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CATALOG Chapter I: Product Information.....................................................................................6 1-1 Introduction and safety information ................................................................6 1-2 Safety Information...........................................................................................8 1-3 System Requirements ......................................................................................9 1-4 Package Contents..................................
3-3-3 DHCP Server ......................................................................................71 3-3-4 Static DHCP Leases ...........................................................................72 3-4 Wireless .........................................................................................................74 3-4-1 Basic Settings .....................................................................................75 3-4-1-1 AP mode.........................................................
Chapter I: Product Information 1-1 Introduction and safety information Thank you for purchasing Edimax BR-6324nL wireless 11b/g broadband router! This high cost-efficiency router is the best choice for Small office / Home office users, all computers and network devices can share a single xDSL / cable modem internet connection at high speed. Easy install procedures allows any computer users to setup a network environment in very short time - within minutes, even inexperienced.
• Easy to use Web-based GUI for network configuration and management purposes • 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. Also, do not left this router in the car in summer. 3. DO NOT pull any connected cable with force; disconnect it from the router first. 4.
1-3 System Requirements z z Internet connection, provided by xDSL or cable modem with a RJ-45 Ethernet port. Computer or network devices with wired or wireless network interface card. Web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or above, Netscape z Navigator 4.7 or above, Opera web browser, or Safari web browser).
1-4 Package Contents Before you starting to use this router, please check if there’s anything missing in the package, and contact your dealer of purchase to claim for missing items: □ Router with Antennas (main body, 1 pcs)………………………… 1 □ Quick installation guide (1 pcs) ………………………………… 2 □ CDROM (with multi-languages setup wizard, multi-languages Quick installation guide and User manual )(1 pcs) …………………….. 3 □ 12V 1A power adapter (1 pcs)…………………………………..... 4 □ Ethernet Cable (1 pcs)……………………………………….....
1-5 Familiar with your new wireless broadband router Front Panel LED Name PWR WLAN WAN LNK/ACT LAN LNK/ACT Light Status ON On Off Flashing On Off Flashing On Off Flashing Description Router is switched on and correctly powered Wireless network is switched on Wireless network is switched off Wireless LAN activity (transferring data) or WPS mode is on.
Back Panel Antenna A Antenna B BR-6324nL Item Name Antennas Description Antenna A, B Enable / Disable wireless signal ON/OFF You can not connect the router via wireless adapter, when you disable the wireless signal, 12V (Power) Power connector, connects to power adapter Reset / WPS Reset the router to factory default settings (clear all settings) or start WPS function. Press this button and hold for 20 seconds to clear all settings, and press this button for less than 5 seconds to start WPS function.
Chapter II: System and Network Setup 2-1 Establish network connection Please follow the following instruction to build the network connection between your new Broadband router and your computers, network devices: 1. Connect your xDSL / cable modem to the WAN port of router by Ethernet cable. 2. Connect all your computers, network devices (network-enabled consumer devices other than computers, like game console, or switch / hub) to the LAN port of the router.
3. Connect the power adapter to the wall socket, and then connect it to the ‘Power’ socket of the router. 4. Please check all LEDs on the front panel. ‘PWR’ LED should be steadily on, WAN and LAN LEDs should be on if the computer / network device connected to the respective port of the router is powered on and correctly connected. If PWD LED is not on, or any LED you expected is not on, please recheck the cabling. 5.
2-2 Setup client computers to obtain IP address automatically After the network connection is established, the next step you should do is setup the router with proper network parameters, so it can work properly in your network environment. Before you can connect to the router and start configuration procedures, your computer must be able to get an IP address automatically (use dynamic IP address).
2-2-1 Windows 95/98/Me IP address setup: 1. Click ‘Start’ button (it should be located at lower-left corner of your computer), then click control panel. Double-click Network icon, and Network window will appear. Select ‘TCP/IP’, then click ‘Properties’.
2. Select ‘Obtain an IP address from a DHCP server’, then click ‘OK’.
2-2-2 Windows 2000 IP address setup: 1. Click ‘Start’ button (it should be located at lower-left corner of your computer), then click control panel. Double-click Network and Dial-up Connections icon, double click Local Area Connection, and Local Area Connection Properties window will appear.
2. Select ‘Obtain an IP address automatically’ and ‘Obtain DNS server address automatically’, then click ‘OK’.
2-2-3 Windows XP IP address setup: 1. Click ‘Start’ button (it should be located at lower-left corner of your computer), then click control panel.
2. Select ‘Obtain an IP address automatically’ and ‘Obtain DNS server address automatically’, then click ‘OK’.
2-2-4 Windows Vista IP address setup: 1. Click ‘Start’ button (it should be located at lower-left corner of your computer), then click control panel. Click View Network Status and Tasks, then click Manage Network Connections..Right-click Local Area Netwrok, then select ‘Properties’.
2. Select ‘Obtain an IP address automatically’ and ‘Obtain DNS server address automatically’, then click ‘OK’.
2-3 Connect to broadband router by web browser Default IP address of this broadband router is ‘192.168.2.1’, and you can connect to broadband router’s web-based configuration interface by any connected computer with web browser (Internet Explorer 5.x or above, Firefox, or Netscape). Please input ‘192.168.2.
