Wireless-N Broadband Router User’s Manual Version 1.0.
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CATALOG CHAPTER I: PRODUCT INFORMATION 1-1 Introduction and safety information 1-2 Safety Information 1-3 System Requirements 1-4 Package Contents 1-5 Familiar with your new wireless broadband router CHAPTER II: SYSTEM AND NETWORK SETUP 2-1 Build network connection 2-2 Connecting to wireless broadband router by web browser 2-2-1 Windows 95/98/Me IP address setup 2-2-2 Windows 2000 IP address setup 2-2-3 Windows XP IP address setup 2-2-4 Windows Vista IP address setup 2-2-5 Router IP address lookup 2-3
2-4-3 Remote Management 2-5 Setup Internet Connection (WAN Setup) 2-5-1 Setup procedure for ‘Dynamic IP’ 2-5-2 Setup procedure for ‘Static IP’ 2-5-3 Setup procedure for ‘PPPoE’ 2-5-4 Setup procedure for ‘PPTP’ 2-5-5 Setup procedure for ‘L2TP’ 2-5-6 Setup procedure for ‘Telstra Big Pond’ 2-5-7 Setup procedure for ‘DNS’ 2-5-7 Setup procedure for ‘DDNS’ 2-6 Wired LAN Configuration 2-6-1 LAN IP section 2-6-2 DHCP Server 2-6-3 Static DHCP Leases Table 2-7 Wireless LAN Configuration 2-7-1 Basic Wireless Settings
3-2 Network Address Trnaslation (NAT) 3-2-1 Basic NAT Settings (Enable or disable NAT function) 3-2-2 Port Forwarding 3-2-3 Virtual Server 3-2-4 Port Mapping for Special Applications 3-2-5 UPnP Setting 3-2-6 ALG Settings 3-3 Firewall 3-3-1 Access Control 3-3-1-1 Add PC 3-3-2 URL Blocking 3-3-3 DoS Attack Prevention 3-3-3-1 DoS - Advanced Settings 3-3-4 Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) 3-4 System Status 3-4-1 System information and firmware version 3-4-2 Internet Connection Status 3-4-3 Device Status 3-4-4 System Lo
Chapter I: Product Information 1-1 Introduction and safety information Thank you for purchasing this wireless broadband router! This high cost-efficiency router is the best choice for Small office / Home office users, all computers and network devices can share a single xDSL / cable modem internet connection at high speed. Easy install procedures allows any computer users to setup a network environment in very short time within minutes, even inexperienced.
• Allow you to monitor the router’s status like: DHCP Client Log, System Log, Security Log and Device/Connection Status • Easy to use Web-based GUI for network configuration and management purposes • Remote management function allows configuration and upgrades from a remote computer (over the Internet) • Auto MDI / MDI-X function for all wired Ethernet ports.
1-2 Safety Information In order to keep the safety of users and your properties, please follow the following safety instructions: 1. This router is designed for indoor use only; DO NOT place this router outdoor. 2. DO NOT put this router at or near hot or humid places, like kitchen or bathroom. Also, do not left this router in the car in summer. 3. DO NOT pull any connected cable with force; disconnect it from the router first. 4.
1-3 System Requirements z z Internet connection, provided by xDSL or cable modem with a RJ-45 Ethernet port. Computer or network devices with wired or wireless network interface card. Web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or above, Netscape z Navigator 4.7 or above, Opera web browser, or Safari web browser).
1-4 Package Contents Before you starting to use this router, please check if there’s anything missing in the package, and contact your dealer of purchase to claim for missing items: □ Broadband router (main body, 1 pcs)…………………………… □ Quick installation guide (1 pcs) ………………………………… □ User manual CDROM (1 pcs) ………………………………….. □ A/C power adapter (1 pcs) …………………………………….....
1-5 Familiar with your new wireless broadband router Front Panel LED Name PWR WLAN WAN 10/100M WAN LNK/ACT LAN 10/100M LAN LNK/ACT Light Status Description ON Router is switched on and correctly powered On Wireless network is switched on or WPS mode is on. Off Wireless network is switched off Flashing Wireless LAN activity (transferring data).
Back Panel Antenna A Antenna B Antenna C Item Name Description Antenna A to C Antenna A, B, and C Power Power connector, connects to A/C power adapter Reset / WPS Reset the router to factory default settings (clear all settings) or start WPS function. Press this button and hold for 20 seconds to clear all settings, and press this button for less than 20 seconds to start WPS function.
Chapter II: System and Network Setup 2-1 Build network connection Please follow the following instruction to build the network connection between your new WIRELESS router and your computers, network devices: 1. Connect your xDSL / cable modem to the WAN port of router by Ethernet cable. 2. Connect all your computers, network devices (network-enabled consumer devices other than computers, like game console, or switch / hub) to the LAN port of the router. 3.
network device connected to the respective port of the router is powered on and correctly connected. If PWD LED is not on, or any LED you expected is not on, please recheck the cabling, or jump to ‘4-2 Troubleshooting’ for possible reasons and solution.
