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WL-500gP V2 Wireless Router User Manual

4. Wireless router features

This chapter provides setup examples of some frequentlly used router features.

You can setup these features via your Web browser.

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ASUS WL-500gP V2 Wireless Router supports three

operation modes: home gateway, router, and access point.

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Home gateway

mode is for home or SOHO users who

want to connect to their ISPs for Internet services. In this operation mode, NAT,

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You can set up routing policies in this mode; however, NAT function is disabled.

Access point

mode works when you setup WL-500gP V2 as a wireless bridge.

In this mode, all Ethernet ports on WL-500gP V2 (4 LAN ports and 1 WAN

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functions are disabled in access point mode.

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V2.

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Summary of content (11 pages)

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WL-500gP V2 Wireless Router User Manual 4. Wireless router features This chapter provides setup examples of some frequentlly used router features. You can setup these features via your Web browser. &KRRVLQJ DQ DSSURSULDWH RSHUDWLRQ PRGH ASUS WL-500gP V2 Wireless Router supports three operation modes: home gateway, router, and access point.
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WL-500gP V2 Wireless Router User Manual 6HWWLQJ XS ZLUHOHVV HQFU\SWLRQ WL-500gP V2 provides a set of encryption and authentication methods to meet the different demands of home, SOHO, and enterprise users. Before setting up encryption and authentication for WL-500gP V2, contact your network administrator for advice. Click Wireless -> Interface WR RSHQ WKH FRQÀJXUDWLRQ SDJH Encryption The encrytion modes supported by WL-500gP V2 are: WEP (64bits), WEP (128bits), TKIP, AES, and TKIP+AES.
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WL-500gP V2 Wireless Router User Manual Authentication The authentication methods supported by WL-500gP V2 include: Open, shared key, WPA-PSK, WPA, and Radius with 80.211x. Open: This option disables authentication protection for wireless network. Under Open mode, any IEEE802.11b/g client can connect to your wireless network. Shared: This mode uses the the WEP keys currently in use for authentication. WPA and WPA-PSK: WPA stands for WiFi-Protected Access.
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WL-500gP V2 Wireless Router User Manual 6HWWLQJ XS YLUWXDO '0= LQ \RXU /$1 To expose an internal host to Internet and make all services provided by this host available to outside users, enable Vitural DMZ function to open all ports of the host. This function is useful when the host plays multiple roles such as HTTP server and FTP server. However, in doing this, your network becomes less secure. 1. Click 9LUWXDO '0= in the NAT Setting menu. 2. Enter the IP address of the host and click Finish. 3.
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WL-500gP V2 Wireless Router User Manual 3. Select WWW.ASUS.COM for detail setting. You do not necessary to key in User Name of E-mail Address and Password or DDNS Key if you select this server. Or you can select another website to register and apply for DDNS service. Please refer to Page 18 to see another service setting. 4. Enter the host name then click 6XEPLW 4XHU\. The format should be xxx.asuscomm.com. (xxx is what you want to set up a host name) 5.
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WL-500gP V2 Wireless Router User Manual 6. If host name’s format does not follow xxx.asuscomm.com, you will see this message. Please re-enter your host name again. 7. If you want to change host name, please enter new host name and click 6XEPLW 4XHU\. You can see this message when your host name is successfully updated. 8. If the host name had been registered, you will see this message. Please re-enter your host name again. 17 WL500gP_Manual.indd 17 2007.4.
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WL-500gP V2 Wireless Router User Manual 9. Click Apply then click Finish. 10. Click Save & Restart to restart WL-500gP V2 and activate settings. 11. You can type your host name in the address bar of browser to access your Hard Disk Drive plugged in WL-500gP V2. For FTP site setting, please refer to P25 "Setting up FTP Site" section. DynDNS Service 1. Select Yes to enable the DDNS service. If you do not have a DDNS account, click Free Trial to register for a trial account. 2.
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WL-500gP V2 Wireless Router User Manual 11. Enter the host name then click Add Host. 12. You can see this message when your hostname is successfully created. 13. Fill the account information LQWR WKH ''16 VHWWLQJ ÀHOGV of your wireless router. 14. Click Finish. 15. Click Save & Restart to restart the wireless router and activate the settings. 16. Verify whether DDNS is working. Click Start menu and select Run....Type cmd and click OK to open the CLI console. 17. Type ping account.dyndns.
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WL-500gP V2 Wireless Router User Manual 6HWWLQJ XS %DQGZLGWK 0DQDJHPHQW Bandwidth Management provides a mechanism to setup download and upload bandwidth based on IP address and port range. You can define the minimum bandwidth and maximum bandwidth for host within your LAN, and therefore control WKH WUDIÀF RI \RX QHWZRUN 7R VHW XS XSORDG EDQGZLGWK PDQDJHPHQW \RX QHHG ÀUVW VHWXS YLUWXDO VHUYHU WR DOORZ WKH LQFRPLQJ SDFNHWV RI WKH VSHFLÀHG VHUYLFHV 1.
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WL-500gP V2 Wireless Router User Manual 4. T o s e t u p d o w n l o a d bandwidth policy for the all hosts in your LAN, leave the IP address and port fields blank, define the speeds (the speeds are higher than download policies). Click Add to add the rule. 4. Upload stream ,I \RX ZDQW WR VHW XS XSORDG WUDIÀF FRQWURO SROLF\ IRU H[DPSOH WR limit the upload bandwidth of port 2100 of 192.168.1.2 between WR NESV