Please input ‘admin’ in ‘User name’ field, and ‘1234’ in ‘Password’ field, and click ‘OK’ button to enter web configuration interface. TIPS: If you can’t establish connection with broadband router with web browser (got ‘The page cannot be displayed’ or similar error message), the IP address you inputted may be wrong. If you’ve changed the IP address of this broadband router previously, please input correct IP address instead of the default IP address ’192.168.2.1’.
Please click ‘start’ -> ‘run’ at the bottom-lower corner of your desktop: Input ‘cmd’, then click ‘OK’
Input ‘ipconfig’, then press ‘Enter’ key. Please check the IP address followed by ‘Default Gateway’ (In this example, the IP address of router is 192.168.2.1, please note that this value may be different.) NOTE: If the IP address of Gateway is not displayed, or the address followed by ‘IP Address’ begins with ‘169’, please recheck network connection between your computer and router, and / or go to the beginning of this chapter, to recheck every step of network setup procedure.
2-4 Using ‘Quick Setup’ This broadband router provides a ‘Quick Setup’ menu, and you can setup basic parameters of this broadband router. Please follow the following instructions to use ‘Quick Setup’ menu: 1. Click ‘Quick Setup’ after logged in.
2. In the first step of quick setup, you can setup automatic time synchronization settings. The descriptions of every setting items are listed as follow: Item Name Time Zone Time Server Address Daylight Savings Description Please select a time zone of the country or region of your residence here. If you can’t find the country / region of your residence here, please select a city / region which time zone is the same with the country / region of your residence.
After you finish with time zone settings, please click ‘Next’ to proceed to next step of quick setup - broadband type: Please choose the broadband (Internet connection) type you’re using in this page.
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 3.uses PPPoE, so you can choose ‘PPPoE xDSL’ for such cable modem connection, even you’re using a cable modem.
2-4-1 Using ‘Cable Modem’ as broadband connection type If your Internet service provider uses cable modem to provide Internet service to you, you can select this connection type. You can also select this connection type if your ISP tells you that they will assign you the IP address by ’DHCP’ (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol).
If you wish to select another connection type as broadband connection type, click ‘Back’; or you can click ‘OK’ to finish with quick setup. You’ll see the following messages: Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes you made and restart the broadband router, this requires about 30 seconds and the broadband router will stop responding (this is normal and is not malfunction). You can reconnect to this broadband router and continue on other settings later.
2-4-2 Using ‘Fixed-IP xDSL’ as broadband connection type If your ISP requires you to set a fixed IP address to establish connection, you can use this connection type to input the IP address information assigned by your ISP. Please note that not only xDSL connections (like ADSL, HDSL, VDSL) can use this connection type, you can select this connection type for all connections that requires you to input a fixed IP address.
You must use the addresses provided by your Internet service provider, wrong setting value will cause connection problem. If you wish to select another connection type as broadband connection type, click ‘Back’; or you can click ‘OK’ to finish with quick setup. You’ll see the following messages: Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes you made and restart the broadband router, this requires about 30 seconds and the broadband router will stop responding (this is normal and is not malfunction).
2-4-3 Using ‘PPPoE xDSL’ as broadband connection type If your ISP requires you to establish Internet connection by PPPoE (Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet), you can use this connection type to establish Internet connection. Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name User Name Password Service Name MTU Connection Type Description Please input user name assigned by your Internet service provider here. Please input the password assigned by your Internet service provider here.
Internet when there’s a connect attempt, Idle Time Out TTL Manual - only connects to Internet when ‘Connect’ button on this page is pressed, and disconnects when ‘Disconnect button is pressed. Please specify the time to shutdown internet connect after no internet activity is detected in minute(s). This option is only available when connection type is ‘Connect on Demand’.
2-4-4 Using ‘PPTP xDSL’ as broadband connection type If your ISP requires you to use PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) to establish connection, you can select this connection type to establish Internet connection. PPTP xDSL 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 first: Select the type of how you obtain IP address from your service provider here.
Now please go to PPTP settings section: Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name User ID Password PPTP Gateway Connection ID MTU BEZEQ-ISRAEL Connection Type Description Please input user ID (user name) assigned by your Internet service provider here. Please input the password assigned by your Internet service provider here. Please input the IP address of PPTP gateway assigned by your Internet service provider here.
‘Continuous’ - keep internet connection alive, do not disconnect. ’Connect on Demand’ - only connects to Internet when there’s a connect attempt, Idle Time Out Manual - only connects to Internet when ‘Connect’ button on this page is pressed, and disconnects when ‘Disconnect button is pressed. Please specify the time to shutdown internet connect after no internet activity is detected in minute(s). This option is only available when connection type is ‘Connect on Demand’.
2-4-5 Using 'L2TP xDSL' as broadband connection type If your ISP requires you to use L2TP (Layer-2 Tunneling Protocol) to establish connection, you can select this connection type to establish Internet connection. L2TP is another popular connection method for xDSL and other Internet connection types, and all required setting items are the same with PPTP connection.
Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name User ID Password L2TP Gateway MTU Connection Type Description Please input user ID (user name) assigned by your Internet service provider here. Please input the password assigned by your Internet service provider here. Please input the IP address of L2TP gateway assigned by your Internet service provider here. Please input the MTU value of your network connection here. If you don’t know, you can use default value.
