Wireless N 150 3G/3.5G Travel Router Model # AR580W3G User’s Manual Ver.
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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.
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. Federal Communication Commission (FCC) Radiation Exposure Statement This equipment complies with FCC radiation exposure set forth for an uncontrolled environment.
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.
Important Health Information and Safety Precautions When using this product, the safety precautions below must be taken to avoid possible legal liabilities and damages. Retain and follow all product safety and operating instructions. Observe all warnings in the operating instructions on the product. To reduce the risk of bodily injury, electric shock, fire, and damage to the equipment, observe the following precautions.
WARNING: Danger of explosion if battery is incorrectly replaced. To reduce risk of fire or burns, do not disassemble, crush, puncture, short external contacts, expose to temperature above 60° C (140° F), or dispose of in fire or water. Replace only with specified batteries. Recycle or dispose of used batteries according to the local regulations or reference guide supplied with your product. Note: This product should be operated only with the following designated Battery Pack(s).
Take extra precautions to keep a leaking battery away from fire as there is a danger of ignition or explosion. SAFETY PRECAUTIONS FOR DIRECT SUNLIGHT Keep this product away from excessive moisture and extreme temperatures. Do not leave the product or its battery inside a vehicle or in places where the temperature may exceed 60°C (140°F), such as on a car dashboard, window sill, or behind a glass that is exposed to direct sunlight or strong ultraviolet light for extended periods of time.
gas stations, and are reminded of the need to observe restrictions on the use of radio equipment in fuel depots, chemical plants, or where blasting operations are in progress. Areas with a potentially explosive atmosphere are often, but not always, clearly marked. These include fueling areas, below deck on boats, fuel or chemical transfer or storage facilities, and areas where the air contains chemicals or particles, such as grain, dust, or metal powders.
Table of Contents CHAPTER 1 PRODUCT INFORMATION..................................................................................................... 1 1-1 INTRODUCTION AND SAFETY INFORMATION ............................................................................... 1 1-2 SAFETY INFORMATION..................................................................................................................... 2 1-3 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS..........................................................................
Chapter 1 Product Information 1-1 Introduction and safety information Thank you for purchasing Airlink101® Wireless N 150 3G/3.5G Travel Router with Li-ion Battery, AR580W3G. The thin and compact travel router, integrated with Li-ion battery inside, assists you to set up a wireless network using 3G USB modem or Ethernet connection anywhere. When the 3G/3.5G (UMTS/HSDPA/EVDO) USB modem card is connected, all computers and network devices can easily to share the 3G mobile Internet connection at high speed.
• Remote management function allows configuration and upgrades from a remote computer (over the Internet) • Auto MDI / MDI-X function for all wired Ethernet ports. 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.
1-3 System Requirements Internet connection, provided by DSL or cable modem or 3G/3.5 USB modem. Computer or network devices with wired or wireless network interface card. Web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or above, Netscape Navigator 4.7 or above, Opera web browser, or Safari web browser).
1-5 Familiar with your new Portable 3G Router LED Definitions LED Name Light Status Description Green On Router is switched on and correctly powered or the battery is charged completely. PWR/CHG WLAN Orange On The battery is charging. Orange Battery power is not enough, only 20 minutes Flashing remains. Off Router is powered off. Off Wireless network is switched off. Flashing Wireless LAN activity (transferring or receiving data). WPS On Wireless WPS function is enabled.
ETHERNET On ETHERNET port is connected. Off ETHERNET port is not connected. Flashing ETHERNET activity (transferring or receiving data). INTERNET On Router is connected to the Internet. Off Router is not connected to the Internet. Flashing Router is connecting to the Internet.
Right and Left Side Panel RJ-45 Item Name Description LAN/WAN Switch Switch the Ethernet port to LAN or WAN. Switch to WAN function if you want to access to the Internet through your xDSL or Cable modem network service. WAN access can also be a back up for 3G network. Please refer to Section 3-4 for more details. WPS Start WPS function or reset the router to factory default settings (clear all settings).
Chapter 2 System and Network Setup 2-1 Getting Started Before you using the router, please follow the following instructions to charge the router. 1. Remove the battery cover in the rear side of the router and insert the supplied battery into the slot and then put back the cover. 2. Connect the power adapter to the wall socket, and then connect it to the mini USB port of the router to charge the battery.
