Zte MF28G Quick Manual

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MF28G

Quick Guide

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Welcome

Thank you for choosing ZTE MF28G Router (hereinafter
referred to as “unit” or “router”). To get the most from your
router and to keep it in the best condition, please read this
manual carefully.

The pictures, symbols and contents in this manual are for
your reference only. They might not be completely identical
with your router. ZTE operates a policy of continuous
development. We reserve the right to update the technical

specications in this manual at any time without prior notice.

General Precautions

Safety Precautions

• Some electronic devices may be susceptible to

electromagnetic interference. Locate the router away from
TV set, radio and other electronic equipment to avoid
electromagnetic interference.

• The router may interfere with medical devices like

hearing aids and pacemakers. Consult a physician or
the manufacturer of the medical device before using the
router.

• Please keep yourself at least 20 centimeters away from

router.

• Do not use your router in dangerous environments such

as oil terminals or chemical factories where there are
explosive gases or explosive products being processed.

• Please use original accessories or accessories that are

authorized by ZTE. Unauthorized accessories may affect
the router performance, damage the router or cause danger
to you.

• Do not attempt to dismantle the router. There are no user

serviceable parts.

• Do not allow the router or accessories to come into contact
with liquid or moisture at any time. Do not immerse the

router in any liquid.

• Do not place objects on top of the router. This may lead to

overheating of the device.

• The device must be placed in ventilation environment for

use.

• Do not expose the router to direct sunlight or store it

in hot areas. High temperature can shorten the life of
electronic devices.

• Do not allow children to play with the router or charger.

• Keep the length of the cable between the router and the

phone less than 10 meters.

• The router is for indoor use only. Do not use the router
outside. Do not connect telephone extensions which run

outside of the building. These can result in lightning
damage to your unit.

Cleaning and Maintaining

• Use an antistatic cloth to clean the router. Do not use

chemical or abrasive cleanser as these could damage the
plastic case. Turn off your router before you clean it.

• Use the router within the temperature range of -10℃ +55℃,

and the storage temperature range is -20℃～+60℃. The
humidity range is 5%~95%.

• Do not use your router during a thunderstorm. Remove

the mains power pack from the wall socket.

• Do not take out your USIM card unnecessarily. The USIM

card may be easily lost or it can be damaged by static
electricity.

Limited Warranty

• This warranty does not apply to defects or errors in the

Product caused by:

i. Reasonable Router Appearance Disguration.

ii. End User’s failure to follow ZTE’s installation,

operation or maintenance instructions or procedures.

iii. End User’s mishandling, misuse, negligence, or

improper installation, disassemble, storage, servicing
or operation of the Product.

iv. Modications or repairs not made by ZTE or a ZTE-

certied individual.

v. Power failures, surges, re, ood, accident, actions of

third parties or other events outside ZTE’s reasonable
control.

vi. Usage of products of third Parties, or usage in

conjunction with third party products provided that

such defects is due to the combined usage.

vii. Any other cause beyond the range of normal usage

for Products. End User shall have no right to reject,

return, or receive a refund for any Product from ZTE
under the above-mentioned situations.

Indicator

State Description

1 WAN signal strength

indication

ON

Signal strength is very good
or good (RSSI >= -90dBm)

Blinking

Signal strength is weak
(-100dBm < RSSI < -90dBm)

OFF No signal(RSSI < -100dBm)

2 Network mode

indication

Green Registered to 4G network

Blue Registered to 3G network

OFF Not Registered

3 WAN connection

status indication

ON Connected to Internet

Blinking Connecting to Internet

OFF Not connected to Internet

4 Phone status

indication (2) (not
supported)

Off

Local phone hang up or VoIP
network unregistered or
registration failure

Blinking

Phone picked up, ringing or
VoIP network registering

On

Local phone calling or VoIP
network registered

5 Phone status

indication (1) (not
supported)

