Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Table of Contents Preliminary Pages Page Table of Contents .................................................................................................................1 List of Ilustrations ................................................................................................................3 Chapter 1 - About this Manual ..........................................................................................8 1.1 Introduction .........................
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual 4.5.9 SNTP ..............................................................................................30 4.5.10 SNMP .............................................................................................31 4.5.11 IP QoS ............................................................................................32 4.5.12 IGMP Multicast ..............................................................................33 4.5.13 Dynamic DNS Client..............
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual List of Ilustrations Figure Page Figure 2-1 : Router System Configuration Diagram..............................................................9 Figure 3-1 : Front Panel Indicators ......................................................................................11 Figure 3-2 : Back Panel Indicators.......................................................................................12 Figure 4-1 : Login Screen ......................................................
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Figure 4-23 : SNTP ..............................................................................................................31 Figure 4-24 : SNMP Management .......................................................................................32 Figure 4-25 : IP QoS ............................................................................................................33 Figure 4-26 : IGMP Multicast................................................................
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Figure 4-51 : Remote Log Settings ......................................................................................51 Figure 4-52 : Network Statistics...........................................................................................52 Figure 4-53 : DHCP Clients .................................................................................................52 Figure 4-54 : Modem Status..........................................................................
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Declaration Of Conformity Marking equipment with the above symbol indicates compliance with the Essential Requirements of the R&TTE Directive of the European Union (1999/5/EC). This equipment meets the following conformance standards: EN300 328, EN301 489-17, EN60950 Radio Frequency Interference Warnings & Instructions This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Safety Summary Messages WARNING HIGH VOLTAGE is used in the equipment. Make sure equipment is properly grounded BEFORE opening. Failure to observe safety precautions may result in electric shock to user. CAUTION Check voltages before connecting equipment to power supplies. Wrong voltages applied may result in damage to equipment.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Chapter 1 - About this Manual 1.1 Introduction Thank you for Purchasing the Telkom Mega 100WR Router. This manual contains all the information that you should need to operate your router. Should you wish to set your router up in the shortest possible time, then please follow the printed Quick Start Guide that is included with you router package. The Quick Start Guide contains sufficient information to guide you through the basic configuration of your router.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Chapter 2 – Router Description The Mega 100WR Router is a high-speed WAN bridge/router. This full-featured product is specifically designed to allow maximum of 4 Ethernet devices to be directly connected to the local area network side of the router, via high speed 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ports. Users using wireless workstations are able to connect to the router using 802.11g wireless technology.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Chapter 3 - Your Router At A Glance The Mega 100WR has the following features. 3.1 Ports and Buttons (See 3.2.2) Reset and Restore to Factory Defaults: The “restore to factory defaults” feature will set the Mega 100WR Router to its factory default configuration. You may need to return your router to its factory defaults if the configuration is changed and you lose the ability to interface with the router via the web interface, or following a software upgrade.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - 3.2 3.2.1 Manual Mega 100WR Overview Front Panel Indicators Figure 3-1 shows the front panel indicators of the Mega 100WR router. 4 1 2 3 6 5 Figure 3-1 : Front Panel Indicators LED Name Status & Meaning 1. Power Lights up when power is supplied to the ADSL Router. 2. E1 - E4 (Ethernet) Lights up when the Ethernet cable is properly connected from your Router to an Ethernet device/card. Flickers when the Router is transmitting/receiving data. 3.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - 3.2.2 Manual Back Panel Figure 3-2 shows the back panel indicators of the Mega 100WR router. 7 4 E1 1 2 5 3 6 Figure 3-2 : Back Panel Indicators Label Description 1. DSL Connects to your ADSL enabled telephone line. 2. USB Connects to your PC’s USB port, if required. 3.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Chapter 4 - Setting Up the Telkom Mega 100WR This section will guide you through your Mega 100WR router’s configuration. The Mega 100WR router is shipped with the PPP configuration that is required to connect to Telkom ISP’s network.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual 4.1.1. First Login Upon entering the default IP address (10.0.0.2), if the user is logging for the first time (and has not been setup using the setup utility), the user will be shown the “Setup” page as shown in Figure 4-2. This setup routine is to ensure that the basic settings are entered into the router before a user attempts to change any of the advanced settings.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - • Manual It’s a good idea to change your SSID – this is the name of your Wi-Fi port.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual • This setup process forces you to change the default Admin password for better security Figure 4-5 :System Password • You should print out the summery page and keep it for future reference Figure 4-6: Summery Page 16 of 54
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual • If you complete this process, and the router is unable to connect to the Internet, and you are unable to solve the problem, then it is a good idea perform a “Default Reset” on the router, and rather use the Setup Utility on the supplied CD to set your unit up. Figure 4-7 Trying to connect to ISP 4.1.2.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Figure 4-8: Basic Home 4.2 Quick Start If you wish to change your current configuration, click on the ‘Quick Start’ link. Figure 4-9 will appear. Your login information can be altered here is required.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Figure 4-9 : Quick Start Page 4.3 LAN / DHCP Configuration On one side of your Mega 100WR Router, are your Local Area Network (LAN) connections. This is where you plug in your local computers to the ADSL Router. The physical connection to the LAN side of your router is by means of the Wi-Fi, USB and Ethernet ports. The ADSL Router is configured by default to automatically provide all of the PC's on your network with Internet addresses (DHCP).