Note: It takes about four hours to charge the battery. 3. When the battery is charged, the ‘Power’ LED is lit in orange color. When the ‘Power’ LED is not lit, the battery is charged completely. Note: The ‘Power’ LED is lit in green color when the battery is charged completely if router is activated before charged. 4. Switch the button to ‘ON’ to activate the router.
Warning: 1. Always switch the device off before removing the battery. 2. Use only battery and power adapter supplied with the product. The use of any other types may be dangerous. Note: There are three ways to activate the router. 1. To use battery. 2. To use power adapter. 3. To use power adapter, at the meanwhile, put the charged battery into the router and the battery will be charged.
1. Connect your 3G/3.5G USB modem to the USB port located on the top side of the router. 2. Connect your computer to the Ethernet port on the right side of the router for configuring the router. Note: It is recommended to configure the router through the Ethernet port for the first time setup. Please go to Section 3-4 Fail Over to assign the WAN connection priority if you have subscribed to both 3G and xDSL/Cable Modem services.
3. Make sure you have switch on the router by switching the ‘ON/OFF’ button to ‘ON’. 4. Please check all LEDs on the front side. ‘PWR/CHR’ LED should be steadily on in green color, and ‘ETHERNET’ LED should be on if the computer / network device connected to the Ethernet port of the router is powered on and correctly connected. 5. If PWD LED is not on, or any LED you expected is not on, please recheck the cabling, or jump to ‘4-2 Troubleshooting’ for possible reasons and solution.
2-3 Connecting to Portable 3G Router by web browser Start your web browser, and input the IP address of router in address bar.
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.
2-4 Setup Wizard 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 Setup Wizard: Please click on Setup Wizard. HERE! And the following message will be displayed: 1.
Set Time Zone (1): Time Server Address (2): Please press button, a drop-down list will be shown, and you can choose a time zone of the location you live. Input the IP address / host name of time server 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: 129.6.15.28 (time-a.
Please choose the broadband (Internet connection) type you’re using in this page. There are seven types of Internet connection, they are: 3G/3.5G Cable Modem - Please go to section 2-4-1 - Please go to section 2-4-2 Fixed-IP xDSL PPPoE xDSL PPTP xDSL L2TP xDSL Telstra Big Pond - Please go to section 2-4-3 - Please go to section 2-4-4 - Please go to section 2-4-5 - Please go to section 2-4-6 - Please go to section 2-4-7 If you’re not sure, please contact your Internet service provider.
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. 3.
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 name to the one which is meaningful to you, like my home, office_room1, etc.
There are three types of Encryption, they are: WEP - Please go to section 2-7-3-2 WPA pre-shared key - Please go to section 2-7-3-3 WPA RADIUS - Please go to section 2-7-3-4 If you want to go back to previous step, please press ‘BACK’ button on the bottom of this page. 2-4-1 Setup procedure for ‘3G/3.
User Name (3): Please input user name assigned by your Internet service provider here. Password (4): Please input password assigned by your Internet service provider here. Verify Password (5): Please input password again for confirmation. Service (6): Please select your Card type from the drop-down menu. AT Dial Script (7): Please input Dialed Number for your UMTS or HSDPA connection, the default is *99#. This field should not be altered except when required by your service provider.
1 2 3 Here are descriptions of every setup items: 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.
2-4-3 Setup procedure for ‘Fixed-IP xDSL’: 1 2 3 4 5 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. Default Gateway (4) Please input the IP address of DNS server provided by your service provider.
2-4-4 Setup procedure for ‘PPPoE xDSL’: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 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.
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.
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: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Here are descriptions of every setup items: User Name (1): Please input user name assigned by your Internet service provider here.
Check if you’re using the service provided by BEZEQ network in Israel. Connection Type (7): Please select the connection type of Internet connection you wish to use, please refer to last section for detailed descriptions. Idle Time Out (8): Please input the idle time out of Internet connection you wish to use, and refer to last section for detailed descriptions. When you finish with all settings, please click ‘Next (9); if you want to go back to previous menu, click ‘Back’.
