EE User Manual Bright Box Wireless Router
Document Identification Version Date Comments 1.0 30/03/12 First Issue 2.
TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................................ 3 Chapter 1: Introduction ............................................................................................. 7 Introducing the Bright Box wireless router ........................................................................................... 7 Document Information ....................................................................................
Currently Connected Devices ............................................................................................................... 44 USB Device ................................................................................................................................................ 45 Information ...............................................................................................................................................
Description of Bandwidth Control settings .................................................................................... 113 How to limit the wireless bandwidth on an SSID .......................................................................... 113 USB File Sharing...................................................................................................................................... 115 Description of USB File Sharing settings ...............................................
How to upgrade your router with a firmware file .........................................................................180 System ..................................................................................................................................................... 182 Time Settings .......................................................................................................................................... 184 Password Settings .......................................
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION INTRODUCING THE BRIGHT BOX WIRELESS ROUTER The Bright Box Wireless Router is a wireless ‘N’ modem router offering speeds of up-to 300 Mbps when used with a compatible wireless ‘N’ adapter. It also has four 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ports for wired connectivity. The Bright Box Wireless Router supports ADSL2+ broadband connections offering maximum theoretical speeds of up to 24 Mbps on your EE home broadband line.
ADSL Ports 1 x RJ11. ADSL Modes G.DMT - G.992.1, ADSL2 - G.992.3, ADSL2+ - G.992.5, Annex M - G.992.3 & G.992.5 Broadband Modes ADSL PPPoA, ADSL PPPoE, Routing Mode, Fibre/Ethernet PPPoE, Bridge Mode. USB Ports 1 x USB 2.0. Wireless LAN IEEE 802.11n, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.11b. Wireless Band 2.4 GHz (2.412 – 2.472).
CHAPTER 2: ROUTER IDENTIFICATION AND PANELS ROUTER IDENTIFICATION The Bright Box Wireless Router is black with an EE logo printed on the top of the device, as illustrated below: On the bottom of the router you will find a sticker detailing the model name, MAC Address, Serial Number and important wireless information including your wireless network name (also known as an SSID) and wireless password. The sticker also includes the URL used for accessing the router admin pages (http://192.168.1.
When the router is connected to power, switched on and only a broadband cable is connected, the lights should be lit as follows: LED LED Colour/Activity Power Solid green Broadband Solid green Data Off (Fibre) or flashing green (ADSL) Wireless Solid green Intelligent Wireless/WPS Off Ethernet 1-3 Off Ethernet 4 Flashing green (Fibre Broadband) or Off (ADSL Broadband) The table below describes the LED light behaviour on the front panel and what they mean, from left to right.
username and password have been entered incorrectly. Off The router can’t detect a broadband signal. If you are using the EE Fibre broadband service check that the Ethernet connection between the WAN port on the Bright Box and LAN1 port on the Fibre modem is connected and the modem is powered on.
• DSL port • Reset button • Ethernet Ports o WAN port for Fibre broadband services (also known as LAN 4) o LAN ports (1-4) • USB port • ON/OFF power switch • Power socket • WPS button The table below describes the ports, sockets and buttons on the back panel of the Bright Box router: Item Description DSL port For ADSL broadband, connect one end of a broadband cable (RJ-11) to this port and the other end to a filter and the telephone line.
Intelligent Wireless/WPS button Press this button briefly to activate the Intelligent Wireless process or press this button for 5 seconds to activate WPS (WPS will only be available when enabled in the router’s admin pages – (see Wi-Fi Protected Setup on page 79) BOTTOM PANEL VIEW On the base or bottom of the router, you’ll find a sticker detailing the information below: • Model name of router (Bright Box Wireless Router) • Wireless network name (also known as SSID), e.g.
CHAPTER 3: INSTALLATION UNPACKING YOUR BRIGHT BOX WIRELESS ROUTER To make your life easier, we’ve already set-up your Bright Box wireless router so it will connect to the Internet once your broadband is ready. Simply plug it in and connect your device. If you’d like a helping hand, follow this guide and you’ll be online in no time.
Black Ethernet cable: Bright Box wireless router set-up guide: ‘KEEP MEE’ card If any of these items are missing or damaged please contact us on 0844 873 8586.
SETTING UP YOUR ADSL BROADBAND Follow these steps to set up your Bright Box Wireless Router for your ADSL EE broadband service. If you are using the EE Fibre optic broadband service, see the next section. Disconnecting your old equipm ent If you’ve already got a broadband modem or router connected to your line, unplug the power supply and all other cables and put them to one side for now. We recommend using the broadband filters provided in the box, especially to connect your new router.
3. Plug the power cable into the router: 4. Plug the other end into a plug socket and turn it on: 5. You can now switch on the router: Check it over 1. The power light will go green and the broadband light will go green shortly afterwards. 2. Your set up should now look like this: Your hom e broadband is being set up This will take up to 5 minutes, so relax and let us do the leg work.
Please note that if you're redirected to the ‘Nearly there!’ holding page in your browser, you may need to wait a few more minutes for us to set up your router. If after 5 minutes, the ‘Nearly there!’ text is still visible when you reopen your browser window, reboot your PC and then reopen the browser window again, you should now be able to view web pages.
3. Plug the power cable into the router: 4. Connect the power supply into a plug socket and turn it on. 5. You can now switch on your router.
Your Fibre broadband is being set up This will take up to 5 minutes, so relax and let us do the leg work. Please note that if you're redirected to the ‘Nearly there!’ holding page in your browser, you may need to wait a few more minutes for us to set up your router. If after 5 minutes, the ‘Nearly there!’ text is still visible when you reopen your browser window, reboot your PC and then reopen the browser window again, you should now be able to view web pages.
2. If you have a telephone cable reconnect it directly to the telephone socket 3. Disconnect the grey broadband cable from the Bright Box. 4.
Six sim ple steps to m ove 1. Open a web browser (you will not be connected to the Internet) 2. Type http://192.168.1.1 into the browser address bar and click go. Your username is admin and the password is on your ‘KEEP MEE’ card or on the sticker on the bottom of your router. 3. Select the Basic Set-Up tab at the top of the screen. 4. Select the Migration Wizard from the menu on the left hand side menu: 5. Press the Fibre/Ethernet button.
6. Press OK on the warning pop-up. The migration countdown will begin. You can now close your browser. Your Fibre broadband is being set up This will take up to 5 minutes, so relax and let us do the leg work. Please note that if you're redirected to the ‘Nearly there!’ holding page in your browser, you may need to wait a few more minutes for us to set up your router.
2. For Fibre broadband you should leave the black Ethernet cable connected to the red WAN port on the Bright Box, but can plug another Ethernet cable into any of the other LAN ports on the Bright Box (LAN1, LAN2 or LAN3). 3. Plug the other end into the Ethernet socket on your device. You’ll hear a click when you’ve connected the cable correctly: 4. To check your connection, type ee.co.uk into a browser's address bar and click Go: 5.
If you can’t connect or are having problems, repeat all of the steps again ensuring that all plugs are connected properly. If none of these work give us a call on 0844 873 8586 and we’ll help get you up and running. SETTING UP A WIRELESS CONNECTION To set up a wireless connection to the Bright Box Wireless Router: Your wireless network name (SSID) and wireless password can be found on the ‘KEEP MEE’ card or on the bottom of the router. 1.
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CHAPTER 4: THE BRIGHT BOX ADMIN PAGES ACCESSING THE BRIGHT BOX ADMIN PAGES In order to configure settings on the Bright Box wireless router, you will need to log in and out of the router’s admin pages using your web browser. The admin pages will only allow one user (defined by the IP Address of the connected wireless or Ethernet device) to access the pages at one time.
a. The Username is admin b. The Password can be found on the sticker on the bottom of the router (in the Router Login Details section) and on the ‘KEEP MEE’ card. 5. Click Login 6.
How to log out of the Bright Box adm in pages To logout of the router's admin pages: 1. Click Logout – you’ll find this in the top right-hand corner of the router’s admin pages: 2.
Possible Errors displayed when logging into the adm in pages You may experience one of the errors below while logging onto the admin pages: ‘The router log in details you’ve entered are incorrect. You’ll find these printed on the bottom of your router’ You’ll get this error if the username and/or password for the router’s admin pages have been entered incorrectly or left blank.
Please note that you will lose any custom router settings you previously configured if you factory reset the device using the reset button. ‘Duplicate Administrator – The device is managed by 192.168.1.xx currently’ The admin pages will only allow one user (defined by the IP Address of the connected wireless or Ethernet device) to access the pages at one time.
left-hand column navigation menu. An example below shows the navigation elements as they appear in the basic set up > Wireless Settings page: There are three main sections in the admin pages that are accessible by clicking on the navigation tabs: Section Description Status This section consists of a single page that displays the Bright Box status for Internet connectivity, wireless connection status, currently connected device list (DHCP table), USB device status and other LAN and WAN settings.