Idle Time Out Please specify the time to shutdown internet connect after no internet activity is detected in minute(s). This option is only available when connection type is ‘Connect on Demand’. If you wish to select another connection type as broadband connection type, click ‘Back’; or you can click ‘OK’ to finish with quick setup.
2-4-6 Using 'Telstra Big Pond' as broadband connection type This connection type only works for Telstra big pond network service in Australia. DO NOT select this connection type if you’re not using Telstra big pond network service. Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name User Name Password User device login server manually Login Server Description Please input the user name assigned by Telstra. Please input the password assigned by Telstra. Check this box to choose login server by yourself.
Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes you made and restart the broadband router, this requires about 30 seconds and the broadband router will stop responding (this is normal and is not malfunction). You can reconnect to this broadband router and continue on other settings later.
Chapter III: General Setup The ‘General Setup’ is for you to setup “System, WAN, LAN, Wireless, and others ( Advance settings ) “. Please follow the following instructions to use ‘General Setup’ menu: 1. Click ‘General Setup’ after logged in.
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3-1 System You can setup basic system settings of this broadband router in ‘System’ menu: Please select the setting item you wish to set, then click ‘Apply’ button to proceed. You can also click ‘Previous’ button to back to ‘System’ menu. 3-1-1 Time Zone You can change the time zone settings of this broadband router. It’s important to have correct date and time setting if you need to read system log and use build-in firewall functions.
The descriptions of every setting item are listed as follow: Item Name Time Zone Time Server Address Daylight Savings Description Please select a time zone of the country or region of your residence here. If you can’t find the country / region of your residence here, please select a city / region which time zone is the same with the country / region of your residence. This load-balance router supports NTP (Network Time Protocol).
3-1-2 Password Settings You can change the web login password of this broadband router. If you keep using the default password ‘1234’, other people may access the configuration interface without your permission. Please change the password as soon as possible. The descriptions of every setting item are listed as follow: Item Name Current Password New Password Confirmed Password Description Please input current password here. Please input new password here.
3-1-3 Remote Management If you need to manage this broadband router outside of your LAN (i.e. from Internet), you can use this function to assign a remote IP address which is permitted to connect to this broadband router’s web management interface from Internet. If it’s not required for you to manage this broadband router from Internet, you can disable this function to improve security.
Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes in this page, or you can click ‘Cancel’ to discard all settings in this page. After you click ‘Apply’ button, you’ll see the following message: Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes you made and restart the broadband router, this requires about 30 seconds and the broadband router will stop responding (this is normal and is not malfunction). You can reconnect to this broadband router and continue on other settings later.
3-2 WAN You can setup WAN (Wide Area Network, i.e. Internet) connections of this broadband router in ‘WAN’ menu: Please select the WAN connection type you wish to use, then click ‘Apply’ to continue. You can also click ‘Previous’ to back to previous page. If you’re not sure which connection type you should use, please call your ISP’s service hotline and ask for help. You’ll not be able to connect to Internet with wrong connection type.
3-2-1 Dynamic IP Dynamic IP means your ISP will assign an IP address to you automatically by ‘DHCP’ (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol). Dynamic IP is often used by cable modem Internet connection. Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name Host Name MAC address TTL Description Please input the host name of your computer, this is optional, and only required if your service provider asks you to do so.
If you wish to select another connection type as broadband connection type, click ‘Back’; or you can click ‘OK’ to finish with quick setup. You’ll see the following messages: Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes you made and restart the broadband router, this requires about 30 seconds and the broadband router will stop responding (this is normal and is not malfunction). You can reconnect to this broadband router and continue on other settings later.
3-2-2 Static IP Some ISP will give you a fixed IP address, and ask you to use this IP address to establish Internet connection. In this case, you have to select this connection type to establish connection with your ISP. Please note that if your ISP is assigning a fixed IP address to you by DHCP or PPPoE, do not select this connection type. Please contact your ISP’s service hotline to make sure you really need to use static IP as connection type.
You must use the addresses provided by your Internet service provider, wrong setting value will cause connection problem. If you wish to select another connection type as broadband connection type, click ‘Back’; or you can click ‘OK’ to finish with quick setup. You’ll see the following messages: Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes you made and restart the broadband router, this requires about 30 seconds and the broadband router will stop responding (this is normal and is not malfunction).
3-2-3 PPPoE If your ISP requires you to establish Internet connection by PPPoE (Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet), you can use this connection type to establish Internet connection. Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name User Name Password Service Name MTU Connection Type Description Please input user name assigned by your Internet service provider here. Please input the password assigned by your Internet service provider here.
Internet when there’s a connect attempt, Idle Time Out TTL Manual - only connects to Internet when ‘Connect’ button on this page is pressed, and disconnects when ‘Disconnect button is pressed. Please specify the time to shutdown internet connect after no internet activity is detected in minute(s). This option is only available when connection type is ‘Connect on Demand’.
3-2-4 PPTP If your ISP requires you to use PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) to establish connection, you can select this connection type to establish Internet connection. 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 first: Select the type of how you obtain IP address from your service provider here.
Now please go to PPTP settings section: Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name User ID Password PPTP Gateway Connection ID MTU BEZEQ-ISRAEL Connection Type Description Please input user ID (user name) assigned by your Internet service provider here. Please input the password assigned by your Internet service provider here. Please input the IP address of PPTP gateway assigned by your Internet service provider here.