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 L2TP settings section: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 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.
When you finish with all settings, please click ‘Next (7); if you want to go back to previous menu, click ‘Back’. 2-4-7 Setup procedure for ‘Telstra Big Pond’: 1 2 3 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 by yourself.
When all settings are finished, you’ll see the following message displayed on your web browser: Please click ‘Apply’ button to prepare to restart the router, and you’ll see this message: Please wait for about 30 seconds, then click ‘OK!’ button. You’ll be back to router management interface again, and the router is ready with new settings.
2-5 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.
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. 2-5-2 Change management password Default password of this router is 1234, and it’s displayed on the login prompt when accessed from web browser.
Here are descriptions of every setup items: Current Password (1): Please input current password here. 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’.
prompted to input your new password: Please use new password to enter web management interface again, and you should be able to login with new password. 2-5-3 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.
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’.
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 2-6 Setup Internet Connection (WAN Setup) Internet connections setup can be done by using ‘Quick Setup’ menu described in chapter 2-3.
1 2 3G/3.5G - Please go to section 2-6-1 Dynamic IP Static IP PPPoE - Please go to section 2-6-2 - Please go to section 2-6-3 - Please go to section 2-6-4 PPTP L2TP Telstra Big Pond DNS - Please go to section 2-6-5 - Please go to section 2-6-6 - Please go to section 2-6-7 - Please go to section 2-6-8 DDNS - Please go to section 2-6-9 2-6-1 Setup procedure for ‘3G/3.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Here are descriptions of every setup items: PIN Code (1): Please input Pin Code for your UMTS or HSDPA connection, this is optional, and only required if your service provider asks you to do so. APN (2): Please input the access point name. User Name (3): Please input user name assigned by your Internet service provider here. Password (4): Please input password assigned by your Internet service provider here. Verify Password (5): Please input password again for confirmation.
required by your service provider. After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ (8) button; if you want to remove and value you entered, please click ‘Cancel’. After you click ‘Apply’, the following message will be displayed on your web browser: Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on router setup, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 30 seconds while router is rebooting).
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 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.
1 2 3 4 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 Gateway Address (3): Please input the IP address of DNS server provided by your service provider.
‘Cancel’ button. 2-6-4 Setup procedure for ‘PPPoE’: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 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 Service Name (3): provider here. 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 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.
2-6-5 Setup procedure for ‘PPTP’: PPTP requires two kinds of setting: WAN interface setting (setup IP address) and PPTP setting (PPTP user name and password). Here we start from WAN interface setting: Select the type of how you obtain IP address from your service provider here. You can choose ‘Obtain an IP address Automatically’ (equal to DHCP, please refer to ‘Cable Modem’ section above), or ‘Use The Following IP Address’ (i.e.
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. 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.
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.
L2TP Gateway (3): Please input the IP address of PPTP 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 type (5): Please select the connection type of Internet connection you wish to use, please refer to last section for detailed descriptions.
1 2 3 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 by yourself. server manually (3): Server IP Address(4):Please input the IP address of login server here.
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. 2-6-8 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.
service provider. Secondary DNS (2): Please input the IP address of another DNS server provided by your service provider, this is optional. NOTE: Only IP address can be entered here; DO NOT use the hostname of DNS server! (i.e. only numeric characters and dots are accepted) 10.20.30.40……………………………………………………………… Correct dns.serviceprovider.com…………………………………………...
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.
Account / E-Mail (4): Input account or email of DDNS registration. 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: 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).
2-7 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.
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: 2-7-1 LAN IP section: 1 2 3 4 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.
2-7-2 DHCP Server: 1 2 3 4 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): Start IP (2): 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. Please input the start IP address of the IP range. End IP (3): Please input the end IP address of the IP range.
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.
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. 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.
seconds while router is rebooting).
2-8 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 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).
2.4 GHz (B) 2.4GHz band, only allows 802.11b wireless network client to connect this router (maximum transfer rate 11Mbps). 2.4 GHz (N) 2.4GHz band, only allows 802.11n wireless network client to connect this router (maximum transfer rate 150Mbps). 2.4 GHz (B+G) 2.4GHz band, only allows 802.11b and 802.11g wireless network client to connect this router (maximum transfer rate 11Mbps for 802.11b clients, and maximum 54Mbps for 802.11g clients). 2.4 GHz (G) 2.4GHz band, only allows 802.
wireless client supports manual channel number select, and this would help in certain scenario when there is some radio communication problem. Associated Clients (4): 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.