Off

Local phone hang up or VoIP
network unregistered or
registration failure

Blinking

Phone picked up, ringing or
VoIP network registering

On

Local phone calling or VoIP
network registered

6 WiFi indication

Off WLAN shut down

On

WLAN working normally
with no data transmission

Blinking

WLAN working normally
with data transmission

7 Power indication

ON

Green--Once device has
been initialized and under
operational status
Red--Once power button is
pushed and device is being
initialized

OFF

Once power button is pushed
and device is powered off

Interface Description

1. Phone: Standard RJ11 connector for Telephone.

2. PSTN: Standard RJ11 connector for PSTN.

3. LAN1/WAN: Ethernet connections to internet.

4. LAN2~LAN4: Ethernet connections to computer.

5. ON/OFF: Turn the router ON or OFF.

6. Reset: To restore factory default configurations after
pressing for 7 seconds.

7. ANT: Connect with the external antenna.

8. PRESS ANT ON: To switch between internal antenna
and external antenna modes

9. POWER Socket: To power on the device or shut down
the power.

Connecting with External Power

Connect the external power adaptor to a standard power
outlet. Insert the plug into the socket at the rear of the router.

Switching on Your Device

1. Turn the power switch on to get started.

Notes:

Do not put anything on the top of the router. Do not lay

routers to overlap each other when using.

2. Wait 1~2 minutes after turning the router on before you

use the service. The 3G/4G & POWER indication LED

should be lit on.

Notes:

If the net mode indication LED is blinking constantly, try

to move the router to another location. The router takes
1~2 minutes to initialize, attach to the network and obtain
an IP address.

Power Supply

For normal operation, connect the router to the external power
adapter. In case of power failure or when there is no available
external power supply, the router will not work.

• This warranty is end user ’s sole remedy and ZTE's sole

liability for defective or nonconforming items, and is in
lieu of all other warranties, expressed, implied or statutory,
including but not limited to the implied warranties of

merchantability and tness for a particular purpose, unless

otherwise required under the mandatory provisions of the
law.

Limitation of Liability

ZTE shall not be liable for any loss of profits or indirect,
special, incidental or consequential damages resulting from
or arising out of or in connection with using of this product,
whether or not ZTE had been advised, knew or should have
known of the possibility of such damages, including, but not

limited to lost prots, interruption of business, cost of capital,

cost of substitute facilities or product, or any downtime cost.

Getting started

The router operates on the 4G(TDD2600/FDD2600/FDD800)

and 3G(2100/900) network and support data services.

Appearance

WPS button: To activate the PBC (Push Button Config)

function.

LED Indicator

LED Indicator

Interface

WPS ButtonUSB Jack

USIM
Port

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Notes:

You need to check your Wireless Network Connection.
Set the client to obtain an IP address automatically in the
Internet protocol (TCP/IP) properties, and the client will
get an IP address like”192.168.1.100”.

3. Select the SSID (3Bredband_XXXX) of your device, and

then click Connect. You nd the SSID and password on
the back side of your router.

Via RJ45 Ethernet cable

1. Connect your device and the client with the RJ45 Ethernet
cable.

2. Power on your device.

The connection between your device and the client will be

established successfully a moment later.

3. Wait a moment, the connection between your device and
the client will be established successfully.

Accessing the WebGUI Conguration Page

1. Make sure the connection between your device and the
client is correct.

2. Launch the internet browser and enter http://3.home or
http://192.168.1.1 in the address bar.

Notes:

It is recommended that you use IE (7.0 or later), Firefox

(3.0 or later), Opera (10.0 or later), Safari (4.0 or later) or
Chrome (5.0 or later).

Login

To make changes to your settings you need to login. You
login by pressing the login button in the upper right corner
alternatively by pressing any tab. On the page you will get a
pop up:

Select the desired language and input the password (the
default Password is Password).
Click Login to log in the device.

Notes:

If you check Save after type in password, the device will

save it. Next time when you want to login the device with
the same password, what you need to do is click Login.

Accessing the Internet

Before accessing the internet, make sure;

1. Switch on the device.

2. Establish a connection between your device and the client.

Accessing the Internet with Mobile Broadband

Note: Please make sure that you have install USIM card

before you switch on the device.

