AT-ARW256E User’s Guide Web Interface User’s Guide AT-ARW256E 4-Port Combo Ethernet USB Wireless ADSL Router 1
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide Tables Of Content 1. INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................... 4 1.1 2. FEATURES ............................................................................................................ 4 YOUR GATEWAY AT A GLANCE ....................................................................... 6 2.1 2.2 PORTS AND BUTTONS ...........................................................................................
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide 5.5.2 System Time .............................................................................................. 40 5.5.3 DNS Proxy Settings................................................................................... 40 5.6 WIRELESS .......................................................................................................... 41 5.6.1 Wireless Security (Advance) ..................................................................... 41 5.6.2 Wireless Management.....
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide 1. Introduction The 4-Port Combo Ethernet USB Wireless ADSL Router is the perfect high-speed WAN bridge/router. This full-featured product is specifically designed allow maximum of 4 Ethernet-workstations to be connected to the Internet and directly connect to your local area network via high speed 10/100 Mbps Ethernet. Most importantly users using wireless workstations will be able to connect to the Internet using 802.11g wireless technology.
• AT-ARW256E User’s Guide Universal Plug and Play Support WLAN Support • IEEE 802.11, 802.11B and 802.11G compliant • Conforms to Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance (WECA) Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi tm) • • • standard Supports 802.11b and 802.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide 2. Your gateway at a glance The 4-Port Combo Ethernet USB Wireless ADSL Router may have different ports and LEDs. Let’s take a look at the different options. 2.1 Ports and buttons Reset and Restore to Factory Defaults: The restore to factory defaults feature will set the Wireless ADSL Router to its factory default configuration by resetting the Wireless ADSL Router.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide 3. Installing your Wireless ADSL Router 1. Locate an optimum location for the Wireless ADSL Router. 2. For connections to the Ethernet and DSL interfaces, please refer to the quick installation guide. 3. Connect the AC Power Adapter. Depending upon the type of network, you may want to put the power supply on an uninterruptible supply. Only use the power adapter supplied with the Wireless ADSL Router. A different adapter may damage the product.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide 4. Setting up your Wireless ADSL Router (Basic Mode) Basic tabs consist of features which are catered for basic users. This section will guide you through your Wireless ADSL Router’s configuration. The Wireless ADSL Router is shipped with a standard PPP configuration. 4.1 Log into your Wireless ADSL Router To configure the Wireless ADSL router, launch your web browser. You may get an error message at this point; this is normal. Do not panic! Type the default IP address (192.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide The Quick Start page is meant for basic users who only require easy and seamless connectivity to the Internet, without worrying about any other advance configuration setting. Alternatively, you can also click on the Wizard Tab (Figure 1.1) and follow through the step-bystep configuration Figure 1.1 (Setup Wizard) For more advanced setup, please proceed to the next section.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide If you are not login-in the first time, the router will direct you to the “Home Page” as shown in Figure 1.2 Figure 1.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide 4.2 Quick Start This screen appears when the user clicks on the Quick Start hyperlink. The screen as shown in Figure 2.1 will be shown when the router detected that there is no DSL line connected to the modem. Please follow the hint to rectify the problem. Figure 2.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide Upon clicking on “Connect” button the status will be shown as below. Figure 2.3 (Quick Start Connection status page) The router will check for wrong username and password, if the Internet connection could not be established. You can click on “here” hyperlink to re-enter your username and password. Figure 2.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide 4.3 Diagnostics Test Diagnostic Test is used for investigating whether the Wireless ADSL Router is properly connected to the WAN Network. This test may take a few seconds to complete. To perform the test, select your connection from the list and press the Test button. Before running this test, make sure you have a valid DSL link. Figure 3.1 (Diagnostic Test screen) After running the Diagnostic Test, the screen will indicate that the portion which pass or fail the test.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide 4.3.1 Ping Test Once you have your Wireless ADSL Router configured, it is a good idea to make sure you can ping the network. You can get to the Ping page by clicking on the “here” hyperlink in Diagnostic Page. Type the target address that you want to ping. If you have your PC connected to the Wireless ADSL Router via the default DHCP configuration, you should be able to Ping the network address 192.168.1.1.