Conceptronic 150N Wireless LAN Broadband Router User Manual

Conceptronic

150N Wireless LAN Broadband

Router

User’s Manual

Version: 2.0

Contents

CHAPTER I: PRODUCT INFORMATION

1-1. Introduction and safety information

1-2. Safety Information

1-3. Package Contents

1-4. Familiar with your new wireless broadband router

CHAPTER II: SYSTEM AND NETWORK SETUP

2-1. Build network connection

2-2. Connecting to wireless broadband router by web browser

2-2-1. Windows XP IP address setup

2-2-2. Windows Vista IP address setup

2-2-3. Router IP address lookup

2-2-4. Connect the router’s management interface by web browser

2-3. Using ‘Quick Setup’

2-3-1. Setup procedure for ‘Dynamic IP’

2-3-2. Setup procedure for ‘Static IP’

2-3-3. Setup procedure for ‘PPPoE xDSL’

2-3-4. Setup procedure for ‘PPTP xDSL’

2-3-5. Setup procedure for ‘L2TP xDSL’

2-3-6. Setup procedure for ‘Telstra Big Pond’

2-4. Basic Setup

2-4-1. Time zone and time auto-synchronization

2-4-2. Change management password

2-4-3. Remote Management

2-5. Setup Internet Connection (WAN Setup)

2-5-1. Setup procedure for ‘Dynamic IP’

2-5-2. Setup procedure for ‘Static IP’

2-5-3. Setup procedure for ‘PPPoE’

2-5-4. Setup procedure for ‘PPTP’

2-5-5. Setup procedure for ‘L2TP’

2-5-6. Setup procedure for ‘Telstra Big Pond’

2-5-7. Setup procedure for ‘DNS’

2-5-8. Setup procedure for ‘DDNS’

2-6. Wired LAN Configurations

2-6-1. LAN IP section

2-6-2. DHCP Server

2-6-3. Static DHCP Leases Table

2-7. Wireless LAN Configurations

2-7-1. Basic Wireless Settings

2-7-1-1. Setup procedure for ‘AP'

2-7-1-2. Setup procedure for ‘Station-Infrastructure'

2-7-1-3. Setup procedure for ‘AP Bridge - Point to Point’

2-7-1-4. Setup procedure for ‘AP Bridge - Point to Multi Point’

2-7-1-5. Setup procedure for ‘AP Bridge - WDS’

2-7-1-6. Setup procedure for ‘Universal Repeater'

2-7-2. Advanced Wireless Settings

2-7-3. Wireless Security

2-7-3-1. Disable wireless security

2-7-3-2. WEP - Wired Equivalent Privacy

2-7-3-3. Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)

2-7-3-4. WPA RADIUS

2-7-4. Wireless Access Control

2-7-5. Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS)

2-7-6. Security Tips for Wireless Network

CHAPTER III: ADVANCED FUNCTIONS

3-1. Quality of Service (QoS)

3-1-1. Basic QoS Settings

3-1-2. Add a new QoS rule

3-2. Network Address Translation (NAT)

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

3-2-2. Port Forwarding

3-2-3. Virtual Server

3-2-4. Port Mapping for Special Applications

3-2-5. UPnP Setting

3-2-6. ALG Settings

3-3. Firewall

3-3-1. Access Control

3-3-1-1. Add PC

3-3-2. URL Blocking

3-3-3. DoS Attack Prevention

3-3-3-1. DoS - Advanced Settings

3-3-4. Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)

3-4. System Status

3-4-1. System information and firmware version

3-4-2. Internet Connection Status

3-4-3. Device Status

3-4-4. System Log

3-4-5. Active DHCP client list

3-4-6. Statistics

3-5. Configuration Backup and Restore

3-6. Firmware Upgrade

3-7. System Reset

CHAPTER IV: APPENDIX

4-1. Troubleshooting

4-2. Glossary

4-3. License Agreement

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Chapter I: Product information

1-1. Introduction and safety information

Thank you for purchasing this wireless broadband router! This high cost-efficiency router is the best choice for

Small office / Home office users, all computers and network devices can share a single xDSL / cable modem

internet connection at high speed. Easy install procedures allows any computer users to setup a network

environment in very short time - within minutes, even inexperienced. When the number of your computers and

network-enabled devices grow, you can also expand the number of network slot by simple attach a hub or switch,

to extend the scope of your network!

All computers and IEEE 802.11b/g/Draft-N wireless-enabled network devices (including PDA, cellular phone,

game console, and more!) can connect to this wireless router without additional cabling. With a compatible

wireless card installed in your PC, you can transfer file for up to 150Mbps (transfer data rate).

Other features of this router including:

 High Internet Access throughput
 Allow multiple users to share a single Internet line
 Supports up to 253 users
 Share a single Cable or xDSL internet connection
 Access private LAN servers from the internet
 Four wired LAN ports (10/100M) and one WAN port (10/100M)
 Work with IEEE 802.11b/g/Draft-N wireless LAN devices
 Support DHCP (Server/Client) for easy IP-address setup
 Support multiple wireless modes like: AP, Station-Infrastructure, Wireless Bridge and Universal Repeater.
 Advanced network and security features like: Special Applications, QoS, DMZ, 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

 Easy to use Web-based GUI for network configuration and management purposes
 Remote management function allows configuration and upgrades from a remote computer (over the Internet)
 Auto MDI / MDI-X function for all wired Ethernet ports.

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1-2. Safety information

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

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

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

 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!

 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.

 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.

 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.

 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.

1-3. Package contents

The following items are present in the package of the Conceptronic 150N Wireless Router:

 Conceptronic C150BRS4 – 150N Wireless Router
 Power supply 12V DC, 0.5A
 Network (LAN) cable
 Product CD-ROM
 Multi language quick installation guide
 Warranty card & CE declaration booklet

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1-4. Familiar with your new wireless broadband router

Front Panel

LED Name

Light Status

Description

PWR

On

Router is switched on and correctly powered.

WLAN

On

Wireless WPS function is enabled.

Off

Wireless network is switched off.

Flashing

Wireless LAN activity (transferring or receiving data).

WAN

LNK/ACT
On

WAN port is connected.

Off

WAN port is not connected.

Flashing

WAN activity (transferring or receiving data).

LAN 1-4

LNK/ACT
On

LAN port is connected.

Off

LAN port is not connected.

Flashing

LAN activity (transferring or receiving data).

Back Panel

Item Name

Description

Antenna

It is 3dBi dipole antenna.