2-2 Connecting to wireless broadband router by web browser After the network connection is built, the next step you should do is setup the router with proper network parameters, so it can work properly in your network environment. Before you can connect to the router and start configuration procedures, your computer must be able to get an IP address automatically (use dynamic IP address).
2. Select ‘Obtain an IP address from a DHCP server’, then click ‘OK’.
2-2-2Windows 2000 IP address setup: 1. Click ‘Start’ button (it should be located at lower-left corner of your computer), then click control panel. Double-click Network and Dial-up Connections icon, double click Local Area Connection, and Local Area Connection Properties window will appear.
2. Select ‘Obtain an IP address automatically’ and ‘Obtain DNS server address automatically’, then click ‘OK’.
2-2-3Windows XP IP address setup: 1. Click ‘Start’ button (it should be located at lower-left corner of your computer), then click control panel.
2. Select ‘Obtain an IP address automatically’ and ‘Obtain DNS server address automatically’, then click ‘OK’.
2-2-4Windows Vista IP address setup: 1. Click ‘Start’ button (it should be located at lower-left corner of your computer), then click control panel. Click View Network Status and Tasks, then click Manage Network Connections..Right-click Local Area Netwrok, then select ‘Properties’.
2. Select ‘Obtain an IP address automatically’ and ‘Obtain DNS server address automatically’, then click ‘OK’.
2-2-5 Router IP address lookup After the IP address setup is complete, please click ‘start’ -> ‘run’ at the bottom-lower corner of your desktop: Input ‘cmd’, then click ‘OK’
Input ‘ipconfig’, then press ‘Enter’ key. Please check the IP address followed by ‘Default Gateway’ (In this example, the IP address of router is 192.168.2.1, please note that this value may be different.) NOTE: If the IP address of Gateway is not displayed, or the address followed by ‘IP Address’ begins with ‘169’, please recheck network connection between your computer and router, and / or go to the beginning of this chapter, to recheck every step of network setup procedure. 3.
Please input user name and password in the field respectively, default user name is ‘admin’, and default password is ‘1234’, then press ‘OK’ button, and you can see the web management interface of this router: NOTE: If you can’t see the web management interface, and you’re being prompted to input user name and password again, it means you didn’t input username and password correctly. Please retype user name and password again.
2-3 Using ‘Quick Setup’ This router provides a ‘Quick Setup’ procedure, which will help you to complete all required settings you need to access the Internet in very short time. Please follow the following instructions to complete the ‘Quick Setup’: Please go to QuickSetup menu by clicking ‘QuickSetup’ button.
And the following message will be displayed: 1. Set Time Zone 1 2 3 Here are descriptions of every setup items: 4 Set Time Zone (1): Please press button, a drop-down list will be shown, and you can choose a time zone of the location you live. Time Server Address (2): Input the IP address / host name of time server here Daylight Savings(3): If the country you live uses daylight saving, please check ‘Enable Function’ box, and choose the duration of daylight saving.
Please choose the broadband (Internet connection) type you’re using in this page. There are six types of Internet connection, they are: Cable Modem Fixed-IP xDSL PPPoE xDSL PPTP xDSL L2TP xDSL Telstra Big Pond - Please go to section 2-3-1 - Please go to section 2-3-2 - Please go to section 2-3-3 - Please go to section 2-3-4 - Please go to section 2-3-5 - Please go to section 2-3-6 If you’re not sure, please contact your Internet service provider.
2-3-1 Setup procedure for ‘Cable Modem’: 1 2 3 Here are descriptions of every setup items: Host Name (1): Please input the host name of your computer, this is optional, and only required if your service provider asks you to do so. MAC address (2): Please input MAC address of your computer here, if your service provider only permits computer with certain MAC address to access internet.
1 2 3 4 5 Here are descriptions of every setup items: IP address Please input IP address assigned assigned by your by your service provider. Service Provider (1): Subnet Mask (2): Please input subnet mask assigned by your service provider DNS address (3): Please input the IP address of DNS server provided by your service provider. Service Provider Please input the IP address of DNS server Gateway Address (4): provided by your service provider.
2-3-3 Setup procedure for ‘PPPoE xDSL’: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Here are descriptions of every setup items: User Name (1): Please input user name assigned by your Internet service provider here. Password (2): Please input the password assigned by your Internet service provider here. Service Name (3): Please give a name to this Internet service, this is optional MTU (4): Please input the MTU value of your network connection here. If you don’t know, you can use default value.
When you finish with all settings, please click ‘OK’ (7); if you want to go back to previous menu, click ‘Back’. MTU - Please use default value if you don’t know what it is, or ask your service provider for a proper value.
WAN interface settings must be correctly set, or the Internet connection will fail even those settings of PPTP settings are correct. Please contact your Internet service provider if you don’t know what you should fill in these fields. Now please go to PPTP settings section: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Here are descriptions of every setup items: User ID (1): Please input user ID (user name) assigned by your Internet service provider here.
