NetComm NTC-5908, NTC-5909 Quick Start Manual

NetComm NTC-5000 CallDirect Series HSPA Cellular Routers

Quick Start Guide

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Quick Start Guide

Thank you for choosing an industrial HSPA Cellular Router of NetComm’s NTC-5000 CallDirect Series. This guide covers the models NTC-5908 and NTC-5909 (collectively referred to in this document as the NTC-5000 series). This guide will provide a series of step by step

instructions to ensure the conguration of your Cellular Router goes as

smoothly as possible.

Firstly please check that you have received all the items in your package.

No. Description

1 NTC-5000 Series HSPA Cellular Router

1 Crossover Ethernet Cable

1 Power Supply Unit

1 Antennas

1 Quick Start Guide

Overview of LEDs

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Overview of Indicator Lights

LED Display Description

POWER (red) Solid ON The red Power LED indicates correct power is

applied to the DC power input jack.

Tx /Rx (amber) Solid ON The amber LED will light upon data being sent to or

received from the cellular network.

DCD (green) Solid ON The amber Carrier Detect LED illuminates to indicate

a Data connection.

Service Type (green) The green LED will illuminate when cellular network coverage is

detected.

Solid ON 3G: indicates UMTS/HSPA available coverage

Blinking EDGE: indicates EDGE available coverage

Off 2G: indicates GSM/GPRS available coverage only.

RSSI (green) This green LED indicates the Received Signal Strength. There are

three possible states that the RSSI LED can operate in, based upon

signal level.

Solid ON STRONG - Indicates the RSSI level is -86dBm, or

greater

Flashing

once per

second

MEDIUM - Indicates the RSSI level is -101dBm and

–86dBm, (medium)

Off POOR - Indicates the RSSI level is less than

-101dBm (poor)

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Overview of the Cellular Router Interfaces

5 Indicator LEDs

Indicate visually the activities and connection state for power, service type, data traffic, data carrier

Main Antenna Socket

SMA Female

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5 Indicator LEDs

Indicate visually the activities and connection state for power, service type, data traffic, data carrier

Ethernet Port

Connect to a terminal using RJ45 cable or a number of terminals through a hub or network router

Reset Button

Resetting the router to factory default values

SIM Card Reader

For insertion and removal of SIM Card

2-Way Captive Power Terminal Block

Power terminal block and the wide voltage range of 8-28V DC simplify the installation in different industrial environments

+ -

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Overview of Cellular Router Interfaces

Field Description

Antenna socket SMA Female

5 Indicator LEDs Indicate visually the activities and connection state for power,

service type, data trafc, data carrier connection and network

signal strength.

2-Way Captive Power

Terminal Block

Power terminal block and the wide voltage range of 8-28V DC

to simplify the installation in different industrial environments

Reset Button Resetting the router to factory default values

Ethernet Port For direct connection to your device or number of devices

through a hub or network router.

SIM Card Reader For insertion and removal of SIM Card

Conguring Your Router

You will need the following hardware components to set up the router:

Power Supply (8-28VDC)

Ethernet cable

Laptop or PC

Active SIM card

Before you power up the Cellular Router, please insert an active SIM card.

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Step One: Inserting the SIM Card

Press the SIM Eject button to eject the SIM card tray. Place the SIM card in the tray with the gold side facing up. Insert both into the bay with the gold side facing down and in the direction as shown below.

Insert SIM card

Press the SIM Eject button

Step Two: Setting up the Cellular Router

Install the supplied antennas to the Cellular Router by screwing them onto the antenna connectors. Connect the power adapter to the mains and plug the output into the power jack of the router. The red Power LED on the panel should illuminate.

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Step Three: Preparing your Computer

Connect one end of the supplied Ethernet cable to the Ethernet port of your router and connect the other end to the Ethernet port of your PC. The router

is congured using a web browser. In order for your PC to connect to the router, congure your PC to obtain an IP address automatically from the

router using DHCP. Windows users may use the following procedure.

Conguring your Network Adapter in Windows

Follow the path Start -> Control Panel -> Network Connections. Right click Local Area Connection and select Properties to open the

conguration dialogue box of Local Area Connection as below:

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Find and click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) from the protocol list box and then click the Properties button The TCP/IP. Conguration window will pop up as illustrated below.

Under General tab, select radio button Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically.

Then click OK button to close TCP/IP conguration window.

Click the Close button to complete the computer preparation.

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Step Four: Accessing your Router’s Conguration Pages

There are two system management accounts for maintaining the system, root and admin.

Each has slightly different levels of management capabilities.

The admin account allows a lower level of privileges suitable for managing

more common router settings excluding rmware upgrades, device conguration backup, restore and reset to factory defaults.

The root manager account has full privileges to change all settings of the router. To login to the Cellular Router in root manager mode, please use the following login details:

http://192.168.1.1

Username: root

Password: admin

To login to the Cellular Router in admin manager mode, please use the following login details:

http://192.168.1.1

Username: admin

Password: admin

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Step Five: Unlocking the SIM

If the SIM card is locked you will need to unlock it with a PIN provided with

your SIM card. You can nd out if the SIM is locked by viewing the SIM

Status on the Home page.

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If the SIM Status is ENTER PIN or SIM LOCKED as above then do the following:

Click on the ‘Security’ link.

When you click on the ‘Security’ link you should see the following message.

Click OK.

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Next, enter the PIN code and conrm the PIN code. Then click Save.

Now Click on the link and the Home Status page should look as

below with SIM Status OK.

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Step Six: Connect to the Cellular Network

This section describes how to set up the Cellular Router to initiate a wireless WAN connection via PPP. There are 2 different ways:

Initiating the PPP Connection directly from the Cellular Router acting

as the PPP Client (most common).

Initiating the PPP Connection from a different PPP client

(i.e. laptop or router) with the Cellular Router running in PPPoE mode. This method is not documented in this quick start guide.

Initiating a PPP Connection from the Cellular Router

Click the Internet Settings > WWAN (3G) link on top panel of the status page to open the Connection page.

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To Connect Using a Connection Prole

The WWAN (3G) proles allow you to congure the settings that the router

will use to connect to the cellular network.

Check the list of pre-congured prole names and select the prole with the

APN name that you wish to connect to.

Click Auto Connect Enable.

Click Save.

Auto Connect will have the router connect automatically unless you come back to this page and disable it.

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Click on the link to return to the status page. To conrm the success

of the connection in the PPP eld, the PPP status should be ‘up’ and the

current IP address that the network has allocated should appear.

Congratulations - your new NetComm NTC-5000 CallDirect Series Router is now ready to use!

For more detailed information on the conguration and activation of other

features, please visit our website www.netcomm-commercial.com.au and download the user guide.

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Notes:

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Product Warranty

NetComm products have a standard 12 months warranty from date of purchase.

Technical Support

For rmware updates or if you have any technical difculties with your

product, please refer to the support section of our website.

www.netcomm-commercial.com.au/support

NETCOMM LIMITED Head Ofce PO Box 1200, Lane Cove NSW 2066 Australia

P: 02 8205 3888 F: 02 9424 2010 E: sales@netcomm.com.au

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