Radio ON/OFF

Switch the button to activate or deactivate the wireless functions.

Reset / WPS

Reset the router to factory default settings (clear all settings) or start

WPS function. Press this button and hold for 10 seconds to restore all

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

seconds to start WPS function.

1 - 4

Local Area Network (LAN) ports 1 to 4.

WAN

Wide Area Network (WAN / Internet) port.

Power

Power connector, connects to A/C power adapter.

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Chapter II: System and network setup

2-1. Build network connection

Please follow the following instruction to build the network connection between your new WIRELESS router and

your computers, network devices:

A. Connect your xDSL / cable modem to the WAN port of router by Ethernet cable.

B. Connect all your computers, network devices (network-enabled consumer devices other than computers,

like game console, or switch / hub) to the LAN port of the router.

C. Connect the A/C power adapter to the wall socket, and then connect it to the „Power‟ socket of the router.

D. Please check all LEDs on the front panel. „PWR‟ LED should be steadily on, WAN and LAN LEDs should be on if

the computer / network device connected to the respective port of the router is powered on and correctly

connected. 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.

2-2. Connecting to wireless broadband router by web browser

After the network connection is built, the next step you should do is setup the router with proper network

parameters, so it can work properly in your network environment.

Before you can connect to the router and start configuration procedures, your computer must be able to get an IP

address automatically (use dynamic IP address). If it‟s set to use static IP address, or you‟re unsure, please follow

the following instructions to configure your computer to use dynamic IP address:

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2-2-1. Windows XP IP address setup:

A. Click „Start‟ button (it should be located at

lower-left corner of your computer), then

click control panel. Double-click Network

and Internet Connections icon, click

Network Connections, then double-click

Local Area Connection, Local Area

Connection Status window will appear, and

then click „Properties‟

B. Select „Obtain an IP address automatically‟

and „Obtain DNS server address

automatically‟, then click „OK‟.

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2-2-2. Windows Vista IP address setup:

A. Click „Start‟ button (it should be located at

lower-left corner of your computer), then

click control panel. Click View Network

Status and Tasks, and then click Manage

Network Connections. Right-click Local

Area Network, then select ‘Properties’.

Local Area Connection Properties window

will appear, select „Internet Protocol

Version 4 (TCP / IPv4)‟, and then click

„Properties‟.

B. Select „Obtain an IP address automatically‟

and „Obtain DNS server address

automatically‟, then click „OK‟.

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2-2-3. Router IP address lookup

After the IP address setup is complete, please click „Start‟ -> „Run‟ at the bottom-lower corner of your desktop:

Input „cmd‟, then click „OK‟

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Input „ipconfig‟, then press „Enter‟ key. Please check the IP address followed by „Default Gateway‟ (In this

example, the IP address of router is 192.168.0.1, please note that this value may be different.)

Note: If the IP address of Gateway is not displayed, or the address followed by „IP Address‟ begins with „169‟,

please recheck network connection between your computer and router, and / or go to the beginning of

this chapter, to recheck every step of network setup procedure.

2-2-4. Connect the router’s management interface by web browser

After your computer obtained an IP address from router, please 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.

Tip: This page shows the four major setting categories: Quick Setup, General Setup, Status, and Tools. You

can find the shortcut which leads to these setting categories at the upper-right corner of every page, and

you can jump to another category directly by clicking the link, and don‟t have to go back to the first

page.

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2-3. Using ‘Quick Setup’

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 „Quick Setup‟:

Please go to QuickSetup menu by clicking „Quick Setup‟ button.

And the following message will be displayed:

A. Set Time Zone

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Time Zone Select a timezone location from the drop-down list.

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

Daylight Savings If the country you live uses daylight saving, please check „Enable Function‟ box, and

choose the duration of daylight saving.

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After you finish with all settings, please click „Apply‟ button.
B. Broadband Type

Please choose the broadband (Internet connection) type you‟re using in this page. There are six types of Internet

connection, they are:

Dynamic IP - Please go to section 2-3-1

Static IP - Please go to section 2-3-2

PPPoE - Please go to section 2-3-3

PPTP - Please go to section 2-3-4

L2TP - Please go to section 2-3-5

Telstra Big Pond - Please go to section 2-3-6

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.

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 „Dynamic IP‟ as Internet connection type, even you‟re using another

connection type, like xDSL. Also, some cable modem uses PPPoE, so you can choose „PPPoE‟ for such

cable modem connection, even you‟re using a cable modem.

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2-3-1. Setup procedure for ‘Dynamic IP’

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Host Name 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 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‟ button to

fill the MAC address field with the MAC address of your computer.

After you finish with all settings, please click „OK‟ button; if you want to go back to previous menu, click „Back‟.

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2-3-2. Setup procedure for ‘Static IP’

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

IP address Please input IP address assigned by your service provider.

Subnet Mask Please input subnet mask assigned by your service provider

DNS address Please input the IP address of DNS server provided by your service provider.

Gateway Address Please input the IP address of the Gateway 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 „OK‟; 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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2-3-3. Setup procedure for ‘PPPoE’

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

User Name Please input user name assigned by your Internet service provider here.

Password Please input the password assigned by your Internet service provider here.

Service Name Please give a name to this Internet service, this is optional

MTU Please input the MTU value of your network connection here. If you don‟t know, you can use

default value.

Connection Type Please select the connection type of Internet connection you wish to use. 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.

„Manual‟ Only connects to Internet when „Connect‟ button on this page is

pressed, and disconnects when „Disconnect button is pressed.

Idle Time Out Please input 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‟.

When you finish with all settings, please click „OK‟; if you want to go back to previous menu, click „Back‟.

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2-3-4. 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 „Dynamic IP‟ 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.

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Next, the PPTP settings section:

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

User Name Please input user ID (user name) assigned by your Internet service provider here.

Password Please input the password assigned by your Internet service provider here.

PPTP Gateway Please input the IP address of PPTP gateway assigned by your Internet service provider

here.

Connection ID Please input the connection ID here, this is optional and you can leave it blank.

MTU Please input the MTU value of your network connection here. If you don‟t know, you can

use default value.

BEZEQ-ISRAEL Setting item „BEZEQ-ISRAEL‟ is only required to check if you‟re using the service provided

by BEZEQ network in Israel.

Connection Type Please select the connection type of Internet connection you wish to use, please refer to

last section for detailed descriptions.

Idle Time Out 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 „OK‟; if you want to go back to previous menu, click „Back‟.