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide 4.4 Remote Access Note: Remote Access Hyperlink will only be visible to you, if you have successfully connected to the Internet. Remote Access will allow a remote party to access your router, if you enable Remote Access and enter the remote party’s IP address. Figure 4 (Remote Access screen) 4.5 Statistics Information regarding the Status and Statistics of your Ethernet, USB and DSL line will be displayed.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide 4.6 Wireless 4.6.1 Wireless Setup The SSID is default to “11g” and can be change. SSID is wireless network name for the wireless router, your wireless client will need this name for wireless connection. The wireless setup allows the user to enable or disable the AP (access point for the wireless feature). Disabling of AP will prevent the wireless router from emitting any wireless signal. User can make change the Country selection, which is defaulted as US, channel 6.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide 4.6.2 Wireless Security It is important for user to enforce security in wireless LAN environment, this is to prevent unauthorized wireless users from accessing your router. On default, no wireless security is configured, the “None” radio button is selected. 1) In order implement security, WEP option must be selected 2) Check on “Enable WEP Wireless Security” option 3) Select the “Cipher”option, the available options are 64bits, 128bits and 256 bits.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide 4.7 Save Settings Press this button in order to permanently save the current configuration of the Wireless ADSL Router. If you do re-start the system without saving your configuration, the Wireless ADSL Router will revert back to the previously saved configuration.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide 5. Advanced This mode is catered for advance users, a brief explanation of the links is listed as shown in figure 9. Figure 9 (Advanced screen) 5.1 LAN Connection On one side of your Wireless ADSL Router, you have your own Local Area network (LAN) connections. This is where you plug in your local computers to the Wireless ADSL Router. The Wireless ADSL Router is normally configured to automatically provide all the PC's on your network with Internet addresses.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide 5.1.1 DHCP Configuration To enable or disable DHCP, Click setup. Under LAN Setup, select DHCP Configuration. This will bring up the screen shown in Figure 10. The Start IP Address is where the DHCP server starts issuing IP addresses. This value must be greater than the Wireless ADSL Router IP address value. For example if the Wireless ADSL Router IP address is 192.168.1.1 (default) than the starting IP address must be 192.168.1.2 (or higher).
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide Figure 11 (Example of a DHCP Relay configuration) By turning off the DHCP server and relay the network administrator must carefully configure the IP address, Subnet Mask and DNS settings of every computer on your network. Do not assign the same IP address to more than one computer and your Wireless ADSL Router must be on the same subnet as all the other computers. The apply button will temporarily save this connection.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide Figure 12 (Management IP) 5.2 WAN Connection On the other side of the Wireless ADSL Router is where your Wide Area Network (WAN) connection; also referred to as a broadband connection. This WAN connection is different for every WAN supplier. Most of the configurations you will perform will be in this area Local Area Network Connection(s). 5.2.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide 5.2.2 Configuring the WAN Before the gateway will pass any data between the LAN interface(s) and the WAN interface, the WAN side of the modem must be configured.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide Figure 14 (Bridge Connection Setup) To complete the connection you must now click the apply button. The apply button will temporarily save this connection. To make the change permanent, you need to click on Save Settings. At the system commands page, click on Save All. 5.2.3.2 PPPoA Connection Setup PPPoA is also known as RFC 2364. It is a method of encapsulating PPP packets over ATM cells which are carried over the DSL line.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide f. Set Route: Specify this connection as the default-route. MRU: Maximum Receive Unit the DSL connection can receive. It is a negotiated value that asks the provider to send packets of no more than n bytes. The maximum specified value is 1500 although some DSL/ISP providers require a larger value. The minimum MRU value is 128. Figure 15 (PPPoA Connection Setup) To complete the connection you must now click the apply button. The apply button will temporarily save this connection.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide Idle Timeout: Specifies that PPPoE connection should disconnect if the link has no activity detected for n seconds. This field is used in conjunction with the On-Demand feature. To ensure that the link is always active, enter a 0 in this field. k. Keep Alive: When on-demand option is not enable, this value specifies the time to wait without being connected to your provider before terminating the connection. To ensure that the link is always active, enter a 0 in this field. l.