® WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual E2459/ March 2006
Manufacturer Contact Information ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. (Asia-Pacific) Company address: 15 Li-Te Road, Beitou, Taipei 11259 General (tel): +886-2-2894-3447 Web site address: www.asus.com.tw General (fax): +886-2-2894-7798 General email: info@asus.com.tw ASUS COMPUTER INTERNATIONAL (America) Company address: 44370 Nobel Drive, Fremont, CA 94538, USA General (fax): +1-510-608-4555 Web site address: usa.asus.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual Table of contents 1. Package contents .................................................................................3 2. Connecting ADSL modem and wireless router .................................3 1) Cable connection ...............................................................................3 2) Status indicators ................................................................................4 3) Wall mount option ................................................
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual 7. Troubleshooting .................................................................................37 8. Appendix .............................................................................................
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual 1. Package contents • WL-500gP wireless router x 1 • Power adapter x 1 • Utility CD x 1 • RJ45 cable x 1 • Quick Start Guide x 1 2.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual 2) Status indicators PWR AIR LAN WAN PWR (Power) Off On Flashing-slow Flashing-quick No power System ready Firmware upgrade failed EZsetup processing AIR (Wireless Network) Off On Flashing No power Wireless system ready Transmitting or receiving data (wireless) WAN (Wide Area Network) Off On Flashing No power or no physical connection Has physical connection to an Ethernet network Transmitting or receiving data (through Ethernet cable) LAN 1-4 (Local Area Netwo
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual 3. Getting started The ASUS WL-500gP Wireless Router can meet various working scenarios with proper configuration. The default settings of the wireless router may need change so as to meet your individual needs. Therefore, before using the ASUS Wireless Router, check the basic settings to make sure they all work in your environment. ASUS provides a utility named EZSetup for fast wireless configuration.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual To set up the connection with a manually assigned IP address, the address of your PC and the wireless router must be within the same subnet: • IP address: 192.168.1.xxx (xxx can be any number between 2 and 254. Make sure the IP address is not used by other device) • Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 (same as WL500gP) • Gateway: 192.168.1.1 (IP address of WL-500gP) • DNS: 192.168.1.1 (WL-500gP), or assign a known DNS server in your network.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual 5) Quick setup To start quick setup, click Next to enter the “Quick Setup” page. Follow the instructions to setup the ASUS Wireless Router. 1. Select your time zone and click Next. 2. ASUS wireless router supports five types of ISP services: cable, PPPoE, PPTP, static WAN IP, and Telstra BigPond. Select your connection type and click Next to continue.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual PPTP user If you are using PPTP services, select ADSL connection that requires username, password and IP address. Fill in the username, password and IP address provided by your ISP into the fields. Click Next to continue. herk036@adsl-comfort Static IP user If you are using ADSL or other connection type that uses static IP address, select ADSL or other connection type that uses static IP address.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual 4. Input four sets of WEP keys in the WEP Key fields (10 hexadecimal digits for WEP 64bits, 26 hexadecimal digits for WEP 128bits). You can also let the system generate the keys by inputting a Passphrase. Record the Passphrase and the WEP keys in your notebook, then click Finish. For example, if we select WEP 64bits encryption mode and input 11111 as the Passphrase, the WEP Keys are generated automatically. 5.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual 1) Select Connect to an existing wireless LAN (Station) radio button and click Next to continue. 2) One Touch Wizard searches and displays the available APs in the Available Networks list. Select WL-500gP and press Next to continue. 3) Set the authentication and encryption of your WLAN card the same with those at WL-500gP. In the previous steps the Key Length is 64 bits, Passphrase is 11111 Click Next to continue.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual Configuring WLAN card with Windows® WZC service If you use non-ASUS wireless card, you can set up the wireless connection with Windows® Wireless Zero Configuration (WZC) service. 1) Double-click the wireless network icon on the task bar to view available networks. Select your wireless router and click Connect. 2) Input the 10-digit keys you have set on the wireless router and click Connect. The connection is complete within several seconds. 7.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual 4. Wireless router features This chapter provides setup examples of some frequentlly used router features. You can setup these features via your Web browser. 1) Choosing an appropriate operation mode ASUS WL-500gP Wireless Router supports three operation modes: home gateway, router, and access point. Click System Setup -> Operation mode to open the configuration page. Home gateway mode is for home or SOHO users who want to connect to their ISPs for Internet services.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual 2) Setting up wireless encryption WL-500gP provides a set of encryption and authentication methods to meet the different demands of home, SOHO, and enterprise users. Before setting up encryption and authentication for WL-500gP, contact your network administrator for advice. Click Wireless -> Interface to open the configuration page. Encryption The encrytion modes supported by WL-500gP are: WEP (64bits), WEP (128bits), TKIP, AES, and TKIP+AES.