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2-3-5. Setup procedure for ‘L2TP’

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 „Dynamic IP‟ section above), or „Use the following IP

address‟ (equal to static IP address, please refer to „PPPoE‟ section above).

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.

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Next, the L2TP settings section:

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

User Name Please input user ID (user name) assigned by your Internet service provider here.

Password Please input the password assigned by your Internet service provider here.

L2TP Gateway Please input the IP address of PPTP gateway assigned by your Internet service provider

here.

MTU Please input the MTU value of your network connection here. If you don‟t know, you can

use default value.

Connection Type Please select the connection type of Internet connection you wish to use, please refer to

last section for detailed descriptions.

Idle Time Out 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 „OK‟; if you want to go back to previous menu, click „Back‟.

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2-3-6. 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 Please input the user name assigned by Telstra.

Password Please input the password assigned by Telstra.

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

Server IP Address Please input the IP address of login server here.

When you finish with all settings, click „OK‟; if you want to go back to previous menu, click „Back‟.

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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2-4. 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.

2-4-1. 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: Please select time zone at „Set time zone‟ drop-down list, and

input the IP address or host name of time server. If you want to enable daylight savings setting, please check

„Enable Function‟ box, and set the duration of daylight setting. When you finish, click „Apply‟.

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You‟ll see the following message displayed on web browser:

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.

2-4-2. Change management password

Default password of this router is „admin‟, 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:

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Current Password Please input current password here.

New Password Please input new password here.

Confirm Password Please input new password here again.

When you finish, click „Apply‟. If you want to keep original password unchanged, click „Cancel‟.

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If the password you typed in „New Password‟ and „Confirm Password‟ 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 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.

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2-4-3. 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:

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Host Address Input the IP address of the remote host you wish to initiate a management access.

Port 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)

Enable 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:

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.

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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 asks 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.

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

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2-5. 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 or right. If you select the connection method on the right, please click „More

Configuration‟ button after a method is selected.

Dynamic IP - Please go to section 2-5-1

Static IP - Please go to section 2-5-2

PPPoE - Please go to section 2-5-3

PPTP - Please go to section 2-5-4

L2TP - Please go to section 2-5-5

Telstra Big Pond - Please go to section 2-5-6

DNS - Please go to section 2-5-7

DDNS - Please go to section 2-5-8

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2-5-1. Setup procedure for ‘Dynamic IP’:

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Host Name Please input host name of your computer, this is optional, and only required if your

service provider asks you to do so.

MAC Address 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‟; 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).

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2-5-2. Setup procedure for ‘Static IP’:

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

IP Address Please input IP address assigned by your service provider.

Subnet Mask Please input subnet mask assigned by your service provider

Default Gateway Please input the IP address of DNS server provided by your service provider.

After you finish with all settings, please click „Apply‟ 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 „Cancel‟ button.

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2-5-3. Setup procedure for ‘PPPoE’:

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

User Name Please input user name assigned by your Internet service provider here.

Password Please input the password assigned by your Internet service provider here.

Service Name Please give a name to this Internet service, this is optional.

MTU Please input the MTU value of your network connection here. If you don‟t know, you can

use default value.

Connection Type Please select the connection type of Internet connection you wish to use.

Continuous – The connection will be kept always on. If the 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 If you have selected the connection type to “Connect-On-Demand”, please input the

idle time out.

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After you finish with all settings, please click „Apply‟ 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 „Cancel‟ button.

2-5-4. Setup procedure for ‘PPTP’:

PPTP requires two kinds of setting: WAN interface setting (setup IP address) and PPTP setting (PPTP user name

and password).

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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 „Dynamic IP‟ 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 we go to PPTP settings section.

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

User Name Please input user ID (user name) assigned by your Internet service provider here.

Password Please input the password assigned by your Internet service provider here.

PPTP Gateway Please input the IP address of PPTP gateway assigned by your Internet service provider

here.

Connection ID Please input the connection ID here, this is optional and you can leave it blank.

MTU Please input the MTU value of your network connection here. If you don‟t know, you can

use default value.

BEZEQ-ISRAEL If you are connecting to the BEZEQ network in Israel. Please enable this function.

Connection type Please select the connection type of Internet connection you wish to use, please refer

to section 2-5-3 for detailed descriptions.

Idle Time Out 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‟ 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 „Cancel‟ button.

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2-5-5. Setup procedure for ‘L2TP’:

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

User ID Please input user ID (user name) assigned by your Internet service provider here.

Password Please input the password assigned by your Internet service provider here.

L2TP Gateway Please input the IP address of PPTP gateway assigned by your Internet service provider

here.

MTU Please input the MTU value of your network connection here. If you don‟t know, you can

use default value.

Connection Type Please select the connection type of Internet connection you wish to use, please refer

to section 2-5-3 for detailed descriptions.

Idle Time Out 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‟ button and 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).

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

2-5-6. 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 Please input the user name assigned by Telstra.

Password Please input the password assigned by Telstra.

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

Server IP Address Please input the IP address of login server here.

When you finish with all settings, click „Apply‟ 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‟

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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 „Cancel‟ button.

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2-5-7. 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 Please input the IP address of DNS server provided by your service provider.

Secondary DNS 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‟ 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 „Cancel‟ button.

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2-5-8. Setup procedure for ‘DDNS’:

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 If you want to enable DDNS function, please select „Enabled‟; otherwise please select

„Disabled‟.

Provider Select your DDNS service provider here.

Domain Name Input the domain name you‟ve obtained from DDNS service provider.

Account Input account or email of DDNS registration.

Password / Key Input DDNS service password or key.

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After you finish with all settings, please click „Apply‟ 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 „Cancel‟ button.

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2-6. 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.

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:

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2-6-1. LAN IP section:

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

IP address Please input the IP address of this router.

Subnet Mask Please input subnet mask for this network.

802.1d Spanning Tree If you wish to activate 802.1d spanning tree function, select „Enabled‟ for setup item

„802.1d Spanning Tree‟, or set it to „Disabled‟

DHCP Server 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: 192.168.0.1

Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0

802.1d Spanning Tree: Disabled

DHCP Server: Enabled

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2-6-2. DHCP Server:

These settings are only available when „DHCP Server‟ in „LAN IP‟ section is „Enabled‟, and here are descriptions of

every setup items:

Lease Time 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 Please input the start IP address of the IP range.

End IP Please input the end IP address of the IP range.

Domain Name 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: 192.168.0.100

End IP: 192.168.0.200

Domain Name: (leave it blank)

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.

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2-6-3. 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 DHCP Leases Check this box to enable this function, otherwise uncheck it to disable this

function.

MAC Address 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‟)

IP address Input the IP address you want to assign to this computer or network device

‘Add’ 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,

then click „Delete Selected‟ button; if you want to delete all mappings, click „Delete All‟. If you want to

deselect all mappings, click „Reset‟.

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 seconds while router is rebooting).

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2-7. 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‟, then click „Apply‟ button.

If you‟re coming here because you want to disable wireless function, please select „Disable‟, then 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 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).

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2-7-1. 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:

This wireless router can work in 6 modes:

Access Point Standard wireless AP.

Station-Infrastructure Configure the router to Ethernet device such us TV, Game player,

HDD&DVD to enable the Ethernet device be a wireless station.

AP Bridge-Point to Point Connect this router with another wireless router, to expand the scope of

network.

AP Bridge-Point to Multi-Point Connect this router with up to four other wireless routers, to expand the

scope of network.

AP Bridge-WDS Connect this router with up to four WDS-capable wireless routers, to

expand the scope of network.

Universal Repeater The router can act as Station and AP at the same time. It can use Station

function to connect to a Root AP and use AP function to service all wireless

stations within its coverage.

Note: For „AP Bridge-Point to Point‟ and „AP Bridge-Point to Multi-Point‟ mode, wireless router is operated in

wireless bridge dedicated mode – wireless router is only used to expand the scope of network, and no

wireless clients will be accepted. If you want to use your wireless router to expand the scope of network,

and also accept wireless clients, please select „AP Bridge-WDS‟ or „Universal Repeater„ mode.

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Please select a proper operation mode you want to use from „Mode‟ dropdown menu, and continue on other

operation mode specific settings:

Access Point - Please go to section 2-7-1-1

Station-Infrastructure - Please go to section 2-7-1-2

AP Bridge-Point to Point - Please go to section 2-7-1-3

AP Bridge-Point to Multi-Point - Please go to section 2-7-1-4

AP Bridge-WDS - Please go to section 2-7-1-5

Universal Repeater - Please go to section 2-7-1-6

2-7-1-1. Setup procedure for ‘Access Point’:

Please select the radio band you want to use from „Band‟ dropdown menu, and the following message will be

displayed:

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Band Please select the radio band from one of following options:

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

connect this router (maximum transfer rate 11Mbps).

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

connect this router (maximum transfer rate 150Mbps).

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

client to connect this router (maximum transfer rate 11Mbps for

802.11b clients, and maximum 54Mbps for 802.11g clients).

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

this router (maximum transfer rate 54Mbps).

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

Note: For 802.11b and 802.11g mode, the signals can be transmitted only by antenna

1 (The antenna in the right side of the rear panel).

For 802.11n mode: The router is operating in a 1T2R Spatial Multiplexing MIMO

configuration. 1 antenna is for signal transmitting and 2 antennas are for signal

receiving.

SSID 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 „C150APM‟, it‟s

recommended to change default SSID value to the one which is meaningful to you, like

myhome, office_room1, etc.

Channel Number 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 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.

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2-7-1-2. Setup procedure for ‘Station-Infrastructure’:

In this mode, you can connect the router to Ethernet device such us TV, Game player, HDD&DVD to enable the

Ethernet device be a wireless station and join to a wireless network through an access point or AP router.

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Band Select the band you want to use.

SSID This is the name of wireless network. You can type the SSID of the network you would

like to connect here.

Site Survey When you use this wireless router as a wireless station for Ethernet network device to

have wireless capability, you have to associate it with a working access point. Click

„Select Site Survey‟ button, then a “Wireless Site Survey Table” will pop up. It will list

all available access points near by. You can select one access point in the table and it

will join wireless LAN through this access point.

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2-7-1-3. Setup procedure for ‘AP Bridge-Point to Point’:

In this mode, you can connect your wireless router with another, to combine two access points and expand the

scope of wireless network, and all clients (wired only – AP will not accept wireless clients in this mode) of two

wireless routers will think they‟re on the same physical network. This function is very convenient when you need

to connect two networks between two buildings. Here are instructions about how to connect two wireless routers

together:

Note: Two wireless routers must use the same mode, band, channel number, and security setting!

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Band Select the band you want to use, two wireless routers must use the same setting.

Channel Number Select the channel you want to use, two wireless routers must use the same setting.

MAC Address 1 Input the MAC address of another wireless router.

Security Settings Click to setting security for this connection (Please go to section „2-7-3 Wireless

Security‟ for detailed instructions).

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2-7-1-4. Setup procedure for ‘AP Bridge-Point to Multi-Point’:

In this mode, you can connect your wireless router with at least four wireless routers to expand the scope of

wireless network, and all clients (wired only – AP will not accept wireless clients in this mode) of the wireless

routers will think they‟re on the same physical network.

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Band Select the band you want to use, all the wireless routers must use the same setting.

Channel Number Select the channel you want to use, all the wireless routers must use the same

setting.

MAC address 1 ~ 4 Input the MAC address of other wireless routers.

Security Settings Click to set security settings for this connection (Please go to section „2-7-3 Wireless

Security‟ for detailed instructions).

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2-7-1-5. Setup procedure for ‘AP Bridge – WDS’

In this mode, you can expand the scope of network by combining up to four other access points together, and

every access point can still accept wireless clients.

Note: For WDS mode, the output signal nature is the same as that of normal AP mode.

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Band Select the band you want to use, all the wireless routers must use the same setting.

SSID Input the SSID of your wireless router, the setting should be the same with other

wireless routers for the convenience of roaming.

Channel Number Select the channel you want to use, all the wireless routers must use the same setting.

Associated Clients 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.

MAC address 1 ~ 4 Input the MAC address of other wireless routers.

Security Settings Click to set security settings for this connection (Please go to section „2-7-3 Wireless

Security‟ for detailed instructions).

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2-7-1-6. Setup procedure for ‘Universal Repeater’

In this mode, the router can act as a wireless repeater; it can be Station and AP at the same time. It can use

Station function to connect to a Root AP and use AP function to service all wireless stations within its coverage.

Note: For Repeater Mode, this router will demodulate the received signal, checking if this signal is noise for the

operating network then have the signal modulated and amplified again. The output power of this mode is

the same as that of WDS and normal AP mode.

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Band Select the band you want to use, all the wireless routers must use the same setting.

SSID 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 „C150APM‟, it‟s

recommended to change default ESSID value to the one which is meaningful to you, like

myhome, office_room1, etc.