2-8-2 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: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Here are descriptions of every setup items: Fragment Set the Fragment threshold of wireless radio.
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.
reach your wireless router). WMM (12): 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’.
options: 2-8-3-1 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.
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.
RADIUS Server Port (12): Please input the port number of radius server here. RADIUS Server Password (13): Please input the port number of radius password here.
When you select this mode, the wireless router will use WPA encryption, and the following setup menu will be shown on your web browser: 1 2 3 4 5 Here are descriptions of every setup items: WPA Unicast Cipher Suite (2): Please select a type of WPA cipher suite. Available options are: WPA (TKIP), WPA2 (AES), and WPA2 Mixed. You can select one of them, but you have to make sure your wireless client support the cipher you selected.
procedures, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 30 seconds while router is rebooting). NOTE: Some wireless clients (especially those manufactured before year 2003) only support WEP or WPA (TKIP) cipher. A driver upgrade would be needed for those clients to use WPA and WPA2 encryption. 2-8-3-4 WPA RADIUS: If you have a RADIUS server, this router can work with it and provide safer wireless authentication.
After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ (6) button and the following message will be displayed on your web browser: Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on other setup procedures, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 30 seconds while router is rebooting).
1 3 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 All allowed MAC addresses will be displayed in ‘MAC Address Filtering Table’ (1). Here are descriptions of every setup items: Delete (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’ 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.
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.
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.
wireless router is properly set, you’ll see ‘Configured’ message here. If wireless security function has not been set, you’ll see ‘unConfigured’. Self PIN code: 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.
2-8-6 Security Tips for Wireless Network Here are some quick tips to help you improve the security level of your wireless network: 1. Never use simple words (like school, apple and computer) as WEP encryption or WPA passphrase. 2. A complicated (the combination of number, alphabet, even symbol, and long enough) WEP key and WPA passphrase is much safer than simple and short ones.
Chapter 3 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.
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 Bandwidth (2): You can set the limit of total download 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.
Move Up (9): You can pull up the priority of the QoS rule you selected by clicking this button. Move Down (10): You can lower the priority of the QoS rule you selected by clicking this button.
a b c d e f g h i Here are descriptions of every setup items: Rule Name (a): Please give a name to this QoS rule (up to 15 alphanumerical characters) Bandwidth (b): Set the bandwidth limitation of this QoS rule. You have to select the data direction of this rule (Upload of Download), and the speed of bandwidth limitation in Kbps, then select the type of QoS: ‘guarantee’ (guaranteed usable bandwidth for this rule) or ‘max’ (set the maximum bandwidth for the application allowed by this rule).
Address: (e): that will be affected by this rule. Please input the starting IP address in the left field, and input the end IP address in the right field to define a range of IP addresses, or just input the IP address in the left field to define a single IP address. Remote Port Range (f): Please input the range of remote (destination) port number that will be affected by this rule.
3-2 Network Address Translation (NAT) Network address translations solve the problem if sharing a single IP address to multiple computers. Without NAT, all computers must be assigned with a valid Internet IP address to get connected to Internet, but Internet service providers only provide very few IP addresses to every user. Therefore it’s necessary to use NAT technology to share a single Internet IP address to multiple computers on local network, so everyone can get connected to Internet.
Please 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). 3-2-2 Port Forwarding This function allows you to redirect a single port or consecutive ports of Internet IP address to the same port of the IP address on local network.
Here are descriptions of every setup items: Enable Port Check this box to enable port mapping, Forwarding (1): and uncheck this box to disable port mapping. Private IP (2): Input the IP address of the computer on local network which provides internet service. Computer Name (3): Pull down the menu and all the computers connected to the router will be listed here. You can easily to select the computer name without checking the IP address of the computer.
