages resulting from any defect in the software. Further, this company reserves the right to revise this publication and to make changes from time to time in the contents thereof without obligation to notify any person of such revision or changes.

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Federal Communication Commission

Interference Statement

FCC Part 15

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:

1. Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

2. Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.

3. Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected.

4. Consult the dealer or an experienced radio technician for help.

FCC Caution

This equipment must be installed and operated in accordance with provided instructions and a minimum 20 cm spacing must be provided between computer mounted antenna and person’s body (excluding extremities of hands, wrist and feet) during wireless modes of operation.

This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device

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must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

Any changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the authority to operate equipment.

Federal Communication Commission (FCC) Radiation Exposure Statement

This equipment complies with FCC radiation exposure set forth for an uncontrolled environment. In order to avoid the possibility of exceeding the FCC radio frequency exposure limits, human proximity to the antenna shall not be less than 20cm (8 inches) during normal operation.

The antenna(s) used for this transmitter must not be co-located or operating in conjunction with any other antenna or transmitter.

The equipment version marketed in US is restricted to usage of the channels 1-11 only.

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R&TTE Compliance Statement

This equipment complies with all the requirements of DIRECTIVE 1999/5/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL of March 9, 1999 on radio equipment and telecommunication terminal Equipment and the mutual recognition of their conformity (R&TTE).

The R&TTE Directive repeals and replaces in the directive 98/13/EEC (Telecommunications Terminal Equipment and Satellite Earth Station Equipment) As of April 8, 2000.

Safety

This equipment is designed with the utmost care for the safety of those who install and use it. However, special attention must be paid to the dangers of electric shock and static electricity when working with electrical equipment. All guidelines of this and of the computer manufacture must therefore be allowed at all times to ensure the safe use of the equipment.

EU Countries Intended for Use

The ETSI version of this device is intended for home and office use in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

The ETSI version of this device is also authorized for use in EFTA member states: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland.

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Important Health Information and Safety

Precautions

When using this product, the safety precautions below must be taken to avoid possible legal liabilities and damages. Retain and follow all product safety and operating instructions. Observe all warnings in the operating instructions on the product.

To reduce the risk of bodily injury, electric shock, fire, and damage to the equipment, observe the following precautions.

ELECTRICAL SAFETY

This product is intended for use when supplied with power from the designated battery or power supply unit. Other usage may be dangerous and will invalidate any approval given to this product.

SAFETY PRECAUTIONS FOR POWER SUPPLY UNIT

• Use the correct external power source A product should be operated only from the type of power source indicated on the electrical ratings label. If you are not sure of the type of power source required, consult your authorized service provider or local power company. For a product that operates from battery power or other sources, refer to the operating instructions that are included with the product.

• Handle battery packs carefully This product contains a Li-ion battery. There is a risk of fire and burns if the battery pack is handled improperly. Do not attempt to open or service the battery pack. Do not disassemble, crush, puncture, short external contacts or circuits, dispose of in fire or water, or expose a battery pack to temperatures higher than 60˚C (140˚F).

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WARNING: Danger of explosion if battery is incorrectly replaced. To reduce risk of fire or burns, do not disassemble, crush, puncture,

short external contacts, expose to temperature above 60° C (140° F), or dispose of in fire or water. Replace only with specified batteries. Recycle or dispose of used batteries according to the local regulations or reference guide supplied with your product.

Note: This product should be operated only with the following designated Battery Pack(s). Model : 445NP120

Take extra precautions

• Keep the battery or travel router dry and away from water or any liquid as it may cause a short circuit.

• Keep metal objects away so they don’t come in contact with the battery or its connectors as it may lead to short circuit during operation.

• Do not use a battery that appears damaged, deformed, or discolored, or the one that has any rust on its casing, overheats, or emits a foul odor.

• Always keep the battery out of the reach of babies and small children, to avoid swallowing of the battery. Consult the doctor immediately if the battery is swallowed.

• If the battery leaks: Do not allow the leaking fluid to come in contact with skin or clothing. If already in contact, flush the affected area immediately with clean water and seek medical advice.

Do not allow the leaking fluid to come in contact with eyes. If already in contact, DO NOT rub; rinse with clean water immediately and seek medical advice.

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Take extra precautions to keep a leaking battery away from fire as there is a danger of ignition or explosion.

SAFETY PRECAUTIONS FOR DIRECT SUNLIGHT

Keep this product away from excessive moisture and extreme temperatures. Do not leave the product or its battery inside a vehicle or in places where the temperature may exceed 60°C (140°F), such as on a car dashboard, window sill, or behind a glass that is exposed to direct sunlight or strong ultraviolet light for extended periods of time. This may damage the product, overheat the battery, or pose a risk to the vehicle.

SAFETY IN AIRCRAFT

Due to the possible interference caused by this product to an aircraft’s navigation system and its communications network, using this travel router on board an airplane is against the law in most countries. Please don’t use this travel router when you are on board an aircraft.

ENVIRONMENT RESTRICTIONS

Do not use this product in gas stations, fuel depots, chemical plants or where blasting operations are in progress, or in potentially explosive atmospheres such as fuelling areas, fuel storehouses, below deck on boats, chemical plants, fuel or chemical transfer or storage facilities, and areas where the air contains chemicals or particles, such as grain, dust, or metal powders. Please be aware that sparks in such areas could cause an explosion or fire resulting in bodily injury or even death.

EXPLOSIVE ATMOSPHERES

When in any area with a potentially explosive atmosphere or where flammable materials exist, the product should be turned off and the user should obey all signs and instructions. Sparks in such areas could cause an explosion or fire resulting in bodily injury or even death. Users are advised not to use the equipment at refueling points such as service or

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gas stations, and are reminded of the need to observe restrictions on the use of radio equipment in fuel depots, chemical plants, or where blasting operations are in progress. Areas with a potentially explosive atmosphere are often, but not always, clearly marked. These include fueling areas, below deck on boats, fuel or chemical transfer or storage facilities, and areas where the air contains chemicals or particles, such as grain, dust, or metal powders.

INTERFERENCE WITH MEDICAL EQUIPMENT FUNCTIONS

This product may cause medical equipment to malfunction. The use of this device is forbidden in most hospitals and medical clinics.

If you use any other personal medical device, consult the manufacturer of your device to determine if they are adequately shielded from external RF energy. Your physician may be able to assist you in obtaining this information.

Turn your travel router OFF in health care facilities when any regulations posted in these areas instruct you to do so. Hospitals or health care facilities may be using equipment that could be sensitive to external RF energy.

Electrical Safety

• Accessories

- Use only approved accessories.

- Do not connect with incompatible products or accessories.

- Take care not to touch or allow metal objects, such as coins or key rings, to contact or short-circuit the battery terminals.

• Faulty and Damaged Products

- Do not attempt to disassemble the phone or its accessory.

- Only qualified personnel must service or repair the phone or its accessory.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 PRODUCT INFORMATION..................................................................................................... 1

1-1 INTRODUCTION AND SAFETY INFORMATION ............................................................................... 1

1-2 SAFETY INFORMATION..................................................................................................................... 2

1-3 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS................................................................................................................ 3

1-4 PACKAGE CONTENTS....................................................................................................................... 3

1-5 FAMILIAR WITH YOUR NEW PORTABLE 3G ROUTER ................................................................... 4

CHAPTER 2 SYSTEM AND NETWORK SETUP ........................................................................................ 7

2-1 GETTING STARTED ........................................................................................................................... 7

2-2 BUILD NETWORK CONNECTION ..................................................................................................... 9

2-3 CONNECTING TO PORTABLE 3G ROUTER BY WEB BROWSER................................................ 12

2-4 USING ‘QUICK SETUP’ .................................................................................................................... 14

2-5 BASIC SETUP ................................................................................................................................... 30

2-6 SETUP INTERNET CONNECTION (WAN SETUP).......................................................................... 34

2-6 SETUP INTERNET CONNECTION (WAN SETUP).......................................................................... 35

2-7 WIRED LAN CONFIGURATIONS ..................................................................................................... 52

2-8 WIRELESS LAN CONFIGURATIONS............................................................................................... 58

CHAPTER 3 ADVANCED FUNCTIONS..................................................................................................... 76

3-1 QUALITY OF SERVICE (QOS) ......................................................................................................... 76

3-2 NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION (NAT).................................................................................. 81

3-3 FIREWALL ......................................................................................................................................... 92

3-4 FAIL OVER ...................................................................................................................................... 106

3-5 SYSTEM STATUS ........................................................................................................................... 108

3-6 CONFIGURATION BACKUP AND RESTORE ................................................................................ 113

3-7 FIRMWARE UPGRADE .................................................................................................................. 114

3-8 SYSTEM RESET ............................................................................................................................. 116

CHAPTER 4 APPENDIX........................................................................................................................... 117

4-1 HARDWARE SPECIFICATION ....................................................................................................... 117

4-2 TROUBLESHOOTING..................................................................................................................... 118

4-3 GLOSSARY ..................................................................................................................................... 121

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Chapter 1 Product Information

1-1 Introduction and safety information

Thank you for purchasing Airlink101® Wireless N 150 3G/3.5G Travel Router with Li-ion Battery, AR580W3G. The thin and compact travel router, integrated with Li-ion battery inside, assists you to set up a wireless network using 3G USB modem or Ethernet connection anywhere. When the 3G/3.5G (UMTS/HSDPA/EVDO) USB modem card is connected, all computers and network devices can easily to share the 3G mobile Internet connection at high speed. AR580W3G also supports DSL / Cable modem connection, which is another option of connecting to the Internet when 3G service is not available; it is the most convenient and cost-efficiency choice for you.

With Wireless N technology, all computers and wireless-enabled network devices (including PDA, cellular phone, game console, and more!) can transfer file up to

150Mbps (transfer data rate). Stable wireless connection and high bandwidth enable you to enjoy the network applications without any interruption.

Other features of this router including:

• High Internet Access throughput of up to 150Mbps*

• Supports up to 253 users

• Share Internet connection from either your 3G USB modem or Cable/DSL

• LAN/WAN function switchable on the Ethernet Port (10/100M)

• Supports IEEE 802.11 b/g/n standards

• Supports UMTS/HSDPA/EVDO cellular network devices

• Supports DHCP (Server/Client) for easy IP-address setup

• Supports WPA2,WPA-PSK, and WEP wireless security

• Advanced network and security features, such as Special Applications, QoS,

Virtual Servers, Access Control, Firewall.

• Allow you to monitor the router’s status like: DHCP Client Log, System Log, Security Log and Device/Connection Status, Modem Info.

• User-friendly Web-based GUI and EZ Setup Wizard on the Setup CD for quick and simple configuration and management purposes

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•

Remote management function allows configuration and upgrades from a remote computer (over the Internet)

•

Auto MDI / MDI-X function for all wired Ethernet ports.

1-2 Safety Information

In order to keep the safety of users and your properties, please follow the following safety instructions:

1. This router is designed for indoor use only; DO NOT place this router outdoor.

2. DO NOT put this router at or near hot or humid places, like kitchen or bathroom. Also, do not left this router in the car in summer.

3. DO NOT pull any connected cable with force; disconnect it from the router first.

4. If you want to place this router at high places or hang on the wall, please make sure the router is firmly secured. Falling from high places would damage the router and its accessories, and warranty will be void.

5. Accessories of this router, like antenna and power supply, are danger to small children under 3 years old. They may put the small parts in their nose or month and it could cause serious damage to them. KEEP THIS ROUTER OUT THE REACH OF CHILDREN!

6. The router will become hot when being used for long time (This is normal and is not a malfunction). DO NOT put this router on paper, cloth, or other flammable materials.

7. There’s no user-serviceable part inside the router. If you found that the router is not working properly, please contact your dealer of purchase and ask for help. DO NOT disassemble the router, warranty will be void.

8. If the router falls into water when it’s powered, DO NOT use your hand to pick it up. Switch the electrical power off before you do anything, or contact an experienced technician for help.

9. If you smell something strange, or even see some smoke coming out from the router or power supply, remove the power supply or switch the electrical power off immediately, and call dealer of purchase for help.

10. Always switch the device off before removing the battery.

11. Use only battery and power adapter supplied with the product. The use of any other types may be dangerous.

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1-3 System Requirements

 Internet connection, provided by DSL or cable modem or 3G/3.5 USB modem.  Computer or network devices with wired or wireless network interface card.  Web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or above, Netscape Navigator 4.7

or above, Opera web browser, or Safari web browser).

 An available AC power socket (100 – 240V, 50/60Hz)

1-4 Package Contents

Before you starting to use this router, please check if there’s anything missing in the package, and contact your dealer of purchase to claim for missing items:

1. 3G/3.5G Travel Router

2. Quick Installation Guide

3. Setup CD

4. A/C Power Adapter

5. Li-ion Battery

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1-5 Familiar with your new Portable 3G Router

LED Definitions

LED Name Light Status Description

Green On Router is switched on and correctly powered or

the battery is charged completely.

PWR/CHG

WLAN

WPS

Orange On The battery is charging.

Orange

Flashing

Off Router is powered off.

Off Wireless network is switched off.

Flashing Wireless LAN activity (transferring or receiving

On Wireless WPS function is enabled.

Off Wireless WPS function is not enabled or the

Battery power is not enough, only 20 minutes

remains.

data).

connection is successfully.

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On ETHERNET port is connected.

ETHERNET

INTERNET

Off ETHERNET port is not connected.

Flashing ETHERNET activity (transferring or receiving

data).

On Router is connected to the Internet.

Off Router is not connected to the Internet.

Flashing Router is connecting to the Internet.

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Right and Left Side Panel

RJ-45

Item Name Description

LAN/WAN Switch Switch the Ethernet port to LAN or WAN. Switch to WAN function if you

want to access to the Internet through your xDSL or Cable modem

network service. WAN access can also be a back up for 3G network.

Please refer to Section 3-4 for more details.

WPS Start WPS function or reset the router to factory default settings (clear all

settings). Press this button and hold for over 10 seconds to restore all

settings to factory defaults, or press this button for less than 5 seconds to

start WPS function.

ON/OFF Switch the button to activate or deactivate the router.

DC in Connect the supplied power adapter to this mini USB port to charge the

battery.

RJ-45 Port Local/ Wide Area Network (LAN/WAN) port.

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Chapter 2 System and Network Setup

2-1 Getting Started

Before you using the router, please follow the following instructions to charge the router.

1. Remove the battery cover in the rear side of the router and insert the supplied battery into the slot and then put back the cover.

2. Connect the power adapter to the wall socket, and then connect it to the mini USB port of the router to charge the battery.

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Note: It takes about four hours to charge the battery.

3. When the battery is charged, the ‘Power’ LED is lit in orange color. When the ‘Power’ LED is not lit, the battery is charged completely.

Note: The ‘Power’ LED is lit in green color when the battery is charged completely if router is activated before charged.

4. Switch the button to ‘ON’ to activate the router.

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Warning:

1. Always switch the device off before removing the battery.

2. Use only battery and power adapter supplied with the product. The use of any other types may be dangerous.

Note: There are three ways to activate the router.

1. To use battery.

2. To use power adapter.

3. To use power adapter, at the meanwhile, put the charged battery into the router

and the battery will be charged.

2-2 Configure your 3G Router with EZ Setup Wizard

Please follow the following instruction to build the network connection between your new portable 3G router and your computers, network devices:

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1. Connect your 3G/3.5G USB modem to the USB port located on the top side of the router.

2. Connect your computer to the Ethernet port on the right side of the router for configuring the router.

Note: It is recommended to configure the router through the Ethernet port for the first time setup.

Please go to Section 3-4 Fail Over to assign the WAN connection priority if you have subscribed to both 3G and xDSL/Cable Modem services.

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3. Make sure you have switch on the router by switching the ‘ON/OFF’ button to ‘ON’.

4. Please check all LEDs on the front side. ‘PWR/CHR’ LED should be steadily on in green color, and ‘ETHERNET’ LED should be on if the computer / network device connected to the Ethernet port of the router is powered on and correctly connected.

5. If PWD LED is not on, or any LED you expected is not on, please recheck the cabling, or jump to ‘4-2 Troubleshooting’ for possible reasons and solution.

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2-3 Connecting to Portable 3G Router by web browser

Start your web browser, and input the IP address of router in address bar. The following message should be shown:

Please input user name and password in the field respectively, default user name is

‘admin’, and default password is ‘admin’, then press ‘OK’ button, and you can see the web management interface of this router:

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NOTE: If you can’t see the web management interface, and you’re being

prompted to input user name and password again, it means you didn’t input

username and password correctly. Please retype user name and password

again. If you’re certain about the user name and password you type are

correct, please go to ‘4-2 Troubleshooting’ to perform a factory reset, to set

the password back to default value.

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HERE!

2-4 Setup Wizard

This router provides a quick setup procedure, which will help you to complete all required settings you need to access the Internet in very short time. Please follow the following instructions to complete the Setup Wizard:

Please click on Setup Wizard.

And the following message will be displayed:

1. Set Time Zone

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

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Set Time Please press button, a drop-down list Zone (1): will be shown, and you can choose a time zone of the location you

live.

Time Server Input the IP address / host name of time server

Address (2): here

Daylight If the country you live uses daylight saving,

Savings(3): please check ‘Enable Function’ box, and choose the duration of

daylight saving.

After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Next’ (4) button.

NOTE: There are several time servers available on internet:

132.163.4.101 (time-a.timefreq.bldrdoc.gov)

If you found that the time of router is incorrect, try another time server.

129.6.15.28 (time-a.nist.gov)

131.107.1.10 (time-nw.nist.gov)

2. Broadband Type

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Please choose the broadband (Internet connection) type you’re using in this page. There are seven types of Internet connection, they are:

3G/3.5G - Please go to section 2-4-1 Cable Modem - Please go to section 2-4-2 Fixed-IP xDSL - Please go to section 2-4-3 PPPoE xDSL - Please go to section 2-4-4 PPTP xDSL - Please go to section 2-4-5 L2TP xDSL - Please go to section 2-4-6 Telstra Big Pond - Please go to section 2-4-7

If you’re not sure, please contact your Internet service provider. A wrong Internet connection type will cause connection problem, and you will not be able to connect to internet.

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If you want to go back to previous step, please press ‘Back’ button on the bottom of this page.

NOTE: Some service providers use ‘DHCP’ (Dynamic Host

Configuration Protocol) to assign IP address to you. In this case, you

can choose ‘Cable Modem’ as Internet connection type, even you’re

using another connection type, like xDSL. Also, some cable modem

uses PPPoE, so you can choose ‘PPPoE xDSL’ for such cable modem

connection, even you’re using a cable modem.

3. Basic Setting

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Wireless Module (1): Display the Wireless Module: Enable (default).

Band (2): Please select a Band type from the dropdown list of ‘Band’, It

allows you to set the AP fix at 802.11b or 802.11g or 802.11n

mode. You also can select B+G or B+G+N mode to allow the AP

select 802.11b, 802.11g and 802.11n connection automatically.

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SSID (3): This is the name of wireless router. You can type any

alphanumerical characters here, maximum 32 characters. SSID is

used to identify your own wireless router from others when there

are other wireless routers in the same area. Default SSID is

‘default’, it’s recommended to change default SSID name to the

one which is meaningful to you, like my home, office_room1, etc.

Channel Number (4): Please select a channel from the dropdown list of ‘Channel

Number’, available channel numbers are 1 to 13 for European

countries, 1 to 11 for USA. You can choose any channel number

you want to use, and almost all wireless clients can locate the

channel you’re using automatically without any problem. However,

it’s still useful to remember the channel number you use, some

wireless client supports manual channel number select, and this

would help in certain scenario when there is some radio

communication problem.

Associated Clients (5): Click ‘Show Active Clients’ button, then an “Active Wireless Client

Table” will pop up. You can see the status of all active wireless

stations that are connecting to the access point.

After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Next’ (6) button; if you want to go back to previous menu, click ‘Back’.

4. Security Settings

Please choose the Encryption type you’re using from the dropdown list of “Encryption”.

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There are three types of Encryption, they are:

WEP - Please go to section 2-7-3-2 WPA pre-shared key - Please go to section 2-7-3-3 WPA RADIUS - Please go to section 2-7-3-4

If you want to go back to previous step, please press ‘BACK’ button on the bottom of this page.

2-4-1 Setup procedure for ‘3G/3.5G’:

2 3

5 6 7

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

PIN Code (1): Please input Pin Code for your UMTS or HSDPA or EVDO

connection, this is optional, and only required if your service

provider asks you to do so.

APN (2): Please input the APN code assigned by your Internet service

provider here.

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User Name (3): Please input user name assigned by your Internet service

provider here.

Password (4): Please input password assigned by your Internet service provider

here.

Verify Password (5): Please input password again for confirmation.

Service (6): Please select your Card type from the drop-down menu.

AT Dial Script (7): Please input Dialed Number for your UMTS or HSDPA connection,

the default is *99#. This field should not be altered except when

required by your service provider.

After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Next’ (8) button; if you want to go back to previous menu, click ‘Back’.

2-4-2 Setup procedure for ‘Cable Modem’:

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Host Name (1): Please input the host name of your computer, this is

optional, and only required if your service provider

asks you to do so.

MAC Address (2): Please input MAC address of your computer here, if your service

provider only permits computer with certain MAC address to

access internet. If you’re using the computer which used to

connect to Internet via cable modem, you can simply press ‘Clone

Mac address’ button to fill the MAC address field with the MAC address of your computer.

After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Next’ (3) button; if you want to go back to previous menu, click ‘Back’.

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2-4-3 Setup procedure for ‘Fixed-IP xDSL’:

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

1 2 3

IP address (1): Please input IP address assigned by your service provider

Subnet Mask (2): Please input subnet mask assigned by your service provider

DNS Address (3): Please input the IP address of DNS server provided by your

service provider.

Default Gateway (4) Please input the IP address of DNS server provided by your

service provider.

You must use the addresses provided by your Internet service

provider, wrong setting value will cause connection problem.

When you finish with all settings, press ‘Next’ (5); if you want to go back to previous menu, click ‘Back’.

NOTE: You can choose this Internet connection method if your service

provider assigns a fixed IP address (also know as static address) to you, and

not using DHCP or PPPoE protocol. Please contact your service provider for

further information.

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2-4-4 Setup procedure for ‘PPPoE xDSL’:

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

1 2 3 4 5 6

User Name (1): Please input user name assigned by your Internet service

provider here.

Password (2): Please input the password assigned by your Internet service

provider here.

Service Name (3): Please give a name to this Internet service, this is optional

MTU (4): Please input the MTU value of your network connection here. If

you don’t know, you can use default value.

Connection Please select the connection type of Internet

Type (5): connection you wish to use (detailed explanation listed below).

Idle Time Out (6): Please input idle time out, (detailed explanation listed below).

When you finish with all settings, please click ‘ONext’ (7); if you want to go back to

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previous menu, click ‘Back’.

MTU - Please use default value if you don’t know what it is, or ask your

service provider for a proper value.

Connection Type - There are 3 options: ‘Continuous’ - keep internet

connection alive, do not disconnect, connect on Demand - only connects to

Internet when there’s a connect attempt, and ‘Manual’ - only connects to

Internet when ‘Connect’ button on this page is pressed, and disconnects

when ‘Disconnect button is pressed.

Idle Time Out: Specify the time to shutdown internet connect after no

internet activity is detected by minute. This option is only available when

connection type is ‘Connect on Demand’.

2-4-5 Setup procedure for ‘PPTP xDSL’:

PPTP xDSL requires two kinds of setting: WAN interface setting (setup IP address) and PPTP setting (PPTP user name and password). Here we start from WAN interface setting:

Select the type of how you obtain IP address from your service provider here. You can choose ‘Obtain an IP address automatically’ (equal to DHCP, please refer to ‘Cable Modem’ section above), or ‘Use the following IP address’ (i.e. static IP address).

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WAN interface settings must be correctly set, or the Internet connection will fail even

those settings of PPTP settings are correct. Please contact your Internet service provider if you don’t know what you should fill in these fields.

Now please go to PPTP settings section:

3 4 5

6 7

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

User Name (1): Please input user name assigned by your Internet service

provider here.

Password (2): Please input the password assigned by your Internet service

provider here.

PPTP Please input the IP address of PPTP gateway

Gateway (3): assigned by your Internet service provider here.

Connection Please input the connection ID here, this is

ID (4): optional and you can leave it blank.

MTU (5): Please input the MTU value of your network connection here. If

you don’t know, you can use default value.

BEZEQ-ISRAEL (6): Setting item ‘BEZEQ-ISRAEL’ is only required to

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Check if you’re using the service provided by BEZEQ network in Israel.

Connection Type (7): Please select the connection type of Internet connection you wish

to use, please refer to last section for detailed descriptions.

Idle Time Out (8): Please input the idle time out of Internet connection you wish to

use, and refer to last section for detailed descriptions.

When you finish with all settings, please click ‘Next (9); if you want to go back to previous menu, click ‘Back’.

2-4-6 Setup procedure for ‘L2TP xDSL’:

L2TP is another popular connection method for xDSL and other Internet connection types, and all required setting items are the same with PPTP connection.

Like PPTP, there are two kinds of required setting, we’ll start from ‘WAN Interface Settings’:

Please select the type of how you obtain IP address from your service provider here. You can choose ‘Obtain an IP address automatically’ (equal to DHCP, please refer to ‘Cable Modem’ section above), or ‘Use the following IP address’ (equal to static IP address, please refer to ‘PPPoE xDSL’ section above). WAN interface settings must be correctly set, or the Internet connection will fail even

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those settings of PPTP settings are correct. Please contact your Internet service provider

if you don’t know what you should fill in these fields.

Now please go to L2TP settings section:

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

User Name (1): Please input user name assigned by your Internet service

provider here.

Password (2): Please input the password assigned by your Internet service

provider here.

L2TP Gateway (3): Please input the IP address of PPTP gateway assigned by your

Internet service provider here.

MTU (4): Please input the MTU value of your network connection here. If

you don’t know, you can use default value.

Connection Please select the connection type of Internet

type (5): connection you wish to use, please refer to last section for

detailed descriptions.

Idle Time Out (6): Please input the idle time out of Internet connection you wish to

use, and refer to last section for detailed descriptions.

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When you finish with all settings, please click ‘Next (7); if you want to go back to previous

menu, click ‘Back’.

2-4-7 Setup procedure for ‘Telstra Big Pond’:

This setting only works when you’re using Telstra big pond’s network service in Australia. You need to input:

User Name (1): Please input the user name assigned by Telstra.

