Owner's Manual

NETGEAR genie Advanced Home

N900 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router R4500

Setup Menu

Select Advanced > Setup to display the Setup menu. The following selections are available:

• Internet Setup.

Access the same Internet Setup screen that you can access from the

dashboard on the Basic Home screen. See Internet Setup on

page 20.

• W

ireless Setup. Access the same Wireless Settings screen that you can access from

the dashboard on the Basic Home screen. See Basic Wireless Settings on p

age 26.

• Guest

Network. Access the same Guest Network screen that you can access from the

dashboard on the Basic Home screen. See Guest Networks on p

age 29.

• WA

N Setup. Internet (WAN) setup. See WAN Setup on page 35.

• LA

N Setup. Local area network (LAN) setup. See LAN Setup on page 39.

• QoS Setup.

Quality of Service (QoS) setup. See Quality of Service (QoS) Setup on

page 42.

WAN Setup

The WAN Setup screen lets you:

• Con

figure a DMZ (demilitarized zone) server.

• Cha

nge the maximum transmit unit (MTU) size.

• Ena

ble the router to respond to a ping on the WAN (Internet) port.

1. Select Adv

anced > Setup > WAN Setup.

2. Specify the following settings:

• Dis

able Port Scan and DoS Protection. DoS protection protects your LAN against

denial of service attacks such as Syn flood, Smurf Attack, Ping of Death, Teardrop

Attack, UDP Flood, ARP Attack, Spoofing ICMP, Null Scan, and many others. This

should be disabled only in special circumstances.