Connection type (6): Please select the connection type of Internet connection you wish to use, please refer to last section for detailed descriptions. Idle Time Out (7): Please input the idle time out of Internet connection you wish to use, and refer to last section for detailed descriptions. Setting item ‘BEZEQ-ISRAEL’ is only required to check if you’re using the service provided by BEZEQ network in Israel.
xDSL’ section above). WAN interface settings must be correctly set, or the Internet connection will fail even those settings of PPTP settings are correct. Please contact your Internet service provider if you don’t know what you should fill in these fields. 2-3-4 Setup procedure for ‘L2TP’: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Here are descriptions of every setup items: User ID (1): Please input user ID (user name) assigned by your Internet service provider here.
Idle Time Out (6): Please input the idle time out of Internet connection you wish to use, and refer to last section for detailed descriptions. When you finish with all settings, please click ‘OK (7); if you want to go back to previous menu, click ‘Back’. 2-3-6 Setup procedure for ‘Telstra Big Pond’: 1 2 3 4 5 This setting only works when you’re using Telstra big pond’s network service in Australia. You need to input: User Name (1): Please input the user name assigned by Telstra.
Please click ‘Apply’ button to prepare to restart the router, and you’ll see this message: Please wait for about 50 seconds, then click ‘OK!’ button. You’ll be back to router management interface again, and the router is ready with new settings.
2-4 Basic Setup In this chapter, you’ll know how to change the time zone, password, and remote management settings. Please start your web browser and log onto router web management interface, then click ‘General Setup’ button on the left, or click ‘General Setup’ link at the upper-right corner of web management interface.
set the duration of daylight setting. When you finish, click ‘Apply’. You’ll see the following message displayed on web browser: Press ‘Continue’ to save the settings made and back to web management interface; press ‘Apply’ to save the settings made and restart the router so the settings will take effect after it reboots. NOTE: You can refer to the instructions given in last chapter: ‘Using Quick Setup’, for detailed descriptions on time zone settings.
Here are descriptions of every setup items: Current Please input current password here. Password (1): New Password (2): Please input new password here. Confirmed Password (3): Please input new password here again. When you finish, click ‘Apply’; If you want to keep original password unchanged, click ‘Cancel’.
Please use new password to enter web management interface again, and you should be able to login with new password. 2-4-3 Remote Management This router does not allow management access from Internet, to prevent possible security risks (especially when you defined a weak password, or didn’t change default password). However, you can still management this router from a specific IP address by enabling the ‘Remote Management’ Function.
Here are descriptions of every setup items: Host Address (1): Input the IP address of the remote host you wish to initiate a management access. Port (2): You can define the port number this router should expect an incoming request. If you’re providing a web service (default port number is 80), you should try to use other port number. You can use the default port setting ‘8080’, or something like ‘32245’ or ‘1429’.
NOTE: When you want to manage this router from another computer on internet, you have to input the IP address and port number of this router. If your Internet service provider assigns you with a static IP address, it will not be a problem; but if the IP address your service provider assigns to you will vary every time you establish an internet connection, this will be a problem.
2-5 Setup Internet Connection (WAN Setup) Internet connections setup can be done by using ‘Quick Setup’ menu described in chapter 2-3. However, you can setup WAN connections up by using WAN configuration menu. You can also set advanced functions like DDNS (Dynamic DNS) here.
2-5-1 Setup procedure for ‘Dynamic IP’: 1 2 3 Here are descriptions of every setup items: Host Name (1): Please input host name of your computer, this is optional, and only required if your service provider asks you to do so. MAC Address (2): Please input MAC address of your computer, if your service provider only permits computer with certain MAC address to access internet.
Please click ‘Continue’ (1) to back to previous setup menu; to continue on router setup, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 50 seconds while router is rebooting). 2-5-2 Setup procedure for ‘Static IP’: 1 2 3 4 Here are descriptions of every setup items: IP address assigned by your Service Provider (1): Please input IP address assigned by your service provider.
Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on other setup procedures, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 50 seconds while router is rebooting). If you want to reset all settings in this page back to previously-saved value, please click ‘Cancel’ button. 2-5-3 Setup procedure for ‘PPPoE’: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 User Name (1): Please input user name assigned by your Internet service provider here.
Service Name (3): Please give a name to this Internet service, this is optional MTU (4): Please input the MTU value of your network connection here. If you don’t know, you can use default value. Connection Type (5): Please select the connection type of Internet connection you wish to use (detailed explanation listed below). Idle Time Out (6): Please input idle time out, (detailed explanation listed below).
Select the type of how you obtain IP address from your service provider here. You can choose ‘Obtain an IP address automatically’ (equal to DHCP, please refer to ‘Cable Modem’ section above), or ‘Use the following IP address’ (i.e. static IP address) WAN interface settings must be correctly set, or the Internet connection will fail even those settings of PPTP settings are correct. Please contact your Internet service provider if you don’t know what you should fill in these fields.
User ID (1): Please input user ID (user name) assigned by your Internet service provider here. Password (2): Please input the password assigned by your Internet service provider here. PPTP Gateway (3): Please input the IP address of PPTP gateway assigned by your Internet service provider here. Connection ID (4): Please input the connection ID here, this is optional and you can leave it blank. MTU (5): Please input the MTU value of your network connection here.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Here are descriptions of every setup items: User ID (1): Please input user ID (user name) assigned by your Internet service provider here. Password (2): Please input the password assigned by your Internet service provider here. L2TP Gateway (3): Please input the IP address of PPTP gateway assigned by your Internet service provider here. MTU (4): Please input the MTU value of your network connection here. If you don’t know, you can use default value.