Password (2): Please input the password assigned by Telstra.

Assign login Check this box to choose login server by yourself.

server manually (3):

Server Please input the IP address of login server here.

IP Address (4):

When you finish with all settings, click ‘Next (5); if you want to go back to previous menu, click ‘Back’.

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When all settings are finished, you’ll see the following message displayed on your web browser:

Please click ‘Apply’ button to prepare to restart the router, and you’ll see this message:

Please wait for about 30 seconds, then click ‘OK!’ button. You’ll be back to router management interface again, and the router is ready with new settings.

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2-5 Basic Setup

In this chapter, you’ll know how to change the time zone, password, and remote management settings. Please start your web browser and log onto router web management interface, then click ‘General Setup’ button on the left, or click ‘General Setup’ link at the upper-right corner of web management interface.

2-5-1 Time zone and time auto-synchronization

Please follow the following instructions to set time zone and time auto-synchronization parameters:

Please click ‘System’ menu on the left of web management interface, then click ‘Time Zone’, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Time Zone (1): Please select time zone at ‘Time zone’ drop-down list.

Time Server Please input the IP address or host name of time

Address (2): server here.

Daylight Please check ‘Enable’ Function box, and set the

Savings (3): duration of daylight setting.

When you finish, click ‘Apply’. You’ll see the following message displayed on web browser:

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Press ‘Continue’ to save the settings made and back to web management interface; press ‘Apply’ to save the settings made and restart the router so the settings will take effect after it reboots.

NOTE: You can refer to the instructions given in last chapter: ‘Using Quick

Setup’, for detailed descriptions on time zone settings.

2-5-2 Change management password

Default password of this router is 1234, and it’s displayed on the login prompt when accessed from web browser. There’s a security risk if you don’t change the default password, since everyone can see it. This is very important when you have wireless function enabled.

To change password, please follow the following instructions:

Please click ‘System’ menu on the left of web management interface, then click ‘Password Settings’, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Current Please input current password here.

Password (1):

New Password (2): Please input new password here.

Confirmed Please input new password here again.

Password (3):

When you finish, click ‘Apply’. If you want to keep original password unchanged, click ‘Cancel’.

If the password you typed in ‘New Password’ (2) and ‘Confirmed Password’ (3) field are not the same, you’ll see the following message:

Please retype the new password again when you see above message.

If you see the following message:

It means the content in ‘Current Password’ field is wrong, please click ‘OK’ to go back to previous menu, and try to input current password again.

If the current and new passwords are correctly entered, after you click ‘Apply’, you’ll be

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prompted to input your new password:

Please use new password to enter web management interface again, and you should be able to login with new password.

2-5-3 Remote Management

This router does not allow management access from Internet, to prevent possible security risks (especially when you defined a weak password, or didn’t change default password). However, you can still management this router from a specific IP address by enabling the ‘Remote Management’ Function.

To do so, please follow the following instructions:

Please click ‘System’ menu on the left of web management interface, then click ‘Remote Management’, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Host Address (1): Input the IP address of the remote host you wish to initiate a

management access.

Port (2): You can define the port number this router should expect an

incoming request. If you’re providing a web service (default port

number is 80), you should try to use other port number. You can

use the default port setting ‘8080’, or something like ‘32245’ or

‘1429’. (Any integer between 1 and 65534)

Enabled (3): Select the field to start the configuration.

When you finish with all settings, click ‘Apply’, and you’ll see the following message displayed on web browser:

NOTE: When you want to manage this router from another computer on

internet, you have to input the IP address and port number of this router. If

your Internet service provider assigns you with a static IP address, it will not

be a problem; but if the IP address your service provider assigns to you will

vary every time you establish an internet connection, this will be a problem.

Please either ask your service provider to give you a static IP address, or

use dynamic IP to host name mapping services like DDNS. Please refer to

chapter 2-5-8 ‘DDNS client’ for details.

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NOTE: Default port number the web browser will use is ‘80’. If the ‘Port’

setting in this page is not ‘80’, you have to assign the port number in the

address bar of web browser manually. For example, if the IP address of this

router is 1.2.3.4, and the port number you set is 8888, you have to input

following address in the address bar of web browser:

http://1.2.3.4:8888

2-6 Setup Internet Connection (WAN Setup)

Internet connections setup can be done by using ‘Quick Setup’ menu described in chapter 2-3. However, you can setup WAN connections up by using WAN configuration menu. You can also set advanced functions like DDNS (Dynamic DNS) here.

To start configuration, please follow the following instructions:

Please click ‘WAN’ menu on the left of web management interface, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

Please select an Internet connection method depend on the type of connection you’re using. You can either click the connection method on the left (1) or right (2). If you select the connection method on the right, please click ‘More Configuration’ button after a method is selected.

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3G/3.5G - Please go to section 2-6-1 Dynamic IP - Please go to section 2-6-2 Static IP - Please go to section 2-6-3 PPPoE - Please go to section 2-6-4 PPTP - Please go to section 2-6-5 L2TP - Please go to section 2-6-6 Telstra Big Pond - Please go to section 2-6-7 DNS - Please go to section 2-6-8 DDNS - Please go to section 2-6-9

2-6-1 Setup procedure for ‘3G/3.5G’:

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

PIN Code (1): Please input Pin Code for your UMTS or HSDPA connection, this

is optional, and only required if your service provider asks you to

do so.

APN (2): Please input the access point name.

User Name (3): Please input user name assigned by your Internet service

provider here.

Password (4): Please input password assigned by your Internet service provider

here.

Verify Password (5): Please input password again for confirmation.

Service (6): Please select your Card type from the drop-down menu.

AT Dial Script (7): Please input Dialed Number for your UMTS or HSDPA connection,

the default is *99#. This field should not be altered except when

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required by your service provider.

After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ (8) button; if you want to remove and value you entered, please click ‘Cancel’.

After you click ‘Apply’, the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on router setup, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 30 seconds while router is rebooting).

2-6-2 Setup procedure for ‘Dynamic IP’:

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Host Name (1): Please input host name of your computer, this is optional, and

only required if your service provider asks you to do so.

MAC Address (2): Please input MAC address of your computer, if your service

provider only permits computer with certain MAC address to

access internet. If you’re using the computer which used to

connect to Internet via cable modem, you can simply press ‘Clone

Mac address’ button to fill the MAC address field with the MAC address of your computer,

After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ (3); if you want to remove and value you entered, please click ‘Cancel’.

After you click ‘Apply’, the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

2-6-3 Setup procedure for ‘Static IP’:

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

IP address (1): Please input IP address assigned by your service provider.

Subnet Mask (2): Please input subnet mask assigned by your service provider

Gateway Address (3): Please input the IP address of DNS server provided by your

service provider.

After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ (4) button and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on other setup procedures, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 30 seconds while router is rebooting).

If you want to reset all settings in this page back to previously-saved value, please click

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‘Cancel’ button.

2-6-4 Setup procedure for ‘PPPoE’:

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

User Name (1): Please input user name assigned by your Internet service

provider here.

Password (2): Please input the password assigned by your Internet service

provider here.

Service Name (3): Please give a name to this Internet service, this is optional

MTU (4): Please input the MTU value of your network connection here. If

you don’t know, you can use default value.

Connection Please select the connection type of Internet

Type (5): connection you wish to use.

Continuous – The connection will be kept always on. If the

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connection is interrupted, the router will re-connect

automatically.

Connect On-Demand – Only connect when you want to

surf the Internet. “Idle Time Out” is set to stop the

connection when the network traffic is not sending or

receiving after an idle time.

Manual – After you have selected this option, you will see

the “Connect” button and “Disconnect” button, click

“’Connect” and the router will connect to the ISP. If you

want to stop the connection, please click “Disconnect”

button.

Idle Time Out (6): If you have selected the connection type to

“Connect-On-Demand”, please input the idle time out.

After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ (7) button and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

If you want to reset all settings in this page back to previously-saved value, please click ‘Cancel’ button.

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2-6-5 Setup procedure for ‘PPTP’:

PPTP requires two kinds of setting: WAN interface setting (setup IP address) and PPTP setting (PPTP user name and password). Here we start from WAN interface setting:

Select the type of how you obtain IP address from your service provider here. You can choose ‘Obtain an IP address Automatically’ (equal to DHCP, please refer to ‘Cable Modem’ section above), or ‘Use The Following IP Address’ (i.e. static IP address)

WAN interface settings must be correctly set, or the Internet connection will fail even those settings of PPTP settings are correct. Please contact your Internet service provider if you don’t know what you should fill in these fields.

Now please go to PPTP settings section:

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

User Name (1): Please input user name assigned by your Internet service

provider here.

Password (2): Please input the password assigned by your Internet service

provider here.

PPTP Gateway (3): Please input the IP address of PPTP gateway assigned by your

Internet service provider here.

Connection ID (4): Please input the connection ID here, this is optional and you can

leave it blank.

MTU (5): Please input the MTU value of your network connection here. If

you don’t know, you can use default value.

BEZEQ-ISRAEL (6): If you are connecting to the BEZEQ network in Israel. Please

enable this function.

Connection Please select the connection type of Internet

Type (7): connection you wish to use, please refer to section 2-5-3 for

detailed descriptions.

Idle Time Out (8): Please input the idle time out of Internet connection you wish to

use, and refer to section 2-5-3 for detailed descriptions.

When you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ (9); and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

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If you want to reset all settings in this page back to previously-saved value, please click ‘Cancel’ button.

2-6-6 Setup procedure for ‘L2TP’:

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

User Name (1): Please input user name assigned by your Internet service

provider here.

Password (2): Please input the password assigned by your Internet service

provider here.

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L2TP Gateway (3): Please input the IP address of PPTP gateway assigned by your

Internet service provider here.

MTU (4): Please input the MTU value of your network connection here. If

you don’t know, you can use default value.

Connection Please select the connection type of Internet

type (5): connection you wish to use, please refer to last section for

detailed descriptions.

Idle Time Out (6): Please input the idle time out of Internet connection you wish to

use, and refer to last section for detailed descriptions.

When you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ (7); and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

If you want to reset all settings in this page back to previously-saved value, please click ‘Cancel’ button.

2-6-7 Setup procedure for ‘Telstra Big Pond’:

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This setting only works when you’re using Telstra big pond’s network service in Australia. You need to input:

User Name (1): Please input the user name assigned by Telstra.

Password (2): Please input the password assigned by Telstra.

Assign login Check this box to choose login server by yourself.

server manually (3):

Server IP Address(4):Please input the IP address of login server here.

When you finish with all settings, click ‘Apply’ (5); and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

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If you want to reset all settings in this page back to previously-saved value, please click ‘Cancel’ button.

2-6-8 Setup procedure for ‘DNS’:

If you select ‘Dynamic IP’ or ‘PPPoE’ as Internet connection method, at least one DNS

server’s IP address should be assigned automatically. However, if you have preferred DNS server, or your service provider didn’t assign the IP address of DNS server because of any reason, you can input the IP address of DNS server here.

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Primary DNS (1): Please input the IP address of DNS server provided by your

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service provider.

Secondary DNS (2): Please input the IP address of another DNS server provided by

your service provider, this is optional.

NOTE: Only IP address can be entered here; DO NOT use the hostname of

DNS server! (i.e. only numeric characters and dots are accepted)

10.20.30.40……………………………………………………………… Correct

dns.serviceprovider.com…………………………………………... Incorrect

After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ (3) button and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

If you want to reset all settings in this page back to previously-saved value, please click ‘Cancel’ button.

2-6-9 Setup procedure for ‘DDNS’:

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DDNS (Dynamic DNS) is an IP-to-Hostname mapping service for those Internet users

who don’t have a static (fixed) IP address. It will be a problem when such user wants to provide services to other users on Internet, because their IP address will vary every time when connected to Internet, and other user will not be able to know the IP address they’re using at a certain time.

This router supports DDNS service of several service providers, for example:

DynDNS (http://www.dyndns.org) TZO (http://www.tzo.com)

Please go to one of DDNS service provider’s webpage listed above, and get a free DDNS account by the instructions given on their webpage.

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Dynamic DNS (1): If you want to enable DDNS function, please select ‘Enabled’;

otherwise please select ‘Disabled’.

Provider (2): Select your DDNS service provider here.

Domain Name (3): Input the domain name you’ve obtained from DDNS service

provider.

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Account / Input account or email of DDNS registration.

E-Mail (4):

Password / Key (5): Input DDNS service password or key.

After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ (6) button and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

If you want to reset all settings in this page back to previously-saved value, please click ‘Cancel’ button.

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2-7 Wired LAN Configurations

Before all computers using wired Ethernet connection (i.e. those computers connect to this router’s LAN port 1 to 4 by Ethernet cable) can communicate with each other and access internet, they must have a valid IP address.

There are two ways to assign IP addresses to computers: static IP address (set the IP address for every computer manually), and dynamic IP address (IP address of computers will be assigned by router automatically. It’s recommended for most of computers to use dynamic IP address, it will save a lot of time on setting IP addresses for every computer, especially when there are a lot of computers in your network; for servers and network devices which will provide services to other computer and users that come from Internet, static IP address should be used, so other computes can locate the server.

Suggestions on IP address numbering plan:

If you have no idea on how to define an IP address plan for your

network, here are some suggestions.

1. A valid IP address has 4 fields: a.b.c.d, for most of home and company users, it’s suggested to use 192.168.c.d, where c is an integer between 0 and 254, and d is an integer between 1 and 254. This router is capable to work with up to 253 clients, so you can set ‘d’ field of IP address of router as 1 or 254 (or any number between 1 and 254), and pick a number between 0 and 254 for field ‘c’.

2. In most cases, you should use ‘255.255.255.0’ as subnet mask, which allows up to 253 clients (this also meets router’s capability of working with up to 253 clients).

3. For all servers and network devices which will provide services to other people (like Internet service, print service, and file service), they should use static IP address. Give each of them a unique number between 1 and 253, and maintain a list, so everyone can locate those servers easily.

4. For computers which are not dedicated to provide specific service to others, they should use dynamic IP address.

If you don’t really understand the descriptions listed above, don’t worry! We will provide recommended setup values below.

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Please follow the following instructions to set wired LAN parameters:

Please click ‘LAN’ menu on the left of web management interface, there are three setup groups here: ‘LAN IP’, ‘DHCP Server’, and ‘Static DHCP Leases Table’. Here are setup instructions for each of them:

2-7-1 LAN IP section:

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

IP address (1): Please input the IP address of this router.

Subnet Mask (2): Please input subnet mask for this network.

802.1d If you wish to activate 802.1d spanning tree

Spanning Tree (3): function, select ‘Enabled’ for setup item ‘802.1d Spanning Tree’,

or set it to ‘Disabled’

DHCP Server (4): If you want to activate DHCP server function of this router, select

‘Enabled’, or set it to ‘Disabled’.

Recommended Value if you don’t know what to fill:

IP Address: 192.168.2.1

Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0

802.1d Spanning Tree: Disabled

DHCP Server: Enabled

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2-7-2 DHCP Server:

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3 4

These settings are only available when ‘DHCP Server’ in ‘LAN IP’ section is ‘Enabled’, and here are descriptions of every setup items:

Lease Time (1): Please choose a lease time (the duration that every computer can

keep a specific IP address) of every IP address assigned by this

router from dropdown menu.

Start IP (2): Please input the start IP address of the IP range.

End IP (3): Please input the end IP address of the IP range.

Domain Name (4): If you wish, you can also optionally input the domain name for

your network. This is optional.

Recommended Value if you don’t know what to fill:

Lease Time: Two Weeks (or ‘Forever’, if you have less than 20 computers)

Start IP: 192.168.2.100

End IP: 192.168.2.200

Domain Name: (leave it blank)

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NOTE:

1. The number of the last field (mentioned ‘d’ field) of ‘End IP’ must be greater

than ‘Start IP’, and can not the same with router’s IP address.

2. The former three fields of IP address of ‘Start IP’, ‘End IP’, and ‘IP Address

of ‘LAN IP’ section (mentioned ‘a’, ‘b’, and ‘c’ field) should be the same.

3. These settings will affect wireless clients too.

2-7-3 Static DHCP Leases Table:

This function allows you to assign a static IP address to a specific computer forever, so you don’t have to set the IP address for a computer, and still enjoy the benefit of using DHCP server. Maximum 16 static IP addresses can be assigned here.

(If you set ‘Lease Time’ to ‘forever’ in ‘DHCP Server’ section, you can also assign an

IP address to a specific computer permanently, however, you will not be able to assign

a certain IP address to a specific computer, since IP addresses will be assigned in

random order by this way).

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Enable Static Check this box to enable this function,

DHCP Leases (1): otherwise uncheck it to disable this function.

MAC Address (2): Input the MAC address of the computer or network device (total

12 characters, with character from 0 to 9, and from a to f, like

‘001122aabbcc’)

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IP address (3): Input the IP address you want to assign to this computer or

network device

Add (4): After you inputted MAC address and IP address pair, click this

button to add the pair to static DHCP leases table.

If you want to remove all characters you just entered, click ‘Clear’.

After you clicked ‘Add’, the MAC address and IP address mapping will be added to ‘Static DHCP Leases Table’ section.

If you want to delete a specific item, please check the ‘Select’ box of a MAC address and IP address mapping (1), then click ‘Delete ’ button (2); if you want to delete all mappings, click ‘Delete All’ (3).

After you finish all LAN settings, please click ‘Apply’ button on the bottom of this page. After you click ‘Apply’, the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on router setup, or

click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 30

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seconds while router is rebooting).

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2-8 Wireless LAN Configurations

If your computer, PDA, game console, or other network devices which is equipped with wireless network interface, you can use the wireless function of this router to let them connect to Internet and share resources with other computers with wired-LAN connection. You can also use the built-in security functions to protect your network from being intruded by malicious intruders.