Some of the navigation menu pages are nestled underneath other headings according to category. Click on the heading to view the associated sub-pages and then click on the subpage heading to view the specific configuration page. The example below displays the Channel and SSID/WEP/WPA/802.
Broadband Username and Password can be found here, as well as ISP settings, DNS and MTU settings. > Migration Wizard This page contains a wizard that allows you to change the default router configuration to work on either EE Fibre broadband or EE ADSL broadband services. Wireless Settings This page contains basic settings to configure your wireless network. The wireless mode, channel, wireless network name (SSID), wireless password, broadcast SSID, security type and security modes can be configured here.
> WEP This advanced page allows you to configure the WEP wireless security settings for any of the transmitting SSID’s. Settings include the WEP mode (64 or 128bit), Key Entry type (Hex or ASCII), WEP passphrase and WEP key generation. Please note that WEP security can only be configured with the router set to ‘11b+11g’ wireless mode. > WPA This page contains settings allowing you to configure the WPA wireless security settings for any of the transmitting SSID’s.
> Address Mapping This page contains an Address Mapping table that allows LAN IP addresses ranges to be mapped to particular Internet IP addresses in order to isolate internal networks. EE does not currently support this feature. > Port Forwarding This page allows you to configure the Port Forwarding (sometimes known as Port Mapping) feature on the router so that remote users accessing local services such as a Web or FTP server can be automatically redirected to the correct local IP address.
Internet application properly from behind the firewall, you can configure that device to have unrestricted two-way Internet access by defining a virtual DMZ host on this page. QoS The Quality of Service (QoS) setting can be enabled or disabled on this page. QoS is disabled by default, but if enabled can allow you to configure particular traffic types (for example gaming traffic) to have priority over others.
router time (as displayed in the System Log) is always correct. > Password Settings You can configure the password to access the router admin pages in this page. Please ensure you have the current password to hand in order to make this change. The admin page idle time out setting can also be configured here. > DDNS This page allows you to configure the Dynamic DNS settings to allow you to map a static domain name (from DynDNS.com or TZO.com) to a dynamic IP address.
If you are having problems reconnecting after a change to the router’s wireless settings you may also need to delete your old wireless network location for the Bright Box in Windows or Mac OS X before trying again.
CHAPTER 5: THE BRIGHT BOX STATUS PAGE The status page is where you'll find all the information you need about the status and settings on your router. The status page is made up of five separate sections – Internet, Wireless, Currently Connected Devices, USB device and Information.
Field Description Broadband Type For EE ADSL broadband connections, this field should display a value of ADSL. For EE Fibre broadband connections a value of ‘Fibre/Ethernet’ should be displayed. If the wrong Broadband Type is displayed, you can migrate to the correct type (ADSL or Fibre/Ethernet) on the Basic Set-Up > Broadband Settings > Migration Wizard page. Broadband State This field indicates the status of the ADSL broadband connection.
‘Disconnected’ this field will display --:--:--. Downstream Rate This field displays the current ADSL synchronisation rate in kilobits per seconds (kbps) for the downstream connection. Please note that this is the sync rate with the exchange only, and this value may be higher than your download speeds over the Internet. This field will display ‘0kbps’ if no Internet connection is available. This field will not be visible when the Broadband Type is ‘Fibre/Ethernet’.
The wireless status may contain up to three separate entries if SSID2 and SSID3 have also been enabled in the Advanced Set-Up > Channel and SSID page. If this section displays ‘wireless is currently disabled’ then this means that the wireless LAN on the Bright Box has been disabled. You can enable the wireless LAN in the Basic Set-Up > Wireless Settings or Advanced Set-Up > Wireless Settings pages.
and SSID page then the extension channel (+/- 4 channels from the primary) will also be displayed here. SSID State This field displays whether the particular wireless network name (SSID) is currently enabled and transmitting. If this value displays ‘Disable’ then the wireless network name is configured, but is not transmitting and cannot be connected to.
USB DEVICE In this section you can see details of a storage device (such as a USB hard drive) connected to the USB socket of the router. See how to file share with a USB drive on page 88. If this section displays ‘no supported device found’ then this means that either no USB device is connected to the router’s USB socket, or the connected device is not supported by the router. The router currently supports FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS file systems. Apple Mac HFS or HFS+ file systems are not supported.
be ‘PPPoA’ and on EE Fibre broadband the value will be ‘PPPoE’ Alternative values of ‘DHCP’, ‘Fix’ or ‘Bridge’ may be displayed if alternative ADSL or Ethernet connection modes have been configured in the Basic Set-Up > Broadband Settings or Advanced Set-Up > Broadband Settings pages. VPI/VCI This field displays the ATM Virtual Path Identifier (VPI) and Virtual Channel Identifier (VCI) for the active Internet connection. For EE ADSL broadband the default value is ‘0/38’.
Gateway This field displays the Gateway IP address for the active Internet connection. This value is automatically assigned by EE broadband when you establish an Internet connection. If the value of this field is ‘0.0.0.0’ then a connection through to the Internet has not been successfully established. Also see chapter 8: troubleshooting on page 198 Primary DNS This field displays the primary Domain Name Server (DNS) for the active Internet connection.
Set-Up > UPnP page. Gateway This field displays the gateway IP address for the routers local area network (LAN). This IP address is the same as you use to login to the Bright Box admin pages, and is ‘192.168.1.1’ by default. The value can be configured on the Advanced Set-Up > DHCP page. Subnet Mask This field displays the subnet mask for the routers local area network (LAN). The value of this field is ‘255.255.255.0’ by default. The value can be configured on the Advanced Set-Up > DHCP page.
CHAPTER 6: BRIGHT BOX BASIC SET-UP PAGES Click the Basic Set-Up tab to access the Basic Set-Up admin pages. You can configure your basic broadband and wireless settings in addition to basic USB File Sharing features on these pages: BROADBAND SETTINGS Clicking on the Basic Set-Up tab will display the Broadband Settings page. You can also access this page by clicking on the Broadband Settings item in the left hand navigation menu when inside the Basic Set-Up tab.
ADSL or Fibre broadband services however is to use the Migration Wizard page. Broadband Username This field is used to configure your PPPoA or PPPoE Username provided by your ISP. EE Broadband customers must remember to add @fs to the end of the Username (for example yourname.orangehome.co.uk@fs. Broadband Password This field is used to configure your Broadband Password provided by your ISP. The field cannot be left empty.
Select ‘VC MUX’ for Virtual Circuit Multiplexing Internet connections, including EE ADSL broadband. Select ‘LLC’ for Logical Link Control Internet connections. This field is not visible for the Fibre/Ethernet Broadband Type. Internet IP Address This dropdown allows you to configure how the Internet IP Address is allocated. For EE Broadband the default value is ‘Dynamic’. Select ‘Dynamic’ if the Internet IP address is assigned by your ISP, this is the standard setting for EE broadband.
How to m anually update the broadband usernam e and passw ord When you first connect your EE Bright Box router to your EE line, your Broadband Settings will be automatically configured, however you can also manually update your broadband username and password on the router from the Broadband Settings page. To do this: 1. Login to the router’s admin pages. 2. Click on the Basic Set-Up tab. 3.
How to change the broadband M TU The Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) value is optimised on the Bright Box router for the EE network with a default value of 1492. In some cases (if web pages are not loading or secure web sites are timing out for example) it may be necessary to adjust the MTU value. To do this: 1. Login to the router’s admin pages. 2. Click on the Basic Set-Up tab. 3. Scroll down to the ‘MTU (576~1500)’ or ‘MTU (576-1492)’ field enter the new MTU value – for example 1500: 9.
How to set m anual DNS addresses The Bright Box router is set to automatically obtain the Domain Name Server (DNS) IP address from EE broadband when establishing an Internet connection. The DNS server translates Internet names and URL’s to IP addresses in order to display web pages or other Internet services. It is possible to override the default ‘Obtain from ISP’ configuration for DNS settings and enter custom DNS addresses. To do this: 1. Login to the router’s admin pages. 2.
In order to change back from manually configured DNS Servers to automatic DNS addresses, click on the Basic Set-Up tab. In the ‘DNS IP Address’ dropdown, select ‘Obtain from ISP’ and click the Save Settings button: MIGRATION WIZARD This page allows you to easily migrate your Broadband service from EE ADSL to EE Fibre broadband or vice-versa. The page also displays the current default Broadband Type (either ADSL or Fibre/Ethernet).