1 2 3 4 5 This setting only works when you’re using Telstra big pond’s network service in Australia. You need to input: User Name (1): Please input the user name assigned by Telstra. Password (2): Please input the password assigned by Telstra. User device login Check this box to choose login server by yourself. server manually (3): Login Server (4): Please input the IP address of login server here.
1 2 3 Here are descriptions of every setup items: DNS Address (1): Please input the IP address of DNS server provided by your service provider. Secondary DNS Address (2): Please input the IP address of another DNS server provided by your service provider, this is optional. NOTE: Only IP address can be entered here; DO NOT use the hostname of DNS server! (i.e. only numeric characters and dots are accepted) 10.20.30.40……………………………………………………………… Correct dns.serviceprovider.com…………………………………………...
Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on other setup procedures, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 50 seconds while router is rebooting). If you want to reset all settings in this page back to previously-saved value, please click ‘Cancel’ button. 2-5-8 Setup procedure for ‘DDNS’: DDNS (Dynamic DNS) is a IP-to-Hostname mapping service for those Internet users who don’t have a static (fixed) IP address.
1 2 3 4 5 6 Here are descriptions of every setup items: Dynamic DNS (1): If you want to enable DDNS function, please select ‘Enabled’; otherwise please select ‘Disabled’. Provider (2): Select your DDNS service provider here. Domain Name (3): Input the domain name you’ve obtained from DDNS service provider. Account / E-Mail (4): Input account or email of DDNS registration. Password / Key (5): Input DDNS service password or key.
other setup procedures, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 50 seconds while router is rebooting). If you want to reset all settings in this page back to previously-saved value, please click ‘Cancel’ button.
2-6 Wired LAN Configuration Before all computers using wired Ethernet connection (i.e. those computers connect to this router’s LAN port 1 to 4 by Ethernet cable) can communicate with each other and access internet, they must have a valid IP address. There are two ways to assign IP addresses to computers: static IP address (set the IP address for every computer manually), and dynamic IP address (IP address of computers will be assigned by router automatically.
Please follow the following instructions to set wired LAN parameters: Please click ‘LAN’ menu on the left of web management interface, there are three setup groups here: ‘LAN IP’, ‘DHCP Server’, and ‘Static DHCP Leases Table’. Here are setup instructions for each of them: 2-6-1 LAN IP section: 1 2 3 4 Here are descriptions of every setup items: IP address (1): Please input the IP address of this router. Subnet Mask (2): Please input subnet mask for this network. 802.
1 2 3 4 These settings are only available when ‘DHCP Server’ in ‘LAN IP’ section is ‘Enabled’, and here are descriptions of every setup items: Lease Time (1): Please choose a lease time (the duration that every computer can keep a specific IP address) of every IP address assigned by this router from dropdown menu. Start IP (2): Please input the start IP address of the IP range. End IP (3): Please input the end IP address of the IP range.
2-6-3 Static DHCP Leases Table: This function allows you to assign a static IP address to a specific computer forever, so you don’t have to set the IP address for a computer, and still enjoy the benefit of using DHCP server. Maximum 16 static IP addresses can be assigned here.
After you clicked ‘Add’, the MAC address and IP address mapping will be added to ‘Static DHCP Leases Table’ section. 1 2 3 4 If you want to delete a specific item, please check the ‘Select’ box of a MAC address and IP address mapping (1), then click ‘Delete Selected’ button (2); if you want to delete all mappings, click ‘Delete All’ (3). If you want to deselect all mappings, click ‘Reset (4). After you finish all LAN settings, please click ‘Apply’ button on the bottom of this page.
2-7 Wireless LAN Configuration If your computer, PDA, game console, or other network devices which is equipped with wireless network interface, you can you can use the wireless function of this router to let them connect to Internet and share resources with other computers with wired-LAN connection. You can also use the built-in security functions to protect your network from being intruded by malicious intruders.
Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on other setup procedures, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 50 seconds while router is rebooting). 2-7-1 Basic Wireless Settings Please click ‘Wireless’ menu on the left of web management interface, then click ‘Basic Settings’, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser: 1 2 3 4 5 This wireless router can be work in 4 modes: a.
wireless routers, to expand the scope of network. NOTE: For ‘AP Bridge-Point to Point’ and ‘AP Bridge-Point to Multi-Point’ mode, wireless router is operated in wireless bridge dedicated mode – wireless router is only used to expand the scope of network, and no wireless clients will be accepted. If you want to use your wireless router to expand the scope of network, and also accept wireless clients, please select ‘AP Bridge-WDS’ mode.