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual Authentication The authentication methods supported by WL-500gP include: Open, shared key, WPA-PSK, WPA, and Radius with 80.211x. Open: This option disables authentication protection for wireless network. Under Open mode, any IEEE802.11b/g client can connect to your wireless network. Shared: This mode uses the the WEP keys currently in use for authentication. WPA and WPA-PSK: WPA stands for WiFi-Protected Access.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual 4) Setting up virtual DMZ in your LAN To expose an internal host to Internet and make all services provided by this host available to outside users, enable Vitural DMZ function to open all ports of the host. This function is useful when the host plays multiple roles such as HTTP server and FTP server. However, in doing this, your network becomes less secure. 1. Click Virtual DMZ in the NAT Setting menu. 2. Enter the IP address of the host and click Finish. 3.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual 3. After clicking Free Trial, you are directed to the homepage of www.DynDNS. org, where you can register and apply for DDNS service. Read the policy and select "I have read...". 4. E n t e r y o u r u s e r n a m e , e-mail address, password, then click Create Account. 5. A m e s s a g e p r o m p t s out informing that your account has been created. An E-mail is sent to your mailbox. Open your mailbox and read the mail. 6.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual 9. After logging in, you can see this welcome message. 10. Select Services tab. 11. Click Add Dynamic DNS Host . 12. Enter the host name then click Add Host. 13. You can see this message when your hostname is successfully created.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual 14. Fill the account information into the DDNS setting fields of your wireless router. 15. Click Finish. 16. Click Save & Restart to restart the wireless router and activate the settings. 17. Verify whether DDNS is working. Click Start menu and select Run....Type cmd and click OK to open the CLI console. 18. T y p e p i n g a c c o u n t . dyndns.org (your DDNS domain name). If you can see the reply like what is shown in the right picture, DDNS is working correctly.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual 6) Setting up Bandwidth Management Bandwidth Management provides a mechanism to setup download and upload bandwidth based on IP address and port range. You can define the minimum bandwidth and maximum bandwidth for host within your LAN, and therefore control the traffic of you network. To set up upload bandwidth management, you need first setup virtual server to allow the incoming packets of the specified services. 1. Click Basic Config page in Bandwidth Management folder.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual 4).T o s e t u p d o w n l o a d bandwidth policy for the all hosts in your LAN, leave the IP address and port fields blank, define the speeds (the speeds are higher than download policies). Click Add to add the rule. 4. Upload stream If you want to set up upload traffic control policy, for example, to limit the upload bandwidth of port 2100 of 192.168.1.2 between 10 to 80kbps, You need first set up NAT policy to allow incoming packets. 1).
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual 5. Application features ASUS WL-500gP Wireless Router provides two USB2.0 ports for connecting USB storage, USB camera, and USB printer, therefore, you can monitor the working environment, share data and printer with both wired and wireless users in your network. Furthermore, WL-500gP provides a download utility - Download Master to faciliate and share the download files.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual 2. Click Add to add a share folder. 3. Select the folder you want to share from Folder Manager and click Ok. To create a share folder, input the folder name in Add Folder field and press Add. 4. Define the access right for the share folder by appoint User Name and Access Right. Click Add to add the access right rule. When finished, click Apply to save the configuration. 5.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual 2) Setting up FTP site WL-500gP can also serve as an FTP site. You can make your FTP site accessible by all users, or set up access policy to restrict anonymous login. To use this feature, you need to plug a USB storage disk to the USB2.0 port on the rear panel of WL-500gP. Make sure the hard disk is formated and partitioned properly. 1. To allow anonymous login: Set Network Neighbourhood Mode to Share all paritions in disk, FTP Mode to Login to first partition.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual 3) Download Master Download Master function helps to manage the download tasks without turning your computer on. To use this function, you need to mount a USB storage to WL-500gP Wireless Router. To use this function, you need to install ASUS Utilities from the support CD. Refer to chapter 6 for utility installation procedures. 1. Click Basic Config page in USB Application folder. 2. Set Enable Download Master to Yes.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual If you select Download using ASUS Download, you can see the download task is added to the Transfer list. The blue bars indicate the progress of download tasks. If you copy the download address, click Assign button in the utility. Paste the address into Getting File From box, select HTTP from Options, and click Download button to start. 5. FTP download C l i c k Tr a ns f e r b u tto n o f th e Download Master and select FTP in the Options field.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual Web Camera Mode - Select the appropriate camera mode from the drop down list. ActiveX Only enables user to execute ActiveX clients on an Windows® IE platform and get the best image quality. ActiveX and Refresh enables user to get a basic image on both IE and other browsers. Refresh Only provides to all users still images which are refreshed in a specified interval. Web Camera Driver - When you plug a supported Web Camera into the USB2.