How to m igrate to EE Fibre broadband When your EE Fibre service has been provisioned and an engineer has installed your Fibre modem you may need to migrate the router to the EE Fibre broadband settings using the Migration Wizard. Before you do this, please ensure the Bright Box has been correctly connected to the Fibre modem as described in Setting up your Fibre broadband on page 18. To migrate the Bright Box settings for EE Fibre broadband: 1. Login to the router’s admin pages. 2.
6. The migration countdown will begin. You can now close your browser. 7. The complete migration process may take up to 5 minutes to establish a connection to the Internet. Please note that if you're redirected to the ‘Nearly there!’ holding page in your browser, you may need to wait a few more minutes for us to set up your router.
4. Press the ADSL button. 5. Press OK on the warning pop-up: 6. The migration countdown will begin. You can now close your browser.
7. The complete migration process may take up to 5 minutes to establish a connection to the Internet. Please note that if you're redirected to the ‘Nearly there!’ holding page in your browser, you may need to wait a few more minutes for us to set up your router. If after 5 minutes, the ‘Nearly there!’ text is still visible when you reopen your browser window, reboot your PC and then reopen the browser window again, you should now be able to view web pages.
Field Description Enable or disable wireless This option is used to configure the Wireless LAN interface on the router. The Wireless LAN is enabled by default, meaning that it is possible to connect your wireless devices to the router. Select ‘Disable’ to switch off the Wireless LAN interface on the router. If set to ‘Disable’, it is not possible to connect your wireless devices to the router. The WLAN light on the front of the router will not be lit if this option is selected.
default the SSID is being broadcast. Select ‘Enable’ to broadcast the SSID, meaning that it will appear in a devices wireless network list when scanned. Select ‘Disable’ to stop the SSID from being broadcast, meaning that it will not appear in a wireless list when scanned. Please note that it is still possible to connect to the wireless network SSID manually if the Broadcast SSID option is set to ‘Disable’.
making a wireless connection to the router with WEP security. Select ‘ASCII’ for 5 or 13 character key entry using a character range of a-z, A-Z and 0-9. Select “HEX’ for 10 or 26 character key entry using a character range of A-F and 0-9 (hexadecimal key). Default Key ID Use this option to set a Default Key ID to use making a wireless connection with WEP security. There are a total of 4 keys, with the default used being Key 1. You can configure the individual Key passwords using the Key1Key4 fields.
How to enable or disable wireless To enable or disable wireless on the router, follow the steps below: 3. Login to the router’s admin pages. 4. Click on the Basic Set-Up tab and then select Wireless Settings from the left hand menu: 1. The Wireless Settings page will open: 2.
3. Click Save Settings: 4. The router will apply the new settings: 5. You can verify whether wireless is enabled or disabled on the router by looking at the wireless light on the front of the router: 6. If the light is on or flickering, wireless is enabled. If the light is off wireless is disabled. How to change the W ireless Netw ork Nam e (SSID) You may wish to change the Wireless Network Name (also known as an SSID) transmitted by the Bright Box router to a more memorable name. To do this: 1.
3. On the Wireless Settings page, click in the ‘Wireless Network Name (SSID)’ field and overwrite the default wireless network name with a new one up to 32 characters in length. 4. Click Save Settings: 5.
6. You can confirm that the wireless network name (SSID) has been updated by scanning for wireless networks in your operating system. The screen shot below is an example for Windows 7: How to change the w ireless W PA password You may like to change your wireless WPA password to something more memorable or for security purposes. To do this: 1. Login to the router’s admin pages. 2. Click on the Basic Set-Up tab and then select Wireless Settings from the left hand menu: 3.
4. Click Save Settings: 5. The router will apply the new settings: 6. Now you can reconnect to your wireless network using the new wireless password. How to change the W ireless M ode The Bright Box Wireless router supports 3 wireless modes: • 802.11n - this will only allow wireless adaptors supporting 802.11n to connect to the router. • 802.11b+11g - select this if you're using an older wireless adaptor or software that only supports WEP. • 802.
3. On the Wireless Settings page, click on the ‘Wireless Mode’ dropdown box and select the new wireless mode from the list. In this example we will change to ‘11b+11g’: 4. Click Save Settings: 5.
How to change the w ireless channel The channel is the radio channel used for wireless communication. By default the router will automatically select the channel with the least interference in your area using the routers ‘Intelligent Wireless’ feature. If you'd prefer you can select your own channel between 1 and 13. To do this: 1. Login to the router’s admin pages. 2.
4. The router will apply the new settings: Channels 1, 6 and 11 are non-interlapping wireless channels. If you find that your wireless connection is affected by interference from a neighbouring Wi-Fi network transmitting on Channel 1 for example, it would be best to select either 6 or 11 when switching to a new channel. Alternatively setting the option to ‘Auto’ will automatically select the least congested channel to use.
4. Click Save Settings: 5. The router will apply the new settings: 6. To connect to the non broadcasting SSID, you will have to enter the wireless network name, security type and security key (wireless password) in the operating system wireless software manually.
7. The wireless connection can then be established manually: You may need to update your computer’s wireless settings to 'Connect even if the network is not broadcasting its name (SSID)' after making this change. Also if you connect a new device to the wireless network, you will need to enter the wireless network name (SSID) into the device manually, or enable the Broadcast SSID option. Disabling the Broadcast SSID option should not be relied upon as a wireless security measure by itself.
WEP security mode is only available as an option in the ‘Security’ dropdown when the router is in ‘11b+11g’ Wireless Mode. Please note that WEP mode security is not as secure as the more modern WPA/WPA2 wireless security standard, and should only be used if a device you wish to connect to the network will only support WEP security mode. To change to WEP security: 1. Login to the router’s admin pages. 2. Click on the Basic Set-Up tab and then select Wireless Settings from the left hand menu: 3.
7. In the ‘Passphrase’ field tick the box and then enter any phrase, in this example we use ‘brightbox’, but enter your own unique one for when you follow this step. 8. Click the Generate Key button. Your screen should look like the example below: 8. Make a note of the ‘Key1’ value, in this example with 128-bit HEX mode, a 26-digit hexadecimal key will be generated. This value will be entered into your wireless software to make a connection to the wireless network: 9. Click Save Settings: 10.
The combination of ‘WEP Mode’ and ‘Key Entry Method’ will determine the length and characters used in the Key field: • 64-bit/HEX Mode requires a 10 hexadecimal character key (A-F, 0-9) • 64-bit/ASCII Mode requires a 5 ASCII character key (a-z, A-Z, 0-9) • 128-bit/HEX Mode requires a 26 hexadecimal character key (A-F, 0-9) • 128-bit/ASCII Mode requires a 13 ASCII character key (a-z, A-Z, 0-9). If the ASCII ‘Key Entry Method’ is selected, then the Key field must be entered manually.
3. Select the ‘Security’ dropdown and choose the ‘WPA’ option. 4. Scroll down to the ‘Security Setting’ dropdown and choose the WPA mode you wish to use. In this example we will select ‘’WPA/WPA2 Mixed Mode’ (the most secure and compatible): 4. Click Save Settings: 5.
How to disable W ireless Security It is possible to disable the wireless security mode on the Bright Box router so that wireless devices can connect to the router without having to enter a password. Disabling wireless security should only be done with great care. With wireless security disabled, anyone in range of the router can establish a wireless connection with the router and use your Internet connection. This setting is not recommended by EE. In order to disable wireless security: 1.
4. Click Save Settings: 5. The router will apply the new settings: Using the Intelligent W ireless feature The Bright Box router has a great feature called 'Intelligent Wireless'. Intelligent Wireless is enabled on the Bright Box router by default. When starting up the router, it'll automatically search for and use the least congested Wi-Fi channel, reducing the effect of interference, and providing you with the best wireless performance.
The ‘Applying changes’ message will be displayed, and after a short time the page will be refreshed. If a less congested Wireless Channel is discovered, the router will be set to the new channel and this will be displayed in the Intelligent Wireless section of the page. Intelligent Wireless will be disabled if you have manually selected a wireless channel from 1 to 13 on the Wireless Settings page.