2.4 GHz (B) 2.4GHz band, only allows 802.11b wireless network client to connect this router (maximum transfer rate 11Mbps). 2.4 GHz (N) 2.4GHz band, only allows 802.11n wireless network client to connect this router (maximum transfer rate 108**Mbps). 2.4 GHz (B+G) 2.4GHz band, only allows 802.11b and 802.11g wireless network client to connect this router (maximum transfer rate 11Mbps for 802.11b clients, and maximum 54Mbps for 802.11g clients). 2.4 GHz (G) 2.4GHz band, only allows 802.
NOTE: If you don’t special reason to limit the type of allowed wireless client, it’s recommended to choose ‘2.4 GHz (B+G+N) to maximize wireless client compatibility. TIPS: You can try to change channel number to another one if you think the data transfer rate is too slow, or keep having problem while transferring the file over wireless network. There could be some other wireless routeres using the same channel, which will disturb the radio communication between wireless client and the wireless router.
Band (2) Select the band you want to use, two wireless routers must use the same setting. Channel Number (3) Select the channel you want to use, two wireless routers must use the same setting. MAC address (4) Input the MAC address of another wireless router. Set Security (5) Click to set security settings for this connection (Please go to section ‘2-7-3 Wireless Security’ for detailed instructions).
Number (3) routers must use the same setting. MAC address 1 to 4 (4 - 7) Input the MAC address of other wireless routers. Set Security (8) Click to set security settings for this connection (Please go to section ‘2-7-3 Wireless Security’ for detailed instructions). 2-7-1-4 Setup procedure for ‘AP Bridge – WDS’ In this mode, you can expand the scope of network by combining up to four other access points together, and every access point can still accept wireless clients.
ESSID (3) Input the ESSID of your wireless router, it can be the same with other wireless routers for the convenience of roaming, or different with other wireless routers so you can identify each of them. Channel Number (4) Select the channel you want to use, two wireless routers must use the same setting. MAC address 1 to 4 (5 - 8) Input the MAC address of other wireless routers.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Here are descriptions of every setup items: Fragment Threshold: Set the Fragment threshold of wireless radio. Do not modify default value if you don’t know what it is, default value is 2346. RTS Threshold: Set the RTS threshold of wireless radio. Do not modify default value if you don’t know what it is, default value is 2347. Beacon Interval: Set the beacon interval of wireless radio. Do not modify default value if you don’t know what it is, default value is 100.
modify default value if you don’t know what it is, default value is 3. Data Rate: Set the wireless data transfer rate to a certain value. Since most of wireless devices will negotiate with each other and pick a proper data transfer rate automatically, it’s not necessary to change this value unless you know what will happen after modification. N Data Rate: Same as above, but only for 802.11n clients. Channel Width: Set channel width of wireless radio.
reach your wireless router). Turbo Mode: Enhance the data transfer rate of LAN (up to 35Mbps, only for 11g), default value is ‘Enable’, it’s recommended to set this option to ‘Enable’. WMM: The short of Wi-Fi MultiMedia, it will enhance the data transfer performance of multimedia contents when they’re being transferred over wireless network. If you don’t know what it is / not sure if you need it, it’s safe to set this option to ‘Enable’, however, default value is ‘Disable’.
the following instructions to set wireless security settings: Please select an encryption method from ‘Encryption’ dropdown menu, there are four options: 2-7-3-1 Disable wireless security When you select this mode, data encryption is disabled, and every wireless device in proximity will be able to connect your wireless router if no other security measure is enabled (like MAC address access control - see section 2-7-4, or disable ESSID broadcast).
Key Format (3): There are two types of key format: ASCII and Hex. When you select a key format, the number of characters of key will be displayed. For example, if you select ’64-bit’ as key length, and ‘Hex’ as key format, you’ll see the message at the right of ‘Key Format’ is ‘Hex (10 characters), which means the length of WEP key is 10 characters. Default Tx Key (4): You can set up to four sets of WEP key, and you can decide which key is being used by default here.
RADIUS Server Password (13): Please input the port number of radius password here.
When you select this mode, the wireless router will use WPA encryption, and the following setup menu will be shown on your web browser: 1 2 3 4 5 Here are descriptions of every setup items: WPA Unicast Cipher Suite (2): Please select a type of WPA cipher suite. Available options are: WPA (TKIP), WPA2 (AES), and WPA2 Mixed. You can select one of them, but you have to make sure your wireless client support the cipher you selected.
other setup procedures, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 50 seconds while router is rebooting). NOTE: Some wireless clients (especially those manufactured before year 2003) only support WEP or WPA (TKIA) cipher. A driver upgrade would be needed for those clients to use WPA and WPA2 encryption. 2-7-3-4 WPA RADIUS: If you have a RADIUS server, this router can work with it and provide safer wireless authentication.
Password (5): authentication server here. After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ (6) button, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser: Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on other setup procedures, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 50 seconds while router is rebooting).
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 All allowed MAC addresses will be displayed in ‘MAC Address Filtering Table’ (1), and Here are descriptions of every setup items: Delete Selected (2): If you want to delete a specific MAC address entry, check the ‘select’ box of the MAC address you want to delete, then click ‘Delete Selected’ button. (You can select more than one MAC addresses). Delete All (3): If you want to delete all MAC addresses listed here, please click ‘Delete All’ button.