‘Continuous’ - keep internet connection alive, do not disconnect. ’Connect on Demand’ - only connects to Internet when there’s a connect attempt, Idle Time Out Manual - only connects to Internet when ‘Connect’ button on this page is pressed, and disconnects when ‘Disconnect button is pressed. Please specify the time to shutdown internet connect after no internet activity is detected in minute(s). This option is only available when connection type is ‘Connect on Demand’.
3-2-5 L2TP If your ISP requires you to use L2TP (Layer-2 Tunneling Protocol) to establish connection, you can select this connection type to establish Internet connection. L2TP is another popular connection method for xDSL and other Internet connection types, and all required setting items are the same with PPTP connection. Like PPTP, there are two kinds of required setting, we’ll start from ‘WAN Interface Settings’: Please select the type of how you obtain IP address from your service provider here.
Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name User ID Password L2TP Gateway MTU Connection Type Description Please input user ID (user name) assigned by your Internet service provider here. Please input the password assigned by your Internet service provider here. Please input the IP address of L2TP gateway assigned by your Internet service provider here. Please input the MTU value of your network connection here. If you don’t know, you can use default value.
connect after no internet activity is detected in minute(s). This option is only available when connection type is ‘Connect on Demand’. If you wish to select another connection type as broadband connection type, click ‘Back’; or you can click ‘OK’ to finish with quick setup. You’ll see the following messages: Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes you made and restart the broadband router, this requires about 30 seconds and the broadband router will stop responding (this is normal and is not malfunction).
3-2-6 Telstra Big Pond This connection type only works for Telstra big pond network service in Australia. DO NOT select this connection type if you’re not using Telstra big pond network service. Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name User Name Password User device login server manually Login Server Description Please input the user name assigned by Telstra. Please input the password assigned by Telstra. Check this box to choose login server by yourself.
Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes you made and restart the broadband router, this requires about 30 seconds and the broadband router will stop responding (this is normal and is not malfunction). You can reconnect to this broadband router and continue on other settings later.
3-3 LAN (Wired) You can setup Wired LAN (Local Area Network) connections of this broadband router in ‘LAN’ menu. This broadband router has 4 LAN ports and they’ll all use the same LAN IP address settings. Please also note that both wired and wireless LAN uses the same LAN IP address settings, too. LAN settings split into 3 sections: LAN IP, DHCP Server, and Static DHCP leases. Please refer to corresponding sections below for detailed setup instructions.
Suggestions on IP address numbering plan: If you have no idea on how to define an IP address plan for your network, here are some suggestions. 1. A valid IP address has 4 fields: a.b.c.d, for most of home and company users, it’s suggested to use 192.168.c.d, where c is an integer between 0 and 254, and d is an integer between 1 and 254.
3-3-2 LAN IP You can use this setting to assign an IP address to the LAN interface of this broadband router. Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name Description IP address Please input the IP address of this broadband router’s LAN interface. Subnet Mask Please input subnet mask for this network. 802.1d Spanning Tree If you wish to activate 802.1d spanning tree function, select ‘Enabled’ for setup item ‘802.1d Spanning Tree’, or set it to ‘Disabled’.
3-3-3 DHCP Server You can use this setting to decide the range of IP address leases. Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name Start IP End IP Domain Name Description Please input the start IP address of the IP leases range. Please input the end IP address of the IP leases range. If you wish, you can also input the domain name for your network. This is optional.
3-3-4 Static DHCP Leases If you wish to assign a fixed IP address to certain computers / devices by DHCP, you can use this function to establish a MAC-to-IP address table here, so you can assign a specific IP address to a specific computer / network device by its MAC address. Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name Enable Static DHCP Leases MAC Address IP address Add Clear Description Check this box to enable this function, otherwise uncheck it to disable this function.
All MAC-to-IP address entries will be listed in this page, and this broadband router supports up 16 static DHCP leases: To delete one or more entries listed here, please check the box of the mapping entry (under ‘Select’), and click ‘Delete Selected’ button. If you wish to delete all mapping entries, click ‘Delete All’ button. To deselect all checked boxes, click ‘Reset’ button.
3-4 Wireless You can setup Wireless LAN connection parameters of this broadband router in ‘Wireless’ menu: Please select one setting in this menu, then click ‘Apply’ to proceed. If you wish to go back to previous page, click ‘Previous’.
3-4-1 Basic Settings You can set basic settings of wireless LAN here. Please select the working mode of this broadband router from ‘Mode’ dropdown list first: a. AP: Standard wireless AP (access point). b. Station-Infrastructure: This broadband router acts as both wireless communication client and server - connects to another wireless access point as client, and serves other wireless clients as server. c.
3-4-1-1 AP mode In AP mode, the following settings will appear: Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name Band Description Please select the radio band from one of following options: 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.
ESSID Channel Number Associated Clients 2.4 GHz (B+G+N): 2.4GHz Band, Allows 802.11b, 802.11g, and 802.11N wireless clients. It’s recommends to select this band to maximize compatibility. This is the name of broadband router. You can type any alphanumerical characters here, maximum 32 characters. ESSID is used to identify your own broadband router from others when there are other broadband routers in the same area.
TIPS: You can try to change channel number to another one if you think the data transfer rate is too slow, or keep having problem while transferring the file over wireless network. There could be some other broadband routers using the same channel, which will disturb the radio communication between wireless client and the broadband When you finished with the settings in this page, you can click ‘Apply’ button to save changes you made in this page, or you can click ‘Cancel’ to discard changes.