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide provider is using 0,100. Also select the quality of service (QOS); leave the default value if you are unsure or the ISP did not provide this information. If your DSL line is connected and your DSL/IPS provider is supporting DHCP, you can click the renew button and the gateway will retrieve an IP address, Subnet mask, and Gateway address. At anytime, you can renew the DHCP address by clicking on the renew button; in most cases you will never have to use this button.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide Figure 18 (Static IP Connection Setup) To complete the connection you must now click the apply button. The apply button will temporarily save this connection. To make the change permanent you need to click on Save Settings (at the side of the page). At the system commands page, click on Save All. 5.2.3.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide Figure 19 (CLIP Connection Setup) To complete the connection you must now click the apply button. The apply button will temporarily save this connection. To make the change permanent you need to click on Save Settings (at the side of the page). At the system commands page, click on Save All. 5.2.4 Modify an Existing Connection To modify an existing connection, click setup and then click the connection you want to modify.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide 5.2.7 UPnP UPnP NAT and Firewall Traversal allow traffic to pass-thru the Wireless ADSL Router for applications using the UPnP protocol. This feature requires one active DSL connection. In presence of multiple DSL connections, select the one over, which the incoming traffic will be present, for example the default Internet connection. To enable UPnP, you must first have a WAN connection configured. Once a WAN connection is configured, click Advanced and under Advanced, select UPnP.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide 5.3 Routes 5.3.1 Show Routes Routing Table shows the information used by routers when making packet forwarding decisions. Packets are routed according to the packet's destination IP address. Figure 22 (Modem Status screen) 5.3.2 Static Routing If the Wireless ADSL Router is connected to more than one network, you may need to set up a static route between them. A static route is a pre-defined pathway that network information must travel to reach a specific host or network.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide The apply button will temporarily save this connection. To make the change permanent you need to click on Save Settings (at the side of the page). At the system commands page, click on Save All. 5.3.3 Dynamic Routing Dynamic Routing allows the Wireless ADSL Router to automatically adjust to physical changes in the network.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide 5.4 Security 5.4.1 Port Forwarding Using the Port Forwarding page, you can provide local services (for example web hosting) for people on the Internet or play Internet games. When users send this type of request to your network via the Internet, the Wireless ADSL Router will forward those requests to the appropriate PC. Port forwarding can be used with DHCP assigned addresses but remember that a DHCP address is dynamic (not static).
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide The apply button will temporarily save this connection. To make the change permanent you need to click on Save Settings (at the side of the page). At the system commands page, click on Save All. 5.4.2 Access Control Access control can also be called port blocking. It has the functionality opposite to Port Forwarding. Specific types of traffic that is destined to a selected LAN IP address can be blocked.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide 5.4.3 IP Filter IP filter is identical to what Port blocking to Access Control. In (figure 27) it demonstrates that the router will block workstations with the IP in the defined range of 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.8 and port range from 2000 to 3000. Figure 27 (IP Filter screen) 5.4.4 DMZ 5.4.4.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide 5.4.4.4 Enable Incoming ICMP Ping Enabling the Incoming Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) Ping will allow Echo requests to come into the gateway. The gateway will respond with an ICMP Echo response message. The option allows the DSL provider or ISP to determine the following: a. The status of the network. b. Tracking and isolating hardware and software problems. c. Testing, measuring, and managing networks. Figure 28 (Advanced Security screen) 5.4.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide To delete filter rule(s), select the filter rule entry to delete in the “Delete” selection box. Note that multiple deletions are possible. Once all the desired filter rule(s) is/are selected for deletion, press the “Apply” button. The “Select All” select box can also be used to delete the entire filter rule. It provides a quick method of selecting all filter rules for deletion. The “Enable MAC Filters” button allow the user to enable or disable MAC filtering.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide 5.4.6 LAN clients To add a LAN client, click Advanced and under Advanced, select LAN Clients. If DHCP is used, all DHCP clients are automatically assigned. If a fixed IP address server is on the LAN and you want this server to be visible via the WAN, you must add its IP address. Once the IP address has been added to you can apply Port Forwarding and Access Control rules to this IP address. The apply button will temporarily save this connection.