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual 5. By default, these three items are enabled. Enable them if changed. 6. Click Yes to change the security settings. Enable Web Camera to WAN users With proper setting to DDNS, you can monitor your working environment from anywhere on Internet, even if dynamic WAN IP address is used. If any motion is detected by the camera, WL-500gP captures the images and send them to your appointed E-mail box. Refer to page 15-17 for DDNS setup procedures. 1.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual Remote Site 1-6 - This field stands for the IP address and port number of Remote Site. The value of this field is [IP Address]:[Connection Port]. Preview - Click Preview to see the view of all the Web Camera sites you set in Remote Site. 5) Sharing USB printer You can connect a comptible USB printer to the USB2.0 port of WL-500gP to share the printer with your LAN users.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual 3. Select Create a new port and set Type of port to Standard TCP/IP Port, then click Next. 4. Click Next to setup TCP/IP port for accessing the network printer. 5. Input the IP address of WL-500gP in the Printer Name of IP Address field and click Next. 6. Select Custom and click Settings... 7. S e t P r o t o c o l t o L P R a n d t y p e LPRServer in Queue Name field. Click Next to continue. 8. Press Next to finish standard TCP/IP port setting.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual 9. Press Finish to complete the settings and return to Add Printer Wizard. 10. Install printer driver from the vendormodel list. If your printer is not in the list, click Have Disk to manually assign the location of driver. 11. Click Next to accpt the default name for the printer. 12. Select Yes to print a test page. Click Next to print. 13. The installation is complete. Click Finish to quit the Add Printer Wizard.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual 6) Playing stream media on Xbox360 If you have a set of Xbox360, you can connect it to WL-500gP and play the media files stored in the hard disk on your television! To use this function, make sure you have installed a wireless card on your Xbox360 and enabled Media Server function on your WL-500gP. Enable Media Sever on WL-500gP 1. Click Basic Config page in USB Application folder. 2. Select Enable Media Sever and press Apply.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual 3. To play music from the USB hard disk, select Media page -> Music. 4. Select Computer. 5. Select Yes, continue when prmopted to install Window Media Connect on your PC. 6. Xbox360 automatically searches and find the WL-500gP. Select WL-500gP to establish wireless connection.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual 7. Select Music folder in the hard disk and browse through the music list. Select the music you want to play. 8. To disconnect from WL-500gP, enter System page and select Computers. 9. Select Windows-based PC.The screen displays the currently connected PC. 10. Select Disconnect.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual 6. Setting up using ASUS utility 1) Utility Installation for WL-500gP 1. Click Install ASUS Wireless Router Utilities to run the setup installation program. 34 2. Click Next to continue. 3. Click Next to install the utility in the designated location. 4. Select a program folder and click Next. 5. Press Finish to quit the installation program. 6. Open the EZSetup Wizard.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual 2) EZSetup Wireless LAN setup will complete in two easy steps. First open the EZSetup utility form Start menu, then push the EZSetup button on the rear panel for 3 seconds. 1 Push EZSetup over 3 sec. and release. 1) If the setup button is pushed without running the EZsetup wizard utility, the PWR indicator will flash and Internet connections will pause for a short period but will then return to normal operation without change.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual 4 If you need to configure the ISP settings for your wireless router, select Configure ISP settings, click Next and follow the instructions to complete the settings. 5 Setup is complete, press Print/Save Wireless LAN Settings button for future reference. Click Finish to exit the EZSetup utility.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual 7. Troubleshooting Cannot access to web browser for router configuration 1. Open a web browser and open "Internet Options" dialog box. 2. Click on "Delete Cookies" and "Delete Files". Cannot Establish Connection via Wireless Out of Range: • Put the router closer to the wireless client. • Try to change the channel setting. Authentication: • Use wired connection to connect to router. • Check the wireless security setting.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual Internet is not accessible • Check the lights on ADSL modem and the Wireless Router • Check whether the "WAN" LED on the Wireless Router is ON. If the LED is not ON, change the cable and try again. When ADSL Modem "Link" light is ON (not blinking), this means Internet Access is Possible. • Restart your computer. • Refer to the Quick Setup Guide of the wireless router and reconfigure the settings. • Check whether the WAN LED on the router is ON or not.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual 8. Appendix FCC Warning Statement 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. This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules.
WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual Protection requirements for health and safety – Article 3.1a Testing for electric safety according to EN 60950-1 has been conducted. These are considered relevant and sufficient. Protection requirements for electromagnetic compatibility – Article 3.1b Testing for electromagnetic compatibility according to EN 301 489-1 and EN 301 489-17 has been conducted. These are considered relevant and sufficient. Effective use of the radio spectrum – Article 3.