3-4-1-2 Station-Infrastructure In Station-Infrastructure mode, you can select a wireless access point to become its wireless client, and also acts as wireless access point to serve other wireless clients.
54Mbps for 802.11g clients). 2.4 GHz (G): 2.4GHz band, only allows 802.11g wireless network client to connect this router (maximum transfer rate 54Mbps). ESSID Site Survey WLAN MAC 2.4 GHz (B+G+N): 2.4GHz Band, Allows 802.11b, 802.11g, and 802.11N wireless clients. It’s recommends to select this band to maximize compatibility. This is the name of broadband router. You can type any alphanumerical characters here, maximum 32 characters.
Auto MAC Clone computer (the one you used to connect to the web management interface currently). If you wish to use the MAC address of wired LAN interface of this broadband router, select ‘Enable’, or select ‘Disable’ to not to use the MAC address of the wired LAN interface of this broadband router. When you finished with the settings in this page, you can click ‘Apply’ button to save changes you made in this page, or you can click ‘Cancel’ to discard changes.
3-4-1-3 AP Bridge-Point to Point In this mode, you can use this broadband router as a wireless network bridge and let all computers connected to the LAN ports of both wireless access points to communicate with each other. This mode supports only one wireless access point peer. Please note that when you select this mode, this broadband router will act as wireless bridge only, and will not accept other wireless clients. Also, you can connect to the wireless access point with the same functionality only.
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 802.11g wireless network client to connect this router (maximum transfer rate 54Mbps). Channel Number MAC address 1 Set Security 2.4 GHz (B+G+N): 2.4GHz Band, Allows 802.11b, 802.11g, and 802.11N wireless clients.
Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes you made and restart the broadband router, this requires about 30 seconds and the broadband router will stop responding (this is normal and is not malfunction). You can reconnect to this broadband router and continue on other settings later. You can click ‘Continue’ to continue on other settings without restart the broadband router, however, the changes you made will not take effect before you restart the broadband router.
3-4-1-4 AP Bridge-Point to Multi-Point In this mode, you can use this broadband router as a wireless network bridge and let all computers connected to the LAN ports of all wireless access points to communicate with each other. This mode supports up to four wireless access point peers. Please note that when you select this mode, this broadband router will act as wireless bridge only, and will not accept other wireless clients.
router (maximum transfer rate 54Mbps). Channel Number MAC address 1 to 4 Set Security 2.4 GHz (B+G+N): 2.4GHz Band, Allows 802.11b, 802.11g, and 802.11N wireless clients. It’s recommends to select this band to maximize compatibility. Select the channel number you wish to use; all access points must use the same channel. Input the MAC address of other wireless access points (the access points you wish to connect).
3-4-1-5 AP Bridge-WDS In this mode, this broadband router acts as both wireless communication bridge and wireless access point. This broadband router can establish communication with up to four WDS-compatible wireless access points, and let all computers connected to the LAN ports of every wireless access points communicate with each other. The broadband router is able to serve other wireless clients and acts as a wireless access point at the same time.
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 802.11g wireless network client to connect this router (maximum transfer rate 54Mbps). ESSID Channel Number Associated Clients 2.4 GHz (B+G+N): 2.4GHz Band, Allows 802.11b, 802.
MAC address 1 to 4 Set Security wireless client list window. Input the MAC address of other wireless access points (the access points you wish to connect). Click ‘Set Security’ button to set security functions of this wireless connection to improve security. Please refer to chapter 3-2-1-7 for detailed instructions. When you finished with the settings in this page, you can click ‘Apply’ button to save changes you made in this page, or you can click ‘Cancel’ to discard changes.
3-4-1-6 Universal Repeater In this mode, this broadband router acts as a wireless repeater. It will repeat the signal of the wireless access point you specified, to extend its wireless coverage. The broadband router will still accept wireless clients when in this mode.
Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name Band Description Please select the radio band from one of following options (must be the same with the wireless access point you wish to connect): 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.
Channel Number Associated Clients Root AP SSID Site Survey Select the channel number you wish to use; all access points must use the same channel. Click ‘Show Active Clients’ button to show the list of all connected wireless clients. You can click ‘Refresh’ in new window to get latest list again, or click ‘Close’ to close the window.
Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes you made and restart the broadband router, this requires about 30 seconds and the broadband router will stop responding (this is normal and is not malfunction). You can reconnect to this broadband router and continue on other settings later. You can click ‘Continue’ to continue on other settings without restart the broadband router, however, the changes you made will not take effect before you restart the broadband router.
3-4-1-7 Set Security In certain AP working modes, you can enable encryption to improve security level. When you click ‘Set Security’ button, the following window will appear: Please select an encryption method from ‘Encryption’ dropdown menu, and corresponding setting will appear: Disabled Encryption is disabled. It’s not recommended to disable encryption because other people may use certain wireless scanner to copy the data transferred over air.
WEP Select WEP to enable WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) encryption: Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name Key Length Key Format Default Tx Key Encryption Key 1 to 4 Description There are two types of WEP key length: 64-bit and 128-bit. Using ‘128-bit’ is safer than ’64-bit’, but will reduce some data transfer performance. 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.
displayed at ‘Key Format’ field. You can use any alphanumerical characters (0-9, a-z, and A-Z) if you select ‘ASCII’ key format, and if you select ‘Hex’ as key format, you can use characters 0-9, a-f, and A-F. You must enter at least one encryption key here, and if you entered multiple WEP keys, they should not be same with each other. Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes, or click ‘Reset’ to clear the texts in all fields.
Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name WPA Unicast Cipher Suite Pre-shared Key Format Pre-shared Key Description 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. Select the type of pre-shared key, you can select Passphrase (8 or more alphanumerical characters, up to 63), or Hex (64 characters of 0-9, and a-f).
3-4-2 Security Settings This wireless router supports two types of encryption: WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) and WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access): Please select an encryption method from ‘Encryption’ dropdown menu, and corresponding setting will appear: Disabled Encryption is disabled. It’s not recommended to disable encryption because other people may use certain wireless scanner to copy the data transferred over air.
WEP Select WEP to enable WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) encryption: Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name Key Length Key Format Default Tx Key Encryption Key 1 to 4 Description There are two types of WEP key length: 64-bit and 128-bit. Using ‘128-bit’ is safer than ’64-bit’, but will reduce some data transfer performance. 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.
displayed at ‘Key Format’ field. You can use any alphanumerical characters (0-9, a-z, and A-Z) if you select ‘ASCII’ key format, and if you select ‘Hex’ as key format, you can use characters 0-9, a-f, and A-F. You must enter at least one encryption key here, and if you entered multiple WEP keys, they should not be same with each other. Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes, or click ‘Reset’ to clear the texts in all fields.
Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name WPA Unicast Cipher Suite Pre-shared Key Format Pre-shared Key Description 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. Select the type of pre-shared key, you can select Passphrase (8 or more alphanumerical characters, up to 63), or Hex (64 characters of 0-9, and a-f).
Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name WPA Unicast Cipher Suite RADIUS Server IP address RADIUS Server Port RADIUS Server Password Description 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. Input the IP address of RADIUS authentication server here. Input the port number of RADIUS authentication server here.
3-4-3 MAC Address Filtering This function will help you to prevent unauthorized users from connecting to your wireless router; only those wireless devices who have the MAC address you assigned here can gain access to your wireless router. You can use this function with other security measures described in previous section, to create a safer wireless environment. Up to 20 MAC addresses can be assigned.
All MAC address entries will be listed in this page: To delete one or more entries listed here, please check the box of the mapping entry (under ‘Select’), and click ‘Delete Selected’ button. If you wish to delete all mapping entries, click ‘Delete All’ button. To deselect all checked boxes, click ‘Reset’ button. When you finished with the settings in this page, you can click ‘Apply’ button to save changes you made in this page, or you can click ‘Cancel’ to discard changes.
3-4-4 WPS WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) provides a convenient way to establish the connection between this broadband router and wireless clients. Any WPS-compatible wireless clients can establish secure connection with this broadband router with simple push-button type configuration or PinCode type configuration. Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name Enable WPS WPS Status Self PIN code SSID Description Check this box to enable WPS function, uncheck it to disable WPS.
Authentication Mode Passphrase Key Config Mode displayed here. The wireless security authentication mode of this wireless router will be displayed here. The WPA passphrase will be displayed as asterisk here. Select the WPS configuration role of this broadband router. Registrar: This broadband router will act as WPS registrar and wait for wireless clients to send WPS configuration request.
3-5 Advance Settings* This router provides various network functionalities like QoS and NAT, and you can configure these functions in ‘Advanced Settings’ menu. Please select the function you wish to set, then click ‘Apply’ button. If you wish to go back to previous page, click ‘Previous’ button.
3-5-1 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. Without QoS, all computers and devices on the network will compete with each other to get internet bandwidth, and some applications which require guaranteed bandwidth (like video streaming and network telephone) will be affected, therefore an unpleasing result will occur, like the interruption of video / audio transfer.
Edit Delete Selected Delete All Move Up Move Down Reset If you want to modify the content of a specific rule, please check the ‘select’ box of the rule you want to edit, then click ‘Edit’ button. Only one rule should be selected a time! If you didn’t select a rule before clicking ‘Edit’ button, you’ll be prompted to add a new rule. You can delete selected rules by clicking this button. You can select one or more rules to delete by check the ‘select’ the box of the rule(s) you want to delete a time.
3-5-1-2 Add a new QoS entry After you click ‘Add’ button in QoS menu, a new setting page will appear: Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name Rule Name Bandwidth Local IP Address Local Port Range Description Please give a name to this QoS rule (up to 15 alphanumerical characters). Set the bandwidth limitation of this QoS rule.
Remote IP Address Remote Port Range Traffic Type Protocol number that will be affected by this rule. If you want to apply this rule on port 80 to 90, please input ’80-90’; if you want to apply this rule on a single port, just input the port number, like ‘80’ Specify the remote (destination) IP address that will be affected by this rule.
3-5-2 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.
Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name Enable Virtual Server Private IP Computer name Private Port Type Public Port Comment Add Reset Description Check this box to enable virtual server, and uncheck this box to disable virtual server. Input the IP address of the computer which provides Internet service. All computer names found by this broadband router on local network will be listed here.