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide 5.5 Applications 5.5.1 Dynamic DNS Dynamic DNS allows the user to register with a Dynamic DNS Provider as listed. The dynamic DNS will be linked with the WAN IP of the router even after the ISP update the WAN IP to another IP address. It can be useful in web hosting and FTP services. *note: The Username/Password entered should be similar to the Username/Password you have specified during the registration of the DNS hostname.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide 5.5.2 System Time This feature allows the time in the router to be synchronizing with a specified Time server. The “system log” and “current time” will be able to reflect the updated time upon successfully connected the time server Figure 32 (System Time) 5.5.3 DNS Proxy Settings This feature allows the user to select the (Domain Name Server) DNS Server Priority as well as enter IP addresses for Primary DNS and Secondary DNS.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide 5.6 Wireless 5.6.1 Wireless Security (Advance) Enter the IP Address of the RADIUS Server (for 802.1x authentication purposes). This is used only when you have a RADIUS Server and want to use it for authentication. Almost all homes and offices do not have a RADIUS Server. Figure 34.1 (Wireless Security 802.1x screen) WPA which stands for WiFi Protected Access. WPA is an industry-supported, pre-standard version of 802.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide Figure 34.2 (Wireless Security WPA screen) 5.6.2 Wireless Management The Wireless Management consists of Access List, Associated Stations and Multiple SSID features. 5.6.2.1 Access List This feature permits you to “Allow” or “Ban” any wireless client from accessing the wireless router. You must add the MAC address of the client’s wireless LAN card. Note: You must restart the Wireless Access Point to activate the changes for the wireless settings to take effect. Figure 35.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide 5.6.2.2 Associated Stations Wireless client which are connected to the wireless router will be displayed in this screen. You are able to ban this station by clicking on the “Ban Station” option. Then click on “Apply” button. Note: You must restart the Wireless Access Point to activate the changes for the wireless settings to take effect. Figure 35.2 (Wireless Management Associated Stations screen) 5.6.2.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide 5.6.3 User Management 5.6.3.1 HTTP Authentication There are two types of user for this wireless router “Admin” and “Normal”. “Admin” user will be have administrator rights which can have access to “Wizard”, “Basic” and “Advanced” tabs. However for “Normal” user, they can have access to “Wizard”, “Basic” tabs. You can change your Wireless ADSL Router’s username and password by clicking on User Management.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide 5.6.3.2 Firmware Update You can upgrade the Wireless ADSL Router’s firmware, clicking on Update Firmware under the Tools page. This will bring up the screen shown in Figure 37.1. The upgrade file shall be in *.img format. To upgrade the firmware, click browse, find the firmware file to download. Make sure this is the correct file. Click on upgrade firmware (as shown in Figure 37.1). Once the upgrade is complete the Wireless ADSL Router will reboot.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide 5.6.3.4 Restart Router Use this button to re-start the system. If you have not saved your configurations, the Wireless ADSL Router will revert back to the previously saved configuration upon re-starting. NOTE: Connectivity to the unit will be lost. You can reconnect after the unit reboots Figure 37.3 (Restart Router screen) 5.6.3.5 System Log You can display the Wireless ADSL Router’s log by going under the Status title, click System log.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide 6. Appendix A: Troubleshooting Below is a list of commonly asked questions. Before calling technical support, please look through these issues to see if they help to solve your problem. 6.1 The Wireless ADSL Router is not functional 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 6.2 I can’t connect to the Wireless ADSL Router. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.3 Check to see that the power LED is green and than the network cables are installed correctly. Refer to the easy start guide for more details.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide 6.4 The DSL Link LED is always off 1. Make sure you have DSL service. You should get some kind of information from your ISP that states that DSL service is installed. You can usually tell if the service is installed by listening to the phone line; you will hear some high-pitched noise. If you do not hear high-pitched noise, contact your ISP. 2. Verify that the phone line is connected directly to the wall and to the line input on the Wireless ADSL Router.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide 7. Wireless ADSL Router Terms What is DSL? DSL which is short for Digtal Subscriber Line is a technology that increases the digital capacity of a ordinary telephone line into home of office and , because it is utilitsing the unused bandwidth, the line allows normal phone usage and signal to be for broadband to be used at the same time.
AT-ARW256E User’s Guide One of the configuration parameters transmitted to each network device is its default gateway. This address is configured by the network administrators and it informs each personal computer or other network device where to send data if the target station does not reside on the same subnet as the source.