Even if WPS is enabled, you can still connect to your computer using the password method. To access the WPS admin pages in the Bright Box router: 1. Login to the router’s admin pages. 2. Click on the Basic Set-Up tab and then select Wireless Settings from the left hand menu. 3. Select Wi-Fi Protected setup from the left hand menu: Description of W PS settings The following table contains a description of the fields and options in the Wi-Fi protected setup page.
method when making a wireless connection to the router. Your router’s PIN number This is the PIN number you will enter into the wireless adapter software when requested in order to establish a WPS connection using the PIN method. If you are entering a PIN number supplied by the wireless adapter into the ‘device PIN’ field, you can ignore the router’s PIN number. PIN Status This field displays the current status of the WPS PIN method connection.
manual setup This section displays the current wireless settings of the Bright Box router. These settings can be used to manually establish a wireless connection to the router. In most cases only the ‘Network Name (SSID)’ and ‘Network Key’ (also known as the wireless password) are required to establish a connection. How to enable and disable W PS Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) is disabled by default on the Bright Box router. The setting can be enabled and disabled in the Wi-Fi Protected setup admin page: 1.
5. In the ‘Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS)’ field select the option you wish to use. In this example we will select ‘Enable’ to enable the WPS feature: 6. Click Save Settings: 7. The router will apply the new settings: 8. You can now connect to your router using a compatible WPS device.
1. Press and hold the WPS button on the back of the router for 5 seconds (and then release the button): 2. Alternatively you can click on the start pbc button in the Wi-Fi Protected Setup page in the router admin pages: 3.
4. Launch the wireless connection software in your operating system (Windows Vista SP2 or Windows 7). In Windows 7 the screen should look like this: 5. In Windows Vista (SP2) the screen should look like this: 6. Click Next (Windows Vista SP2) or, in Windows 7 wait and the wireless connection will be established automatically. 7. Alternatively, some wireless devices have their own WPS button on their case – you can also press this button to establish a wireless connection to the router.
How to establish a W PS connection using the personal identification num ber (PIN) m ethod To connect the Bright Box router to a WPS device using the PIN method you will need to do the following: 1. Login to the router’s admin pages. 2. Click on the Basic Set-Up tab and then select Wireless Settings from the left hand menu. 3. Select Wi-Fi Protected Setup from the left hand menu: 4. Scroll down to the personal identification number (PIN) section of the page and make a note of the router’s PIN number: 5.
6. Alternatively, some wireless devices may provide their own PIN number for establishing a WPS connection: 7.
If you are unable to successfully establish a wireless connection using WPS, we recommend connecting using the manual password method. See setting up a wireless connection on page 25 for further information. USB FILE SHARING The Bright Box router has a USB port which allows you to connect a USB memory stick or USB hard drive to the router to share files and folders over your home network. The router currently supports NTFS, FAT16 or FAT32 formatted drives.
3. On Apple Mac OS X, the router should automatically appear in the Finder under Shared: 4.
If the USB drive doesn’t automatically appear in your Windows or Mac OS X network location, then you can manually access the drive using the following methods: • On Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 select Start > Run and enter \\brightbox. Click OK to open the network drive. • On Mac OS X open the Finder window and select Go > Connect to Server… and enter smb://brightbox and click Connect to open the network drive.
The following table contains a description of the fields and options in the Wireless Settings page: Field Description Auto Share This option is used to configure the Auto Sharing feature of USB File Sharing. Auto Sharing enables ‘plug and play’ of USB drives into the Bright Box. Select ‘Enable’ to enable auto sharing of USB drives. When a compatible (NTFS, FAT16 or FAT32) drive is connected to the router, the drive will automatically appear in the Network section of Windows or the Finder for Mac OS X.
permissions for the attached USB drive. By default this setting is ‘Read & Write’. Select ‘Read & Write’ to allow people on your network to be able to both read from and write to the attached USB drive. Select ‘Read Only’ to allow people on your network to open files or copy files on your USB drive. Files cannot be deleted, modified or moved to the USB drive. Security Control This option is used to configure whether a username and password must be entered in order to access the attached USB drive.
3. In the ‘Security Control’ field, set the option to ‘Enable’ 4. Update the ‘User Name’ and ‘Password’ fields as appropriate: 5. Click Save Settings: 6.
7. The next time you attempt to access the attached USB drive, you will be prompted to enter the username and password. Enter the username and password as configured in Step 5 (Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.7 screenshot examples below): 8. Click OK or Connect to complete the connection to the attached USB drive. The files and folders on your drive will now be visible.
CHAPTER 7: BRIGHT BOX ADVANCED SET-UP PAGES The Advanced Set-Up pages contain configuration pages for a wide variety of advanced Bright Box router features. To access the Advanced Set-Up pages: 1. Login to the router’s admin pages 2. Click on the Advanced Set-Up tab. 3. You’ll be advised to ‘Please proceed with caution..’. Click Accept. BROADBAND SETTINGS The advanced Broadband Settings page is the first page displayed when accessing the Advanced Set-Up tab.
Description of Advanced Broadband Settings Many of the advanced Broadband Settings are identical to those described in the Basic SetUp > Broadband Settings page. See Description of Broadband Settings on page 49 for further information.
Broadband. Select ‘Auto’ for automatic detection of the authentication protocol used to connect to you Internet service. Select ‘CHAP’ to use the Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol for establishing an Internet connection. This is the correct setting for EE Broadband. Select ‘PAP’ to use the Password Authentication Protocol for establishing an Internet connection. Internet State This section shows the current state of your Internet connection, either ‘Connected’ or ‘Disconnected’.
ADSL MODE The ADSL Mode page allows you to change your ADSL connection mode (sometimes known as modulation type). The ADSL mode is used to establish a connection between your Bright Box router and your local Broadband exchange. By default, the ADSL Mode is set to ‘Automatic’, and this is generally the best mode for your connection, as the correct connection type will be automatically negotiated between the exchange and your router. Bit Swapping and SRA (Seamless Rate Adaption) are also enabled by default.
CHANNEL AND SSID The Channel and SSID page contains some advanced wireless configuration settings that give you extra control over the wireless channel and wireless bandwidth used by the Bright Box. In addition you can configure the router to enable two additional SSID’s to be broadcast providing different wireless network names and security types. You can also bind any of the router SSID’s to separate Virtual LANs (VLAN’s) to isolate local wireless networks. To access the Channel and SSID page: 1.
Wireless feature. See how to change the wireless channel on page 69 for further information. Extension Channel This option is used to configure the wireless extension channel when the ‘Bandwidth’ option is set to 20/40MHz mode, ‘Channel’ is set to 1-13 and ‘Wireless Mode’ is set to ‘11b+11g+11n’ or ‘11n only’. The extension channel is used to double the wireless bandwidth of the router, allowing for faster transfer speeds across the wireless network.
Multiple SSID wireless network name (SSID) This field allows you to create or edit the transmitting wireless network name for any of the three supported SSID’s. By default only the wireless network name for SSID1 is configured. If the SSID ‘enable’ option is ticked, you must enter a wireless network name before saving. Multiple SSID security This setting allows you to configure the wireless security type for each of the three SSID’s supported by the router. By default, wireless WPA security is enabled.
3. Click on Wireless Settings in the left hand navigation menu to expand the Wireless Settings menu. 4. Click on Channel and SSID in the left hand navigation menu to open the page. 5. Click on the ‘Bandwidth’ dropdown and select ‘20/40MHz’: 6. Click Save Settings: 7. The router Wi-Fi will now be using the 20/40Mhz bandwidth for speeds up to 300Mbps.
• • You want to keep files you've shared on your home network separate from other people. You want to limit the amount of bandwidth a certain person (or group of people) can use on your home network. To set up an additional wireless network name (SSID): 1. Login to the router’s admin pages. 2. Click on the Advanced Set-Up tab and click Accept on the ‘Please proceed with caution’ page. 3. Click on Wireless Settings in the left hand navigation menu to expand the Wireless Settings menu. 4.
11. In the ‘Multiple SSID No.’ dropdown, select ‘2’ 12. In the ‘Wireless Password’ field, enter a password for your new wireless network – the password should be between 8-63 characters 13. Click Save Settings: 14. You can now give your new wireless network name and password to guests. If you wish to set up one of your wireless network names in the WEP wireless security mode you will need to set the ‘Wireless Mode’ dropdown on the Channel and SSID page to ‘11b+11g’.
page. With WEP security mode, you will only be able to use the router in the slower 802.11b/g standard (speeds up to 54Mbps), regardless of what wireless network name you are connecting to. WEP This page can be used to configure the WEP (Wired Equivalency Protocol) security mode settings for your Bright Box router on any of the router SSID’s.
11. Click Save Settings: 12. Now you will need to set a password on the new SSID.
13. In the ‘Multiple SSID’ dropdown select ‘2’: 14. In the ‘WEP Mode’ select ’128-bit’ 15. In the ‘Key Entry Method’ select ‘ASCII’ 16. Click inside the Key1 field - in the example below we used 'examplepass12'.
17. Click Save Settings: 18. Refresh your computer's wireless software - you can now connect to your new Wireless Network Name using the Key1 password value. WPA This page can be used to configure the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) security mode settings for your Bright Box router on any of the router SSID’s. You can also use this page to configure advanced WPA settings such as the cipher suite, WPA authentication type and the wireless password type (Passphrase or Hex).
Section Description Multiple SSID No. This option is used to configure which of the SSID’s you are applying the WPA settings to. When you access this page, the default SSID number 1 is select. Select ‘2’ or ‘3’ to configure the other available SSID’s. Remember you will need to enable the other SSID’s on the Channel and SSID page for the changes to have any effect. WPA Mode This option is used to configure the Wi-Fi Protected Access security type mode for the selected SSID.
server. EE Broadband does not provide support for this option. 802.1X server settings must be configured in the Advanced Set-Up > 802.1X page if you select this option. Wireless Password type This field is used to configure the wireless password type used to establish a connection to the router’s wireless network for the selected SSID. By default the router will use the passphrase type. Select ‘Passphrase’ for the wireless password to require a 8-62 ASCII character value (a-z, A-Z, 0-9).
Description of 802.1x settings The following table contains a description of settings on the 802.1x settings page: Section Description 802.1X Authentication The option allows you to configure whether WPA 802.1X wireless authentication is enabled or disabled on the router. Select ‘Enable’ to allow 802.1X authentication over RADIUS. You will also need to set the ‘Authentication’ setting on the WPA page to ‘802.1X’ for the SSID. Select ‘Disable’ to switch off 802.1X authentication over RADIUS.
Server Port This field allows you to configure the connection port of the RADIUS server. By default the value is 1812, and this is the usual port for a RADIUS server. Secret Key This field allows you to configure the secret key value shared between the RADIUS server and connecting clients. NAS-ID This field allows you to configure the request identifier of the Network Access Server (NAS).
Description of Bandwidth Control settings The following table describes the settings on the Bandwidth Control page: Section Description Upstream Enable Check this option to enable Bandwidth Control on upstream (upload) traffic on the wireless LAN for SSID1, 2 or 3. You must also enter a value in the upstream Kbytes/sec field to set the maximum bandwidth allowed.
8. Click Save Settings: 9. Now we need to enable the Quality of Service function on the router for the Bandwidth Control to be applied. In the left hand navigation bar, click QoS: 10.
11. Now establish a connection to your SSID2 wireless network, and the Bandwidth Control will be applied and your upload and download speeds will be limited. To disable the Bandwidth Control, simply navigate back to the Bandwidth Control page, and untick the enable option for both upstream and downstream. You can also apply Bandwidth Control to only upstream or downstream traffic on any SSID by ticking the relevant ‘enable’ option for the SSID.
Description of USB File Sharing settings The table below contains a description of the settings on the USB File Sharing page : Section Description Auto Share This option is used to configure the Auto Sharing feature of USB File Sharing. Auto Sharing enables ‘plug and play’ of USB drives into the Bright Box. Select ‘Enable’ to allow auto sharing of USB drives. Select ‘Disable’ to switch off the automatic sharing of USB drives.
Windows Vista and Windows 7. If you’ve changed your workgroup name in Windows, you may need to change the Workgroup Name field to match your Windows workgroup in order to access the USB drive over the network. User Name This field displays the user name for each user account for USB File Sharing. You can protect access to a USB drive by requiring people to enter a username and password when they access the drive. You can configure the user account by clicking the Add User link.
configured when you click Share in the USB device section. Volume Name This field displays the volume name of the shared drive. Available Users This field displays the user account names associated with the shared drive. You can configure the users by clicking the Add User link. You can add users to the shared drive by clicking the Edit link in the NAS Shared List. Configure Click Edit to assign user accounts to the shared drive and display the current shared name.
8. In the user account section, click Add User: 9. On the Edit User screen enter a ‘User Name’, ‘Password’ and select the ‘File Permissions’ type you want to assign the user (Read & Write or Read Only) and click Save Settings: 10. In the USB device section, click Share to display the NAS Shared list page 11. Optional: Change the Share Name for the drive (this is the name that appears in the Network on Windows or Mac OS X) if you want to give it a new name.
13. Now you can access your shared drive on your network by selecting the drive, and entering the user name and password created in step 9 (screenshots below from Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.
MOBILE BROADBAND If you have a supported mobile broadband 3G USB dongle, you can connect it to the USB socket on your Bright Box router. This will allow you to share your 3G Internet service over your home network as an alternative to using ADSL broadband. The EE router can use the following 3G USB dongle models for 3G Internet sharing: • E173 • E1752 • E1750 • E173 To enable the feature: 1. Plug the compatible mobile 3G USB dongle into the USB port on the rear of the router. 2.
7. Click Save Settings: Please note that the Mobile Broadband feature is currently in beta so we regret we’re unable to offer further support of the broadband dongle doesn’t work. DHCP This page allows you to change the router’s DHCP (Dynamic Host Control Protocol) and gateway IP. DHCP is the method that the router uses to automatically assign IP addresses to your connected computers and devices so that they are able to access the local network and the Internet.
Description of DHCP settings: The table below contains a description of the settings on the DHCP page: Section Description VLAN Interface This dropdown allows you to configure which of the Virtual LAN’s you are configuring the DHCP settings for. When you access the DHCP page, the ‘Default’ VLAN settings are visible. Select ‘Default’ to adjust the DHCP and Gateway settings for the standard virtual LAN.
IP Subnet Mask This field is used to configure the IP Subnet Mask for the router’s local area network. By default the subnet mask is 255.255.255.0. DHCP Server This option allows to you configure whether the router acts as a Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP) server – handling the IP address of connected devices or computer automatically. This is enabled by default. Select ‘Enable’ to use the router as a DHCP server.
1. Login to the router’s admin pages. 2. Click on the Advanced Set-Up tab and click Accept on the ‘Please proceed with caution’ page. 3. Click on DHCP in the left hand navigation menu. 4. Click on the Add Reserved IP link in the address reservation section: 5. If the computer/device is already connected to the Bright Box, on the DHCP client list page, select the computer or device you wish to permanently assign the IP address to and click the Add link.
9. In this example we will reserve the IP address 192.168.1.10 for a device with a MAC Address of E8:B2:C3:D4:E5:F6 called ‘My Laptop’. 10. Click Save Settings: 11. Now connect your device to the Bright Box. If your device is already connected to the Bright Box, and you changed the IP Address in Step 7 you will need to restart your device to apply the changes. Next time your computer is connected to the router it will automatically be assigned the IP address you have reserved. 12.
4. You can enable or disable the NAT module on the Bright Box router by selecting the option you want on the NAT page (in this example, we are selecting ‘Enable’) and pressing Save Settings: Please note that disabling NAT on the router may prevent you from accessing Internet services through your connected devices or computers, and is not recommended.
4. Click on Address Mapping in the left hand navigation menu: Description of Address M apping settings The table below contains a description of the settings on the Address Mapping page : Section Description Number This field is the index for the address mapping entry. You can configure up to 10 address mapping entries. Global IP Use this field to configure the global (WAN/Internet) IP address you wish to share for the address mapping entry.
admin page, under the address reservation section. See how to reserve an IP address on page 124 for further information. Please refer to the manual or support service of the particular application or game for information on which ports you should be forwarding. The following table contains a list of common port forwarding ports. Application Protocol Port Number Telnet TCP 23 FTP TCP 21 SMTP TCP 25 POP3 TCP 110 H.
Description of Port Forwarding settings The table below contains a description of the settings on the Port Forwarding page: Section Description Number This field is the index for the port forwarding entry. You can configure up to 20 port forwarding rules on the router. LAN IP address This field is used to configure the LAN IP of the device on your local network you wish to forward the particular traffic type to.
the port forwarding rule. For example, if you are running an FTP server on your local network, you will need to forward traffic to Port 21. Please refer to the manual supplied with your particular software to determine which LAN port you should be forwarding to. Public Port This field is used to configure the external/public port that incoming traffic from the Internet will be requesting to use. In most cases, the public port is the same as the LAN port.
11. Click Save Settings: 12. The settings will be applied and the Port Forwarding entry will now be enabled on your connected LAN device. PORT TRIGGERS Port triggering is similar feature to port forwarding, although it offers a dynamic opening of specific ports for any computer on your network (whereas port forwarding is specific to a specific device connected to your network).
Description of Port Trigger settings The table below contains a description of the settings on the Port Triggers page : Section Description Number This field is the index for the port trigger entry. You can configure up to 10 port triggering rules on the router. Trigger Port This field is used to configure the trigger port that an application uses to open the incoming public ports. Please refer to the instructions supplied with your software to determine which trigger port you should be using.
separated by a comma (,) or a range of ports using a dash (-). Please refer to the instructions supplied with your software to determine which public ports you should be using. Public Type This dropdown is used to configure the traffic type on the incoming public ports. Select ‘TCP’ for Transmission Control Protocol traffic triggering Select ‘UDP’ for User Datagram Protocol traffic triggering.
9. Tick the ‘enable’ box to enable the port triggering entry: 10. Click Save Settings: 11. The settings will be applied and the port trigger entry will now be enabled for your application on all devices on your network. NAT MAPPING TABLE The NAT mapping table page contains a list of port forwarding entries for the current router session.
You can refresh the NAT mapping table by clicking the refresh button at the bottom of the page The table below contains a description of the fields on the NAT mapping page : Section Description Index This field is the index for the NAT port mapping entry. Protocol This field is the traffic type for the NAT mapping entry. This will either be ‘TCP’ for Transmission Control Protocol entries or ‘UDP’ for User Datagram Protocol entries.
mapping source on the Internet/WAN. FIREWALL The Bright Box router contains an internal firewall that is designed to protect your router and local network from unwanted external intrusion. The firewall includes stateful packet inspection (SPI) technology that analyses different traffic types and only allows those through that are initiated from a device or computer on your own network.
Please note that disabling the firewall on the router is not recommended except in exceptional circumstances (such as for testing purposes). Disabling the firewall may open up the router and local network to unwanted intrusion from the Internet. ACCESS CONTROL The access control feature of the router’s firewall allows you to block certain types of Internet traffic to devices or computers on your network. For example you may wish to block all POP3 and SMTP email traffic on a particular computer.
Description of settings on the Access Control page The table below contains a description of the settings on the Port Triggers page : Section Description Filtering function This option is used to configure whether the access control setting is enabled or disabled on the router. Select ‘Enable’ to switch on access control rule blocking on the router. You will still need to create a device filtering rule in order for blocking to work.
‘h323’,’dns’,’snmp’,’pptp’,’l2tp’,’tcp’,’udp’ or ‘user’ (for a user defined rule’. Schedule Rule This field display the type of schedule rule applied to the device filtering rule. The schedule rule defines the day and time a blocking rule is applied A schedule rule can be created on the Advanced Set-Up > Firewall > Schedule Rule page. The rule is applied on by clicking the Add Device Filtering Rule link.
6. Click the Add Device Filtering Rule link: 7. On the Edit Device Filtering Rule page, enter a rule description – in this example we will enter ‘FTP and Email’ 8. Enter the IP address or range of addresses of the computer or device on your network you wish to block traffic on. You can block access on all computers by entering ‘192.168.1.2 ~ 192.168.1.254’ – In this example we will block traffic on the computer 192.168.1.10 only by entering a range of ‘192.168.1.10 ~ 10’ 9.
10. Do not change the ‘Schedule Rule’ option, leave it as ‘Always Blocking’ and click Save Settings: 11. The access control rule has now been created and enabled and appears in the filtering table. 12. You can delete the access control filtering rule at any time by clicking the delete link next to the rule in the table. You can also change the rule description, client IP address range or client device services by clicking the edit link.
MAC FILTER MAC Filtering is a firewall feature that allows you to control which devices are allowed to access your network and use your Internet connection. You can define up to 32 separate devices in the MAC filtering table on the router – access is configured by entering the MAC address of the computer or device into the table or you can select from a list of devices already connected to your router.
Description of M AC Filter settings The table below contains a description of the settings on the MAC Filter page : Section Description MAC Address Control This setting allows you to specify whether the MAC Address Control filter has been switched on or off. Select ‘Enable’ to switch on MAC address control filtering. You must also create at least one entry in the MAC Filtering table for you to be able to enable this setting.
6. Enter the MAC address(s) of the computer(s) or device(s) you wish to allow access to. 7. The easiest way to do this is to scroll to the bottom of the MAC filter page, locate your device in the 'DHCP client list', and select Copy To to automatically insert the MAC address into your chosen field. 8. Alternatively, you can type the MAC address of the computer or device that you wish to allow access into the MAC address field: 9. Click Save Settings: 10. The MAC Address filter will now be applied.
You can define a page either by a URL such as http://www.example.com or by a single keyword found in the URL of the web page, such as ‘example’. You can define URL Blocking rules for up to 30 web sites or keywords. URL Blocking is then activated by creating an access control rule on the Advanced Set-Up > Firewall > Access Control page using the ‘WWW with URL Blocking’ service option. The rule can be applied to an IP address of a single computer on your network or a range of IP addresses.
1. Reserve an IP address for the computer you wish to set up the access control rule on. You can do this in the Advanced Set-Up > DHCP admin page. See how to reserve an IP address on page 124 for further information. 2. Login to the router’s admin pages. 3. Click on the Advanced Set-Up tab and click Accept on the ‘Please proceed with caution’ page. 4. Click on Firewall in the left hand navigation menu to expand the Firewall menu 5. Click on URL Blocking in the left hand navigation menu. 6.
9. Click the add device filtering rule link: 10. On the edit device filtering rule page, enter a rule description – in this example we will enter ‘URL Blocking’ 11. Enter the IP address or range of addresses of the computer or device on your network you wish to block the URL on. You can block the URL on all computers by entering ‘192.168.1.2 ~ 254’ – In this example we will block the URL on the computer 192.168.1.10 only by entering ‘192.168.1.10 ~ 10’ 12.
13. Do not change the ‘Schedule Rule’ option, leave it as ‘Always Blocking’ and click Save Settings: 14. Select the ‘Enable’ option for the ‘Filtering function’ the Access Control page and click Save Settings: 15. The URL Blocking rule will now be active, and any attempt to access the URL or a URL containing the keyword entered in step in a web browser will prevent the page from being displayed.
Once a rule has been created, you can navigate back to the URL Blocking page and update the URL list at any time, adding or deleting entries as you see fit. SCHEDULE RULE The Schedule Rule page allows you to create schedules to apply to the access control rules. This may be useful if you wish to restrict certain types of Internet traffic at particular times of the day (or night), for example to help protect your children online.
How to create a Schedule Rule for Access Control To create a schedule rule, and apply the rule to an access control rule, follow these steps: 1. Login to the router’s admin pages. 2. Click on the Advanced Set-Up tab and click Accept on the ‘Please proceed with caution’ page. 3. Click on Firewall in the left hand navigation menu to expand the Firewall menu 4. Click on Schedule Rule in the left hand navigation menu. 5.
6. Enter a value in the ‘name’ field for the schedule – this name will appear in the ‘Scheduling Rule’ dropdown on the Access Control page when you define the access control rule. In this example we will call the rule ‘Block 21-23.59’. 7. Enter a value in the ‘comment’ field for the schedule. This can be any value and will appear in the table on the Schedule Rule page. In this example we will call the comment ‘Nine to Midnight’ 8.
12. Click the Add Device Filtering Rule link: 13. On the Edit Device Filtering Rule page enter a rule description – in this example we will enter ‘All traffic’ 16. Enter the IP address or range of addresses of the computer or device on your network you wish to block the URL on. You can block the URL on all computers by entering ‘192.168.1.2 ~ 254’ – In this example we will block the URL on the computer 192.168.1.10 only by entering ‘192.168.1.
17. Select the type of traffic you want to block by ticking the ‘blocking’ box next to the service name. You can select multiple services to block, or block custom ports in the ‘user define service’ section. In this example we will block ‘TCP’ and ‘UDP’ (i.e. all traffic): 18. Click on the ‘Scheduling Rule (Ref. Schedule Rule Page)’ dropdown and select the schedule rule you created in steps 6-8 – in this example ‘Block 21-23:59’ 19. Click Save Settings: 19.
INTRUSION DETECTION You can configure special firewall intrusion detection settings in the Intrusion Detection admin page. The Intrusion Detection feature includes two key features. Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) and Hacker Prevention. Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) limits the access of incoming traffic. By default the SPI feature is turned on, and all the incoming packets from the Internet will be blocked unless they are initiated from a device or computer connected to the router.
Description of Intrusion Detection settings: The table below contains a description of the settings on the Intrusion Detection page : Section Description SPI and Anti-DoS firewall protection This option allows you to configure the SPI and Anti Denial of Service protection on the router firewall.
H323 traffic for videoconferencing or Netmeeting. TFTP Service This option enables or disables the SPI firewall for all TFTP (Trivial FTP) traffic. SIP Service This option enables or disables the SPI firewall for all SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) traffic for videoconferencing or VoIP. RTSP Service This option enables or disables the SPI firewall for all RTSP (Real Time Streaming Protocol) traffic.
Description of DM Z settings The table below contains a description of the settings on the DMZ page: Section Description No. This field is the index for the router DMZ entry. Public IP Address This field is used to configure the public (Internet) IP address of the DMZ entry. Index number 1 cannot be configured, but will always reflect the current Internet IP address assigned to the router. Index numbers 2 – 8 allow you to configure manual public IP addresses for the DMZ.
want to put in the DMZ. How to add a com puter to the De-m ilitarized zone (DM Z) If you think your Bright Box Wireless Router is stopping a particular application from working correctly, you can temporarily add the computer or device into the 'Demilitarized Zone' (DMZ) as a test. While this is safer than completely disabling your firewall, we suggest that you don't leave your computer unprotected in the DMZ. To add a computer to the DMZ: 1. Login to the router’s admin pages. 2.
6. In the ‘client device IP address’ field for Index 1, enter the IP address of the computer you wish to add to the DMZ. In this example we will add 192.168.1.10: 7. Click Save Settings: 8. The computer will now be in the router’s DMZ. Ensure that when you have completed any troubleshooting with a computer inside the DMZ, you disable the DMZ.
Once the traffic type is defined, you select a priority for the traffic type from Highest to Lowest. You define the traffic types and set these priority levels on the Traffic Mapping page. Once you have defined the traffic types and their priorities, you can then allocate a minimum bandwidth for each priority (or differentiated service group – diffserv group) to shape how the traffic is managed on your Internet connection. You allocate the minimum bandwidths in the Diffserv Groups page.
5. The QoS module is now enabled, you can now define the traffic types and priorities in the Traffic Mapping page. TRAFFIC MAPPING The Traffic Mapping page is used to create rules for the different application traffic types or connected computers on your network and then to assign each rule a level of prioritisation for traffic shaping. You can create a maximum of 16 different traffic mapping rules for Quality of Service. To access the Traffic Mapping page: 1. Login to the router’s admin pages. 2.
How to create a Quality of Service Traffic M apping rule To configure Quality of Service, you must configure the traffic mapping rule for the type of traffic, or devices on your network you want to prioritise. To create a Quality of Service traffic mapping rule: 1. Login to the router’s admin pages. 2. Click on the Advanced Set-Up tab and click Accept on the ‘Please proceed with caution’ page. 3. Click on QoS in the left hand navigation menu to expand the quality of service menu 4.
9. Click Save Settings: 10. The traffic mapping rule has now been created and will appear in the Traffic Mapping table: 11. Now you can set the traffic shaping of the priority group in the Diffserv Groups page. If you want to create a traffic mapping rule for a particular device on your local network rather than a specific application type, select the ‘MAC Address’, ‘IP Address’ or ‘Incoming Port’ options from the ‘Traffic Type’ dropdown.
Quality of Service Traffic Type descriptions: The table below describes the traffic types available for Quality of Service traffic mapping rules in the Edit Traffic Class page. Section Description Voice Device Select this option to create a Quality of Service rule for voice traffic services (VoIP). Online Games Select this option to create a Quality of Service rule to priories online/multiplayer game traffic.
or TCP/UDP (BOTH) traffic. Incoming Port Select this option to assign a Quality of Service rule to traffic from a device connected to the router either by Ethernet (Ethernet Ports 1-4) or over the wireless LAN (SSID 1-3). DIFFSERV GROUPS The Diffserv Groups page is used to configure the levels of traffic prioritisation for Quality of Service traffic shaping.
• Highest • Higher • High • Medium • Normal • Low • Lower • Lowest By default, no bandwidth minimum has been applied for any of the Diffserv Groups, meaning that a traffic mapping rule associated with a particular level will not be shaped (and will achieve the maximum available bandwidth available over the network). To apply bandwidth prioritisation for any of the Diffserv Groups: 1. Login to the router’s admin pages. 2.
9. Click Save Settings 10. The bandwidth prioritisation for the diffserv group is now set. If you have already created the traffic mapping rule on the Traffic Mapping page, and have enabled the Quality of Service module on the QoS page, then you will find that Quality of Service settings will be applied to your selected traffic type or device.
5. On the ‘WMM Support’ option select ‘Enable’ and click Save Settings. 6. If you have not already enabled the Quality of Service module, you will need to do so.
7. In the ‘QoS module function’ option, select ‘Enable’ and click Save Settings: UPNP UPnP (Universal Plug-and-Play) is a technology that offers seamless operation of online gaming, video messaging, and other applications that are UPnP compliant. Applications such as online games, peer-to-peer file sharing and instant messaging require the router's firewall to be configured in a specific way to work correctly which normally means setting up port forwarding or triggering manually.
UPnP can be disabled so that connected devices and application don’t manage their own firewall settings. Please be aware that disabling UPnP may cause applications to stop working correctly, and may require manually configuring firewall port rules on the Port Forwarding and Port Triggers pages. You can enable or disable UPnP on the router by doing the following: 1. Login to the router’s admin pages. 2. Click on the Advanced Set-Up tab and click Accept on the ‘Please proceed with caution’ page. 3.
TOOLS The Tools section contains a number of features to help manage your router. You can back up and restore your router settings on the Configuration page. You can reboot your router on the Restart page, restore the router to its factory settings on the Factory Default page and update the router firmware from a file on the Firmware page. To access the Tools features: 1. Login to the router’s admin pages. 2. Click on the Advanced Set-Up tab and click Accept on the ‘Please proceed with caution’ page. 3.
3. Click on Tools in the left hand navigation menu to expand the Tools menu: 4. Click on Configuration on the left hand menu: How to save a copy of your router’s settings To back up the Bright Box router configuration settings in a file that you can restore at any time, do the following: 1. Login to the router’s admin pages. 2. Click on the Advanced Set-Up tab and click Accept on the ‘Please proceed with caution’ page. 3. Click on Tools in the left hand navigation menu to expand the Tools menu: 4.
6. You may be presented with an option to save a file called ‘backup.bin’. This is the router configuration file. Click Save (or Save As if you want to specify a save location yourself). 7. The configuration file will be saved to your computer. This is normally saved in your computer’s download folder. It is recommended that you store this file in a memorable location.
7. Select the location of the ‘backup.bin’ file that you previously saved. For example, in the ‘Downloads’ folder: 8. Double click the backup.bin file, and then on the Restore page click Apply: 9. When prompted whether you want to restore your router’s settings, click OK: 10. The restoration of the router settings from the configuration file will begin. This process will take 99 seconds to complete: 11.
you are away from the router (for example connected over a wireless connection) you may find it more convenient to restart the router in the admin page. How to restart your router To restart the Bright Box router: 1. Login to the router’s admin pages. 2. Click on the Advanced Set-Up tab and click Accept on the ‘Please proceed with caution’ page. 3. Click on Tools in the left hand navigation menu to expand the Tools menu: 4. Click on Restart on the left hand menu: 5. Click the Restart button: 6.
7. The restart will begin. This process will take 99 seconds to complete: 8. The router will be automatically rebooted, and after 99 seconds you will be returned to the router admin page login screen. FACTORY DEFAULT If you have changed settings in your router and this is causing problems accessing the Internet, you may need to reset the router back to its factory settings in order to fix the problem. There are two methods you can use to restore the router to its factory settings: 1.
5. Click on the Factory Default button: 6. A warning dialog box will be displayed.
7. A ‘Do not turn off your router, please wait until default configuration has been applied’ message and timer will be displayed for 99 seconds. 8. The router login page will be displayed after the router has rebooted. As restoring to factory default settings will remove your Internet connection settings, it will take about 5 minutes before your Internet connection is automatically restored.
www.ee.co.uk/brightbox The firmware file will usually have a .bin file extension. For example – ‘BrightBox_FW_V0.09.94.0006.bin’ If you have applied custom settings to the router, you should find that these are automatically carried across during the upgrade. However it may be possible that the new firmware needs to change router settings, in which case you will find any further information in the firmware release notes supplied by EE.
6. Click on the Browse button on the Firmware Upgrade page: 7. Navigate to the location of the router firmware on your computer and double click on the firmware file; 8. Click on the begin upgrade button on the Firmware Upgrade page: 9. You will be prompted to confirm that you want to continue with the firmware upgrade. Click the OK button to confirm you want to upgrade the router, or click Cancel if you don’t want to upgrade: 10.
11. The router will restart as a part of the firmware upgrade and the router login page will be displayed when the upgrade is complete. Your current router settings will normally be carried across to the new firmware, however it may be possible that certain settings are changed or reset to factory defaults. If your broadband username and password settings are reset, it may take about 5 minutes before your Internet connection is automatically restored.
The System page displays additional details about your router, including hardware, MAC address and software information. The following table describes the information on the System page: Section Description Runtime Code Version This field displays the firmware (or software) version of the Bright Box router. This value will be updated if you upgrade the router firmware. See How to upgrade your router with a firmware file on page 180.
router unit. Wireless MAC Address This field displays the 12-digit MAC address of the wireless interface of the router. TIME SETTINGS Your Bright Box Wireless Router keeps time by connecting to a Network Time Protocol (NTP) server as soon as you connect to the Internet. This allows the router to synchronize the system clock to time settings on the Internet.
5. On the ‘Enable Automatic Time Server Maintenance’ option select ‘Enable’ to switch on time synchronisation with the NTP server, or select ‘Disable’ to switch off time synchronisation. In this example we’ll select ‘Enable’: 6.
Please note that it is not possible to update the Time Zone or NTP Server options, these are fixed and optimised for EE Broadband. PASSWORD SETTINGS From the Password Settings page, you can change the password you use to log into the router's admin pages. This may be for security reasons or to change it to something more memorable. The Password Settings page can also be used to change the Idle Time Out for the admin pages.
How to change the router’s adm in password To change the password for the router’s admin pages: 1. Login to the router’s admin pages. 2. Click on the Advanced Set-Up tab and click Accept on the ‘Please proceed with caution’ page. 3. Click on System in the left hand navigation menu to expand the System menu: 4. Click on Password Settings on the left hand menu: 5. On the Password Settings page, enter the current password for the admin pages in the ‘Current Password’ field.
8. Click Save Settings 9. The password change will be applied and the router login page will be displayed again. Enter your new admin password in the password field to log back into the admin pages. The username will remain as ‘admin’: How to change the tim e out period of the adm in pages If you find that you are being timed out of the router admin pages too quickly, you can change the minimum time before a timeout occurs, or switch off the time out altogether.
6. Click Save Settings Only one administrator can be logged into the router admin pages at any time. The router determines the administrator by the IP address of the person logged into the admin pages. If you want to leave the admin pages, remember to click the logout link at the top right hand corner of the pages. If you don’t logout, another user on a different computer cannot login until the timeout time expires.
How to configure your router for Dynam ic DNS To configure the Bright Box router to use a dynamic DNS service: 1. Register a Dynamic DNS account at either TZO.com or DynDNS.com. In the account control panel you will want to make note of the ‘Hostname’, ‘Username’ and ‘Password’ values. 2. Login to the router’s admin pages. 3. Click on the Advanced Set-Up tab and click Accept on the ‘Please proceed with caution’ page. 4. Click on System in the left hand navigation menu to expand the System menu: 5.
11. Click Save Settings: 12. You Dynamic DNS host will now be configured with your current Internet IP address, and this will be updated every time you are assigned a new IP address by EE Broadband (usually when you restart the router). For security purposes the Bright Box router does not allow you to remotely login to the admin pages over the Internet, either directly through the router IP address or over a Dynamic DNS service.
4. Click on ADSL Status on the left hand menu: The following table describes the information displayed on the ADSL Status page: Section Description Link Status This is the current synchronisation status of your ADSL connection. The value will display ‘IDLE’ if your ADSL connection is unable to synchronise with broadband exchange or you are using the EE Fibre broadband service.
broadband exchange. The value will display either ‘Interleaved Path’ or ‘Fast Path’ The ‘configured’ column for the Link Status will always display ‘—‘. If the ‘current’ column displays ‘—‘ then no ADSL link has been achieved, and may indicate a problem with your ADSL line. Operation Mode This value is the ADSL operating mode as synchronised with the broadband exchange. The value will display ‘G992.5(ADSL2+)’ for ADSL2+ (up to 24Mbps) or ‘G.992.1 (G.
Fast Path link. Interleaved Path FEC Correction These values are the count of Forward Error Correction (FEC) detected on the ADSL line with an Interleaved Path link. Fast Path CRC Error These values are the count of Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) errors detected on the ADSL line with a Fast Path link. The values represent a re-sent packet due to corruption and may indicate noise on the line.
Description of System Log entries The following table contains a description of the entries that may appear in the Bright Box System Log: Section Description WAN link up (ADSL) The router ADSL connection has synchronised with the broadband exchange. WAN link down (ADSL) The router ADSL connection has lost its link with the exchange after previously being connected. May indicate a problem with the broadband line. PPP: Starting daemon The PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) software has started up.
PPP: LCP/IPCP sending/received CONFREQ The Point-to-Point Protocol has sent or received a Configure-Request message. PPP: LCP/IPCP sending/received CONFACK The Point-to-Point Protocol has sent or received a Configure-ACK (Acknowledge) message. PPP: LCP/IPCP sending/received CONFNAK The Point-to-Point Protocol has sent or received a Configure-NAK (Negative Acknowledge) message. PPP: LCP/IPCP sending/received CONFREJ The Point-to-Point Protocol has sent or received a Configure-Reject message.
Loopback or Port Scanning (with invalid TCP flags or more than 20 TCP connections in 4 seconds). admin login success from [IP Address] A login to the router admin pages has been successful by the listed IP address admin login duplicate from [IP Address] The listed IP address has attempted to login to the router admin pages when somebody else is already logged in.
CHAPTER 8: TROUBLESHOOTING The following section contains troubleshooting tips for various issues you may encounter when using your Bright Box Wireless Router. For further assistance, EE Broadband customers may call us on 0844 873 8586. Unable to display the router adm in pages using 192.168.1.1 First check to see whether your computer has a connection to the Bright Box router. Open a web browser and attempt to access the router admin pages by entering 192.168.1.1 in the browser address bar.
• If the ‘DHCP Enabled’ value displays ‘No’ (or ‘Configure IPv4’ isn’t ‘Using DHCP’ on a Mac) then your computer might be using a static IP address rather than DHCP. Change your network settings to ‘Obtain an IP Address Automatically’ (on Windows) or ‘Using DHCP’ on Mac OS X. • If the IPv4 Address displays 169.254.x.x then your computer has had trouble communicating with the router’s DHCP server – reboot your computer and restart the router before trying again.
• For ADSL Broadband: Check that all of the telephone sockets in your house have an ADSL microfilter connected to them. • For Fibre broadband: Check that the Ethernet cable is connected between the WAN port on the Bright Box and the LAN 1 port on the modem. • For Fibre broadband: Check that the Fibre broadband modem is powered on.
o Encapsulation is ‘VC MUX’ (for ADSL broadband only) o Internet IP Address is ‘Dynamic’ o DNS IP Address is ‘Obtain from ISP’ o MTU is ‘1492’ • Make any necessary changes and click Save Settings to apply. Navigate back to the Status page and check to see if the ‘Internet State’ displays ‘Connected’ and an ‘Internet IP Address’ is visible. If so, try to display a page in your web browser.
• If you are trying to connect using WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Set-Up) and this is failing, then try to establish a wireless connection using the standard password method instead. Please note that if you are running Windows Vista, you may need to select the ‘I want to enter the network key or passphrase instead’ link. • If none of the above works, you may wish to the restore your Bright Box router to factory default settings.
• Update the software drivers for your wireless adapter to the latest available from your manufacturer. Visit the manufacturers web site for information on updating drivers. • Press the WPS button on the back of the router briefly to activate the Intelligent Wireless feature. The router will re-scan for the best wireless channel to use, avoiding interference from other wireless routers where possible.
APPENDIX A: DEFAULT ROUTER SETTINGS The following table lists the default settings for the EE Bright Box wireless router. To restore the router to default settings, see page 177 Section Setting Default Value Router Admin Pages URL 192.168.1.1 Username admin Password Unique value - see sticker on bottom of router or ‘’KEEP MEE’ card.
Wireless – Channel and SSID Wireless – WEP Wireless – WPA Wireless – 802.
Auto Share Enable Samba Function Enable Workgroup Name Workgroup User Accounts None NAS Shared List None Mobile Broadband Service Disable Current PIN Code 0000 Gateway (VLAN 1/2/3) 192.168.1.1/192.168.2.1/192.168.3.1 IP Subnet Mask (VLAN 1–3) 255.255.255.0 DHCP Server (VLAN 1-3) Enable Lease Time Two Days Start IP (VLAN 1/2/3) 192.168.1.2/192.168.2.2/192.168.3.2 End IP (VLAN 1/2/3) 192.168.1.254/192.168.2.254/192.168.3.
SPI – UDP Session Enable SPI – FTP Service Enable SPI – H.