Please follow the following instructions to set wireless parameters:

Please click ‘Wireless’ menu on the left of web management interface, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser. You must enable wireless function of this router, or the wireless interface of this router will not function. Please select ‘Enable’ (1), then click ‘Apply’ (2) button.

If you’re coming here because you want to disable wireless function, please select ‘Disable’ (3), then click ‘Apply’ (2) button.

After you click ‘Apply’, the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

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Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on other setup

procedures, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please

wait for about 30 seconds while router is rebooting).

2-8-1 Basic Wireless Settings

Please click ‘Wireless’ menu on the left of web management interface, then click ‘Basic Settings’, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

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Here are descriptions of ‘Band’ setup items:

BAND (1): Please select the radio band you want to use from ‘Band’

dropdown menu , and the following message will be displayed:

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2.4 GHz (B) 2.4GHz band, only allows 802.11b wireless network

2.4 GHz (N) 2.4GHz band, only allows 802.11n wireless network

2.4 GHz (B+G) 2.4GHz band, only allows 802.11b and 802.11g wireless

2.4 GHz (G) 2.4GHz band, only allows 802.11g wireless network

2.4 GHz (B+G+N) 2.4GHz band, allows 802.11b, 802.11g, and 802.11n

client to connect this router (maximum transfer rate

11Mbps).

client to connect this router (maximum transfer rate

150Mbps).

network client to connect this router (maximum transfer

rate 11Mbps for 802.11b clients, and maximum 54Mbps

for 802.11g clients).

client to connect this router (maximum transfer rate

54Mbps).

wireless network client to connect this router (maximum

transfer rate 11Mbps for 802.11b clients, maximum

54Mbps for 802.11g clients, and maximum 150Mbps for

802.11n clients).

SSID (2): This is the name of wireless router. You can type any

alphanumerical characters here, maximum 32 characters. ESSID

is used to identify your own wireless router from others when

there are other wireless routers in the same area. Default SSID is

‘default’, it’s recommended to change default ESSID name to the

one which is meaningful to you, like myhome, office_room1, etc.

Channel Number (3): Please select a channel from the dropdown list of ‘Channel

Number’, available channel numbers are 1 to 13 for European

countries, 1 to 11 for USA. You can choose any channel number

you want to use, and almost all wireless clients can locate the

channel you’re using automatically without any problem. However,

it’s still useful to remember the channel number you use, some

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wireless client supports manual channel number select, and this

would help in certain scenario when there is some radio

communication problem.

Associated Clients (4): Click ‘Show Active Clients’ button, then an “Active Wireless Client

Table” will pop up. You can see the status of all active wireless

stations that are connecting to the access point.

NOTE: If you don’t have special reason to limit the type of allowed wireless

client, it’s recommended to choose ‘2.4 GHz (B+G+N) to maximize wireless

client compatibility.

TIPS: You can try to change channel number to another one if you think the

data transfer rate is too slow. There could be some other wireless routers

using the same channel, which will disturb the radio communication

between wireless client and the wireless router.

After you finish the wireless setting, please click ‘Apply’ button, after you click ‘Apply’, the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on router setup, or

click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 30

seconds while router is rebooting).

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2-8-2 Advanced Wireless Settings

This router provides some advanced control of wireless parameters, if you want to configure these settings, please click ‘Wireless’ menu on the left of web management interface, then click ‘Advanced Settings’, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Fragment Set the Fragment threshold of wireless radio.

Threshold (1): Do not modify default value if you don’t know what it is,

default value is 2346.

RTS Threshold (2): Set the RTS threshold of wireless radio. Do not modify default

value if you don’t know what it is, default value is 2347.

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Beacon Interval (3): Set the beacon interval of wireless radio. Do not modify default

value if you don’t know what it is, default value is 100.

DTIM Period (4): Set the DTIM period of wireless radio. Do not modify default

value if you don’t know what it is, default value is 3.

Data Rate (5): Set the wireless data transfer rate to a certain value. Since most

of wireless devices will negotiate with each other and pick a

proper data transfer rate automatically, it’s not necessary to

change this value unless you know what will happen after

modification.

N Data Rate (6): Same as above, but only for 802.11n clients.

Channel Width (7): Set channel width of wireless radio. Do not modify default value

if you don’t know what it is, default setting is ‘Auto 20/40

MHz’.

Preamble Type (8): Set the type of preamble, do not modify default value if you

don’t know what it is, default setting is ‘Short Preamble’.

Broadcast ESSID (9): Decide if the wireless router will broadcast its own ESSID or not.

You can hide the ESSID of your wireless router (set the option to

‘Disable’), so only people those who know the ESSID of your

wireless router can get connected.

CTS Protect (10): Enabling this setting will reduce the chance of radio signal

collisions between 802.11b and 802.11g/n wireless access points.

It’s recommended to set this option to ‘Auto’ or ‘Always’. However,

if you set to ‘None’, your wireless router should be able to work

fine, too.

Tx Power (11): You can set the output power of wireless radio. Unless you’re

using this wireless router in a really big space, you may not have

to set output power to 100%. This will enhance security

(malicious / unknown users in distance will not be able to

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reach your wireless router).

WMM (12): The short of Wi-Fi MultiMedia, it will enhance the data transfer

performance of multimedia contents when they’re being

transferred over wireless network. If you don’t know what it is /

not sure if you need it, it’s safe to set this option to ‘Enable’,

however, default value is ‘Disable’.

After you finish these wireless settings, please click ‘Apply’ (13)button, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on router setup, or

click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 30

seconds while router is rebooting).

2-8-3 Wireless Security

It’s very important to set wireless security settings properly! If you don’t, hackers and malicious users can reach your network and valuable data without your consent and this will cause serious security problem.

To set wireless security settings, Please click ‘Wireless’ menu on the left of web management interface, then click ‘Security Settings’, then follow the following instructions to set wireless security settings:

Please select an encryption method from ‘Encryption’ dropdown menu, there are four

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options:

2-8-3-1 Disable wireless security

When you select this mode, data encryption is disabled, and every wireless device in proximity will be able to connect your wireless router if no other security measure is enabled (like MAC address access control - see section 2-7-4, or disable ESSID broadcast).

Only use this option when you really want to allow everyone to use your wireless

router, and you don’t care if there’s someone reads the data you transfer over

network without your consent.

2-8-3-2 WEP - Wired Equivalent Privacy

When you select this mode, the wireless router will use WEP encryption, and the following setup menu will be shown on your web browser:

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Key Length (2): There are two types of WEP key length: 64-bit and 128-bit. Using

‘128-bit’ is safer than ’64-bit’, but will reduce some data transfer

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performance.

Key Format (3): There are two types of key format: ASCII and Hex. When you

select a key format, the number of characters of key will be

displayed. For example, if you select ’64-bit’ as key length, and

‘Hex’ as key format, you’ll see the message at the right of ‘Key

Format’ is ‘Hex (10 characters), which means the length of WEP

key is 10 characters.

Default Tx Key (4): You can set up to four sets of WEP key, and you can decide which

key is being used by default here. If you don’t know which one

you should use, select ‘Key 1’.

Encryption Key Input WEP key characters here, the number of

1 to 4 (5-8): characters must be the same as the number displayed at ‘Key

Format’ field. You can use any alphanumerical characters (0-9,

a-z, and A-Z) if you select ‘ASCII’ key format, and if you select

‘Hex’ as key format, you can use characters 0-9, a-f, and A-F. You

must enter at least one encryption key here, and if you entered

multiple WEP keys, they should not be same with each other.

Enable 802.1x IEEE 802.1x is an authentication protocol. Every

Authentication (9): user must use a valid account to login to this wireless router before

accessing the wireless LAN. The authentication is processed by a

RADIUS server. This mode only authenticates user by IEEE

802.1x, but it does not encryption the data during communication.

If there is a RADIUS server in you environment, please enable

this function. Check this box and another sub-menu will appear:

RADIUS Server Please input the IP address of radius

IP Address (11): server here

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RADIUS Server Please input the port number of radius

Port (12): server here.

RADIUS Server Please input the port number of radius

Password (13): password here.

TIPS: Some examples of WEP key

(Don’t use those examples; use the one of your own!):

After you finish WEP setting, please click ‘Apply’ button (10) and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

ASCII (5 characters): pilot phone 23561 2Hyux #@xmL

ASCII (13 characters): digitalFAMILY 82Jh26xHy3m&n

Hex (10 characters): 287d2aa732 1152dabc85

Hex (26 characters): 9284bcda8427c9e036f7abcd84

To improve security level, do not use those words which can be found

in a dictionary or too easy to remember! (‘pilot’ and ‘phone’ listed

above are bad examples; just intended to show you how a WEP key

look like). Wireless clients will remember the WEP key, so you only

have to input the WEP key on wireless client once, and it’s worth to

use complicated WEP key to improve security level.

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When you select this mode, the wireless router will use WPA encryption, and the

following setup menu will be shown on your web browser:

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

WPA Unicast Please select a type of WPA cipher suite.

