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Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Chapter 1. Introduction 3 1.1 Welcome................................................................................................................ 3 1.2 About This Guide.................................................................................................. 3 1.3 Copyright Statement ............................................................................................. 3 1.4 Overview of The Wireless Broadband Router .................................
Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Chapter 1. Introduction 1.1 Welcome Congratulations on purchasing this Wireless Broadband Router. This Wireless Broadband Router is a cost-effective IP Sharing Router that enables multiple users to share the Internet through an ADSL or cable modem. Simply configure your Internet connection settings in the Wireless Broadband Router and plug your PC to the LAN port and you're ready to share files and access the Internet.
Wireless Broadband Router User Manual 1.4 Overview of The Wireless Broadband Router The following sections describe the physical characteristics of your router. 1.4.1 Back Panel Figure - 1 back panel below shows the Wireless Broadband Router back panel: Figure - 1 back panel 1 Power: The power socket is where you plug in the power adapter. Please use the power adapter provided with this wireless broadband router.
Wireless Broadband Router User Manual 1.4.2 LED Description The following illustration shows the Wireless Broadband Router front panel: Figure - 2 front panel Number LED Light Status 1 PWR ON 2 CPU ON 3 WLAN RX Flashing 4 WLAN TX Flashing 5 WAN ON Off Flashing ON Off Flashing 6 LAN(1-4) Description This indicator lights green when the Wireless Router is receiving power; otherwise, it is off. The LED will be dark for a few seconds when the system is started.
Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Chapter 2. Designing Wireless Network 2.1 System Requirements z z z z Broadband Internet Access Service(DSL/Cable/Ethernet) 10/100Base-T Ethernet card and TCP/IP protocol installed for each PC Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher for Web configuration 802.11n , 802.11g or 802.11b compliant wireless adapters (for wireless connection) 2.2 Hardware connection Figure - 3 Local Area Network below shows a typical setup for a Local Area Network (LAN).
Wireless Broadband Router User Manual devices. Step 1 Connecting your computer to the LAN port. Attach one end of the Ethernet cable with RJ-45 connector to your hub, switch or a computer’s Ethernet port, and the other end to one of the LAN ports of your Wireless Broadband Router. Step 2 Connecting Cable/ADSL Modem to the WAN port. Connect the Ethernet cable attaching to your Cable/ADSL modem to the WAN port of your Wireless Broadband Router. Step 3 Connecting the power adapter.
Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Search Order box by selecting them and clicking Remove. Click Disable DNS. 10. Click OK, back to Network Configuration dialog box 11. Click OK, if prompted to restart, click YES. 2.3.1.2 Windows 2000 Please follow the steps below to setup your computer: 1. Go to Start Æ Settings Æ Control Panel Figure - 4 2. Double click the icon Network and Dial-up Connections 3. Highlight the icon Local Area Connection, right click your mouse, click Properties Figure - 5 4.
Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Figure - 6 5. Choose Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically, and then press OK to close the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties window Figure - 7 6.
Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Figure - 8 2.3.1.3 Windows XP Please follow the steps below to setup your computer: 1. Go to Start Æ Settings Æ Control Panel 2. Click Network and Internet Connections Figure - 9 3.
Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Figure - 10 4. Highlight the icon Local Area Connection, right click your mouse, click Properties Figure - 11 5.
Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Figure - 12 6. Choose Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically, and then press OK to close the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties window Figure - 13 7.
Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Figure - 14 2.3.2 Additional Settings for Wireless Client If you choose to access the router via a wireless client, also verify the following: 1. Make sure your PC is equipped with 802.11n, 802.11g or 802.11b wireless adapter and has appropriate WLAN card driver/utility and TCP/IP installed. 2. Set the wireless adapter to use appropriate TCP/IP settings as described in previous section. 3.
Wireless Broadband Router 2.3.3 User Manual Checking PC’s IP and Connection with the Router After configuring the TCP/IP protocol, use the ping command to verify if the computer can communicate with the Router. To execute the ping command, open the DOS window and ping the IP address of the Wireless Broadband Router at the DOS prompt: z z For Windows 98/Me: Start -> Run. Type command and click OK. For Windows 2000/XP: Start -> Run. Type cmd and click OK.
Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Request timed out. Ping statistics for 192.168.1.1: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss), Verify your computer's network settings are correct and check the cable connection between the router and the computer.
Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Chapter 3. Quick Configuration Guide 3.1 Login In order to make the whole network operate successfully, it is necessary to configure the Wireless Router through your computer has a WEB browser installed. Please follow the steps listed below. Step 1 Start your Web browser and type http://192.168.1.1 in the Address field. This address is the default private IP of your router.
Wireless Broadband Router User Manual the configuration task. When first configuring your router, it is recommended that you have an Ethernet cable connected to the router. Performing the INITIAL configuration using a wireless connection is not secure and is not recommended. After you have finished the initial configuration of the router, your connection will be secure and you can safely use either a wired or wireless connection.
Wireless Broadband Router z z User Manual Figure - 18 For DHCP user 1. Choose DHCP user if your ISP will automatically give you an IP address. And then click on “Save Settings”. For PPPoE user 1. Select PPPoE if your ISP requires the PPPoE protocol to connect you to the Internet. Your ISP should provide all the information required in this section. 2. Enter the User Name and Password provided by your ISP for the PPPoE connection, and then click on “Save Settings”.
Wireless Broadband Router z User Manual Figure - 19 For Static user 1. Select Static IP if your ISP has given you a specific IP address for you to use. Your ISP should provide all the information required in this section. 2. Fill the blank input box with the values which are supplied from your ISP And then click on “Save Settings”.
Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Chapter 4. Configuring The Wireless Broadband Router 4.1 Convenient Setup Please refer to 3.2 Quick Setup 4.2 System Information This page indicate current status of the router, including “Internet Access Status” , ”LAN” ,”Primary AP Status ”, “Secondary AP Status” and statistics information about the bits router send and received .
Wireless Broadband Router Connection Type(ISP) User Manual ：Display router’s current connection type, It should be one of “PPPoE” ,”DHCP”, “Static IP”, depending on what kind of connection type your ISP provides. Physical Address：The MAC address of WAN port, this is a unique address assigned by manufacturer. IP Address：The IP address you obtained after connect to the Internet, if you haven’t connected to the Internet yet, this field is blank.
Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Figure - 24 Primary AP ：The wireless router supplies the function of act as two AP simultaneously, but because the difference of privilege, besides normal function of AP, the primary AP also has extra function for some advanced settings and right management. Wireless status ：Display wireless interface status is enabled or not. Wireless Client ：Display the current number of wireless stations associated with router.
Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Figure - 26 System Run Time: Display System Run Time. Statistics: This item provides statistics information about the bits router sends and received. 4.3 Internet Setup 4.3.1 DHCP User(cable modem) The default setting for the router, DHCP is most commonly used for cable modem connections. There is no configuration necessary for this setting because the ISP automatically supplies the information. Choose this type when Cable mode is used.
Wireless Broadband Router User Manual MTU manually, and you should leave this value in the 1200 to 1500 range. If the value you set is not in accord with the value ISP provide, it may causes some problems, such as fail to send Email, or fail to browse website. So if that happened, you can contact your ISP for more information and correct your router’s MTU value. Primary DNS：DNS server is used for resolve domain name.
Wireless Broadband Router z z z z z User Manual Default MAC: Check "Default MAC" to restore the default MAC address of the WAN interface. MTU: MTU is the Maximum Transmission Unit. It specifies the largest packet size permitted for Internet transmission. Enter your MTU number in the text-box to set the limitation. The default value or MTU is 1492 and use 1300 for the line condition is bad. DNS: Check "DNS" and enter the IP address to specify DNS server for LAN DHCP server.
Wireless Broadband Router z z z z z z z z User Manual Figure - 29 WAN IP Address: This is the Router’s IP address, when seen from the Internet. Your ISP will provide you with the IP Address you need to specify here. Subnet Mask: This is the Router’s Subnet Mask, as seen by users on the Internet (including your ISP). Your ISP will provide you with the Subnet Mask. Default Gateway: Your ISP will provide you with the Gateway Address, which is the ISP server’s IP address.
Wireless Broadband Router User Manual 4.4 Wireless Management z Wireless Basic: Providing basic configuration items for wireless router users, including ”Wireless network status ”,”Radio Band”,” Radio mode”, ”SSID”,”SSID Broadcasting”, “Channel Width”, “Control Sideband” and “channel” eight basic configuration items.
Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Figure - 31 Security Mode ：“Security Mode” supplies “None” ,”WEP” ,”WPA SOHO USER” ,”WPA2 SOHO USER”. And ”WPA&WPA2 SOHO USER” five different encryption modes. ”None” means do not encrypt wireless data. WEP ：There are two basic levels of WEP encryption, 64 bits and 128 bits, the more bits password have, the better security wireless network is, at the same time the speed of wireless is more slower.
Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Figure - 32 1. Add MAC address you want to control in the “MAC address” field (the format is XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX), then click “Add” button, and you will see the MAC address has displayed in the MAC list. 2. There are two items supplied, “Permit wireless connection for MAC address listed (others are Denied)” and “Deny wireless connection for MAC address listed (others are Permitted)”, Select the item you want, and click “Save Settings” button.
Wireless Broadband Router Aggregation： User Manual AMPDU+ASMDU – In this mode, you will get the max performance. Disable – In this mode, you will disable the Aggregation. Short GI：Check this box to reduce the guard interval time therefore increasing the data capacity. However, it's less reliable and may create higher data loss. Fragmentation Threshold : This value specifies the maximum size for a packet before data is fragmented into multiple packets.
Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Figure - 36 If you change the private IP address and apply the changes, the PC from which you configure the router will lose the communication to the router. To reconnect, you will need to renew the IP address of the PC or change to an IP address compatible with the new LAN port IP address. 4.6 Applications And Gaming 4.6.
Wireless Broadband Router User Manual 4.6.2 DMZ DMZ opens all the ports of one computer, exposing the computer to the Internet. So it should only be used for some special-purpose, especial for Internet online games. Using this function you can select ”DMZ” item and input IP address of DMZ host, then click “Save Setting”. For the purpose of security, we suggested that using “Virtual server” instead of “DMZ”. Figure - 38 4.7 Application Gateway This feature provides port mapping for some applications.
Wireless Broadband Router User Manual implement secure exchange; you can select “enable” to allow IPSEC pass-through the router. 4.8 Security Management This feature provides security and network protection by using “Internet access control”, “Firewall” and some other options.4.8.1 Internet Access Control”, “Firewall” and some other options. 4.8.1 lnternet Access Control z MAC Filter : You can filter wired users by enabling this function; thus unauthorized users can not access the network.
Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Figure - 42 1. You can select “Default IP Firewall Rule” and click “Save Settings” to enable “Internet Access Control” function. This is only the first step, you should continued to create appropriate rules for “Internet Access Control”. 2. Input description information for current access control rule in the “Description” field. Input IP address of host you want to restrict .If the rule has already existed in “Protocol Template”.
Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Filter”. 2.Input description information in the “Description” field for current access control rule, input website name or Domain name in the “DNS Key Words” field, such as www.163.com. 4.9 DDNS DDNS allows you to map the static domain name to a dynamic IP address. You must get an account, password and your static domain name from the DDNS service providers. z z z z Figure - 44 Enable Dynamic DNS: To enable or disable DDNS feature. Enable DDNS is checked.
Wireless Broadband Router User Manual 4.10 Routing Figure - 45 Most of broadband router and wireless router are using NAT mode, so this feature is designed for most common network environment. 1. Destination Network or IP Address: Specify a certain destination Network or IP address which static route forward to. 2. Subnet Mask: Subnet mask is used for distinguish Network portion and Host portion for an IP address. 3.
Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Figure - 47 Firmware Update: Click "Browse..."button and select a File to upgrade, After you have selected the appropriate file, click "Upgrade" button to execute upgrade procedure. Do not cut off the power supply during the process of upgrading.
Wireless Broadband Router User Manual Appendix Ⅰ: Troubleshooting 1. I cannot access the Web-based Configuration Utility from the Ethernet computer used to configure the router. z Check that the LAN LED is on. If the LED is not on, verify that the cable for the LAN connection is firmly connected. z Check whether the computer resides on the same subnet with the router’s LAN IP address. z If the computer acts as a DHCP client, check whether the computer has been assigned an IP address from the DHCP server.
Wireless Broadband Router z z z User Manual modem is working properly. If WAN LED is ON, open the System Overview page of the Web configuration utility and check the status group to see if the router’ s WAN port has successfully obtained an IP address. Make sure you are using the correction method (Dynamic IP Address, PPPoE, or Static IP) as required by the ISP. Also ensure you have entered the correct settings provided by the ISP.
Wireless Broadband Router User Manual FCC statement 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. 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.
