Installation and User’s Manual PENTAGRAM Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite
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Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite INDEX INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................... 5 PACKAGE CONTENTS ....................................................................................... 5 FEATURES.......................................................................................................... 6 PRODUCT OVERVIEW............................................................................................ 7 IMPORTANT NOTES............
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite Introduction Thank you for purchasing the Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite ADSL2+ Modem/Router by PENTAGRAM. Your new router is an all-in-one unit that combines an ADSL modem, ADSL router and Ethernet network switch to provide everything you need to get the machines on your network connected to the Internet over an ADSL broadband connection.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite Features • A 4-port 10/100Mbps fast Ethernet switch is built-in with automatic switching between MDI and MDI-X for 10Base-T and 100Base-TX ports, with auto detection allowing you to use either straight or cross-over Ethernet cables. • With built-in 802.11g access point for extending the communication media to WLAN while providing the WEP and WPA/WPA-TKIP/PSK for securing your wireless networks.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite • Firmware Upgradeable: You can upgrade the router with the latest firmware through its web-based GUI. • High Speed Internet Access: downstream rates of up to 24Mbps and upstream rates of up to 1Mbps. Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite is compliant with the following standards: ANSI T1.413 issue 2, ITU-T G.992.1 (G.dmt), ITU-T G.992.2 (G.lite), G.994.1 (G.hs, Multimode), ITU-T G.992.3 (ADSL2 G.dmt.bis), ITU-T G.992.4 (ADSL2 G.lite.bis), ITU-T G.992.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite The Rear Ports LINE (RJ-11) LAN (RJ-45) DEFAULT PWR ON/OFF Connect the supplied RJ-11 (telephone) cable to this port when connecting to the ADSL/telephone network. Connect a UTP Ethernet cable (Cat-5 or Cat-5e) to one of the four LAN ports when connecting to a PC or an office/home network of 10Mbps or 100Mbps.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite Resetting router • • • Turn router on and wait for ADSL LED to lit or start blinking. Press and hold DEFAULT button on the back panel of router for 5-10 seconds and then release it. After reset LEDs will return to their normal behavior and all settings will be reset to their default value. You can login web configurator using default username and password: admin / trenchip. Connecting Cerberus to Computer.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite Windows 2000/XP 1. Click Start → Settings → Control Panel. Double-click the Network Connections (2000/XP Classic view) or click Network and Internet Connections and then Network Connections (XP Default view). 2. Double-click the Local Area Connection. 3. Click the Properties button. 4. Go to General tab, select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click Properties. 5. Go to General tab, select Obtain an IP address automatically and DNS server address automatically. 6.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite Windows 95/98/Me 1. Click Start → Settings → Control Panel. Double-click the Network icon. 2. Go to Configuration tab, select TCP/IP for network adapter installed and click Properties. 3. Go to IP Address tab and select Obtain an IP address automatically. 4. Go to DNS Configuration tab, select Disable DNS and click OK.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite Windows NT 1. Click Start → Settings → Control Panel. Double-click the Network icon. 2. Go to Protocols tab, select TCP/IP Protocol and click Properties. 3. Go to IP Address tab, select Obtain an IP address from DHCP server and click OK. To make sure that network adapter properly obtained an IP address from router’s DHCP server, click Start > Run and type cmd (Win 2000/XP) or command (Win 98/ME). In command line type ipconfig /all and check that value of the IP Address is 10.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite Configure router via web browser Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite router can be configured via web browser, which is usually integrated with operating system. Router offers clear and simple interface. Login 1. 2. Launch the Web browser Enter the default IP address: 10.0.0.2 3.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite Navigation Steps to navigate the Web configuration from the Site Map are summarized below: • Quick Start – wizard that helps to configure your router, • Interface Setup – configure Internet and LAN functions, • Advanced Setup – configure advanced features, • Access Management – manage Internet access options, • Maintenance – set a new password, set the time zone, upgrade or reload firmware and run diagnostic tests on the router, • Status – router device information, system logs an
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite Quick Start Wizard Click Quick Start to guide you to configure the device to connect your ISP and have Internet access within minutes. This Quick Start will guide you step by step to configure the password, time zone, and WAN settings of you device. This Wizard is a helpful guide for first time uses to the device. It is strongly recommended to use Quick Start to configure your ADSL settings. Click on the RUN WIZARD button to start the Quick Start wizard.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite Setting a New Password This screen helps you set a new password, replacing the default password. Enter new password in New Password and Confirmed Password fields. Click on BACK to return to the previous screen, on NEXT to continue, or on EXIT to exit the wizard without saving. Choose your Time Zone Select the appropriate time zone for your location from the dropdown list.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite Set your Internet Connection Glossary: • • • • Multiplexing - Two conventions identify what protocols a virtual circuit (VC) is carrying. Be sure to use the multiplexing method your ISP requires: VC-Based Multiplexing – In VC-based multiplexing, by prior mutual agreement, each protocol is assigned to a specific virtual circuit. For example, VC1 carries IP, etc.
• Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite Dynamic IP Address A dynamic IP address connection requests a new IP address from your ISP each time you connect to it. Enter VPI (Virtual Path Identifier), VCI (Virtual Channel Identifier) and select your Connection Type from the dropdown list. Your ISP should provide the above information. Click on BACK to return to the previous screen, on NEXT to continue, or on EXIT to exit the wizard without saving.
• Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite PPPoE/PPPoA Configure connection based on PPPoE / PPPoA protocol. Enter Username, Password, VPI (Virtual Path Identifier), VCI (Virtual Channel Identifier) and select your Connection Type from the dropdown list. Note that you must enter the user name exactly as your ISP assigned it. If the assigned name is in the form of user@domain where domain identifies a service name, enter it exactly as given.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite Finishing the Wizard The Quick Start wizard now has all the information it needs. Click on BACK to make changes or correct mistakes. Click on NEXT to save the current settings. Click on EXIT to exit the wizard without saving. Your changes have been saved. Click on CLOSE. The Quick Start wizard window will close. Interface Setup Tab Glossary: • • • RIP (Routing Information Protocol): Select this option to specify the RIP version, including RIP1, RIP2-B and RIP2-M.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite Internet The Internet screen allows you to set up how your router connects to the Internet. If you already ran the Quick Start wizard, the information you provided to the wizard should be entered into the fields already. After you finish the changes, click on the SAVE button to save your changes.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite • ATM VC ATM settings are used to connect to your ISP. Your ISP provides VPI, VCI, settings to you. In this Device, you can totally setup 8 PVCs on different encapsulations if you apply 8 different virtual circuits from your ISP. You need to activate the VC to take effect. For PVCs management, you can use ATM QOS to setup each PVC traffic line’s priority. Virtual Circuit – Select the VC number you want to setup. VPI – Virtual Path Identifier.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite • Dynamic IP Address Select this option if your ISP provides you an IP address automatically. Please enter the Dynamic IP information accordingly. Encapsulation – Select your encapsulation type from the dropdown list. NAT – Select whether NAT (Network Address Translation) is Enabled or Disabled. Default Route – Select whether this PVC will be the default route for Internet data. TCP MTU Option – Enter TCP MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) Value here.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite • PPPoA/PPPoE Select this option if your ISP requires you to use a PPPoA/PPPoE connection. Username – Enter your username for your PPPoE/PPPoA connection. Password – Enter your password for your PPPoE/PPPoA connection. Encapsulation – Select your encapsulation type from the dropdown list. Connection – Select whether your connection is always on or if it connects on demand. If on demand, specify how many minutes the connection may be idle before it disconnects.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite LAN There are the IP settings of the LAN Interface for the device. These settings may be referred to as Private settings. You may change the LAN IP address if needed. The LAN IP address is provided to your internal network and cannot be seen on the Internet. • Router Local IP IP Address – Enter the IP address of your ADSL router in dotted decimal notation, for example, 10.0.0.2 (default setting).
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite • DHCP The DHCP Server gives out IP addresses when a device is booting up and request an IP to be logged on to the network. It must be set as a DHCP client to obtain the IP address automatically. By default, the DHCP Server is enabled. The DHCP address pool contains the range of the IP address that will automatically be assigned to the client on the network.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite Wireless • Wireless LAN Access Point – Activate or deactivate Access Point function of router. SSID –The SSID is a unique name to identify the ADSL Router in the Wireless LAN. Wireless Clients associating to the ADSL Router must have the same SSID. Broadcast SSID – Select No to hide the SSID such that a station can not obtain the SSID through passive scanning. Select Yes to make the SSID visible so a station can obtain in the SSID through Passive scanning.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite • WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy encrypts data frames before transmitting over the wireless network. Select Disable to allow all wireless computers to communicate with the access points without any data encryption. Select 64-bit WEP or 128-bit WEP to use data encryption. Key #1-4 – The WEP keys are used to encrypt data. Both the ADSL Router and the wireless clients must use the same WEP key for data transmission.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite • Wireless MAC Address Filter You can allow or deny a lust of MAC addresses associated with the wireless stations access to the ADSL Router. Active – Use this option to enable or disable MAC address filtering. Action – Select Deny Association to block access to the router, MAC addresses not listed will be allowed to access the router. Select Allow Association to permit access to the router, MAC addresses not listed will be denied access to the router.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite Routing This table lists IP address of Internet destinations commonly accessed by your network. When a computer requests to send data to a listed destination, the device uses the Gateway IP to identify the first Internet router it should contact to route the data most efficiently. Select this option will list the routing table information. You can press ADD ROUTE to edit the static route. (As below screen) ADD ROUTE – click this button to set Static Routing information.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite propagated to other hosts through RIP broadcasts. If you choose No, this route is kept private and is not included in the RIP broadcasts. When you are done making changes, click on SAVE to save your changes, DELETE to delete the rule with the parameters you set, BACK to return to the previous screen or CANCEL to exit without saving.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite Server – This type allows you to specify inside servers of different services behind the NAT to be accessible to the outside world. The following table summarizes these types. TYPE One-to-One Many-to-One (SUA/PAT) IP MAPPING ILA1 IGA1 ILA1 IGA1 ILA2 IGA1 ... ILA1 IGA1 ILA2 IGA2 ILA3 IGA1 ILA4 IGA2 ... ILA1 IGA1 ILA2 IGA2 ILA3 IGA3 ILA4 IGA4 ...
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite • DMZ A DMZ (de-militarized zone) is a host between a private local network and the outside public network. It prevents outside users from getting direct access to s server that has company data. Users of the public network outside the company can access only the DMZ host. DMZ setting for – Option selected in Number of IPs field in main NAT window. DMZ – Toggle the DMZ function Enabled or Disabled.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite • Virtual Server The Virtual Server is the server or server(s) behind NAT (on the LAN), for example, Web server or FTP server, that you can make visible to the outside world even though NAT makes your whole inside network appear as a single machine to the outside world. Virtual Server for - selected in Number of IPs field in main NAT window. Rule Index – The Virtual server rule index for this VC. You can specify up to 10 rules.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite • IP Address Mapping The IP Address Mapping is for those VCs that with multiple IPs. The IP Address Mapping rule is per-VC based. (only for Multiple IPs’ VCs). Address Mapping Rule – PVC to set. Rule Index – The Virtual server rule index for this VC. You can specify up to 16 rules. All the VCs with single IP will use the same Virtual Server rules. Rule Type – There are 4 types of One-to-One, Many-to-One, Many-to-Many Overload and Many-to-Many No-Overload.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite ADSL Select this option to set ADSL Mode and ADSL Type information. ADSL Mode – Select which mode your ADSL connection uses from the dropdown list. The option has Auto Sync-up, ADSL2+, ADSL2, G.DMT, T1.413, G.LITE. ADSL Type – Select the ADSL type you use from the dropdown list: ANNEX A, ANNEX I, ANNEX A/L, ANNEX M, ANNEX A/I/J/L/M. When you are done making changes, click on SAVE to save your changes.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite Access Management Tab ACL Go to Access Management → ACL to enable remote management. Access Control Listing (ACL) is a management tool that acts as a filter for incoming or outgoing packets, based on application. You may use telnet or Web to remotely manage the ADSL Router. User just needs to enable Telnet or Web and give it an IP address that wants to access the ADSL Router. The default IP 0.0.0.0 allows any client to use this service to remotely manage the ADSL Router.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite IP Filter The Router provides extensive firewall protection by restricting connection parameters to limit the risk of intrusion and defending against a wide array of common hacker attackers. Go to Access Management → IP Filtering to set different IP filter rules of a given protocol (TCP, UDP, or ICMP) and a specific direction (incoming, outgoing, or both) to filter the packets. IP Filter is a more complex filtering tool, based more on IP and custom rules.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite Subnet Mask – Enter the subnet mask of the source IP address. Port Number – Enter the port number of the source IP address. Note that 0 means all that ports are allowed. Destination IP Address – Enter the destination IP address that you wish to deny access to your system. Subnet Mask – Enter the subnet mask of the destination IP address. Port Number – Enter the port number of the destination IP address. Note that 0 means that all ports are allowed.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite SNMP The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is used for exchanging information between network devices. It enables a host computer to access configuration, performance, and other system data that resides in a database on the modem. The host computer is called a management station and the modem is called an SNMP agent. The data that can be accessed via SNMP is stored in a Management Information Database (MIB) on the modem.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite Auto-Configured – UPnP network devices can automatically configure network addressing, announce their presence in the network to other UPnP devices and enable exchange of simple product and service descriptions.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite Maintenance Tab Administration There is only one account that can access Web-Management interface-Administration. Admin has read/write access privilege. In this web page, you can set new password for admin. New Password – Type the new password in this field. Confirm Password – Type the new password again in this field. Click SAVE to save your changes.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite • NTP Server automatically Current Date/Time – This field displays an updated Date and Time when you reenter this menu. Time Zone – Choose the Time Zone of your location. This will set the time difference between your time zone and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Daylight Saving – Choose “Enabled” or “Disabled” to use daylight savings time. NTP Server Address – Type the IP address or domain name of your timeserver.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite Firmware You can upgrade the firmware of the router in this page. Make sure the firmware you want to use is on the local hard drive of the computer. It might take several minutes, don’t power off it during upgrading. Device will restart after the upgrade!! After a success upload, the system automatically restarts. Please wait for the device to finish restarting. This should take about 2 minutes or more. You need to log in again if you want to access the device.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite Diagnostics The Diagnostic Test page shows the test results for the connectivity of the physical layer and protocol layer for LAN & WAN sides. Virtual Circuit – Select which PVC you wish to test from the dropdown list. The router will automatically run diagnostic tests on that circuit. A green PASS means that the given test was passed, a red FAIL means that the test was failed and a green SKIPPED means that the test was skipped.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite Status Tab Device Info The Device Info screen is a tool that you use to monitor your ADSL Router. It shows the Firmware Version, WAN, LAN, and MAC address information. Note that these fields are readonly and are not meant for diagnostic purposes. Except the Virtual Circuit, click the drop-down list and select the name of the Virtual Circuit on which the system status is to be shown. • Device Information Firmware Version – This filed displays current firmware version.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite • LAN IP Address – The LAN port IP address. Subnet Mask – The LAN port IP subnet mask. DHCP Server – The status of DHCP Server (Enabled or Disabled). NAT – The status of NAT Service (Enabled or Disabled). • WAN Virtual Circuit – Click the drop-down list and select the name of the Virtual Circuit on which the system status is to be shown. Status – Connected or Not Connected. Connection Type – The WAN Connection Type.
• Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite Data Rate – This field displays the ADSL data rate. System Log The System Log displays data generated or acquired by routine system communication with other devices, such as the results of negotiations with the ISP's computers for DNS and gateway IP addresses. The device keeps a running log of events and activities occurring on the Router. You can click Save Log to display a Windows File Download dialog box that enables opening or saving the contents of the log to your PC.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite Statistics The ADSL Router keeps statistic of traffic that passes through it. You are able to view the amount of packets that passes through the Router on both the WAN port & the LAN port. The traffic counter will reset if the device is rebooted. You can select Ethernet/ADSL to view the statistics report of LAN/WAN. • Ethernet The Ethernet screen gives you information on how much data your router has transmitted and received across the Ethernet connection.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite Help Tab Router’s online help.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite Troubleshooting If the router is not function properly, first check this session for simple troubleshooting before contacting your Internet service provider (ISP) for support. Using LEDs to Diagnose Problems The LEDs are useful aides for finding possible problem causes. Power LED The PWR LED on the front panel does not light up.: 1. Make sure that the power adaptor is connected to the router and plugged in to an appropriate power source. Use only the supplied power adaptor; 2.
4. 5. 6. 7. Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite For WAN access, you must configure remote management to allow server access from the WAN (or all); Your computer’s and the router’s IP addresses must be on the same subnet for LAN access; If you changed the router’s LAN IP address, then enter the new one as the URL; Remove any filters in LAN or WAN that block web service. The web Interface does not display properly: 1. Make sure you are using Internet Explorer 5.0 (or compatible) and later versions; 2.
Cerberus ADSL Wi-Fi Lite Frequent loss of ADSL line sync (disconnections): 1. The ISP provides the WAN IP address after authenticating you. Authentication may be through the user name and password, the MAC address or the host name; 2. The username and password apply to PPPoE and PPPoA encapsulation only. Make sure that you have entered the correct Service Type, User Name and Password (be sure to use the correct casing). Problems with the Internet Access I cannot access the Internet: 1.
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