Cipher Suite (2): Available options are: WPA (TKIP), WPA2 (AES), and WPA2

Mixed. You can select one of them, but you have to make sure

your wireless client support the cipher you selected.

Pre-shared Select the type of pre-shared key, you

Key Format (3): can select Passphrase (8 or more alphanumerical characters, up

to 63), or Hex (64 characters of 0-9, and a-f).

Pre-shared Please input the WPA passphrase here.

Key (4): It’s not recommended to use a word that can be found in a

dictionary due to security reason.

After you finish WPA Pre-shared key setting, please click ‘Apply’ button (5) and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on other setup

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procedures, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please

wait for about 30 seconds while router is rebooting).

NOTE: Some wireless clients (especially those manufactured before

year 2003) only support WEP or WPA (TKIP) cipher. A driver upgrade

would be needed for those clients to use WPA and WPA2 encryption.

2-8-3-4 WPA RADIUS:

If you have a RADIUS server, this router can work with it and provide safer wireless authentication.

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

WPA Unicast Please select a type of WPA cipher suite.

Cipher Suite (2): Available options are: WPA (TKIP), WPA2 (AES), and WPA2

Mixed. You can select one of them, but you have to make sure

your wireless client support the cipher you selected.

RADIUS Server Please input the IP address of your

IP address (3): Radius authentication server here.

RADIUS Server Please input the port number of your

Port (4): Radius authentication server here. Default setting is 1812.

RADIUS Server Please input the password of your Radius Password (5): authentication server here.

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After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ (6) button and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

2-8-4 Wireless Access Control

This function will help you to prevent unauthorized users from connecting to your wireless router; only those wireless devices who have the MAC address you assigned here can gain access to your wireless router. You can use this function with other security measures described in previous section, to create a safer wireless environment.

Up to 20 MAC addresses can be assigned by using this function. Please click ‘Wireless’ menu on the left of web management interface, then click ‘Access Control’, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

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All allowed MAC addresses will be displayed in ‘MAC Address Filtering Table’ (1).

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Delete (2): If you want to delete a specific MAC address entry, check the

‘select’ box of the MAC address you want to delete, then click

‘Delete’ button. (You can select more than one MAC addresses).

Delete All (3): If you want to delete all MAC addresses listed here, please click

‘Delete All’ button.

Enable Wireless To enforce MAC address filtering,

Access Control (4): you have to check ‘Enable Wireless Access Control’. When this

item is unchecked, wireless router will not enforce MAC address

filtering of wireless clients.

MAC Address (5): Input the MAC address of your wireless devices here, dash ( - ) or

colon ( : ) are not required. (i.e. If the MAC address label of your

wireless device indicates ‘aa-bb-cc-dd-ee-ff’ or ‘aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff’,

just input ‘aabbccddeeff’.

Comment (6): You can input any text here as the comment of this

MAC address, like ‘ROOM 2A Computer’ or anything.

You can input up to 16 alphanumerical

characters here. This is optional and you can leave

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it blank, however, it’s recommended to use this field

to write a comment for every MAC addresses as a

memory aid.

Add (7): Click ‘Add’ button to add the MAC address and associated

comment to the MAC address filtering table.

Clear (8): Click ‘Clear’ to remove the value you inputted in MAC address

and comment field.

After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ (9) button and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

If you want to reset all settings in this page back to previously-saved value, please click ‘Cancel’ button.

2-8-5 Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS)

Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) is the simplest way to build connection between wireless network clients and this wireless router. You don’t have to select encryption mode and input a long encryption passphrase every time when you need to setup a wireless client, you only have to press a button on wireless client and this wireless router, and the WPS will do the rest for you.

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This wireless router supports two types of WPS: Push-Button Configuration (PBC), and PIN code. If you want to use PBC, you have to push a specific button on the wireless client to start WPS mode, and switch this wireless router to WPS mode too. You can push Reset/WPS button of this wireless router, or click ‘Start PBC’ button in the web configuration interface to do this; if you want to use PIN code, you have to know the PIN code of wireless client and switch it to WPS mode, then provide the PIN code of the wireless client you wish to connect to this wireless router. The detailed instructions are listed follow:

Please click ‘Wireless’ menu on the left of web management interface, then click ‘WPS’, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Enable WPS (1): Check this box to enable WPS function, uncheck it to disable

WPS.

Wi-Fi Protected WPS-related system information will be displayed

Setup Information here:

(2):

WPS Status: If the wireless security (encryption) function of this

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wireless router is properly set, you’ll see ‘Configured’ message

here. If wireless security function has not been set, you’ll see

‘unConfigured’.

Self PIN code: This is the WPS PIN code of this wireless router.

This code is useful when you need to build wireless

connection by WPS with other WPS-enabled wireless devices.

SSID: The SSID of this wireless router will be displayed here.

Authentication Mode: The wireless security authentication mode

of this wireless router will be displayed here. If you don’t enable

security function of the wireless router before WPS is activated,

the router will auto set the security to WPA (AES) and generate a

set of passphrase key for WPS connection.

Passphrase Key: The wireless security key of the router will be

displayed here.

Config Mode (3): There are ‘Registrar’ and ‘Enrollee’ modes for the WPS

connection. When ‘Registrar’ is enabled, the wireless clients will

follow the router’s wireless settings for WPS connection. When

‘Enrolle’ mode is enabled, the router will follow the wireless

settings of wireless client for WPS connection.

Configure Click ‘Start PBC’ to start Push-Button style WPS

by Push Button (4): setup procedure. This wireless router will wait for WPS requests

from wireless clients for 2 minutes. The ‘WLAN’ LED on the

wireless router will be steady on for 2 minutes when this wireless

router is waiting for incoming WPS request.

Configure Please input the PIN code of the wireless client you

by Client wish to connect, and click ‘Start PIN’ button.

PinCode (5): The ‘WLAN’ LED on the wireless router will be steady on when

this wireless router is waiting for incoming WPS request.

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2-8-6 Security Tips for Wireless Network

Here are some quick tips to help you improve the security level of your wireless network:

1. Never use simple words (like school, apple and computer) as WEP encryption or WPA passphrase.

2. A complicated (the combination of number, alphabet, even symbol, and long enough) WEP key and WPA passphrase is much safer than simple and short ones. Remember that the wireless client is capable to keep the key or passphrase for you, so you only have to input the complicated key or passphrase once. It’s not too trouble but will greatly improve security level.

3. You can hide the ESSID of this router by set ‘Broadcast ESSID’ option to ‘Disable’. Your wireless router will not be found by other people in proximity if they’re just using the AP scanning function of their wireless client, and this can reduce the chance of being intruded.

4. Use ‘Access Control’ function described in section 2-7-4, so those people who are not in your list will not be able to connect to your network.

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Chapter 3 Advanced Functions

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3-1 Quality of Service (QoS)

Quality of service provides an efficient way for computers on the network to share the internet bandwidth with a promised quality of internet service. Without QoS, all computers and devices on the network will compete with each other to get internet bandwidth, and some applications which require guaranteed bandwidth (like video streaming and network telephone) will be affected, therefore an unpleasing result will occur, like the interruption of video / audio transfer.

With this function, you can limit the maximum bandwidth or give a guaranteed bandwidth for a specific computer, to avoid said unpleasing result from happening.

3-1-1 Basic QoS Settings

Please follow the following instructions to set QoS parameters:

Please click ‘Qos’ menu on the left of web management interface and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

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Here are descriptions of every setting:

Enable QoS (1): Check this box to enable QoS function, unselect this box if you

don’t want to enforce QoS bandwidth limitations.

Total Download You can set the limit of total download

Bandwidth (2): bandwidth in kbits. To disable download bandwidth limitation,

input ‘0’ here.

Total Upload You can set the limit of total upload

Bandwidth (3): bandwidth in kbits. To disable upload bandwidth limitation, input

‘0’ here.

Current QoS All existing QoS rules will be displayed here.

Table (4):

Add (5): Click ‘add’ button to add a new QoS rule, see section 3-1-2 ‘Add a

new QoS rule’ below.

Edit (6): If you want to modify the content of a specific rule, please check

the ‘select’ box of the rule you want to edit, then click ‘Edit’ button.

Only one rule should be selected a time! If you didn’t select a

rule before clicking ‘Edit’ button, you’ll be prompted to add a new

rule.

Delete You can delete selected rules by clicking this

Selected (7): button. You can select one or more rules to delete by check the

‘select’ the box of the rule(s) you want to delete a time. If the QoS

table is empty, this button will be grayed out and can not be

clicked.

Delete All (8): By clicking this button, you can delete all rules currently in the

QoS table. If the QoS table is empty, this button will be grayed

out and can not be clicked.

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Move Up (9): You can pull up the priority of the QoS rule you selected by

clicking this button.

Move Down (10): You can lower the priority of the QoS rule you selected by clicking

this button.

After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ (11) button and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

If you want to reset all settings in this page back to previously-saved value, please click ‘Cancel’ button.