Channel Number Select the channel you want to use, all the wireless clients must use the same setting.

Associated Clients 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.

Root AP SSID In „Universal Repeater‟ mode, this device can act as a station to connect to a Root AP.

You should assign the SSID of the Root AP here or click „Select Site Survey‟ button to

choose a Root AP.

Site Survey Click „Select Site Survey‟ button, then a “Wireless Site Survey Table” will pop up. It

will list all available access points near by. You can select one access point in the table

and the router will join wireless LAN through this access point.

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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).

2-7-2. 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 Threshold Set the Fragment threshold of wireless radio.

Do not modify default value if you don’t know what it is, default value is 2346.

RTS Threshold Set the RTS threshold of wireless radio.

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

Beacon Interval 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 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 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 Same as above, but only for 802.11n clients.

Channel Width 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 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 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 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 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

reach your wireless router).

WMM 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’.

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After you finish these wireless settings, please click „Apply‟ button, 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).

2-7-3. 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 options:

2-7-3-1. 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.

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2-7-3-2. 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:

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Key Length 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 performance.

Key Format 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 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 1 ~ 4 Input WEP key characters here, the number of 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 Authentication IEEE 802.1x is an authentication protocol. Every 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:

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RADIUS Server IP Address Please input the IP address of radius server here

RADIUS Server Port Please input the port number of radius server here.

RADIUS Server Password Please input the port number of radiuspassword here.

Tips: Some examples of WEP key (Don‟t use those examples; use the one of your own!):

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.

After you finish WEP setting, please click „Apply‟ 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).

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2-7-3-3. Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA):

When you select this mode, the wireless router will use WPA encryption, and the following setup menu will be

shown on your web browser:

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

WPA Unicast Cipher Suite Please select a type of WPA cipher suite.

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 Key Format Select the type of pre-shared key, you can select Passphrase (8 or more

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

Pre-shared Key Please input the WPA passphrase here.

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 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).

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.

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2-7-3-4. WPA RADIUS:

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

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

WPA Unicast Cipher Suite Please select a type of WPA cipher suite.

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 IP Address Please input the IP address of your Radius authentication server here.

RADIUS Server Port Please input the port number of your Radius authentication server here.

Default setting is 1812.

RADIUS Server Password Please input the password of your Radius authentication server here.

After you finish with all settings, please click „Apply‟ 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).

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2-7-4. 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:

All allowed MAC addresses will be displayed in „MAC Address Filtering Table‟.

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Delete Selected 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 Selected‟ button. (You can select more

than one MAC addresses).

Delete All If you want to delete all MAC addresses listed here, please click „Delete All‟ button.

Enable Access Control To enforce MAC address filtering,

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 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‟.

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Comment 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 it blank, however, it‟s recommended to use this field to

write a comment for every MAC addresses as a memory aid.

Add Click „Add‟ button to add the MAC address and associated comment to the MAC address

filtering table.

Clear Click „Clear‟ to remove the value you inputted in MAC address and comment field.

After you finish with all settings, please click „Apply‟ 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 „Cancel‟ button.

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2-7-5. 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.

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 Check this box to enable WPS function, uncheck it to disable WPS.

WPS Information WPS-related system information will be displayed here:

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

wireless router is properly set, you‟ll see „Configured‟

message here. If wireless security function has not been

set, you‟ll see „unConfigured‟.

PinCode Self: 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 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 „Enrollee‟ mode is enabled, the router will

follow the wireless settings of wireless client for WPS connection.

Configure by Push Button Click „Start PBC‟ to start Push-Button style WPS 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.

Enter Client PIN Code Please input the PIN code of the wireless client you wish to connect, and click

„Start PIN‟ button. 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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2-7-6. 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 III: Advanced functions

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 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 Check this box to enable QoS function, unselect this box if you don‟t want to

enforce QoS bandwidth limitations.

Total Download Bandwidth You can set the limit of total download bandwidth in kbits. To disable download

bandwidth limitation, input „0‟ here.

Total Upload Bandwidth You can set the limit of total upload bandwidth in kbits. To disable upload

bandwidth limitation, input „0‟ here.

Current QoS Table All existing QoS rules will be displayed here.

Add Click „Add‟ button to add a new QoS rule, see section 3-1-2 „Add a new QoS rule‟

below.

Edit 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 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 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.

Move Up You can pull up the priority of the QoS rule you selected by clicking this button.

Move Down You can lower the priority of the QoS rule you selected by clicking this button.

After you finish with all settings, please click „Apply‟ 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 „Cancel‟ button.

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3-1-2. Add a new QoS rule

After you click „Add‟ button in QoS menu, the following message will appear:

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

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

Bandwidth 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 Address Specify the local (source) IP address 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 Range Please input the range of local (source) 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 Address Specify the remote (destination) IP address 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 Range Please input the range of remote (destination) 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.

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Traffic Type 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 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, 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 „NAT Module‟; to disable, please select „Disable‟.

After you made the selection, please click „Apply‟ 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).

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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:

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Enable Port Forwarding Check this box to enable port mapping, and uncheck this box to disable port

mapping.

Private IP Input the IP address of the computer on local network which provides internet

service.

Computer Name 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 Select the type of connection, TCP or UDP. If you‟re not sure, please select

„Both‟.

Port Range 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 Please input any text to describe this mapping, up to 16 alphanumerical

characters.

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Add Add the mapping to port forwarding table.

Reset Remove all inputted values.

Port Forwarding Table All existing port forwarding mappings will be displayed here.

Delete 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 Delete all mappings existed in virtual server table.

Reset Unselect all mappings.

After you finish with all settings, please click „Apply‟ 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 „Cancel‟ button.

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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:

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Enable Virtual Server Check this box to enable virtual server, and uncheck this box to disable virtual server.

Private IP Input the IP address of the computer which provides Internet service.

Computer Name 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 Input the port number of the IP address which provides Internet service.

Type Select the type of connection, TCP or UDP. If you‟re not sure, please select „Both‟.

Public Port Please select the port number of Internet IP address which will be redirected to the

port number of local IP address defined above.

Comment Please input any text to describe this mapping, up to 16 alphanumerical characters.

Add Add the mapping to virtual server table.

Reset Remove all inputted values.

Virtual Server Table All existing virtual server mappings will be displayed here.

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Delete 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 Delete all mappings existed in virtual server table.

Reset Unselect all mappings.

After you finish with all settings, please click „Apply‟ 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 „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.

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Enable Check this box to enable special applications and uncheck this box to disable virtual

server.