Reset (12): Unselect all mappings. After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ (13) button and the following message will be displayed on your web browser: Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on other setup procedures, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 30 seconds while router is rebooting). If you want to reset all settings in this page back to previously-saved value, please click ‘Cancel’ button.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 12 13 10 11 14 Here are descriptions of every setup items: Enable Virtual Server (1): Check this box to enable virtual server, and uncheck this box to disable virtual server. Private IP (2): Input the IP address of the computer which provides Internet service. Computer Name (3): Pull down the menu and all the computers connected to the router will be listed here. You can easily to select the computer name without checking the IP address of the computer.
Virtual Server Table (10): All existing virtual server mappings will be displayed here. Delete (11): Please select a virtual server mapping by clicking the ‘Select’ box of the mapping, then click ‘Delete Selected’ button to remove the mapping. If there’s no existing mapping, this button will be grayed out. Delete All (12): Delete all mappings existed in virtual server table. Reset (13): Unselect all mappings.
3-2-4 Port Mapping for Special Applications Some applications require more than one connection a time; these applications won’t work with simple NAT rules. In order to make these applications work, you can use this function to let these applications work. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 12 13 10 11 14 Here are descriptions of every setup items: Enable (1): Check this box to enable special applications and uncheck this box to disable virtual server.
Comment (6): The description of this setting. Popula Applications This section lists the more popular applications that (7): require multiple connections. Select an application from the Popular Applications selection and click ‘Add’ to save the setting to ‘Current Trigger-Port Table.’ Add (8): Add the setting to the ‘Current Trigger-Port Table.’ Reset (9): Click ‘Reset’ will clear all above setting and you can set up again.
Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on other setup procedures, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 30 seconds while the router is rebooting). If you want to reset all settings in this page back to previously-saved value, please click ‘Cancel’ button.
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. 3-2-6 ALG Settings Application Layer Gateway (ALG) is a special function of this router.
There are many applications listed here. Please check the box of the special support for applications you need, and then click ‘Apply’ button and the following message will be displayed on your web browser: Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on other setup procedures, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 30 seconds while router is rebooting).
3-3 Firewall Excepting NAT, this router also provides firewall function to block malicious intruders from accessing your computers on local network. These functions include inbound attack prevention, and block outbound traffics, like block URLs which have pre-defined keywords.
procedures, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 30 seconds while router is rebooting). 3-3-1 Access Control This function allows or denies computers with specific MAC address from connecting to the network; it can also allow or deny computers with specific IP address, protocol, or port.
Client PC MAC address (2): Please input the MAC address of computer or network device here, dash ( - ) or colon ( : ) are not required. (i.e. If the MAC address label of your wireless device indicates ‘aa-bb-cc-dd-ee-ff’ or ‘aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff’, just input ‘aabbccddeeff’ Computer Name (3): Pull down the menu and all the computers connected to the router will be listed here. You can easily to select the computer name without checking the IP address of the computer.
addresses listed in filtering table will be denied from connecting to the network; if you select allow, only IP addresses listed in filtering table will be able to connect to the network, and rejecting all other network devices. IP Filtering Table (12): All existing IP addresses in filtering table will be listed here. Add PC (13): Click this button to add a new IP address to IP filtering table, up to 20 IP addresses can be added. Please refer to section 3-3-1-1 ‘Add PC’ below.
3-3-1-1 Add PC After button is clicked, the following message will be displayed on your web browser: a b c d e f Here are descriptions of every setup items: Client PC Please input any text to describe this IP 96
Description (a): address, up to 16 alphanumerical characters. Client PC IP address (b): Please input the starting IP address in the left field, and input the end IP address in the right field to define a range of IP addresses, or just input the IP address in the left field to define a single IP address. Client PC Please check all services you want to allow or Service (c): deny this IP address to use, you can check multiple services.
Blocking’, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Here are descriptions of every setup items: Enable URL Check this box to enforce URL Blocking, Blocking (1): uncheck it to disable URL Blocking. URL/Keyword (2): Input the URL (host name or IP address of website, like http://www.blocked-site.com or http://11.22.33.44), or the keyword which is contained in URL (like pornography, cartoon, stock, or anything).
‘Delete Selected’ button. (You can select more than one MAC addresses). Delete All (7): If you want to delete all URL/Keyword listed here, please click ‘Delete All’ button. Reset (8): You can also click ‘Reset’ button to unselect all URL/Keywords.