When you finished with the settings in this page, you can click ‘Apply’ button to save changes you made in this page, or you can click ‘Cancel’ to discard changes. After you click ‘Apply’ button, you’ll see the following messages: Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes you made and restart the broadband router, this requires about 30 seconds and the broadband router will stop responding (this is normal and is not malfunction). You can reconnect to this broadband router and continue on other settings later.
3-5-2-2 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. Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name Enable IP Address Computer name TCP Port to Open Description Check this box to enable support for special applications, and uncheck this box to disable this support.
UDP Port to Open) Comment Select Game Add Reset single value, or a range (like 20-50). If you need to input more than one port number and they’re not contiguous, list all port numbers here and separate them by comma ( , ). If the application does not use TCP port, leave it blank. Input the UDP port number required by the special application, the port number can be a single value, or a range (like 20-50).
When you finished with the settings in this page, you can click ‘Apply’ button to save changes you made in this page, or you can click ‘Cancel’ to discard changes. After you click ‘Apply’ button, you’ll see the following messages: Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes you made and restart the broadband router, this requires about 30 seconds and the broadband router will stop responding (this is normal and is not malfunction). You can reconnect to this broadband router and continue on other settings later.
3-5-2-3 Firewall This broadband router supports several firewall functions which will help you to protect your network and computer. In this chapter, instructions for using these functions will be given, so you can utilize these functions to protect your network from hackers and malicious intruders. 3-5-2-3-1 Access Control By using access control, you can restrict your computers from accessing improper website, or using disallowed applications.
Client PC MAC address Computer Name Comment Add Reset network devices. 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’ All computer names found by this broadband router on local network will be listed here.
All MAC address entries will be listed in this page: To delete one or more entries listed here, please check the box of the mapping entry (under ‘Select’), and click ‘Delete Selected’ button. If you wish to delete all mapping entries, click ‘Delete All’ button. To deselect all checked boxes, click ‘Reset’ button.
Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name Client PC Description Client PC IP address Description Please input any text to describe this IP address, up to 16 alphanumerical characters. 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.
If the service you wish to deny or allow is not listed, you can use ‘User Define Service’ table to add a new service of your own: Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name Protocol Port Range Description Please select the protocol type of this service: TCP or UDP, or ‘Both’. Please input the port range if this service. For a single port number, just input the number of service port (like ‘110’).
Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes you made and restart the broadband router, this requires about 30 seconds and the broadband router will stop responding (this is normal and is not malfunction). You can reconnect to this broadband router and continue on other settings later.
3-5-2-3-2 URL Blocking If you want to prevent computers in local network from accessing certain website (like pornography, violence, or anything you want to block), you can use this function to stop computers in local network from accessing the site you defined here. This function is useful for parents and company managers.
Add Reset 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). Click ‘Add’ button to add the URL / keyword to the URL / Keyword filtering table. Click ‘Reset’ to remove the value you inputted in URL/Keyword field.
responding (this is normal and is not malfunction). You can reconnect to this broadband router and continue on other settings later.
3-5-2-3-3 DoS Denial of Service (DoS) is a common attack measure, by transmitting a great amount of data or request to your Internet IP address and server, the Internet connection will become very slow, and server may stop responding because it is not capable to handle too much traffics.
Port Scan Sync Flood ping your own router from internet, too. Some malicious intruder will try to use a ‘port scanner’ to know how many ports of your Internet IP address are open, and they can collect a lot of valuable information by doing so. Check this box and the router will block all traffics which are trying to scan your Internet IP address. 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.
Discard Ping From WAN Port Scan Sync Flood 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. Check the box to activate this DoS prevention mechanism. Many kind of port scan methods are listed here, please check one or more DoS attack methods you want to prevent.
3-5-2-4 DDNS DDNS (Dynamic DNS) is a 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 following service providers: 3322 (http://www.3322.org/) DHS (http://www.dhs.
Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name Dynamic DNS Provider Domain Name Account / E-Mail Password / Key Description If you want to enable DDNS function, please select ‘Enabled’; otherwise please select ‘Disabled’ Select your DDNS service provider here. Input the domain name you’ve obtained from DDNS service provider. Input account or email of DDNS registration. Input DDNS service password or key.
AuthP / AuthQ authentication type is password). Please input the AuthP/AuthQ you applied during DHIS registration. (This field will appear only when authentication type is QRC). When you finished with the settings in this page, you can click ‘Apply’ button to save changes you made in this page, or you can click ‘Cancel’ to discard changes.
3-5-2-5 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. The port number(s) of Internet IP address and private IP address (the IP address on local network) must be the same. If the port number of Internet IP address and private IP address is different, please use ‘Virtual Server’ function.
Type Port Range Comment Add Reset Select the type of connection, TCP or UDP. If you’re not sure, please select ‘Both’. Input the starting port number in the left field, and input the ending port number in the right field. If you only want to redirect a single port number, just fill the port number in the left field. Please input any text to describe this mapping, up to 16 alphanumerical characters. Add the mapping to port forwarding table. Remove all inputted values.
Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes you made and restart the broadband router, this requires about 30 seconds and the broadband router will stop responding (this is normal and is not malfunction). You can reconnect to this broadband router and continue on other settings later.
3-5-2-6 DMZ Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is a special area in your local network. This area resides in local network, and all computers in this area uses private IP address, too. But these private IP addresses are mapped to a certain Internet IP address, so other people on Internet can fully access those computers in DMZ.
