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300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Certification FCC CE FCC Statement 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. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.
00Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Package Contents The following items should be found in your package: 300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router Power adapter Quick Installation Guide CD-Rom Ethernet cable Make sure that the package contains above items. If any of the above items is missing or damaged, please contact the store you bought this product from. Brand and Copyright Announcement Copyright © 2010 Netis Corporation.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Contents CONTENTS ............................................................................................................................................ 3 1. 2. 3. INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................... 6 1.1. PRODUCT OVERVIEW ............................................................................................................... 6 1.2.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual 4.4. NETWORK .............................................................................................................................. 35 4.4.1. WAN.............................................................................................................................. 35 4.4.1.1. Wired Access.......................................................................................................................... 35 4.4.1.2. Wireless Access .
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual 4.12.4. WOL ............................................................................................................................. 59 4.12.5. System Logs .................................................................................................................. 59 4.12.6. Remote Management .................................................................................................... 60 4.12.7. Factory Defaults.......................
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual 1. Introduction 1.1. Product Overview The 300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router is dedicated to Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) Wireless network solution. It is 4 in 1 network device, which combines wireless access point, firewall, 4-port Switch and the NAT-Router. It provides up to 300Mbps data transmission rate in 2.4GHz frequency, complies with IEEE 802.11n, IEEE 802.11g and IEEE802.11b and backwards compatible with all IEEE 802.11n/g/b devices.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual 1.3. Supporting Standard and Protocol IEEE 802.11b/g/n IEEE 802.11e IEEE 802.11h IEEE 802.11k IEEE 802.11i IEEE 802.3 10Base-T IEEE 802.3u 100Base-TX 1.4.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual 2. Hardware Installation 2.1. System Requirement Minimum Requirements: Broadband (DSL/Cable) modem and service with Ethernet port 802.11n b/g/n wireless adapter or Ethernet adapter and cable for each computer Internet Explorer® 5.0, Firefox® 2.0 or Safari® 1.4 or higher 2.2.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Off LAN Connection abnormal Rear panel Figure 2-2 Description PWR Function Connect to Power adapter, please don’t use the unknown power adapter, otherwise your device may be damaged. LAN Connect with computer NIC or Ethernet device WAN Internet access Reset Restore settings 2.3.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 2-3 Attach one end of an Ethernet cable to your computer’s Ethernet port, and the other end to one of the LAN ports of your router. Connect another Ethernet cable from your Cable/DSL modem to the WAN port of your router. Connect the single DC output connector of the power adapter to the power jack on the back of the router and plug the Power Adapter into an AC outlet.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual 3. Login You can manage the 300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router through the Web browser-based configuration utility. To configure the device via Web browser, at least one properly configured computer must be connected to the device via Ethernet or wireless network. The 300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router is configured with the default IP address of 192.168.1.1 and subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 and its DHCP server is enabled by default.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 3-1 2. Double click the icon Network and Dial-up Connections 3. Highlight the icon Local Area Connection, right click your mouse, and click Properties Figure 3-2 4.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 3-3 5. Choose Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically, and then press OK to close the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties window Figure 3-4 6.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 3-5 3.1.3. Windows XP Please follow the steps below to setup your computer: 1. Go to Start Settings Control Panel 2. Click Network and Internet Connections Figure 3-6 3.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 3-7 4. Highlight the icon Local Area Connection, right click your mouse, and click Properties Figure 3-8 5.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 3-9 6. Choose Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically, and then press OK to close the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties window Figure 3-10 7.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 3-11 3.1.4. Windows Vista Please follow the steps below to setup your computer: 1. Go to Start Settings Control Panel 2. Click Network and Sharing Center Figure 3-12 3.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 3-13 4. Highlight the icon Local Area Connection, right click your mouse, and click Properties Figure 3-14 5.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 3-15 6.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 3-16 7. Press OK to close the Local Area Connection Properties window.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 3-17 3.1.5. Windows 7 Please follow the steps blow to setup your computer: 1. Go to Start→ Control Panel→ Network and Internet. 2. Click Network and Sharing Center→ Change adapter settings. 3. Highlight the icon Local Area Connection, right click your mouse, and click Properties. Highlight Internet Protocol version 4 (TCP/IPv4).
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 3-18 Figure 3-19 4.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual and then press the OK to close the window. Figure 3-20 5. Press OK to close the Local Area Connection Properties window. 3.1.6. MAC OS Please follow the steps blow to setup your computer: 1. Go to Start→ System preference Settings→ Network.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 3-21 2. Click Network, Select Use DHCP at the Configuration bar, the system will get the IP address automatically.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual 3. Press Apply to complete this operation and close the window. 3.2. Checking Connection with the Router After configuring the TCP/IP protocol, use the ping command to verify if the computer can communicate with the Router. To execute the ping command, open the DOS window and Ping the IP address of the 300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router at the DOS prompt: For Windows 98/Me: Start → Run. Type command and click OK. For Windows 2000/XP: Start → Run.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Ping statistics for 192.168.1.1: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss), Verify your computer's network settings are correct and check the cable connection between the router and the computer. In order to make the whole network operate successfully, it is necessary to configure the 300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router through your computer has a WEB browser installed.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 3-19 After you have logged in, the router's user interface will be displayed. The left menu shows the main options to configure the system, and the right screen is the summary information for viewing and adjusting the configurations.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual 4. Router Setup 4.1. Status This feature provides running status information and detailed information about router. 4.1.1. Version Show the hardware version and firmware wersion. Figure 4-1 4.1.2.
0Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Default Gateway: The IP address of Default gateway you obtained after connect to the Internet, if you haven’t connected to Internet yet, this field is 0.0.0.0. Primary DNS: The DNS server translates domain or website names into IP address, input the most common DNS server address you used or provided by your ISP.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual 4.1.5. Router Status This item provides current running information of System. Figure 4-5 4.1.6. Traffic Statistics This item provides statistics information about the bits router sends and received. Figure 4-6 4.2.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual 4.2.2. PPPoE Figure 4-8 If your ISP provides you the PPPoE service (all ISP with DSL transaction will supply this service, such as the most popular ADSL technique), please select this item. In the “Convenient configuration” You can input your PPPoE username and password to access the Internet. PPPoE Username: Input PPPoE username provided by ISP PPPoE Password: Input PPPoE password provided by ISP. 4.2.3.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual 4.2.4. Wireless Configuration You can choose “Enable” or “Disable” to enable or disable the wireless function. The default setting is “enable”. If you chose the “Disable” status, the router will become a wired broadband router without wireless function, so be careful when you choose this status. Figure 4-10 SSID: SSID (Service Set Identifier) is your wireless network's name shared among all points in a wireless network.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual 4.3. WPS Settings Wi-Fi Protect Setup (WPS) function can let you create a safety network easily. You can through ‘PIN Input Config (PIN)’ or ’Push Button (PBC)’to encrypt your network.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual 4.3.3. WPS Configuration Display the encryption information. Figure 4-14 WPS can connect the wireless adapter and the router in a safe way. If you have a wireless network card which has WPS button, you may set up a safe network via the following methods Method 1: 1. Push the WPS button in the Router until the WPS LED is flashing several times 2. Push the WPS button in the wireless network card for about 3-5seconds 3.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual ‘PIN Input Config (PIN)’ 2. Select this router in the pop-up window, then click ‘Select’ 3. The connection between the adapter and the router is be established automatically. Remark If there is more than one AP in the PBC mode when you use the method 1, there will be session overlap. Please using method 2/3 or wait for a while push the button again. 4.4. Network 4.4.1. WAN This item provides two access types for you to configure the WAN parameters.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual set MTU manually, and you should leave this value in the 1200 to 1500 range. If the value you set is not in accord with the value ISP provide, it may causes some problems, such as fail to send Email, or fail to browse website. So if that happen, you can contact your ISP for more information and correct your router’s MTU value.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual set MTU manually, and you should leave this value in the 1200 to 1500 range. If the value you set is not in accord with the value ISP provide, it may causes some problems, such as fail to send Email, or fail to browse website. So if that happen, you can contact your ISP for more information and correct your router’s MTU value.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 4-22 4.4.5. IGMP Proxy Here you can set the IGMP Proxy ‘Enabled’ and ‘Disabled’. Figure 4-23 4.5. Wireless 4.5.1. Wireless Settings Providing basic configuration items for wireless router users, including “wireless network status”, “SSID”, “Radio Band”, “Radio Mode”, “MAC”, “SSID broadcasting”, “Channel width”, “Channel sideband”, “Region” and “Channel” several basic configuration items.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 4-24 Wireless network status: You can choose “enable” or “disable” to enable or disable the “Wireless Network Status”, if what you choose is “Disable”, the AP function of wireless router will be turned off. SSID: The default is trst1. Radio band: You can select the wireless standards running on your network, if you have Wireless-N, and Wireless-B/G devices in your network, keep the default setting, 802.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual wireless network from unauthorized user access. It supplies “None”, “WEP”, “WPA-PSK”, “WPA2-PSK” and “WPA/WPA2-PSK” five different encryption modes. 4.5.2.1. None “None” means do not encrypt wireless data. Figure 4-25 4.5.2.2. WEP Figure 4-26 Key Length: There are two basic levels of WEP encryption, 64 bits and 128 bits, the more bits password have, the better security wireless network is, at the same time the speed of wireless is more slower.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual 4.5.2.3. WPA-PSK Figure 4-27 Encryption type: You can select the algorithm you want to use, TKIP, AES or TKIP&AES. TKIP means “Temporal Key Integrity Protocol”, which incorporates Message Integrity Code (MIC) to provide protection against hackers. AES, means “Advanced Encryption System”, which utilizes a symmetric 128-Bit block data. Key Renewal: you can configure the renewal time between 60 to 86400 seconds.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 4-29 4.5.3. Wireless MAC Filtering Figure 4-30 MAC Filter Status: the default is disable. You can filter wired users by enabling this function; thus unauthorized users can not access the network. Description: describe MAC Filter list to tell from different MAC Filter lists. Rule: you can select permit or deny. The default is permit. MAC address: input the MAC address that you want to control.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Select the item you want, and click “Save” button. 4.5.4. WDS Settings If you have selected WDS or AP+WDS mode in Wireless Basic-Radio Mode, please do the following configurations. Figure 4-31 WDS Name: Give a description of your wireless bridge to tell apart. WDS MAC Address: If the current working mode is “WDS” or “AP+WDS”, then you need to configure wireless bridge configuration.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual AP1: Select radio mode is WDS or AP+WDS in wireless management-basic of AP1. Click on ‘Wireless Management’- ‘AP Setup’- ‘Security’ and select and save None as authentication type. Click on ‘Wireless Management’- ‘AP Setup’- ‘Security’ and select and save None as WDS authentication type or select a WDS security type, enter key and save. Input WDS name (e.g.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 4-33 AP1: Select radio mode is ‘Access Point’ in wireless management-basic of AP1. Select Channel is ‘Channel 6’ in wireless management-basic of AP1. Figure 4-34 AP2: Select radio mode is ‘REPEATER’ in wireless management-basic of AP2. Click ‘AP Scan’ in wireless management-basic of AP2 ,and select ‘Netis1’ and Connect , then the ‘Repeater SSID’ and ‘Channel’ become same as AP1. The IP address of AP2 should be 192.168.1.x (1
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Select ‘LAN setup’-‘DHCP server’ ,select disable DHCP server. Figure 4-35 AP3: Select radio mode is ‘REPEATER’in wireless management-basic of AP3. Click ‘AP Scan’ in wireless management-basic of AP3 ,and select ‘Netis1’ and Connect , then the ‘Repeater SSID’ and ‘Channel’ become same as AP2. The IP address of AP3 should be 192.168.1.x (1
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 4-36 Authentications type: The default is set to “Auto”, which allows “Open System” or “Shared Key” authentication to be used. Select “Shared Key” if you only want to use “Shared Key” authentication (the sender and recipient use a WEP key for authentication). Beacon Interval: The interval time of this 150Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router broadcast a beacon. Beacon is used to synchronize the wireless network.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Preamble Type: "Short Preamble" is suitable for heavy traffic wireless network. "Long Preamble" provides much communication reliability; the default setting is "Long Preamble”. 4.5.7. Wireless Statistics Display current status of the wireless client associate with AP. Figure 4-37 4.5.8. Multiple AP Settings The default status of secondary AP is disable, you can select enable to enable the secondary AP.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual 4.6. DHCP 4.6.1. DHCP Settings Figure 4-39 DHCP Server Status: Keep the default setting “Enable”, so router is able to use DHCP function. If a DHCP server has already existed in the network, please select “Disable”. Start IP Address: The IP Address is used for allocate IP address by DHCP server; enter the start IP address. End IP Address: The IP Address is used for allocate IP address by DHCP server; enter the end IP address. 4.6.2.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual 4.6.3. Address Reservation Figure 4-41 Address Reservation: reserve IP address for designed physical address host. If you want to configure a fixed IP address for some host, please input physical address and IP address, then click add. 4.7. Forwarding 4.7.1. Virtual Servers Figure 4-42 Description: Describe current virtual server item.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual 4.7.2. Port Triggering Port trigger module dynamically registers virtual server rules when any IP host generates the packet from the specified trigger protocol and port. Port trigger module use forward protocol type and port number and use the IP address of host that generates the trigger packet when it registers a rule. Figure 4-43 Predefined Trigger Rules: select one of the Predefined Rules.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 4-44 4.7.4. UPnP The UPnP function supports load Application’s port forward record automatically. Select “Enable” to enable this function. Figure 4-45 4.7.5. FTP Private Port Some games, servers, and applications (such as BT, QQ video, Edunkey, Web server) are no longer effect when behind the NAT router, so this item provides function of port mapping from LAN to WAN. Figure 4-46 4.8. Security 4.8.1.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual tunnel, the router supports IPSEC pass-through, PPTP pass-through and L2TP pass-through. Figure 4-47 4.8.2. IP Address Filtering Figure 4-48 Status: the default is disable. The rules of “Internet access control” based on source IP, port number and protocol. Description: describe IP Firewall list to tell from different IP Firewall lists. Rule: you can select permit or deny. The default is permit.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Follow the following steps to set Internet Access Control: 1. You can select “enable” and click “Save” to enable “IP Firewall” function. This is only the first step, you should continued to create appropriate rules for “IP Firewall”. 2. Input description information for current access control rule in the “Description” field. Input IP address of host you want to restrict. 3.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual 2. Add MAC address you want to control in the “MAC address” field (the format is **-**-**-**-**-**), then click “Add” button, and you will see the MAC address has displayed in the MAC list. 3. There are two items supplied, “Permit wireless connection for MAC address listed (others are Denied)” and “Deny wireless connection for MAC address listed (others are Permitted)”, Select the item you want, and click “Save” button. 4.8.4.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual to delete it. 4.9. Static Routing Most of broadband router and wireless router are using NAT mode, so this feature is designed for most common network environment. Figure 4-51 Destination Network or IP Address: Specify a certain destination Network or IP address which static route forward to. Subnet Mask: Subnet mask is used for distinguish Network portion and Host portion for an IP address.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual 4.10. QOS Settings Figure 4-52 Status: QOS switch. Automatic Uplink Speed: Router adjusts uplink bandwidth automatically. Manual Uplink Speed (Kbps): User configures uplink bandwidth manually. IP Address: Set the IP address range for restricted hosts. Minimum bandwidth: setup uplink and downlink bandwidth. Maximum bandwidth: setup uplink and downlink bandwidth. 4.11.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 4-53 DDNS Status: Current status of DDNS server. DDNS Server Provider: For example, if you want to use service of “roay.cn”, you have to first register and accounts for it. Other DDNS service providers as the same. Username, Password, Dynamic Domain Name: After register an DDNS account from DDNS service providers, you will get “User Name”, “Password”, ”Dynamic Domain Name”, Input information in appropriate field. 4.12.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 4-55 4.12.3. Password The default username/password is guest/guest. To ensure the Router’s security, it is suggested that you change the default password to one of your choice, here enter a new password and then Re-enter it again to confirm your new password. Click “Save” button to save settings. Figure 4-56 4.12.4. WOL Input host MAC address, and then click button of "Wake up" to wake up the target host which in the LAN. Figure 4-57 4.12.5.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 4-58 4.12.6. Remote Management WEB Management Status: the default is disable. Router can be accessed on the remote site using “Web setup”. Check the “Management Port” and enter the port number and then press “save” button to enable web management. Figure 4-59 4.12.7.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual 4.13. About Figure 4-62 Thank you for your support. 5. Troubleshooting 1) I cannot access the Web-based Configuration Utility from the Ethernet computer used to configure the router. Check that the LAN LED is on. If the LED is not on, verify that the cable for the LAN connection is firmly connected. Check whether the computer resides on the same subnet with the router’s LAN IP address.
300Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router User Manual light should be blinking too. If not, please check whether the cables work or not. Repeat the steps in WAN Setup Connect with Internet through DSL Modem. 4) I can browse the router’s Web-based Configuration Utility but cannot access the Internet. Check if the WAN LED is ON. If not, verify that the physical connection between the router and the DSL/Cable modem is firmly connected. Also ensure the DSL/Cable modem is working properly.