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Note: If you change the start or end values, make sure the values are still within the same subnet as the gateways IP address. In other words, if the gateways IP address is 10.0.0.2 (default) and you change the DHCP start/end IP addresses to be 192.128.1.2/192.128.1.100, you will not be able to communicate to the ADSL Router if your PC has DHCP enabled. In addition to the DHCP server feature, the ADSL Router supports the DHCP relay function.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - 4.4 Manual Diagnostic Test Figure 4-11 : Diagnostics Test Screen Diagnostic Test is used for investigating whether the ADSL Router is properly connected to the WAN Network. See Figure 4-11. This test may take a few seconds to complete. To perform the test, select your connection from the list and press the Test button. Before running this test, make sure you have a valid DSL link.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - 4.4.1 Manual Ping Test Once you have your router configured, ensure you can ping the network. Type the target address that you want to ping. If your PC is connected to the ADSL Router via the default DHCP configuration, you should be able to ping the network address 10.0.0.2. If your ISP has provided their server address, try to ping the address.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Figure 4-14: Modem Test Page 23 of 54 Manual
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - 4.5 Manual Advanced This mode is catered for advance users, a brief explanation of the links are listed as shown below. See Figure 4-15. Figure 4-15: Advanced Screen 4.5.1 WAN Connection The Wide Area Network (WAN) connection exists on the “other” side of the Router, also referred to as a broadband connection. This WAN connection configuration is different for each ISP.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - 4.5.2 Manual New Connection A new connection is a virtual connection. Under normal conditions, you will require only one virtual connection. Your Mega 100WR Router, can however, support up to 8 different (unique) virtual connections. If you have multiple different virtual connections, you may need to utilize the static and dynamic routing capabilities of the modem to pass data correctly. Figure 4-16 : New Connection (PPPoE Connection Setup) 4.5.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Figure 4-17: ADSL Modulation (Modem Setup) 4.5.4 Quickstart PPPoE is also known as RFC 2516. It is a method of encapsulating PPP packets over Ethernet. PPP or Point-to-Point protocol is a method of establishing a network connection/session between network hosts. It provides a mechanism of authenticating users. To configure the router for PPPoE, click on Advanced. Under WAN, select New Connection. The default PPPoE connection setup is displayed.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual 5. Keep Alive: When on-demand option is not enable, this value specifies the time to wait without being connected to your ISP before terminating the connection. To ensure that the link is always active, enter a 0 in this field. 6. Enforce MTU: Check this box if you experience problems accessing the Internet over a PPPoE connection. This feature will force all TCP traffic to conform with PPP MTU by changing TCP Maximum Segment Size to PPP MTU.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Figure 4-19: LAN Configuration 4.5.6 LAN Clients To add a LAN client, select LAN clients option under LAN. If DHCP was enabled in the configuration, all DHCP clients are automatically assigned with IP address. If a fixed IP address server is on the LAN and you want this server to be visible via the WAN, you must add its IP address. Once the IP address has been added, you can apply Port Forwarding and Access Control rules to this IP address.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - 4.5.7 Manual Ethernet Switch Configuration The IGMP Snooping prevents the switch from flooding the LAN ports with multicast frames, and will instead direct them to the CPU port for processing. Users are able to specify connection speed and set their values accordingly from the following available options. See Figure 4-21. • Auto • 10/Half Duplex • 10/Full Duplex • 100/Half Duplex • 100/Full Duplex Figure 4-21: Ethernet Switch Configuration 4.5.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Figure 4-22 : UPnP 4.5.9 SNTP SNTP (Simple Network Timing Protocol) is a protocol used to synchronize the system time to the public SNTP servers. When the SNTP feature is enabled, your router will start querying for the time clock information from the primary SNTP server. If it fails to get a valid response within the “timeout” period, it will try for “retry” number of times, before moving to the Secondary SNTP server.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual 9. Day Light - Check/uncheck this option to enable/disable day light saving. See Fig 4-23. Figure 4-23 : SNTP 4.5.10 SNMP SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a troubleshooting and management protocol, which uses the UDP protocol on port 161 to communicate between clients and servers. SNMP uses a manager MIB (management information base) agent solution to fulfill the network management needs.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Figure 4-24: SNMP Management 4.5.11 IP QoS When QoS is enabled, the designated machine, application or person would have precedence over peers when competing for bandwidth. The IP QoS Setup page allows you to configure QoS for a connection, view previously configured QoS rules, add a new rule, or delete an existing rule. Each output device has three priority queues associated with transmit data.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Figure 4-25 : IP QoS 4.5.12 IGMP Multicast Traditionally, IP packets are transmitted in one of either two ways - Unicast (1 sender to 1 recipient) or Broadcast (1 sender to everybody on the network). Multicast delivers IP packets to just a group of hosts on the network. IGMP (Internet Group Multicast Protocol) is a session-layer (layer-3) protocol used to establish membership in a Multicast group. It can register a router to receive specific multicast traffic.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Figure 4-26: IGMP Multicast 4.5.13 Dynamic DNS Client Dynamic DNS allows the user to register with a Dynamic DNS Provider as listed. The dynamic DNS will be linked with the WAN IP of the router even after the ISP updates the WAN IP to another IP address. It can be useful in web hosting and FTP services. See Figure 4-27. Note: The Username/Password entered should be the same as the Username/Password you specified during your registration of the DNS hostname.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual 4.5.14 DNS Proxy This feature allows the user to select the (Domain Name Server) DNS Server priority as well as enter the IP addresses for Primary DNS and Secondary DNS. See Figure 4-28. Figure 4-28 : DNS Proxy 4.5.15 Port Forwarding Using the Port Forwarding page, you can provide local services (for example web hosting) for people on the Internet, or play Internet games.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual For example, if you want to host a Netmeeting session, from the Home screen, click advanced select Application, select Port Forwarding. First select the IP address for your Netmeeting server. Next select the Audio/Video category and add Netmeeting to the applied rules box. To view the management rules, highlight Netmeeting and select view; this will display the pre-configured protocols and ports that Netmeeting will use.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - 4.5.16 Manual MAC Filtering (Bridge Filters) The bridge filtering mechanism provides a way for the users to define rules to allow/deny frames through the bridge based on source MAC address, destination MAC address and/or frame type. When bridge filtering is enabled, each frame is examined against each defined filter rules sequentially. When a match is determined, the appropriate filtering action (determined by the access type selected i.e. allow or deny) is performed.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Remember: 1. Select Enable Access Control to enable this feature. (This will enable the IP Access List field) 2. You can select an IP from the IP Access List, or enter a new IP and select ADD 3. Change the LAN and/or WAN configurations of the IP address 4. Click Apply. Figure 4-31: Access Control 4.5.18 Static Routing If the Mega 100WR router is connected to more than one network, you may need to set up a static route between them.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual In other words, if you wish to have both a 10.0.0.0. network and a 192.168.1.0 network locally , with a firewall or some other interconnecting device at 10.0.0.10, and wish to have both local networks access the internet through your Mega 100W, you would set as follows : new IP address = 192.168.1.0 mask = 255.255.255.0 and Gateway = 10.0.0.10 I.e.: if anybody on the 10.0.0.0 network is looking for any device on the 192.168.1.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - 4.5.19 Manual Dynamic Routing Dynamic Routing allows the Mega 100WR to automatically adjust to physical changes in the network. The Mega 100WR, using the RIP protocol, determines the network packets’ route based on the fewest number of hops between the source and the destination. The RIP protocol regularly broadcasts routing information to other routers on the network. The Direction determines the direction that RIP routes will be updated.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - 4.5.21 Manual System Password You can change your Mega 100WR’s username and password by clicking on System Password. You can also change the idle timeout. You will need to log back onto the router once the timeout expires. If you forget your password, you can press and hold the reset to factory defaults button for 10 seconds (or more).
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - 4.5.22 Manual Firmware Upgrade It is possible for the user to upgrade the Mega 100WR’s firmware should an upgrade become available. If there is an upgrade for this router, it will be found on the 2C Telecoms website (www.telkomphones.co.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - 4.6 4.6.1 Manual Wireless Wireless Setup SSID is the wireless network name of your router. Your wireless client will need this name to establish a wireless connection. The SSID default is set to “yournetworkname”. It can be changed to any suitable name should you wish. The wireless setup menu allows the user to enable or disable the AP (wireless Access Point).
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - 4.6.2 Manual Wireless Security It is important for user to enforce security in a wireless LAN environment. This is to prevent unauthorized wireless users from accessing your router. If you configured your router using the setup utility, ‘WPA’ security is enabled by default. You have the option to change to the security settings of your choice See Figure 4-39.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual If you select 802.1x security level, and have a RADIUS server on your network that you wish to use for authentication, you should enter its IP Address. Most small home and office networks will not be running a RADIUS Server. See Figure 4-31 FIgure 4-41 : Wireless Security WPA is short for “WiFi Protected Access”. WPA is an industry-supported, pre-standard version of 802.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - 4.6.3 Manual Wireless Management Wireless Management consists of Access List, Associated Stations and Multiple SSID. See Figure 4-43. 4.6.3.1 Access List This feature permits you to allow or ban any wireless client from accessing the wireless router. You must select Allow or Ban, and add the MAC address of the applicable device’s wireless LAN card. 4.6.3.2 Associated Stations Wireless clients, which are connected to the wireless router, will be displayed in this screen.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - 4.7 Manual Security The security feature section allows users to configure the following: • IP Filters • LAN Isolation • URL Filters Figure 4-44 : Security 4.7.1 IP Filters IP filters is identical to “Port blocking” on the Access Control page. The router will block workstations within the defined IP range and port range. See Figure 4-45.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - 4.7.2 Manual LAN Isolation LAN isolation allows you to disable the flow of packets between up to three user-defined LAN groups. Your LAN group can consist of any combination of the following ports WLAN, USB, and Ethernet. This allows you to segment your LAN and enables you to secure information in private portions of your LAN from other publicly accessible LAN segments. I.e.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - 4.7.3 Manual URL Filters This feature allows the router to block access to certain websites by examining its URL (a text string describing a unique location on the Internet). If the URL contains a blocked keyword, then access to that website will be denied. See Figure 4-47. To use this feature, select Enable , type a word that you wish to ban in the Keyword field, and click Add.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Figure 4-48: Status 4.8.1 Connection Status Connection Status will display all the relevant information regarding your Internet Connection. It will display the type of protocol used, the WAN IP address, the connection state and the duration connected. See Figure 4-49.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - 4.8.2 Manual System Log The Mega 100WR keeps a log of various events (See Figure 4-50). You can configure the router to generate log reports to a remote host. Figure 4-50: System Log 4.8.3 Remote Log Settings This feature is for users to enable remote logging. Settings mentioned below are essential for this feature to work. See Figure 4-51.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - 4.8.4 Manual Network Statistics Information regarding the Status and Statistics of your Ethernet, USB, DSL and Wireless line will be displayed, depending on which of the buttons shown in Figure 4-52 you have selected. Figure 4-52: Network Statistics 4.8.5 DHCP Clients This section shows the MAC address, IP address, host name and lease time of the users that are connected using DHCP.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - 4.8.6 Manual Modem Status This section displays the Modem status and DSL statistics as shown in Figure 4-54. Figure 4-54 : Modem Status 4.8.7 Product Information This screen will show a summary of all the product information of the Mega 100 WR. , as well as the Software version of the firmware that is loaded on your Mega 100WR.
Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - 4.9 Manual Help The Help screen takes you to the different Help Sections for Firewall, Bridge Filters, LAN Clients, LAN Group Configurations, PPP Connection, UPnP, IP QoS and RIP Help.