MAC address, like ‘ROOM 2A Computer’ or anything. You can input up to 16 alphanumerical characters here. This is optional and you can leave it blank, however, it’s recommended to use this field to write a comment for every MAC addresses as a memory aid. Add (8): Click ‘Add’ button to add the MAC address and associated comment to the MAC address filtering table. Clear (9): Click ‘Clear’ to remove the value you inputted in MAC address and comment field.
2-7-5 Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) is the simplest way to build connection between wireless network clients and this wireless router. You don’t have to select encryption mode and input a long encryption passphrase every time when you need to setup a wireless client, you only have to press a button on wireless client and this wireless router, and the WPS will do the rest for you. This wireless router supports two types of WPS: Push-Button Configuration (PBC), and PIN code.
Here are descriptions of every setup items: Enable WPS (1) Check this box to enable WPS function, uncheck it to disable WPS. Wi-Fi Protected Setup Information (2) WPS-related system information will be displayed here: WPS Status: If the wireless security (encryption) function of this wireless router is properly set, you’ll see ‘Configured’ message here. If wireless security function has not been set, you’ll see ‘unConfigured’. Self PIN code: This is the WPS PIN code of this wireless router.
2-7-6 Security Tips for Wireless Network Here are some quick tips to help you improve the security level of your wireless network: 1. Do not use 100% radio output power unless it’s necessary; higher output power means border wireless coverage, but if you’re not using this wireless router in a really big space, you’ll let your neighbors have the chance to do something bad to your network.
Chapter III Advanced Functions 3-1 Quality of Service (QoS) Quality of service provides an efficient way for computers on the network to share the internet bandwidth with a promised quality of internet service.
box if you don’t want to enforce QoS bandwidth limitations. Total Download Bandwidth (2): You can set the limit of total download bandwidth in kbits. To disable download bandwidth limitation, input ‘0’ here. Total Upload Bandwidth (3): You can set the limit of total upload bandwidth in kbits. To disable upload bandwidth limitation, input ‘0’ here. Current QoS Table (4): All existing QoS rules will be displayed here.
Move Down (10): You can lower the priority of the QoS rule you selected by clicking this button. Reset (11): If you want to erase all values you just entered. Click ‘Reset’.
a b c d e f g h i Here are descriptions of every setup items: Rule Name (a): Please give a name to this QoS rule (up to 15 alphanumerical characters) Bandwidth (b): Set the bandwidth limitation of this QoS rule. You have to select the data direction of this rule (Upload of Download), and the speed of bandwidth limitation in Kbps, then select the type of QoS: ‘guarantee’ (guaranteed usable bandwidth for this rule) or ‘max’ (set the maximum bandwidth for the application allowed by this rule).
Remote IP Address: (e): Specify the remote (destination) IP address that will be affected by this rule. Please input the starting IP address in the left field, and input the end IP address in the right field to define a range of IP addresses, or just input the IP address in the left field to define a single IP address. Remote Port Range (f): Please input the range of remote (destination) port number that will be affected by this rule.
3-2 Network Address Trnaslation (NAT) Network address translations solve the problem if sharing a single IP address to multiple computers. Without NAT, all computers must be assigned with a valid Internet IP address to get connected to Internet, but Internet service providers only provide very few IP addresses to every user. Therefore it’s necessary to use NAT technology to share a single Internet IP address to multiple computers on local network, so everyone can get connected to Internet.
Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on other setup procedures, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 50 seconds while router is rebooting). 3-2-2 Port Forwarding This function allows you to redirect a single port or consecutive ports of Internet IP address to the same port of the IP address on local network.
Here are descriptions of every setup items: Enable Port Forwarding (1): Check this box to enable port mapping, and uncheck this box to disable port mapping. Private IP (2): Input the IP address of the computer on local network which provides internet service. Type (3): Select the type of connection, TCP or UDP. If you’re not sure, please select ‘Both’. Port Range (4): Input the starting port number in the left field, and input the ending port number in the right field.
Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on other setup procedures, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 50 seconds while router is rebooting). If you want to reset all settings in this page back to previously-saved value, please click ‘Cancel’ button.
1 2 7 3 4 6 5 8 9 10 11 12 13 Here are descriptions of every setup items: Enable Virtual Server (1): Check this box to enable virtual server, and uncheck this box to disable virtual server. Private IP (2): Input the IP address of the computer which provides Internet service. Private Port (3): Input the port number of the IP address which provides Internet service. Type (4): Select the type of connection, TCP or UDP. If you’re not sure, please select ‘Both’.
Virtual Server Table (9): All existing virtual server mappings will be displayed here. Delete Selected (10): Please select a virtual server mapping by clicking the ‘Select’ box of the mapping, then click ‘Delete Selected’ button to remove the mapping. If there’s no existing mapping, this button will be grayed out. Delete All (11): Delete all mappings existed in virtual server table. Reset (12): Unselect all mappings.
3-2-5 UPnP Setting This function enables network auto-configuration for peer-to-peer communications, with this function, network devices will be able to communicate with other devices directly, and learn about information about other devices. Many network device and applications rely on UPnP function nowadays.
Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on other setup procedures, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 50 seconds while router is rebooting). If you want to reset all settings in this page back to previously-saved value, please click ‘Cancel’ button. 3-2-6 ALG Settings Application Layer Gateway (ALG) is a special function of this router.
special support for applications you need, and then click ‘Apply’ button, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser: Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on other setup procedures, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 50 seconds while router is rebooting). If you want to reset all settings in this page back to previously-saved value, please click ‘Cancel’ button.
3-3 Firewall Excepting NAT, this router also provides firewall function to block malicious intruders from accessing your computers on local network. These functions include inbound attack prevention, and block outbound traffics, like block URLs which have pre-defined keywords.
settings will take effect (Please wait for about 50 seconds while router is rebooting). 3-3-1 Access Control This function allows or denies computers with specific MAC address from connecting to the network; it can also allow or deny computers with specific IP address, protocol, or port.
filtering table will be able to connect to the network, and rejecting all other network devices. Client PC MAC address (2): Please input the MAC address of computer or network device here, dash ( - ) or colon ( : ) are not required. (i.e. If the MAC address label of your wireless device indicates ‘aa-bb-cc-dd-ee-ff’ or ‘aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff’, just input ‘aabbccddeeff’ Comment (3): You can input any text here as the comment of this MAC address, like ‘ROOM 2A Computer’ or anything.
Filtering Table (10): filtering, and please select ‘Deny’ or ‘Allow’ to decide the behavior of IP filtering table. If you select deny, all IP addresses listed in filtering table will be denied from connecting to the network; if you select allow, only IP addresses listed in filtering table will be able to connect to the network, and rejecting all other network devices. IP Filtering Table (11): All existing IP addresses in filtering table will be listed here.
If you want to reset all settings in this page back to previously-saved value, please click ‘Cancel’ button.
Client PC Description (a): Please input any text to describe this IP address, up to 16 alphanumerical characters. Client PC IP address (b): Please input the starting IP address in the left field, and input the end IP address in the right field to define a range of IP addresses, or just input the IP address in the left field to define a single IP address. Client PC Service (c): Please check all services you want to allow or deny this IP address to use, you can check multiple services.
This function is useful for parents and company managers. Please follow the following instructions to set URL blocking parameters: Please click ‘Firewall’ menu on the left of web management interface, then click ‘URL Blocking’, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Here are descriptions of every setup items: Enable URL Blocking (1): Check this box to enforce URL Blocking, uncheck it to disable URL Blocking.
Current URL All existing URL/Keywords in filtering Blocking Table (5): table will be listed here. Delete Selected (6): If you want to delete a specific URL/Keyword entry, check the ‘select’ box of the MAC address you want to delete, then click ‘Delete Selected’ button. (You can select more than one MAC addresses). Delete All (7): If you want to delete all URL/Keyword listed here, please click ‘Delete All’ button. Reset (8): You can also click ‘Reset’ button to unselect all URL/Keywords.
Internet connection will become very slow, and server may stop responding because it is not capable to handle too much traffics. This router has a built-in DoS attack prevention mechanism; when you activate it, the router will stop the DoS attack for you.
Port Scan (3): able to ping your own router from internet, too. Some malicious intruder will try to use a ‘port scanner’ to know how many ports of your Internet IP address are open, and they can collect a lot of valuable information by doing so. Check this box and the router will block all traffics which are trying to scan your Internet IP address.
3-3-3-1 DoS - Advanced Settings When you click ‘Advanced’ button in DoS menu, the following message will be displayed on your web browser: a b c d e Here are descriptions of every setup items: Ping of Death (a): Set the threshold of when this DoS prevention mechanism will be activated.
activated. After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ (6) button, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser: Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on other setup procedures, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 50 seconds while router is rebooting). If you want to reset all settings in this page back to previously-saved value, please click ‘Cancel’ button.
1 2 4 3 5 6 7 8 9 10 Here are descriptions of every setup items: Enable DMZ (1): Check this box to enable DMZ function, uncheck this box to disable DMZ function. Public IP address (2): You can select ‘Dynamic IP’ or ‘Static IP’ here. If you select ‘Dynamic IP’, you have to select an Internet connection session from dropdown menu; if you select ‘Static IP’, please input the IP address that you want to map to a specific private IP address.
Delete Selected (7): If you want to delete a specific DMZ entry, check the ‘select’ box of the DMZ entry you want to delete, then click ‘Delete Selected’ button. (You can select more than one DMZ entries). Delete All (8): If you want to delete all DMZ entries listed here, please click ‘Delete All’ button. Reset (9): You can also click ‘Reset’ button to unselect all DMZ entries.
You can use this function to know the system information and firmware version of this router. Please click ‘Status’ link located at the upper-right corner of web management interface, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser NOTE: Information displayed here may vary. 3-4-2 Internet Connection Status You can use this function to know the status of current Internet connection.
This information will vary depending on the connection status. 3-4-3 Device Status You can use this function to know the status of your router. Please click ‘Device Status’ menu on the left of web management interface, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser: This information will vary depending on the device status.