Please follow the following instructions to set DoS prevention parameters: Please click ‘Firewall’ menu on the left of web management interface, then click ‘DoS’, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser: 1 2 3 4 5 6 Here are descriptions of every setup items: Ping of Death (1): Ping of Death is a special packet, and it will cause certain computer to stop responding. Check this box and the router will filter this kind of packet out.
Sync Flood (4): This is another kind of attack, which uses a lot of fake connection request to consume the memory of your server, and try to make your server become unusable. Check this box and the router will filter this kind of traffic out. Advanced Settings (5): Click this button and you can set advanced settings of the DoS prevention method listed above, please see section 3-3-3-1 ‘DoS – Advanced Settings’ below.
a b c d e Here are descriptions of every setup items: Ping of Death (a): Set the threshold of when this DoS prevention mechanism will be activated. Please check the box of Ping of Death, and input the frequency of threshold (how many packets per second, minute, or hour), you can also input the ‘Burst’ value, which means when this number of ‘Ping of Death’ packet is received in very short time, this DoS prevention mechanism will be activated.
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. 3-3-4 Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) refers to a special area in your local network.
1 4 3 2 5 6 9 10 7 8 11 Here are descriptions of every setup items: Enable DMZ (1): Check this box to enable DMZ function, uncheck this box to disable DMZ function. Public IP address (2): You can select ‘Dynamic IP’ or ‘Static IP’ here. If you select ‘Dynamic IP’, you have to select an Internet connection session from dropdown menu; if you select ‘Static IP’, please input the IP address that you want to map to a specific private IP address.
Current DMZ table (7): Delete (8): All existing public IP address and private IP address mapping will be displayed here. If you want to delete a specific DMZ entry, check the ‘select’ box of the DMZ entry you want to delete, then click ‘Delete Selected’ button. (You can select more than one DMZ entries). Delete All (9): If you want to delete all DMZ entries listed here, please click ‘Delete All’ button. Reset (10): You can also click ‘Reset’ button to unselect all DMZ entries.
3-4 Fail Over WAN failure detection works by detecting the presence of traffic on the 3G modem link. If the link is idle for too long the router will attempt to ping a target IP address. If the ping does not reply, the router assumes the link is down and attempts to fail over to ethernet WAN link. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Here are descriptions of every setup items: WAN FailOver (1): Check this box to enable Fail Over function. WAN Priority (2): Please select the WAN connection priority from the drop-down menu.
Ping Target IP (2): Please input the target IP address you wish to ping out. If the major Internet connection is idle for too long the router will attempt to ping the target IP address. E-Mail Notification (5): If you enable E-Mail Notification function, when the WAN connection fails the router will automatically attempt to connect to the second priority of WAN connection and mail a notification to you. SMTP Server (6): Please input the SMTP Server you wish to use.
3-5 System Status The functions described here will provide you with system related information. To enter system status menu, please either click ‘Status’ link located at the upper-right corner of web management interface, or click ‘Status’ button in main menu. 3-5-1 System information and firmware version You can use this function to know the system information and firmware version of this router.
This information will vary depending on the connection status. 3-5-3 Device Status You can use this function to know the status of your router.
This information will vary depending on the device status. 3-5-4 System Log All important system events are logged. You can use this function to check the event log of your router.
The system events will be displayed in this page, and here are descriptions of every buttons: Save (1): Save current event log to a text file. Clear (2): Delete all event logs displayed here. Refresh (3): Refresh the event log display. 3-5-5 Security Log All information about network and system security is kept here, and you can use this function to check the security event log of your router.
Clear (2): Refresh (3): Delete all event logs displayed here. Refresh the event log display. 3-5-6 Active DHCP client list If you’re using the DHCP server function of this router, you can use this function to check all active DHCP leases issued by this router. Please click ‘Active DHCP client’ menu on the left of web management interface, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser: All information about active DHCP leases issued by this router will be displayed here.
