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Wireless N Gigabit Broadband

Router

User’s Manual

Version: 1.0

(January, 2010)

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Copyright ©2010/2011 by this company. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written permission of this company

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

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Federal Communication Commission

Interference Statement

FCC Part 15

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

1. Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

2. Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.

3. Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to

which the receiver is connected.

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

FCC Caution

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

This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

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

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Federal Communication Commission (FCC) Radiation Exposure Statement

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

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

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

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R&TTE Compliance Statement

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

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

Safety

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

EU Countries Intended for Use

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

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

EU Countries Not intended for use

None.

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CATALOG

CHAPTER I: PRODUCT INFORMATION

1-1 Introduction and safety information

1-2 Safety Information

1-3 System Requirements

1-4 Package Contents

1-5 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 95/98/Me IP address setup 2-2-2 Windows 2000 IP address setup 2-2-3 Windows XP IP address setup 2-2-4 Windows Vista IP address setup 2-2-5 Router IP address lookup

2-3 Using ‘Quick Setup’ 2-3-1 Setup procedure for ‘Cable Modem’ 2-3-2 Setup procedure for ‘Fixed-IP xDSL’ 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

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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’ 2-5-9 Setup procedure for ‘WISP’

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

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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

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CHAPTER IV: APPENDIX

4-1 Hardware Specification

4-2 Troubleshooting

4-3 Glossary

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Chapter I: Product Information

1-1 Introduction and safety information

Thank you for purchasing this wireless N gigabit 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 – up to 1000Mbps. 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!

With built-in IEEE 802.11b/g/Draft-N wireless network capability, all computers and wireless-enabled network devices (including PDA, cellular phone, game console, and more!) can connect to this wireless router without additional cabling. New Draft-N wireless capability also

gives you the highest speed of wireless experience ever! With a compatible wireless card installed in your PC, you can transfer file for up to 300Mbps (transfer data rate)! The radio coverage is also doubled, so don’t worry if your office or house is really big!

Other features of this router including:

• High Internet Access throughput

• Allow multiple users to share a single Internet line

• Share a single Cable or xDSL internet connection

• Access private LAN servers from the internet

• Four wired LAN ports (10/100/1000M) and one WAN port

(10/100/1000M)

• 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, S tation-Infrastructure,

Wireless Bridge and Universal Repeater.

• Support WISP mode for accessing Internet through wireless network

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• 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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USB Port 2.0 x 2 (These two USB ports are for storage sharing, only an

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option for this product.)

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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:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. If you smell something strange, or even see some smoke coming out from the router or power supply, remove the power supply or switch the

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electrical power off immediately, and call dealer of purchase for help.

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1-3 System Requirements

z Internet connection, provided by xDSL or cable modem with a RJ-45

Ethernet port.

z Computer or network devices with wired or wireless network interface

card.

z Web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or above, Netscape

Navigator 4.7 or above, Opera web browser, or Safari web browser).

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

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1-4 Package Contents

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

□ Broadband Router (main body, 1 pcs)…………………………… 1 □ Quick Installation Guide (1 pcs) ………………………………… 2 □ User Manual CDROM (1 pcs) ………………………………….. 3

□ A/C Power Adapter (1 pcs) ……………………………………..... 4

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1-5 Familiar with your new wireless broadband router

Front Panel

LED Name Light Status Description

On Router is switched on and correctly powered.

PWR

Off Router is switched off.

On Wireless WPS function is enabled.

WLAN

WAN LNK/ACT

LAN 1-4 LNK/ACT

WAN 1000M

Off Wireless network is switched off.

Flashing Wireless LAN activity (transferring or receiving data).

On WAN port is connected.

Off WAN port is not connected.

Flashing WAN activity (transferring or receiving data).

On LAN port is connected.

Off LAN port is not connected.

Flashing LAN activity (transferring or receiving data).

On WAN port is connected and running at 1000Mbps.

Off WAN port is not connected.

WAN activity (transferring or receiving data at

Flashing

1000Mbps).

LAN 1-4 1000M

On LAN port is connected and running at 1000Mbps.

Off LAN port is not connected.

