WF2501 WF2502 User Manual netis150/300MbpsWireless-N Long Distance Broadband Router V1.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser 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.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual Package Contents The following items should be found in your package: 150/300Mbps Wireless-NLongDistanceBroadband 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 © 2011Netis Corporation.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual Contents 1. 2. 3. INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................... 6 1.1. PRODUCT OVERVIEW .......................................................................................................... 6 1.2. MAIN FEATURES ................................................................................................................. 6 1.3.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual 4.4.1. WAN ........................................................................................................................ 36 4.4.1.1. Wired Access ................................................................................................................... 36 4.4.1.2. Wireless Access ................................................................................................................ 37 4.4.2. LAN............
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual 4.12.6. Remote Management ............................................................................................... 58 4.12.7. Factory Defaults...................................................................................................... 58 4.12.8. Reboot ..................................................................................................................... 58 4.13. 5. ABOUT .................................
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual 1. Introduction 1.1. Product Overview WF2501/WF2502 is a powerful, enhanced; enterprise level product supports 5 multi-functions to operate for every kind of working environment. It supports high transmit output power and high data rate which plays different roles of Access Point/WDS/Repeater/AP+WDS/Client Bridge. It operates seamlessly in the 2.4 GHz frequency spectrum supporting the 802.11b/g/n wireless standards.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual IEEE 802.11e IEEE 802.11h IEEE 802.11k IEEE 802.11i IEEE 802.3 10Base-T IEEE 802.3u 100Base-TX 1.4.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser 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.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual WF2502 Figure 2-1 LED Function ON and Off SYS Abnormal Flashing Normal On WAN LAN WAN Connection normal Flashing Data transmitting Off WAN Connection abnormal On LAN Connection normal Flashing Data transmitting Off LAN Connection abnormal 9
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual WLAN Flashing Off WiFi data transmitting WiFi connection abnormal Rear panel WF2501 WF2502 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 WPS WPS button 2.3.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual Click on ‘System management’- ‘Restore’, and click on the ‘Restore’ button. 2.4. Hardware Installation Procedures The procedures to install the 150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband Routerpleaserefers to the following picture WF2501 WF2502 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.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual 3. Login You can manage the 150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance 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 150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband Router is configured with the default IP address of 192.168.1.1and subnet mask of 255.255.255.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser 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.
0/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser 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.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser 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.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual Figure 3-7 4. Highlight the icon Local Area Connection, right click your mouse, and click Properties Figure 3-8 5.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser 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.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser 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.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual Figure 3-13 4. Highlight the icon Local Area Connection, right click your mouse, and click Properties Figure 3-14 5.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual Figure 3-15 6.
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150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual Figure 3-17 3.1.5. Windows 7 1. Please follow the steps blow to setup your computer: 2. Go to Start→ControlPanel→Network and Internet. 3. Click Network and Sharing Center→Change adapter settings. 4. Highlight the icon Local Area Connection, right click your mouse, and click Properties.Highlight Internet Protocol version 4 (TCP/IPv4).
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150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual and then press the OK to close the window. Figure 3-20 6. 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.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual Figure 3-21 2. Click Network, Select Use DHCP at the Configuration bar, the system will get the IP address automatically.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual 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 cancommunicate with the Router. To execute the ping command, open the DOS window andPing the IP address of the 150/300MbpsWireless-N Long Distance Broadband Router at the DOS prompt: For Windows 98/Me: Start -> Run. Type command and click OK.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser 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.
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150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser 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 version. Figure 4-1 4.1.2.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual connected to Internet yet, this field is 0.0.0.0. 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.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual WPS Status: Display WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) status is enabled or not. 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.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser 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. PPPoEUsername: Input PPPoE username provided by ISP PPPoE Password: Input PPPoE password provided by ISP. 4.2.3.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser 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.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser 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.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual 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 cardfor about 3-5seconds. 3. The safe connection will be established automatically. Method 2: 1. Input the PIN code of the adapter’s WPS page into the router’s WPS configure page, then click ’connect’. Figure 4-14 Figure 4-15 2.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual Figure 4-17 4.4. Network 4.4.1. WAN This item provides two access types for you to configure the WAN parameters. They are wired access and wireless access. 4.4.1.1. Wired Access Figure 4-18 Internet Access Type: Ask for your ISP to get the correct access type. IP: The IP address you obtained after connect to the Internet, if you haven’t connected to the Internet yet, this field is 0.0.0.0.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual 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. 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.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual 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. 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. Secondary DNS: Input IP address of a backup DNS server or you can leave this field blank. 4.4.2.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser 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”severalbasic configuration items.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual 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 netis. 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.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual 4.5.2.2. 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. Key Mode: If you select WEP to encrypt your data, choose the bits of password, it should be 64 bits or 128 bits. Then choose the format of password; it should be HEX or ASCII.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual Key Length description: you need to input 8 to 63 ASCII characters no matter which type you select. 4.5.2.4. WPA2-PSK The WPA2-PSK is similar to WPA-PSK and with stronger encryption method than WPA-PSK, using WPA2-PSK; you should input password (leave this value in the range of 8 to 63 characters) and key renewal time (leave this value in the range of 60 to 86400 seconds). Figure 4-28 4.5.2.5.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual 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.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual Figure 4-2 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. Enter MAC address of remote access point, at the same time the remote access point also need to configure to “WDS” or ”AP+WDS” mode.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual Figure 4-32 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 150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband Router broadcast a beacon. Beacon is used to synchronize the wireless network.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual Preamble" provides much communication reliability; the default setting is "Long Preamble”. High Power :Enhanced signal booster increase coverage up to 4X than standard wireless N router . 4.5.6. Wireless Statistics Display current status of the wireless client associate with AP. Figure 4-32 4.5.7. Multiple AP Settings The default status of secondary AP is disable, you can select enable to enable the secondary AP.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual 4.6. DHCP 4.6.1. DHCP Settings Figure 4-34 4.6.2. DHCP Clients List Display the state of assigned IP by DHCP Server. Figure 4-35 4.6.3. Address Reservation Figure 4-36 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.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual 4.7. Forwarding 4.7.1. Virtual Servers Figure 4-37 Description: Describe current virtual server item. Internal Host IP Address: The “Internal Host IP Address” indicates IP address of the internal host using virtual server. Protocol: The protocol item supplies several protocols. For example, if you have web server within LAN, you can select the HTTP template then the router will input port number 80 automatically.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual Figure 4-38 Predefined Trigger Rules: select one of the Predefined Rules. Rule Name: describe one Predefined Trigger that you will configure. Trigger Protocol: you can select TCP/UDP. Trigger Port: you can select a part of ports. Forward Protocol: you can select TCP/UDP. Forward Port: you can select a part of ports. 4.7.3. DMZ DMZ opens all the ports of one computer, exposing the computer to the Internet.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual Figure 4-40 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 4-41 4.8. Security 4.8.1. Security Settings VPN is commonly used for encapsulate and encrypt data across the public network.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual 4.8.2. IP Address Filtering Figure 4-43 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. Source IP address: input the source IP address that you want to control. The default format is ***.***.***.***(e.g: 192.168.2.3).
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual item you want, and click “Save” button. 4. If you want to delete certain item on the list, select appropriate item on the list, click “delete” to delete it. 4.8.3. MAC Filtering Figure 4-44 Status: the default is disable. You can filter wired users by enabling this function; thus unauthorized users can not access the network.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual 4.8.4. Domain Filtering Figure 4-45 Status: the default is disable. “DNS filter”is able to filter certain domain name such as www.sina.com. Rule: you can select permit or deny. The default is permit. DNS Filter Key words: Input website name or Domain name in the “DNS Key Words” field, such as www.163.com. Follow these steps to set DNS filter: 1. You can select “enable” and click “Save” to enable “DNS Filter” function.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual Figure 4-46 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. Next-hop IP Address: This is an IP address of the next-hop device (and also is the gateway address for local host) that allows forwarding data between router and remote network or host.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual 4.10. QOS Settings Figure 4-47 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.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual Figure 4-48 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.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual Figure 4-50 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 4-51 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.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual Figure 4-53 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 4-54 4.12.7.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual 4.13. About Figure 4-57 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.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser 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.
150/300Mbps Wireless-N Long Distance Broadband RouterUser Manual the menu and input information given you by your service provider and then click save . WDS:If you are using this router to spread the wireless coverage of another router,or to spread the coverage to another router,you can use WDS mode. You can configure the routerfollowing the steps in 4.5.4. AP+WDS:You can bridge two LAN or two computers via two AP, the wireless signal will be amplified and transmitted at the same time.