1. Login the WebGUI and set the Operation Mode as 4G
Gateway.

2. Set Advanced WAN Connection in WebGUI.

Accessing the Internet by Fixed Cable Broadband

1. Connect the device with LAN/WAN port.

2. Login the WebGUI and set the Operation Mode as Cable
Broadband mode.

3. Set Advanced WAN Connection in WebGUI.

Settings

After logging in, select SETTINGS, and you can do the
following operations.

Wireless Network

• Network Name (SSID): Service Set
Identifier (SSID). Enter a string less

than 32 characters as the name for your
wireless local area network (WLAN).

Security Mode

• Open: You can authenticate successfully
with a SSID without entering a

password.

• WPA2-PSK: It is the securer version of
WPA with implementation of the 802.11i
standard.

• WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK: Apply both the
WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK scheme.

WPA

• WPA Algorithm: AES mode only.

• Pass phrase: You can input hexadecimal

digits up to 64 characters or input
ASCII characters choose a length of 63
characters or less.

Wireless MAC
Fi4Gring

• Add MAC Fi4Gring Rule: Enable or
disable wireless.

• MAC address: Set the MAC address
that will be 4Gred.

WPS Cong • Enable or disable WPS.

Advanced Settings

Select ADVANCED, and you can do more advanced settings.

4G Settings

• You can configure how to connect

to the Internet, select network band,
Access Point Name settings, Enable or
disable roaming.

• This function is only available in 4G

Gateway mode.

Wi-Fi Settings

• View the current station list.

• Change the basic or advanced wireless

network settings.

Advanced

• Choose Operation mode, change the

Administrator Settings, restore factory
defaults, manage PIN.

• LAN Interface setup, upgrade the
software, SNTP or Data usage

statistics.

Firewall

• Set the Mac/IP/Port Fi4Gring, URL

Fi4Gring, Port Forwarding.

• Set DMZ or the System Security
conguration.

Notes:

Make sure that you can remember the new password if

you change the login password by selecting Advanced
> Management. Please restore the device to the factory
default settings in case you forget the new password.

Usage of WPS

If your client device supports WPS, you need not to input the
password manually after WPS has been available. Please do
the following:

1. Start up your device.

2. Launch the client device connected to your device.

3. Enable the WPS function of your device.

4. Enable the WPS function of the client.

Notes:
For the detailed operations about the client, please refer to
the client’s instruction.

U-Disk Master

1. Start up your device.

2. Launch the client device connected to your device.

3. Connect the storage devices (i.e.USB disk) to the USB
port of the device.

4. Select Start > Run of the computer.

5. Input \\3.home or \\192.168.1.1\, in the open field and
press OK.

6. Input User Name and Password. The default User Name
is admin, Password is admin. Then you can view storage
devices.

Troubleshooting

Internet Related Problems

Symptoms Possible Problems/ Solutions

I cannot access the internet at all.

Please check your conguration

settings.
Please wait 1~ 2 minutes for the
router to initialize.
Check your service indicator

LED’s.

The download or upload speeds
are very slow.

The speed is dependent on signal
strength. Check your signal
strength and network type.

Others

Symptoms Possible Problems/ Solutions

The RSSI signal indicator is
always blinking or does not light.

This indicates poor reception.
Try moving the router to another
location near the window.

Internet Access

The router does not require any drivers, and it supports all
operating systems with Ethernet LAN capability, such as

Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, MAC OS X and
Linux. The router supports at least four computers surng on

internet using Ethernet cable at the same time.

Note: All the parameter settings in this chapter are just for

your reference. Please contact your service provider for
detail.

Preparation

Establishing a connection between your device
and the client

Via Wi-Fi

1. Power on your device directly. It will take 1~2 minutes to

initialize, and then Wi-Fi LED is blinking.

2. Use your normal Wi-Fi application on the client to search
the available wireless network.

Logout

Select Logout, a pop-up window will appear as the following

gure shown:

Click to logout the web page.

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3. At http://3.home you find information about usage,
network name etc: