User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Product Overview
- Setting Up: Basics
- How to create a home network
- Where to find more help
- How to install your router
- How to configure your router
- How to test your Internet connection speed
- How to connect devices to your network
- How to set up parental controls
- How to configure your guest network
- How to back up your router configuration
- How to customize Linksys Smart Wi-Fi
- Using an External Drive
- Setting Up: Advanced
- How to manually set up your router
- How to associate a router with your Linksys Smart Wi-Fi account
- How to get the most out of your dual-band router
- How to control access to your network
- How to set up the DHCP server on your router
- How to access your network on the Internet
- How to clone a MAC address
- How to connect to your corporate office using a VPN
- How to optimize your router for gaming and voice
- How to enable Voice over IP on your network
- How to configure UPnP
- How to use a router as an access point
- How to put your new router behind an existing router
- How to expose a device to the Internet
- Port Forwarding and Port Triggering
- Maintaining and Monitoring
- Troubleshooting
- Specifications
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Maintaining and Monitoring
Linksys EA-Series
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How to back up and restore your router
configuration
Why do I need to back up my router configuration? As with any valuable
data, you should back up your router configuration. Your router might contain
many customized settings. Those settings would be lost if you reset your router
to its factory defaults, and you would need to re-enter all of them manually. If
you back up your router configuration, restoring settings is easy.
NOTE
You can only back up the router configuration locally (not
remotely).
To back up your router configuration:
1.
Log into Linksys Smart Wi-Fi. (See “How to connect to Linksys Smart Wi-
Fi” on page 7.
2.
Under Router Settings, click Troubleshooting.
3.
Click the Diagnostics tab.
4.
Under Router configuration, click Backup. You are prompted to save the
file.
5.
Specify a file location, then click Save.
TIP
For save multiple backup files, include the backup date in the
filename as you save.
To restore your router configuration:
1.
Log into Linksys Smart Wi-Fi. (See “How to connect to Linksys Smart Wi-
Fi” on page 7.
2.
Under Router Settings, click Troubleshooting.
3.
Click the Diagnostics tab.
4.
Under Router configuration, click Restore. The Restore Router
Configuration dialog box opens.
5.
Click Choose File to navigate to the location of your configuration file,
then select the file and click Open.
6.
To restore the configuration, click Start to Restore.
Maintaining and Monitoring