You can click ‘Refresh’ button to display latest information. 3-5-8 Modem Info You can use this function to check the information of the 3G modem card. Please click ‘Modem Info’ menu on the left of web management interface, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser: 3-6 Configuration Backup and Restore You can backup all configurations of this router to a file, so you can make several copied of router configuration for security reason.
click ‘Configuration Tools’ on the left of web management interface, then the following message will be displayed on your web browser: 1 2 3 Here are descriptions of every buttons: Backup Press ‘Save...’ button, and you’ll be prompted to Settings (1): download the configuration as a file, default filename is ‘config.bin’, you can save it as another filename for different versions, and keep it in a safe place.
Please click ‘Tool’ located at the upper-right corner of web management interface, then click ‘Firmware Upgrade’ on the left of web management interface, then the following message will be displayed on your web browser: Please click ‘Next’, and the following message will be displayed: Click ‘Browse’ button first, you’ll be prompted to provide the filename of firmware upgrade file. Please download the latest firmware file from our website, and use it to upgrade your router.
3-8 System Reset If you think the network performance is bad, or you found the behavior of the router is strange, you can perform a router reset, sometime it will solve the problem.
Chapter 4 Appendix 4-1 Hardware Specification SoC: Cavium 1104 RF: Ralink RT3070 Flash: 4MB SDRAM: 16MB Ethernet Port: 10/100M UTP Port x 1 USB Post : USB 2.0 Type A x 1 (3G), Mini USB x 1 (Power) Antenna: Internal Printed Antenna (1T1R) Power: 5VDC, 2A xMini USB Type Switch Power Adaptor Dimension: 16.8(H) x 70(W) x 100(D)mm Transmit Power: 11n: 14dBm±1.5dBm, 11g: 14dBm±1.5dBm, 11b: 17dBm±1.
4-2 Troubleshooting If you found the router is working improperly or stop responding to you, don’t panic! Before you contact your dealer of purchase for help, please read this troubleshooting first. Some problems can be solved by you within very short time! Scenario Solution Router is not responding to me when a. Please check the connection of power cord and network cable of this router. All cords and I want to access it by web browser cables should be correctly and firmly inserted to the router. b.
can get connected to Internet with your computer directly attached to the device provided by your Internet service provider. d. Check PPPoE / L2TP / PPTP user ID and password again. e. Call your Internet service provide and check if there’s something wrong with their service. f. If you just can’t connect to one or more website, but you can still use other internet services, please check URL/Keyword filter. g. Try to reset the router and try again later. h. Reset the device provided by your Internet i.
I can’t log onto web a. Make sure you’re connecting to the correct IP management interface: password is wrong address of the router! b. Password is case-sensitive. Make sure the ‘Caps Lock’ light is not illuminated. c. If you really forget the password, do a hard reset. Router become hot a. This is not a malfunction, if you can keep your hand on the router’s case. b.
4-3 Glossary Default Gateway (Router): Every non-router IP device needs to configure a default gateway’s IP address. When the device sends out an IP packet, if the destination is not on the same network, the device has to send the packet to its default gateway, which will then send it out towards the destination. DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. This protocol automatically gives every computer on your home network an IP address.
bbbbbbbb.bbbbbbbb.bbbbbbbb.bbbbbbbb, where each “b” can either be 0 or 1. A network mask is also a 32-bit binary pattern, and consists of consecutive leading 1’s followed by consecutive trailing 0’s, such as 11111111.11111111.11111111.00000000. Therefore sometimes a network mask can also be described simply as “x” number of leading 1’s.
Port: Network Clients (LAN PC) uses port numbers to distinguish one network application/protocol over another. Below is a list of common applications and protocol/port numbers: Application Protocol Port Number Telnet TCP 23 FTP TCP 21 SMTP TCP 25 POP3 TCP 110 H.323 TCP 1720 SNMP UCP 161 SNMP Trap UDP 162 HTTP TCP 80 PPTP TCP 1723 PC Anywhere TCP 5631 PC Anywhere UDP 5632 PPPoE: Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet.
It is used to create IP address numbers used only within a particular network (as opposed to valid IP address numbers recognized by the Internet, which must be assigned by InterNIC). TCP/IP, UDP: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and Unreliable Datagram Protocol (UDP). TCP/IP is the standard protocol for data transmission over the Internet. Both TCP and UDP are transport layer protocol. TCP performs proper error detection and error recovery, and thus is reliable.