All important system events are logged. You can use this function to check the event log of your router. Please click ‘System Log’ menu on the left of web management interface, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser: 1 2 3 The system events will be displayed in this page, and here are descriptions of every buttons: Save (1): Save current event log to a text file. Clear (2): Delete all event logs displayed here. Refresh (3): Refresh the event log display.
1 2 3 The system events will be displayed in this page, and here are descriptions of every buttons: Save (1): Save current event log to a text file. Clear (2): Delete all event logs displayed here. Refresh (3): Refresh the event log display. 3-4-5 Active DHCP client list If you’re using the DHCP server function of this router, you can use this function to check all active DHCP leases issued by this router.
3-4-6 Statistics You can use this function to check the statistics of wireless, LAN, and WAN interface of this router. Please click ‘Statistics’ menu on the left of web management interface, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser: You can click ‘Refresh’ button to display latest information.
3-5 Configuration Backup and Restore You can backup all configurations of this router to a file, so you can make several copied of router configuration for security reason.
3-6 Firmware Upgrade The system software used by this router is called as ‘firmware’, just like any applications on your computer, when you replace the old application with a new one, your computer will be equipped with new function. You can also use this firmware upgrade function to add new functions to your router, even fix the bugs of this router.
Click ‘Browse’ button first, you’ll be prompted to provide the filename of firmware upgrade file. Please download the latest firmware file from our website, and use it to upgrade your router. After a firmware upgrade file is selected, click ‘Apply’ button, and the router will start firmware upgrade procedure automatically. The procedure may take several minutes, please be patient. NOTE: Never interrupt the upgrade procedure by closing the web browser or physically disconnect your computer from router.
Please click ‘Apply’ to reset your router, and it will be available again after few minutes, please be patient.
Chapter IV: Appendix 4-1 Hardware Specification CPU: Ralink RT1310 Switch: Realtek RTL8305SC (5 Port Switch) Wireless Module: Ralink RT2860+RT2820 Flash: 4MB SDRAM: 16MB WAN Port: 10/100M UTP Port x 1 LAN Ports: 10/100M UTP Port x 4 Antenna: RP-SMA Detachable Antenna x 3 (2T3R MIMO Technology) Power: 12VDC, 1A Switching Power Adapter Dimension: 30(H) x 187(W) x 100(D) mm Temperature: 32~104°F (0 ~ 40°C) Humidity: 10-90% (NonCondensing) Certification: FCC, CE
4-2 Troubleshooting If you found the router is working improperly or stop responding to you, don’t panic! Before you contact your dealer of purchase for help, please read this troubleshooting first. Some problems can be solved by yourself within very short time! Scenario Router is not responding to me when I want to access it by web browser Can’t get connected to Internet Solution a. Please check the connection of power cord and network cable of this router.
I can’t locate my router by my wireless client File download is very slow or breaks frequently comm. device provided by your Internet service provider. d. Check PPPoE / L2TP / PPTP user ID and password again. e. Call your Internet service provide and check if there’s something wrong with their service. f. If you just can’t connect to one or more website, but you can still use other internet services, please check URL/Keyword filter. g. Try to reset the router and try again later. h. Reset the comm.
something wrong with their network. I can’t log onto web a. Make sure you’re connecting to the correct management interface: IP address of the router! password is wrong b. Password is case-sensitive. Make sure the ‘Caps Lock’ light is not illuminated. c. If you really forget the password, do a hard reset. Router become hot a. This is not a malfunction, if you can keep your hand on the router’s case. b.
4-3 Glossary Default Gateway (Router): Every non-router IP device needs to configure a default gateway’s IP address. When the device sends out an IP packet, if the destination is not on the same network, the device has to send the packet to its default gateway, which will then send it out towards the destination. DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. This protocol automatically gives every computer on your home network an IP address.
A network mask is also a 32-bit binary pattern, and consists of consecutive leading 1’s followed by consecutive trailing 0’s, such as 11111111.11111111.11111111.00000000. Therefore sometimes a network mask can also be described simply as “x” number of leading 1’s. When both are represented side by side in their binary forms, all bits in the IP address that correspond to 1’s in the network mask become part of the IP network address, and the remaining bits correspond to the host ID.
Application Protocol Port Number Telnet TCP 23 FTP TCP 21 SMTP TCP 25 POP3 TCP 110 H.323 TCP 1720 SNMP UCP 161 SNMP Trap UDP 162 HTTP TCP 80 PPTP TCP 1723 PC Anywhere TCP 5631 PC Anywhere UDP 5632 PPPoE: Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet. Point-to-Point Protocol is a secure data transmission method originally created for dial-up connections; PPPoE is for Ethernet connections. PPPoE relies on two widely accepted standards, Ethernet and the Point-to-Point Protocol.
transmission over the Internet. Both TCP and UDP are transport layer protocol. TCP performs proper error detection and error recovery, and thus is reliable. UDP on the other hand is not reliable. They both run on top of the IP (Internet Protocol), a network layer protocol. WAN: Wide Area Network. A network that connects computers located in geographically separate areas (e.g. different buildings, cities, countries). The Internet is a wide area network.
4-3 FCC Statement Federal Communication Commission Interference Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.