3-1-2 Add a new QoS rule

After you click ‘Add’ button in QoS menu, the following message will appear:

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Rule Name (a): Please give a name to this QoS rule (up to 15 alphanumerical

characters)

Bandwidth (b): Set the bandwidth limitation of this QoS rule. You have to select

the data direction of this rule (Upload of Download), and the

speed of bandwidth limitation in Kbps, then select the type of QoS:

‘guarantee’ (guaranteed usable bandwidth for this rule) or ‘max’

(set the maximum bandwidth for the application allowed by this

rule).

Local IP Specify the local (source) IP address

Address (c): that will be affected by this rule. Please input the

starting IP address in the left field, and input the end IP address in

the right field to define a range of IP addresses, or just input the IP

address in the left field to define a single IP address.

Local Port Please input the range of local (source)

Range (d): port number that will be affected by this rule. If you want to apply

this rule on port 80 to 90, please input ’80-90’; if you want to apply

this rule on a single port, just input the port number, like ‘80’.

Remote IP Specify the remote (destination) IP address

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Address: (e): that will be affected by this rule. Please input the starting IP

address in the left field, and input the end IP address in the right

field to define a range of IP addresses, or just input the IP address

in the left field to define a single IP address.

Remote Port Please input the range of remote (destination)

Range (f): port number that will be affected by this rule. If you want to apply

this rule on port 80 to 90, please input ’80-90’; if you want to apply

this rule on a single port, just input the port number, like ‘80’. If the

remote (destination) IP address and /or port number is universal,

just leave it blank.

Traffic Type (g): Please select the traffic type of this rule,

available options are None, SMTP, HTTP, POP3, and FTP. You

can select a specific traffic type for this rule, if you want to make

this rule as a IP address based rule (apply the limitation on all

traffics from / to the specified IP address / port number), select

‘None’.

Protocol (h): Please select the protocol type of this rule,

available options are TCP and UDP. If you don’t know what

protocol your application uses, please try ‘TCP’ first, and switch to

‘UDP’ if this rule doesn’t seems to work.

After you finish with all settings, please click ‘save’ button (i), you’ll be brought back to previous menu, and the rule you just set will appear in current QoS table; if you did anything wrong, you’ll get an error message when you click ‘Save’ button, please correct your input by the instructions given by the error message.

If you want to erase all values you just entered. Click ‘Reset’

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3-2 Network Address Translation (NAT)

Network address translations solve the problem if sharing a single IP address to multiple computers. Without NAT, all computers must be assigned with a valid Internet IP address to get connected to Internet, but Internet service providers only provide very few IP addresses to every user. Therefore it’s necessary to use NAT technology to share a single Internet IP address to multiple computers on local network, so everyone can get connected to Internet.

Please follow the following instructions to set NAT parameters:

3-2-1 Basic NAT Settings (Enable or disable NAT function)

Please click ‘NAT’ menu on the left of web management interface, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

To enable NAT function, please select ‘Enable’ for ‘Enable NAT module function’ (1); to disable, please select ‘Disable’.

After you made the selection, please click ‘Apply’ button (2) and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

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3-2-2 Port Forwarding

This function allows you to redirect a single port or consecutive ports of Internet IP address to the same port of the IP address on local network. The port number(s) of Internet IP address and private IP address (the IP address on local network) must be the same. If the port number of Internet IP address and private IP address is different, please use ‘Virtual Server’ function, described in next section.

Please click ‘NAT’ menu on the left of web management interface, then click ‘Port Forwarding’, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Enable Port Check this box to enable port mapping,

Forwarding (1): and uncheck this box to disable port mapping.

Private IP (2): Input the IP address of the computer on local network which

provides internet service.

Computer Name (3): Pull down the menu and all the computers connected to the router

will be listed here. You can easily to select the computer name

without checking the IP address of the computer.

Type (4): Select the type of connection, TCP or UDP. If you’re not sure,

please select ‘Both’.

Port Range (5): Input the starting port number in the left field, and input the ending

port number in the right field. If you only want to redirect a single

port number, just fill the port number in the left field.

Comment (6): Please input any text to describe this mapping, up to 16

alphanumerical characters.

Add (7): Add the mapping to port forwarding table.

Reset (8): Remove all inputted values.

Port Forwarding All existing port forwarding mappings will

Table (9): be displayed here.

Delete (10): Please select a port forwarding mapping by clicking the

‘Select’ box of the mapping, then click ‘Delete Selected’ button to

remove the mapping. If there’s no existing mapping, this button

will be grayed out.

Delete All (11): Delete all mappings existed in virtual server table.

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Reset (12): Unselect all mappings.

After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ (13) button and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

If you want to reset all settings in this page back to previously-saved value, please click ‘Cancel’ button.

3-2-3 Virtual Server

This function allows you to redirect a port on Internet IP address (on WAN port) to a specified port of an IP address on local network, so you can setup an Internet service on the computer on local network, without exposing it on Internet directly. You can also build many sets of port redirection, to provide many different Internet services on different local computers via a single Internet IP address.

Please click ‘NAT’ menu on the left of web management interface, then click ‘Virtual Server’, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Enable Virtual Check this box to enable virtual server,

Server (1): and uncheck this box to disable virtual server.

Private IP (2): Input the IP address of the computer which

provides Internet service.

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Computer Name (3): Pull down the menu and all the computers connected to the router

will be listed here. You can easily to select the computer name

without checking the IP address of the computer.

Private Port (4): Input the port number of the IP address

which provides Internet service.

Type (5): Select the type of connection, TCP or UDP. If you’re not sure,

please select ‘Both’.

Public Port (6): Please select the port number of Internet IP address which will be

redirected to the port number of local IP address defined above.

Comment (7): Please input any text to describe this mapping, up to 16

alphanumerical characters.

Add (8): Add the mapping to virtual server table.

Reset (9): Remove all inputted values.

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Virtual Server All existing virtual server mappings will be

Table (10): displayed here.

Delete (11): Please select a virtual server mapping by clicking the

‘Select’ box of the mapping, then click ‘Delete Selected’ button to

remove the mapping. If there’s no existing mapping, this button

will be grayed out.

Delete All (12): Delete all mappings existed in virtual server table.

Reset (13): Unselect all mappings.

After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ (14) button and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

If you want to reset all settings in this page back to previously-saved value, please click ‘Cancel’ button.

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3-2-4 Port Mapping for Special Applications

Some applications require more than one connection a time; these applications won’t work with simple NAT rules. In order to make these applications work, you can use this function to let these applications work.

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Enable (1): Check this box to enable special applications and uncheck this

box to disable virtual server.

IP Address (2): Input the IP address of the computer which you want to open the

ports.

Computer Name (3): Pull down the menu and all the computers connected to the router

will be listed here. You can easily to select the computer name

without checking the IP address of the computer.

TCP Port to Open (4): This is the out going (Outbound) range of TCP port numbers for

this particular application.

UDP Port to Open (5): This is the out going (Outbound) range of UDP port numbers for

this particular application.

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Comment (6): The description of this setting.

Popula Applications This section lists the more popular applications that (7):

require multiple connections. Select an application

from the Popular Applications selection and click ‘Add’ to save the

setting to ‘Current Trigger-Port Table.’

Add (8): Add the setting to the ‘Current Trigger-Port Table.’

Reset (9): Click ‘Reset’ will clear all above setting and you can set up again.

Current Trigger All the settings for the special applications will be

-Port Table (10): listed here. If you want to remove some Special Application

settings from the " Current Trigger-Port Table", select the Special

Application settings you want to remove in the table and then click

"Delete Selected". If you want remove all Special Appliacation

settings from the table, just click "Delete All" button. Click "Reset"

will clear your current selections.

Delete (11): Please select a special application by clicking the ‘Select’

box of the mapping, then click ‘Delete Selected’ button to remove

the setting. If there’s no setting here, this button will be grayed

out.

Delete All (12): Delete all settings existed in trigger port table.

Reset (13): Unselect all settings.

Note: Only one LAN client can use a particular special application at a time.

After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ (14) button and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

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If you want to reset all settings in this page back to previously-saved value, please click ‘Cancel’ button.

3-2-5 UPnP Setting

This function enables network auto-configuration for peer-to-peer communications, with this function, network devices will be able to communicate with other devices directly, and learn about information about other devices. Many network device and applications rely on UPnP function nowadays.

Please click ‘NAT’ menu on the left of web management interface, then click ‘UPnP’, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

There is only one option in this page, please select ‘Enable’ or ‘Disable’ to enable or disable UPnP function, then click ‘Apply’ button, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

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If you want to reset all settings in this page back to previously-saved value, please click ‘Cancel’ button.

3-2-6 ALG Settings

Application Layer Gateway (ALG) is a special function of this router. It includes many preset routing rules for numerous applications which require special support. With these supports, those applications which required special support will be able to work with NAT architecture.

Please click ‘NAT’ menu on the left of web management interface, then click ‘ALG Settings’, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser: