Operation Manual

NOXON A540

Setting up the router options

For this purpose, you must be sufciently familiar with the router—or its administrator—

to change its conguration and understand its overall handling. Otherwise, you have to

know somebody who is familiar with these things. Normally, these devices use Web in-

terfaces for their administration. In other words, you only need to enter a specic address

(e.g. 192.168.0.1) in your Web browser for it to display a convenient user interface giving

you access to all of the router’s options.

Caution – we are here: SSID broadcast (WLAN)

As explained in the technical glossary, the abbreviation SSID stands for the network

name sent out to all wireless network devices within range, informing them of the pres-

ence of a network with this identication. Some routers, however, have an option to

suppress the broadcast of the network name. The option is a toggle that is usually called

SSID broadcast. If the broadcast is disabled, you must know the name in order to enter

it manually when setting up the NOXON.

Device ID: the MAC address

The so-called MAC address is a unique identier assigned to all network devices. The

MAC address is permanently assigned to the device and cannot be modied. It can

therefore be used to congure routers to permit only devices with specic MAC address-

es to access the network or the Internet. In such a case, it will be necessary to congure

the router with the NOXON’s MAC address so that it will be able to establish a network

connection and access data in the network. The address can be found on a label on the

back of the NOXON.

Sometimes required: a xed IP

Under certain circumstances, it can be useful for a device to always have the same

address. Most networks these days are set up to assign the so-called IP address - the

identier for the TCP/IP protocol - dynamically. In other words, the rst time a device con-

nects, the so-called DHCP server assigns it a valid IP address which the device will keep

as long as the address is not needed elsewhere.

This occurs completely automatically, without the user’s knowledge. If a network

is based on static IPs - i.e. xed addresses, rather than dynamically assigned ones

- there will generally be a precise set of rules governing the addresses that can be

assigned. And our friend the NOXON also has such an IP address. If the network

requires a xed address, the rules for assigning them must be known. But once

again, a xed IP is really the exception; generally, everything happens automatically.