IP Address Input the IP address of the computer which you want to open the ports.

Computer Name 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 This is the out going (Outbound) range of TCP port numbers for this particular

application.

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

application.

Comment The description of this setting.

Popular Applications This section lists the more popular applications that require multiple connections.

Select an application from the Popular Applications selection and click „Add‟ to save

the setting to „Current Trigger-Port Table.‟

Add Add the setting to the „Current Trigger-Port Table.‟

Reset Click „Reset‟ will clear all above setting and you can set up again.

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Current Trigger-Port All the settings for the special applications will be 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 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 Delete all settings existed in trigger port table.

Reset 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‟ 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 the router is

rebooting).

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

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3-2-5. 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:

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 „Cancel‟ button.

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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:

There are many applications listed here. Please check the box of the special support for applications you need,

and then click „Apply‟ 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 „Cancel‟ button.

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3-3. Firewall

Excepting NAT, this router also provides firewall function to block malicious intruders from accessing your

computers on local network. These functions include inbound attack prevention, and block outbound traffics,

like block URLs which have pre-defined keywords.

Please follow the following instructions to enable or disable firewall function:

Please click „Firewall‟ menu on the left of web management interface, and the following message will be

displayed on your web browser:

Please select „Enable‟ or „Disable‟ to enable or disable firewall function of this router, the click „Apply‟ 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).

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3-3-1. Access Control

This function allows or denies computers with specific MAC address from connecting to the network; it can also

allow or deny computers with specific IP address, protocol, or port.

Please click „Firewall‟ menu on the left of web management interface, then click „Access Control‟, and the

following message will be displayed on your web browser:

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Enable MAC Filtering Check this box to enable MAC address based filtering, and please select „Deny‟ or

„Allow‟ to decide the behavior of MAC filtering table. If you select deny, all MAC

addresses listed in filtering table will be denied from connecting to the network;

if you select allow, only MAC addresses listed in filtering table will be able to

connect to the network, and rejecting all other network devices.

Client PC MAC Address Please input the MAC address of computer or network device 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‟

Computer Name 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.

Comment 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 it blank, however, it‟s recommended to use this

field to write a comment for every MAC addresses as a memory aid.

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Add Click „Add‟ button to add the MAC address and associated comment to the MAC

address filtering table.

Reset Remove all inputted values.

Current MAC Filtering Table All existing MAC addresses in filtering table will be listed here.

Delete 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 Selected‟ button. (You can

select more than one MAC addresses).

Delete All If you want to delete all MAC addresses listed here, please click „Delete All‟

button.

Reset You can also click „Reset‟ button to unselect all MAC addresses.

Enable IP Filtering Check this box to enable IP address based filtering, and please select „Deny‟ or

„Allow‟ to decide the behavior of IP filtering table. If you select deny, all IP

addresses listed in filtering table will be denied from connecting to the network;

if you select allow, only IP addresses listed in filtering table will be able to

connect to the network, and rejecting all other network devices.

IP Filtering Table All existing IP addresses in filtering table will be listed here.

Add PC Click this button to add a new IP address to IP filtering table, up to 20 IP

addresses can be added. Please refer to section 3-3-1-1 „Add PC‟ below.

Delete If you want to delete a specific IP address entry, check the „select‟ box of the IP

address you want to delete, then click „Delete Selected‟ button. (You can select

more than one IP addresses).

Delete All If you want to delete all IP addresses listed here, please click „Delete All‟ button.

After you finish with all settings, please click „Apply‟ 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 „Cancel‟ button.

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3-3-1-1. Add PC

After button is clicked, the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Client PC Description Please input any text to describe this IP address, up to 16 alphanumerical characters.

Client PC IP Address 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.

Client PC Service Please check all services you want to allow or deny this IP address to use, you can check

multiple services.

Protocol If the service you need is not listed above, you can create a new service on your own.

Please select TCP or UDP, if you‟re not sure, please select „Both‟.

Port Range Please input the port range of new service here. If you want to specify 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‟.

Add When you finish with all settings, please click „Add‟ to save settings, you‟ll be brought

back to previous menu, and the rule you just set will appear in current IP filtering

table.

If you want to remove all settings in this page, click „Reset‟ button.

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3-3-2. URL Blocking

If you want to prevent computers in local network from accessing certain website (like pornography, violence, or

anything you want to block), you can use this function to stop computers in local network from accessing the site

you defined here. This function is useful for parents and company managers.

Please follow the following instructions to set URL blocking parameters:

Please click „Firewall‟ menu on the left of web management interface, then click „URL Blocking‟, and the

following message will be displayed on your web browser:

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Enable URL Blocking Check this box to enforce URL Blocking, uncheck it to disable URL Blocking.

URL/Keyword Input the URL (host name or IP address of website, like

http://www.blocked-site.com or http://11.22.33.44), or the keyword which is

contained in URL (like pornography, cartoon, stock, or anything).

Add Click „Add‟ button to add the URL / keyword to the URL / Keyword filtering

table.

Reset Click „Reset‟ to remove the value you inputted in URL/Keyword field.

Current URL Blocking Table All existing URL/Keywords in filtering table will be listed here.

Delete If you want to delete a specific URL/Keyword entry, check the „select‟ box of the

MAC address you want to delete, then click „Delete Selected‟ button. (You can

select more than one MAC addresses).

Delete All If you want to delete all URL/Keyword listed here, please click „Delete All‟

button.

Reset You can also click „Reset‟ button to unselect all URL/Keywords.

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After you finish with all settings, please click „Apply‟ 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 „Cancel‟ button.

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3-3-3. DoS Attack Prevention

Denial of Service (DoS) is a common attack measure, by transmitting a great amount of data or request to your

Internet IP address and server, the Internet connection will become very slow, and server may stop responding

because it is not capable to handle too much traffics.

This router has a built-in DoS attack prevention mechanism; when you activate it, the router will stop the DoS

attack for you.

Please follow the following instructions to set DoS prevention parameters:

Please click „Firewall‟ menu on the left of web management interface, then click „DoS‟, and the following

message will be displayed on your web browser:

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Ping of Death Ping of Death is a special packet, and it will cause certain computer to stop

responding. Check this box and the router will filter this kind of packet out.

Discard Ping From WAN Ping is a common and useful tool to know the connection status of a specified

remote network device, but some malicious intruder will try to fill your network

bandwidth with a lot of PING request data packet, to make your internet

connection become very slow, even unusable. Check this box and the router will

ignore all inbound PING request, but when you activate this function, you will not

be able to ping your own router from internet, too.

Port Scan Some malicious intruder will try to use a „port scanner‟ to know how many ports

of your Internet IP address are open, and they can collect a lot of valuable

information by doing so. Check this box and the router will block all traffics

which are trying to scan your Internet IP address.

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Sync Flood This is another kind of attack, which uses a lot of fake connection request to

consume the memory of your server, and try to make your server become

unusable. Check this box and the router will filter this kind of traffic out.

Advanced Settings Click this button and you can set advanced settings of the DoS prevention method

listed above, please see section 3-3-3-1 „DoS – Advanced Settings‟ below.

After you finish with all settings, please click „Apply‟ 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 „Cancel‟ button.

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3-3-3-1. DoS - Advanced Settings

When you click „Advanced‟ button in DoS menu, the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Ping of Death Set the threshold of when this DoS prevention mechanism will be activated.

Please check the box of Ping of Death, and input the frequency of threshold (how

many packets per second, minute, or hour), you can also input the „Burst‟ value,

which means when this number of „Ping of Death‟ packet is received in very

short time, this DoS prevention mechanism will be activated.

Discard Ping From WAN Check the box to activate this DoS prevention mechanism.

Port Scan Many kind of port scan methods are listed here, please check one or more DoS

attack methods you want to prevent.

Sync Flood Like Ping of Death, you can set the threshold of when this DoS prevention

mechanism will be activated.

After you finish with all settings, please click „Apply‟ 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 „Cancel‟ button.

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3-3-4. Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)

Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) refers to a special area in your local network. This area resides in local network, and

all computers in this area uses private IP address, too. But these private IP addresses are mapped to a certain

Internet IP address, so other people on Internet can fully access those computers in DMZ.

Please follow the following instructions to set DMZ parameters:

Please click „Firewall‟ menu on the left of web management interface, then click „DMZ‟, and the following

message will be displayed on your web browser:

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Enable DMZ Check this box to enable DMZ function, uncheck this box to disable DMZ function.

Public IP Address You can select „Dynamic IP‟ or „Static IP‟ here. If you select „Dynamic IP‟, you have to

select an Internet connection session from dropdown menu; if you select „Static IP‟,

please input the IP address that you want to map to a specific private IP address.

Client PC IP Address Please input the private IP address that the Internet IP address will be mapped to.

Computer Name 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.

Add Click „Add‟ button to add the public IP address and associated private IP address to the

DMZ table.

Reset Click „Clear‟ to remove the value you inputted in Public IP address and Client PC IP

address field.

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Current DMZ Table All existing public IP address and private IP address mapping will be displayed here.

Delete If you want to delete a specific DMZ entry, check the „select‟ box of the DMZ entry you

want to delete, then click „Delete Selected‟ button. (You can select more than one

DMZ entries).

Delete All If you want to delete all DMZ entries listed here, please click „Delete All‟ button.

Reset You can also click „Reset‟ button to unselect all DMZ entries.

After you finish with all settings, please click „Apply‟ 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 „Cancel‟ button.

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3-4. System Status

The functions described here will provide you with system related information. To enter system status menu,

please either click „Status‟ link located at the upper-right corner of web management interface, or click „Status‟

button in main menu.

3-4-1. System information and firmware version

You can use this function to know the system information and firmware version of this router.

Please click „Status‟ link located at the upper-right corner of web management interface, and the following

message will be displayed on your web browser:

Note: The information displayed above may vary on your router status page.

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3-4-2. Internet Connection Status

You can use this function to know the status of current Internet connection.

Please click „Internet Connection‟ menu on the left of web management interface, and the following message

will be displayed on your web browser:

This information will vary depending on the connection status.

3-4-3. Device Status

You can use this function to know the status of your router.

Please click „Device Status‟ menu on the left of web management interface and the following message will be

displayed on your web browser:

This information will vary depending on the device status.

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3-4-4. System Log

All important system events are logged. You can use this function to check the event log of your router.

Please click „System Log‟ menu on the left of web management interface, and the following message will be

displayed on your web browser:

The system events will be displayed in this page, and here are descriptions of every buttons:

Save Save current event log to a text file.

Clear Delete all event logs displayed here.

Refresh Refresh the event log display.

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3-4-5. Security Log

All information about network and system security is kept here, and you can use this function to check the

security event log of your router.

Please click „Security Log‟ menu on the left of web management interface, and the following message will be

displayed on your web browser:

The system events will be displayed in this page, and here are descriptions of every buttons:

Save Save current event log to a text file.

Clear Delete all event logs displayed here.

Refresh Refresh the event log display.

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3-4-5. Active DHCP client list

If you‟re using the DHCP server function of this router, you can use this function to check all active DHCP leases

issued by this router.

Please click „Active DHCP client‟ menu on the left of web management interface, and the following message will

be displayed on your web browser:

All information about active DHCP leases issued by this router will be displayed here. You can click „Refresh‟

button to display latest information.

3-4-6. Statistics

You can use this function to check the statistics of wireless, LAN, and WAN interface of this router.

Please click „Statistics‟ menu on the left of web management interface, and the following message will be

displayed on your web browser:

You can click „Refresh‟ button to display latest information.

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3-5. Configuration Backup and Restore

You can backup all configurations of this router to a file, so you can make several copied of router configuration

for security reason.

To backup or restore router configuration, please follow the following instructions:

Please click „Tool‟ located at the upper-right corner of web management interface, then click „Configuration

Tools‟ on the left of web management interface, then the following message will be displayed on your web

browser:

Here are descriptions of every buttons:

Backup Settings Press „Save‟ button, and you‟ll be prompted to download the configuration as a

file, default filename is „config.bin‟, you can save it as another filename for

different versions, and keep it in a safe place.

Restore Settings Press „Browse…‟ to pick a previously-saved configuration file from your

computer, and then click „Upload‟ to transfer the configuration file to router.

After the configuration is uploaded, the router‟s configuration will be replaced

by the file you just uploaded.

Restore to Factory Default Click this button to remove all settings you made, and restore the configuration

of this router back to factory default settings.

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3-6. Firmware Upgrade

The system software used by this router is called as „firmware‟, just like any applications on your computer,

when you replace the old application with a new one; your computer will be equipped with new function. You

can also use this firmware upgrade function to add new functions to your router, even fix the bugs of this router.

To upgrade firmware, please follow the following instructions:

Please click „Tool‟ located at the upper-right corner of web management interface, then click „Firmware

Upgrade‟ on the left of web management interface, then the following message will be displayed on your web

browser:

Click „Browse‟ button first, you‟ll be prompted to provide the filename of firmware upgrade file. Please

download the latest firmware file from our website, and use it to upgrade your router.

After a firmware upgrade file is selected, click „Apply‟ button, and the router will start firmware upgrade

procedure automatically. The procedure may take several minutes, please be patient.

Note: Never interrupt the upgrade procedure by closing the web browser or physically disconnect your

computer from router. If the firmware you uploaded is corrupt, the firmware upgrade will fail, and you

may have to return this router to the dealer of purchase to ask for help. (Warranty voids if you

interrupted the upgrade procedure).

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3-7. System Reset

If you think the network performance is bad, or you found the behavior of the router is strange, you can perform

a router reset, sometime it will solve the problem.

To do so, please click „Tool‟ located at the upper-right corner of web management interface, then click „Reset‟

on the left of web management interface, then the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

Please click „Apply‟ to reset your router, and it will be available again after few minutes, please be patient.

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Chapter IV: Appendix

4-1. Troubleshooting

If you found the router is working improperly or stop responding to you, don‟t panic! Before you contact your

dealer of purchase for help, please read this troubleshooting first. Some problems can be solved by you within

very short time!

Scenario

Solution

Router is not responding to

me when I want to access it

by web browser

a. Please check the connection of power cord and network cable of this router.

All cords and cables should be correctly and firmly inserted to the router.

b. If all LEDs on this router are off, please check the status of A/C power

adapter, and make sure it‟s correctly powered.

c. You must use the same IP address section which router uses.
d. Are you using MAC or IP address filter? Try to connect the router by another

computer and see if it works; if not, please restore your router to factory

default settings (pressing „reset‟ button for over 10 seconds).

e. Set your computer to obtain an IP address automatically (DHCP), and see if

your computer can get an IP address.

f. If you did a firmware upgrade and this happens, contact your dealer of

purchase for help.

g. If all above solutions don‟t work, contact the dealer of purchase for help.

Can‟t get connected to

Internet

a. Go to „Status‟ -> „Internet Connection‟ menu, and check Internet connection

status.

b. Please be patient, sometime Internet is just that slow.
c. If you connect a computer to Internet directly before, try to do that again,

and check if you can get connected to Internet with your computer directly

attached to the device provided by your Internet service provider.

d. Check PPPoE / L2TP / PPTP user ID and password again.
e. Call your Internet service provide and check if there‟s something wrong with

their service.

f. If you just can‟t connect to one or more website, but you can still use other

internet services, please check URL/Keyword filter.

g. Try to reset the router and try again later.
h. Reset the device provided by your Internet service provider too.
i. Try to use IP address instead of hostname. If you can use IP address to

communicate with a remote server, but can‟t use hostname, please check DNS

setting.

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I can‟t locate my router by

my wireless client

a. „Broadcast ESSID‟ set to off?

b. All two antennas are properly secured.

c. Are you too far from your router? Try to get closer.

d. Please remember that you have to input ESSID on your wireless client manually,

if ESSID broadcast is disabled.

File download is very slow

or breaks frequently

a. Are you using QoS function? Try to disable it and try again.
b. Internet is slow sometimes, being patient.
c. Try to reset the router and see if it‟s better after that.
d. Try to know what computers do on your local network. If someone‟s

transferring big files, other people will think Internet is really slow.

e. If this never happens before, call you Internet service provider to know if

there is something wrong with their network.

I can‟t log onto web

management interface:

password is wrong

a. Make sure you‟re connecting to the correct IP address of the router!

b. Password is case-sensitive. Make sure the „Caps Lock‟ light is not illuminated.

c. If you really forget the password, do a hard reset.

Router become hot

a. This is not a malfunction, if you can keep your hand on the router‟s case.
b. If you smell something wrong or see the smoke coming out from router or A/C

power adapter, please disconnect the router and A/C power adapter from

utility power (make sure it‟s safe before you‟re doing this!), and call your

dealer of purchase for help.

The date and time of all

event logs are wrong

a. Adjust the internal clock of router.

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4-2. Glossary

Default Gateway (Router): Every non-router IP device needs to configure a default gateway‟s IP address. When

the device sends out an IP packet, if the destination is not on the same network, the device has to send the packet

to its default gateway, which will then send it out towards the destination.

DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. This protocol automatically gives every computer on your home

network an IP address.

DNS Server IP Address: DNS stands for Domain Name System, which allows Internet servers to have a domain

name (such as www.Broadbandrouter.com) and one or more IP addresses (such as 192.34.45.8). A DNS server

keeps a database of Internet servers and their respective domain names and IP addresses, so that when a domain

name is requested (as in typing "Broadbandrouter.com" into your Internet browser), the user is sent to the proper

IP address. The DNS server IP address used by the computers on your home network is the location of the DNS

server your ISP has assigned to you.

DSL Modem: DSL stands for Digital Subscriber Line. A DSL modem uses your existing phone lines to transmit data

at high speeds.

Ethernet: A standard for computer networks. Ethernet networks are connected by special cables and hubs, and

move data around at up to 10/100 million bits per second (Mbps).

Idle Timeout: Idle Timeout is designed so that after there is no traffic to the Internet for a pre-configured amount

of time, the connection will automatically be disconnected.

IP Address and Network (Subnet) Mask: IP stands for Internet Protocol. An IP address consists of a series of four

numbers separated by periods, which identifies a single, unique Internet computer host in an IP network. Example:

192.168.2.1. It consists of 2 portions: the IP network address, and the host identifier.

ISP Gateway Address: (see ISP for definition). The ISP Gateway Address is an IP address for the Internet router

located at the ISP's office.

ISP: Internet Service Provider. An ISP is a business that provides connectivity to the Internet for individuals and

other businesses or organizations.

LAN: Local Area Network. A LAN is a group of computers and devices connected together in a relatively small

area (such as a house or an office). Your home network is considered a LAN.

MAC Address: MAC stands for Media Access Control. A MAC address is the hardware address of a device connected

to a network. The MAC address is a unique identifier for a device with an Ethernet interface. It is comprised of tw o

parts: 3 bytes of data that corresponds to the Manufacturer ID (unique for each manufacturer), plus 3 bytes that

are often used as the product‟s serial number.

NAT: Network Address Translation. This process allows all of the computers on your home network to use one IP

address. Using the broadband router‟s NAT capability, you can access the Internet from any computer on your

home network without having to purchase more IP addresses from your ISP.