Huawei B970 User Manual

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Vodafone B970

3G Router from Vodafone

User Guide

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Safety Precautions

Read the safety precautions carefully to ensure the correct and safe use of your wireless device. For detailed information, see "Warnings and Precautions."

Do not switch on your device when the device use is prohibited or when the device use may cause interference or danger.

Do not use your device while driving.

Follow the rules or regulations in hospitals and health care facilities. Switch off your device near medical apparatus.

Switch off your device in an aircraft. The device may cause interference to control signals of the aircraft.

Switch off your device near high-precision electronic devices. The device may affect the performance of these devices.

Do not attempt to disassemble your device or its accessories. Only qualified personnel are allowed to service or repair the device.

Do not place your device or its accessories in containers with strong electromagnetic field.

Do not place magnetic storage media near your device. Radiation from the device may erase the information stored on them.

Do not put your device in a hightemperature place or use it in a place with flammable gas such as a gas station.

Keep your device and its accessories away from children. Do not allow children to use your device without guidance.

Use approved accessories only to avoid explosion.

Observe the laws or regulations on device

use. Respect others’ privacy and legal rights when using your device.

Table of Contents 1 Using the Management Page 1

Logging In to the Management Page ........ 1

Management Page Overview .....................1

Viewing Configuration Info .........................2

Optimized Settings ..................................... 2

Quick Setup ................................................ 2

Accessing the Internet ................................4

Configuring Your Computer 6

Wireless Configuration ...............................6

Configuring the PC Network .......................7

Advanced Settings 8

Overview ....................................................8

System Management .................................8

SIM Settings .............................................10

Mobile Network Settings........................... 11

Dial-up Settings ........................................12

DHCP Settings ........................................13

WLAN Settings .........................................14

Dynamic DNS Settings ............................17

Static Route Settings ................................18

Security Settings (Optional) 19

Firewall Switch .........................................19

LAN MAC Filter ........................................19

LAN IP Filter .............................................19

Virtual Server............................................20

DMZ Settings............................................ 21

UPnP Settings.......................................... 21

Remote Management .............................. 21

Troubleshooting 23 Abbreviations 25

1Using the Management Page

Logging In to the Management Page

1 Start the Internet browser and enter the address

http://192.168.1.1 in the address bar.

2 Enter the password, and then click Login.The

default password is admin.

To avoid the configuration conflict, only one

Note

user is allowed to log in to the management page at a time.

Management Page Overview

Operation Functions

The following table shows the main operations in the management page.

Item Description

Basic Status Displays the parameter configuration

status of the device.

Item Description

Optimize

Quick Setup Quickly configures the device.

Connection Displays the network connection status

Advanced Settings

Security Configures the security settings.

Logout Log out of the management page.

Improves wlan's speed of transmission and increase Internet Explorer if its version is lower than IE 6.0.

and connects to the network.

Configures the advanced settings.

s the upload speed of

Device Status

The following table shows the status information of the device.

Item Green icon Red icon

SIM The card is valid.

WAN The PPP dial-up

connection is established.

The card is not inserted or is invalid.

The PPP dial-up connection is not established.

Viewing Configuration Info

Item Green icon Red icon

WCDMA The WCDMA

network is available.

The WCDMA network is unavailable.

If the device is registered with

Note

other network modes, the corresponding network connection status is displayed.

SIG

The signal strength from weak to strong is shown as follows:

Viewing Configuration Info

On the configuration page, you can view the current parameter configuration information and the network connection status.

1 Click Basic Status.

2 Click Advanced on the right part of the page to

view the advanced status

3 Click Refresh to view the current status on the

advanced status page

Optimized Settings

In this page you can download a executable program which will modify some parameters in system. These parameters will improve wlan's speed of transmission and increase the upload speed of Internet Explorer if its version is lower than IE 6.0.

The executable program just needs to run once

Note

on each computer and the parameters will take effect after your system is rebooted.

1 Click Optimize.

2 Click Optimize download a executable program .

Quick Setup

You can use the quick setup wizard to configure and maintain the basic parameters of the device. Click

Quick Setup to access the welcome page. Click Next to configure the PPP profile settings.

Quick Setup

Configuring PPP Profile Settings

• Profile Name: Enter a profile name when the text box is empty.

• Dial-up Number/PPP User Name/PPP Password: Enter these three parameters provided by the internet service provider (ISP). The dial-up number is used to initiate the network call; the PPP user name and PPP password is used to obtain the service authorization provided by the ISP.

• APN/IP Address: Select the mode for obtaining the access point name (APN) and IP address. If the service provider provides the relevant parameters, select Static and enter their values. Otherwise, select Dynamic and the device automatically obtains them.

Configuring PPP Dial-up Settings

PPP Connection: Select the dial-up access mode.

• Auto: The device automatically connects to the Internet and does not disconnect when no data is transmitted.

• On Demand: The device automatically connects to the Internet when data transmission exists. When the duration of no data transmission exceeds the maximum idle time, the device disconnects the Internet connection.

• Manual: The device connects to the Internet after you click Connect on the connection page. For details, see

Accessing the Internet".

PPP Authentication: This service is provided by your ISP. For details, consult your ISP.

Configuring WLAN Settings

(Name) SSID: Enter a name for your wireless local

area network (WLAN).

• The service set identifier (SSID) is used to identify a WLAN. A PC and the wireless device can perform normal data communication only when they have the same SSIDs. To ensure the WLAN security, do not use the default SSID. You can enter a character string as the SSID, such as MyHome.

SSID Broadcast: Enable or disable the SSID broadcast.

• Enabled: The device broadcasts the SSID of the WLAN and users can easily access the WLAN. In this case, unauthorized users can also access the WLAN because the SSID is broadcasted.

• Disabled: The device does not broadcast the SSID of the WLAN. Before accessing the WLAN, a user must obtain the SSID of the WLAN. In this case, the WLAN security is improved.

For the convenience of users accessing the

Note

WLAN, you can select Enabled for SSID Broadcast when you configure the WLAN

Using the Management Page

Accessing the Internet

setting. After the setting, you can select

Disabled to improve the WLAN security.

Configuring WLAN Encryption

To access the WLAN, you must set the wireless security key on your PC to be the same as that of the wireless device.

No Encryption

• For the convenience of users accessing the WLAN, you can select NO ENCRYPTION for the Encryption mode when you set up a WLAN. It is not recommended to select this option in daily use.

WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK

• WPA-PSK: It is a 256-bit data encryption method that can automatically change the key.

• WPA2-PSK: It is a more secure version of WPA-PSK and it supports the IEEE 802.11 standard.

• WPA Encryption Algorithm: TKIP, AES, TKIP+AES.

• WPA Pre-Shared Key: You can enter a 64-character hexadecimal value or 8 the key. The ASCII value contains all characters that can be entered through the PC keyboard, and the hexadecimal value contains numbers of 0 characters of A ASCII value of 1234abcde as the key.

• Network Key Rotation Interval: It is used to set how long a network key is dynamically changed. By default,

-63-character ASCII value as

-F. For example, you can enter the

-9 and

it is 0. To disable this function, you can set the value to 0 or null.

WEP

• Wireless Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is a 64-bit or 128-bit data encryption method. The 128-bit WEP encryption provides higher security level.

• Network key 1: You can enter 5 ASCII characters or 10-character hexadecimal numeral to form a 64-bit key. You can also enter 13 ASCII characters or 26-character hexadecimal numeral to form a 128-bit key.

Validating Quick Setup

The last page of the wizard displays all the settings you have configured.

• To accept the settings, click Finish.

• To change the settings, click Back.

• To quit the settings, click Cancel.

Accessing the Internet

1 Click Connection.

• If you are required to enter the PIN code,

Note

enter the correct one. If you fail to enter the

correct PIN or PUK code, the network-related functions are unavailable.

• The SIM card is supplied by the service provider. For details, contact your service provider.

• When the Save PIN Code check box is selected, the Auto validation is enabled.

• If Auto validation is enabled, the PIN code is recorded and automatically validated after each restart.

2 If PPP Connection is Manual, click Connect /

Disconnect to connect to or disconnect from the

network.

If PPP Connection is Auto or On

Note

Demand, refresh the page to view the

current network connection status.

3 Wait for several minutes. If you are notified that

the connection is successful, you can start the browser and enter the website address to access the Internet.

Accessing the Internet

Using the Management Page

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