User`s guide

MN-500 Base Station Configuration Guide 11
To upgrade the base station firmware
1. Open the Base Station Management Tool, and then click Management.
2. On the Management menu, click Upgrade Firmware.
3. Follow the directions on the screen to upgrade your firmware. While the firmware is being saved to your base
station, the power light on the base station blinks and then turns orange. When the light is solid green, the
update is complete. If the upgrade fails, the power light will continue to blink slowly until you successfully
upgrade the firmware. In this situation, you can try to upgrade the firmware again, or you can reset the
base station.
If you want to open the Base Station Management Tool after a successful firmware update, type your base station
password on the Logon page. Do not attempt to log on until the firmware upgrade is complete and the power light
on the base station is solid green.
Certain programs do not allow pop-up windows from Web browsers. If you have one of these programs installed on
your computer, you might experience problems when you click the Microsoft Broadband Networking Web site link
on the Upgrade Firmware page. If you do experience problems, you can open the Microsoft Broadband Networking
site by typing http://www.microsoft.com/broadbandnetworking/ in the address field of your Web browser and
browsing to the update page, or by turning off the software that prevents pop-up windows.
For information about how to upgrade network software and drivers from the Broadband Network Utility, see
Broadband Network Utility Help.
Establish Base Station Time Zone
The base station uses the date and time for client filtering and to timestamp entries to the base station log.
The base station system clock is set to the Pacific time zone by default. You can change the base station time zone
from the Base Station Management Tool.
To change the base station time zone
1. Open the Base Station Management Tool, and then click Management.
2. On the Management menu, click Set Time.
3. Under Base Station Time Zone, in the drop-down list box, click the time zone you want.
4. Select the Adjust for daylight saving time check box if you want the base station to adjust for daylight-saving time.
5. If you selected the Adjust for daylight saving time check box, type the date that you want daylight-saving time to
start and the date that you want daylight-saving time to end. You must update these dates each year to
correspond with daylight-saving time.
6. Click Update Time Settings to ensure that the changes that you made are saved.
Synchronize Time to Internet Time Server
The base station automatically attempts to synchronize with one of a set of Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP)
servers when it is connected to the Internet. If you want to synchronize the base station to a specific SNTP server,
you can do so from the Base Station Management Tool. Before you can set the SNTP server, you must identify the
IP address for the server that you want to use.
To locate an SNTP server
1. Open your Web browser, and go to your favorite search engine (for example, www.msn.com).
2. Type Time synchronization on the Internet as a search term.
3. Review the search results, and browse to the SNTP server site that you want to use.
4. Write down the IP address for the SNTP server that you have accessed.