LAN activity (transferring or receiving data at

Flashing

1000Mbps).

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Back Panel

Antenna A

Item Name Description

Antenna A/B It is a 3dBi dipole antenna.

Antenna B

Radio ON/OFF Switch the button to activate or deactivate the wireless functions.

After switching the button, the router will be reset automatically for enabling the new setting.

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:

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

Ethernet cable.

2. 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.

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3. Connect the A/C power adapter to the wall socket, and then connect

it to the ‘Power’ socket of the router.

4. 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 Tr oubleshootin g’ for possible reasons and solution.

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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:

If the operating system of your computer is….

Windows 95/98/Me - please go to section 2-2-1

Windows 2000 - please go to section 2-2-2 Windows XP - please go to section 2-2-3 Windows Vista - please go to section 2-2-4

2-2-1 Windows 95/98/Me IP address setup:

1. Click ‘Start’ button (it should be located at lower-left corner of your

computer), then click control panel. Double-click Network icon, and Network window will appear. Select ‘TCP/IP’, then click ‘Properties’.

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2. Select ‘Obtain an IP address from a DHCP server’ and then click ‘OK’.

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2-2-2Windows 2000 IP address setup:

1. Click ‘Start’ button (it should be located at lower-left corner of your computer), then click control panel. Double-click Network and Dial-up

Connections icon; click Local Area Connection, and Local Area Connection Properties window will appear. Select ‘Internet Protocol

(TCP/IP)’ and then click ‘Properties’

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2. Select ‘Obtain an IP address automatically’ and ‘Obtain DNS server address automatically’, then click ‘OK’.

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2-2-3Windows XP IP address setup:

1. 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’

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2. Select ‘Obtain an IP address automatically’ and ‘Obtain DNS server address automatically’, then click ‘OK’.

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2-2-4Windows Vista IP address setup:

1. 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’

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2. Select ‘Obtain an IP address automatically’ and ‘Obtain DNS server address automatically’, then click ‘OK’.

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2-2-5 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 192.168.2.1, 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.

3. 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:

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Please input user name and password in the field respectively, default user name is ‘admin’, and default password is ‘1234’, then press ‘OK’ button, and you can see the web management interface of this router:

NOTE: If you can’t see the web management interface, and you’re being prompted to input user name and password again, it means you didn’t input username and password correctly. Please retype user name and password again. If you’re certain about the user name and password you type are correct, please go to ‘4-2 Troubleshooting’ to perform a factory reset, to set the password back to default value.

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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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HERE!

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 ‘QuickSetup’ button.

And the following message will be displayed:

1. Set Time Zone

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Time Zone (1): Please press

button, a drop-down list

will be shown, and you can choose a time zone of

the location you live.

Time Server Input the IP address / host name of time server Address (2): here

Daylight If the country you live uses daylight saving, Savings(3): please check ‘Enable Function’ box, and choose

the duration of daylight saving.

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

NOTE: There are several time servers available on internet:

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

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

2. Broadband Type

129.6.15.28 (time-a.nist.gov)

131.107.1.10 (time-nw.nist.gov)

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

Cable Modem - Please go to section 2-3-1 Fixed-IP xDSL - Please go to section 2-3-2 PPPoE xDSL - Please go to section 2-3-3 PPTP xDSL - Please go to section 2-3-4 L2TP xDSL - 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 ‘Cable Modem’ as Internet connection type, even you’re using another connection type, like xDSL. Also, some cable modem uses PPPoE, so you can choose ‘PPPoE xDSL’ for such cable modem connection, even you’re using a cable modem.

2-3-1 Setup procedure for ‘Cable Modem’:

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

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

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

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

if your service provider only permits computer with certain MAC address to access internet. If you’re using the computer which used to connect to Internet via cable modem, you can simply press ‘Clone Mac’ button to fill the MAC address field with the MAC address of your computer.

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

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

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

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

provider.

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

provider

DNS address (3): Please input the IP address of DNS server

provided by your service provider.

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Default Gateway (4): Please input the default gateway assigned 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’ (5); if you want to go back to previous menu, click ‘Back’.

NOTE: Yo u 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.

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

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

1 2 3 4 5 6

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

service provider here.

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

Internet service provider here.

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

optional

MTU (4): Please input the MTU value of your network

connection here. If you don’t know, you can use default value.

Connection Please select the connection type of Internet Type (5): connection you wish to use (detailed explanation

listed below).

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

listed below).

When you finish with all settings, please click ‘OK’ (7); if you want to go back to previous menu, click ‘Back’.

MTU - Please use default value if you don’t know what it is, or ask your service provider for a proper value.

Connection Type - There are 3 options: ‘Continuous’ - keep internet connection alive, do not disconnect, connect on Demand - only connects to Internet when there’s a connect attempt, and ‘Manual’ only connects to Internet when ‘Connect’ button on this page is pressed, and disconnects when ‘Disconnect button is pressed.

Idle Time Out: Specify the time to shutdown internet connect after no internet activity is detected by minute. This option is only available when connection type is ‘Connect on Demand’.

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

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

Select the type of how you obtain IP address from your service provider here. You can choose ‘Obtain an IP address automatically’ (equal to DHCP, please refer to ‘Cable Modem’ section above), or ‘Use the following IP address’ (i.e. static IP address). WAN interface settings must be correctly set, or the Internet connection will fail even those settings of PPTP settings are correct. Please contact your Internet service provider if you don’t know what you should fill in these fields.

Now please go to PPTP settings section:

3 4 5 6

7 8

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

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

Internet service provider here.

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

Internet service provider here.

PPTP Please input the IP address of PPTP gateway Gateway (3): assigned by your Internet service provider here.

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

MTU (5): Please input the MTU value of your network

connection here. If you don’t know, you can use default value.

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

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

Connection Please select the connection type of Internet type (7): connection you wish to use, please refer to last

section for detailed descriptions.

Idle Time Please input the idle time out of Internet Out (8): connection you wish to use, and refer to last

section for detailed descriptions.

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

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

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

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connection.

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

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

WAN interface settings must be correctly set, or the Internet connection will fail even those settings of L2TP settings are correct. Please contact your Internet service provider if you don’t know what you should fill in these fields.

Now please go to L2TP settings section:

1 2

3 4

5 6

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

User Name (1): Please input user ID (user name) assigned by your Internet service provider here.

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

Internet service provider here.

L2TP Gateway (3): Please input the IP address of L2TP gateway

assigned by your Internet service provider here.

MTU (4): Please input the MTU value of your network

connection here. If you don’t know, you can use default value.

Connection Please select the connection type of Internet type (5): connection you wish to use, please refer to last

section for detailed descriptions.

Idle Time Please input the idle time out of Internet Out (6): connection you wish to use, and refer to last

section for detailed descriptions.

When you finish with all settings, please click ‘OK (7); if you want to go back to previous menu, click ‘Back’.

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

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4 5

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

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

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

Assign login Check this box to choose login server manually (3): server by yourself.

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

When you finish with all settings, click ‘OK (5); 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:

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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.

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

To change password, please follow the following instructions:

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

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Current Please input current password here. Password (1):

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

Confirmed Please input new password here again. Password (3):

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

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

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

If you see the following message:

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

If the current and new passwords are correctly entered, after you click ‘Apply’, you’ll be prompted to input your new password:

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

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:

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

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

initiate a management access.

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

expect an incoming request. If you’re providing a web service (default port number is 80), you should try to use other port number. You can use the default port setting ‘8080’, or something like ‘32245’ or ‘1429’. (Any integer between 1 and

65534)

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

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

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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 (1) or right (2). 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

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DDNS - Please go to section 2-5-8 WISP - Please go to section 2-5-9

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

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

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

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

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

your service provider only permits computer with certain MAC address to access internet. If you’re using the computer which used to connect to Internet via cable modem, you can simply press ‘Clone Mac’ button to fill the MAC address field with the MAC address of your computer,

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

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

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Please click ‘Continue’ (1) 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).

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

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

IP Addr ess( 1): Please input IP address assigned by your

service provider.

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

service provider

Default Gateway (3): Please input the IP address of the gateway

provided by your service provider.

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After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ (4) button and the

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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.

2-5-3 Setup procedure for ‘PPPoE’:

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

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

service provider here.

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

Internet service provider here.

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

optional

MTU (4): Please input the MTU value of your network

connection here. If you don’t know, you can use default value.

Connection Please select the connection type of Internet Type (5): connection you wish to use.

Continuous – The connection will be kept always on. If the connection is interrupted, the router will re-connect automatically.

Connect On-Demand – Only connect when you want to surf the Internet. “Idle Time Out” is set to stop the connection when the network traffic is not sending or receiving after an idle time.

Manual – After you have selected this option, you will see the “Connect” button and “Disconnect” button, click “’Connect” and the router will connect to the ISP. If you want to stop the connection, please click “Disconnect” button.

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

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

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

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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). Here we start from WAN interface setting:

WAN interface settings must be correctly set, or the Internet connection will fail even those settings of PPTP settings are correct. Please contact

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your Internet service provider if you don’t know what you should fill in these fields.

Now please go to PPTP settings section:

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

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

Internet service provider here.

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

Internet service provider here.

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

assigned by your Internet service provider here.

Connection ID (4): Please input the connection ID here, this is

optional and you can leave it blank.

MTU (5): Please input the MTU value of your network

connection here. If you don’t know, you can use default value.

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

Israel. Please enable this function.

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Connection Please select the connection type of Internet type (7): connection you wish to use, please refer to section

2-5-3 for detailed descriptions.

Idle Time Out (8): Please input the idle time out of Internet

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

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

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

2-5-5 Setup procedure for ‘L2TP’:

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

User ID (1): Please input user ID (user name) assigned by your

Internet service provider here.

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

service provider here.

L2TP Please input the IP address of L2TP gateway Gateway (3): assigned by your Internet service provider here.

MTU (4): Please input the MTU value of your network

connection here. If you don’t know, you can use default value.

Connection Please select the connection type of Internet connection type (5): you wish to use, please refer to section 2-5-3 for

detailed descriptions.

Idle Time Please input the idle time out of Internet connection Out (6): you wish to use, and refer to section 2-5-3 for detailed

descriptions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Assign login Check this box to choose login server by yourself. server manually (3):

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

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

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

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.

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

DNS Address (1): Please input the IP address of DNS server

provided by your service provider.

Secondary Please input the IP address of another DNS DNS Address (2): server provided by your service provider, this is

optional.

NOTE: Only IP address can be entered here; DO NOT use the hostname of DNS server! (i.e. only numeric characters and dots are accepted)

10.20.30.40……………………………………………………………… Correct dns.serviceprovider.com…………………………………………... Incorrect

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

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

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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.

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

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

‘Enabled’; otherwise please select ‘Disabled’.

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

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

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DDNS service provider.

Account / Input account or email of DDNS registration. E-Mail (4):

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

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

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

2-5-9 Setup procedure for ‘WISP’:

If your network service provided by your service provider is through wireless network, please select this mode. After you have connected the router to the access point of service provider wirelessly, please setup the WAN connection type in WAN page.

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Disable/Enable/ There are three selections for disable or disable staEnable (1): wireless ISP functions.

Disable: disable this function.

Enable: enable this function and the router can connect to the access points installed by your wireless service provider. Any clients associated to the router can access the Internet service through the wireless network.

Note: In this mode, if you are informed by your wireless ISP that the wireless settings of the access point is changed, please configure the router in this page for match the settings.

staEnable: enable this function and the router can only allow to be connected through wired Ethernet cable for WAN access service.

SSID (2): This is the name of wireless network. Input the

SSID name that your wirelesses ISP provide to

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you.

Channel Number (3):This is the radio frequency used to transmit and

receive the wireless signal. The wireless devices in the same network should follow the same setting. Select the channel designated by your wireless ISP.

Site Survey (4): Click ‘Select Site Survey’ button, then a “Wireless

Site Survey Table” will pop up. It will list all available access points nearby. Select the access point designated by your wireless ISP in the table and the router will join wireless network through this access point.

Security Setting (5): If the access point enables wireless security, you

have to follow the same settings in order to access the access point. Click to set security settings for this connection (Please go to section ‘2-7-3 Wireless Security’ for detailed instructions).

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

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

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2-6 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 m ost of computers to use dynamic IP address, it will save a lot of time on setting IP addresses for every computer, especially when there are a lot of computers in your network; for servers and network devices which will provide services to other computer and users that come from Internet, static IP address should be used, so other computes can locate the server.

Suggestions on IP address numbering plan:

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

network, here are some suggestions.

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

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

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

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

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

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Please follow the following instructions to set wired LAN parameters:

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

2-6-1 LAN IP section:

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

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

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

802.1d If you wish to activate 802.1d spanning tree Spanning T ree (3): function, select ‘Enabled’ for setup item ‘802.1d

Spanning Tree’, or set it to ‘Disabled’

DHCP Server (4): If you want to activate DHCP server function of

this router, select ‘Enabled’, or set it to ‘Disabled’.

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

IP Address: 192.168.2.1 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0

802.1d Spanning Tree: Disabled DHCP Server: Enabled

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2-6-2 DHCP Server:

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

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

computer can keep a specific IP address) of every IP address assigned by this router from dropdown menu.

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

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

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

domain name for your network. This is optional.

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

Lease Time: Two Weeks (or ‘Forever’, if you have less than 20 computers) Start IP: 192.168.2.100 End IP: 192.168.2.200 Domain Name: (leave it blank)

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).

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Enable Static Check this box to enable this function, DHCP Leases (1): otherwise uncheck it to disable this function.

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

network device (total 12 characters, with character from 0 to 9, and from a to f, like ‘001122aabbcc’)

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

computer or network device

‘Add’ (4): After you inputted MAC address and IP address

pair, click this button to add the pair to static DHCP leases table.

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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.

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If you want to delete a specific item, please check the ‘Select’ box of a MAC address and IP address mapping (1), then click ‘Delete Selected’ button (2); if you want to delete all mappings, click ‘Delete All’ (3). If you want to deselect all mappings, click ‘Reset (4).

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’ (1), then click ‘Apply’ (2) button.

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

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

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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:

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This wireless router can be work in 6 modes:

a. Access Point: Standard wireless AP .

b. Station-Infrastructure: Configure the router to Ethernet device such us TV, Game player, HDD&DVD to enable the Ethernet device be a wireless station.

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

d. AP Bridge-Point to Multi-Point: Connect this router with up to four other wireless routers, to expand the scope of network.

e. AP Bridge-WDS: Connect this router with up to four WDS-capable wireless routers, to expand the scope of network.

f. 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.

Please select a proper operation mode you want to use from ‘Mode’ dropdown menu (1), and continue on other operation mode specific settings:

AP - 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 (2), and the following message will be displayed:

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Band (2): Please select the radio band from one of following

options:

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

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

2.4 GHz (B+G) 2.4GHz band, only allows 802.11b and 802.1 1g

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

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

network client to connect this router (maximum transfer rate 11Mbps).

network client to connect this router (maximum transfer rate 150Mbps).

wireless network client to connect this router (maximum transfer rate 11Mbps for 802.11b clients, and maximum 54Mbps for 802.11g clients).

network client to connect this router (maximum transfer rate 54Mbps).

802.11n wireless network client to connect this router (maximum transfer rate 11Mbps for

802.11b clients, m aximum 54Mbps for 802.11g clients, and maximum 150Mbps for 802.11n clients).

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

any alphanumerical characters here, maximum 32 characters. SSID is used to identify your own wireless router from others when there are other wireless routers in the same area. Default SSID is ‘default’, it’s recommended to change default SSID value to the one which is meaningful to you, like myhome, office_room1, etc.

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

‘Channel Number’, available channel numbers are 1 to 13 for European countries, 1 to 11 for USA. You can choose any channel number you want to use, and almost all wireless clients can locate the channel you’re using automatically without any problem. However, it’s still useful to r emember the channel number you use, some wireless client supports manual channel number select, and this would help in certain scenario when there is some radio communication problem.

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

“Active Wireless Client Table” will pop up. You can see the status of all active wireless stations that are connecting to the access point.

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 tr y 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.

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Band (2): Select the band you want to use.

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

the SSID of the network you would like to connect here.

Site Survey (4): 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:

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

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Band (2): Select the band you want to use, two wireless

routers must use the same setting.

Channel Select the channel you want to use, two wireless Number (3): routers must use the same setting.

MAC address 1(4): Input the MAC address of another wireless router.

Security Click to setting security for this connection Settings (5): (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.

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Band (2): Select the band you want to use, all the wireless

routers must use the same setting.

Channel Select the channel you want to use, all the wireless Number (3): routers must use the same setting.

MAC address Input the MAC address of other wireless routers. 1 to 4 (4 - 7):

Security Click to set security settings for this connection Setting (8): (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.

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Band (2): Select the band you want to use, all the wireless

routers must use the same setting.

SSID (3): Input the SSID of your wireless router, the setting

should be the same with other wireless routers for the convenience of roaming.

Channel Select the channel you want to use, all the wireless Number (4): routers must use the same setting.

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

“Active Wireless Client Table” will pop up. You can see the status of all active wireless stations that are connecting to the access point.

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MAC address Input the MAC address of other wireless routers. 1 to 4 (6 - 9):

Security Click to set security settings for this connection Setting (10): (Please go to section ‘2-7-3 Wireless Security’ for

detailed instructions).

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.

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Band (2): Select the band you want to use, all the wireless

routers must use the same setting.

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

any alphanumerical characters here, maximum 32 characters. SSID is used to identify your own wireless router from others when there are other wireless routers in the same area. Default SSID is ‘default’, it’s recommended to change default ESSID value to the one which is meaningful to you, like myhome, office_room1, etc.

Channel Select the channel you want to use, all the wireless Number (4): clients must use the same setting.

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

“Active Wireless Client Table” will pop up. You can see the status of all active wireless stations that are connecting to the access point.

Root AP SSID (6): 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 (7): 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.

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

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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 Set the Fragment threshold of wireless radio. Threshold ( 1): Do not modify default value if you don’t know

what it is, default value is 2346.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Data Rate (5): Set the wireless data transfer rate to a certain

value. Since most of wireless devices will negotiate with each other and pick a proper data transfer rate automatically, it’s not necessary to change

this value unless you know what will happen after modification.

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

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

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

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

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

Broadcast ESSID (9): Decide if the wireless router will broadcast its

own ESSID or not. You can hide the ESSID of your wireless router (set the option to ‘Disable’), so

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only people those who know the ESSID of your wireless router can get connected.

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

radio signal collisions between 802.11b and

802.11g/n wireless access points. It’s recommended to set this option to ‘Auto’ or ‘Always’. However, if you set to ‘None’, your wireless router should be able to work fine, too.

WMM (11): The short of Wi-Fi MultiMedia, it will enhance the

data transfer performance of multimedia contents when they’re being transferred over wireless network. If you don’t know what it is / not sure if

you need it, it’s safe to set this option to ‘Enable’, however, default value is ‘Disable’.

After you finish these wireless settings, please click ‘Apply’ (12) button, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

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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.

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:

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

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

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

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

When you select a key format, the number of characters of key will be displayed. For example, if you select ’64-bit’ as key length, and ‘Hex’ as key format, you’ll see the message at the right of ‘Key Format’ is ‘Hex (10 characters), which means the length of WEP key is 10 characters.

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

can decide which key is being used by default here.

If you don’t know which one you should use, select ‘Key 1’.

Encryption Key Input WEP key characters here, the number of 1 to 4 (5-8): characters must be the same as the number

displayed at ‘Key Format’ field. You can use any alphanumerical characters (0-9, a-z, and A-Z) if you select ‘ASCII’ key format, and if you select ‘Hex’ as key format, you can use characters 0-9, a-f, and A-F. You must enter at least one encryption key here, and if you entered multiple WEP keys, they should not be same with each other.

Enable 802.1x IEEE 802.1x is an authentication protocol. Every Authentication (9): user must use a valid account to login to this

wireless router before accessing the wireless LAN. The authentication is processed by a RADIUS server. This mode only authenticates user by IEEE

802.1x, but it does not encryption the data during communication. If there is a RADIUS server in you environment, please enable this function. Check this box and another sub-menu will appear:

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RADIUS Server Please input the IP address of radius IP address (11): server here

RADIUS Server Please input the port number of radius Port (12): server here.

RADIUS Server Please input the port number of radius Password (13): password here.

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

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 (10) and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

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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:

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WPA Unicast Please select a type of WPA cipher suite. Cipher Suite (2): Available options are: WPA (TKIP), WPA2 (AES),

and WPA2 Mixed. You can select one of them, but you have to make sure your wireless client support

the cipher you selected. Pre-shared Select the type of pre-shared key, you Key Format (3): can select Passphrase (8 or more alphanumerical

characters, up to 63), or Hex (64 characters of 0-9,

and a-f). Pre-shared Please input the WPA passphrase here. Key (4): It’s not recommended to use a word that can be

found in a dictionary due to security reason.

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

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.

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WPA Unicast Please select a type of WPA cipher suite. Cipher Suite (2): Available options are: WPA (TKIP), WPA2 (AES),

and WPA2 Mixed. You can select one of them, but

you have to make sure your wireless client support

the cipher you selected.

RADIUS Server Please input the IP address of your IP address (3): Radius authentication server here.

RADIUS Server Please input the port number of your Port (4): Radius authentication server here. Default setting

is 1812.

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

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

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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:

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

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

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

check the ‘select’ box of the MAC address you

want to delete, then click ‘Delete Selected’ button.

(You can select more than one MAC addresses).

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

please click ‘Delete All’ button.

Enable To enforce MAC address filtering, Access Control (4): you have to check ‘Enable Wireless Access

Control’. When this item is unchecked, wireless

router will not enforce MAC address filtering of

wireless clients.

MAC Address (5): Input the MAC address of your wireless devices

here, dash ( - ) or colon ( : ) are not required. (i.e. If the MAC address label of your wireless device indicates ‘aa-bb-cc-dd-ee-ff ’ or ‘aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff ’, just input ‘aabbccddeeff’.

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

MAC address, like ‘ROOM 2A Computer’ or anything. 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 (7): Click ‘Add’ button to add the MAC address and

associated comment to the MAC address filtering table.

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

MAC address and comment field.

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

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

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

to disable WPS.

WPS Information (2):WPS-re lated 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 (3): There are ‘Registrar’ and ‘Enrollee’ modes for the

WPS connection. When ‘Registrar’ is enabled, the

wireless clients will follow the router’s wireless

settings for WPS connection. When ‘Enrolle’ mode

is enabled, the router will follow the wireless

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settings of wireless client for WPS connection.

Configure Click ‘Start PBC’ to start Push-Button style WPS by Push Button (4): setup procedure. This wireless router will wait for

WPS requests from wireless clients for 2 minutes.

The ‘WLAN’ LED on the wireless router will be

steady on for 2 minutes when this wireless router is

waiting for incoming WPS request.

Configure by client Please input the PIN code of the wireless client PinCode (5): 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 Wir e less 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 follow the following instructions to set QoS parameters:

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

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Here are descriptions of every setting:

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

this box if you don’t want to enforce QoS

bandwidth limitations.

Total Download You can set the limit of total download Bandwidth (2): bandwidth in kbits. To disable download

bandwidth limitation, input ‘0’ here.

Total Upload You can set the limit of total upload Bandwidth (3): bandwidth in kbits. To disable upload bandwidth

limitation, input ‘0’ here.

Current QoS All existing QoS rules will be displayed here. Table (4):

Add (5): Click ‘add’ button to add a new QoS rule, see

section 3-1-2 ‘Add a new QoS rule’ below.

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

please check the ‘select’ box of the rule you want

to edit, then click ‘Edit’ button. Only one rule

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

rule before clicking ‘Edit’ button, you’ll be

prompted to add a new rule.

Delete (7): 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 (8): By clicking this button, you can delete all rules

currently in the QoS table. If the QoS table is

empty, this button will be grayed out and can not

be clicked.

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