Port Range Comment Add Reset you’re not sure, please select ‘Both’. Input the starting port number in the left field, and input the ending port number in the right field. If you only want to redirect a single port number, just fill the port number in the left field. Please input any text to describe this mapping, up to 16 alphanumerical characters. Add the mapping to port forwarding table. Remove all inputted values.
Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes you made and restart the broadband router, this requires about 30 seconds and the broadband router will stop responding (this is normal and is not malfunction). You can reconnect to this broadband router and continue on other settings later.
Chapter IV EZ View Many network devices like printer, IP camera, and multi-media adapters support UPnP (Universal PnP) function. Those UPnP-compatible devices can communicate with each other, and make appropriate configurations. This broadband router is capable to scan the local network and find all UPnP-compatible devices out, you can get a list of all UPnP devices on network, and you can connect to the administration interface of these devices from web interface directly.
2. A pop-up window (or new web browser tab) will appear to show that broadband router is scanning for UPnP devices on network, please wait for 30 seconds until ‘OK’ button appears. Click ‘OK’ button to continue.
3. All UPnP-compatible devices found on the network will be listed here, with the category it belongs to and its name. (For network devices not manufactured by Edimax, or earlier non-PnP Edimax products, the category and name will not be able to displayed).
You can click ‘ ’ button to connect to the web administration interface of the network device, as shown below. (The following picture is an example of connecting to an IP camera, you can input its username and password to login).
If you want to rescan UPnP devices, click ‘Refresh’ button. If you need to set the detailed information of UPnP devices, please click ‘Advanced’ button, and the following settings will appear: You can click ‘?’ icon and a drop-down list will shown, then you can select an icon for the network device you selected. For example, if the network device you selected is a computer, you can use the person icon to represent it.
Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name Add DEL Device Name Config Description Click this button to add a network device, and you can set detailed network information like name and IP address for it. Click ‘Apply’ button to save changes and new setting will take effect until next login. Click this button to delete all settings assigned to the network device. You can give this device a name as memory aid.
to access the network at certain time period. Click ‘Set’ button and a new window will appear with three time-selection options: No Block: Do not block this UPnP device. Time Interval: This UPnP device will be blocked during the time period you specified. Please input ‘from’ and ‘to’ hour in two respective fields of this item by 24 hours format. Always: This UPnP device will be blocked permanently.
When you finished with the settings in this page, you can click ‘Apply’ button to save changes you made in this page, or you can click ‘Cancel’ to discard changes. After you click ‘Apply’ button, you’ll see the following messages: Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes you made and restart the broadband router, this requires about 30 seconds and the broadband router will stop responding (this is normal and is not malfunction). You can reconnect to this broadband router and continue on other settings later.
Chapter V: Status In this menu, you can check the operation status of this broadband router. To view the status, follow the following instructions: 1. Click ‘Status’ button from main menu: 2.
You can check the system uptime and firmware version of this broadband router. If you need detailed information about Internet connection or system usage log, please choose one of them and click ‘Apply’. If you want to go back to previous page, please click ‘Previous’.
5-1 Internet Connection This page shows the current status of Internet connection.
5-2 Device Status This page shows current wireless LAN and wired LAN configuration.
5-3 System Log This page shows all logged system information. You can use scroll bar to view the logs, or click ‘Save’ to download the log file to your computer. You can also click ‘Clear’ to remove all logs, or click ‘Refresh’ to reload logs.
5-4 Security Log This page shows all logged security-related information. You can use scroll bar to view the logs, or click ‘Save’ to download the log file to your computer. You can also click ‘Clear’ to remove all logs, or click ‘Refresh’ to reload logs.
5-5 Active DHCP Client This page shows all current DHCP clients. You can click ‘Refresh’ to reload the list.
5-6 Statistics This page shows the statistical information of network interfaces of this broadband router, and the total system uptime.
Chapter VI : Tools This broadband router comes with several tools that will help you to manage the configuration of broadband router, upgrade the firmware, and restart the broadband router. To use these tools, follow the following instructions: 1.
2. The list of tools will appear: Please select the tool you wish to use, then click ‘Apply’ button. If you wish to go back to previous page, click ‘Previous’ button.
6-1 Configuration Tools In this page, you can backup and restore current system configuration, and reset all settings to factory default value. Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name Backup Settings Restore Settings Restore to Factory Default Description Click ‘Save…’ button to download the current configuration as ‘config.bin’ file. Save this file on your computer to keep current configuration.
6-2 Firmware Upgrade New firmware releases will provide new functions to this broadband router, and you can use firmware upgrade function to upgrade the firmware to new version. NOTE: It’s recommended to use wired Ethernet connection to upload the firmware file, please refrain from using wireless connection to upload the firmware file. Also, please do not switch the broadband router or computer you used to upload the firmware file off during firmware upgrade.
6-3 Restart If you found that the broadband router is not functioning correctly, or responding slowly then usual, you can use this function to restart the broadband router, and this may correct the problem. Click ‘Apply’ button to restart the broadband router. You’ll be prompted to confirm the restart, click ‘OK’ to restart the broadband router.
Chapter VII : Language This broadband router’s web-based user interface supports several languages in the future .We will release English version at first, and add others step by step. You can view website http://www.edimax.com to check new firmware. You can change the display language by click ‘Language’ button in main menu. To change the display language, follow the following instructions: 1.
