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Pepwave MAX and Surf User Manual

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Health Check

Method

This setting allows you to specify the health check method for the WAN connection. The

available options are Disabled, Ping, DNS Lookup, and HTTP. The default method is

Disabled.See Section 9.4 for configuration details.

Dynamic DNS

Settings/Dynamic

DNS Service

Provider

This setting specifies the dynamic DNS service provider to be used for the WAN based

on supported dynamic DNS service providers:

 changeip.com

 dyndns.org

 no-ip.org

 tzo.com

 DNS-O-Matic

Select Disabled to disable this feature.See Section 9.5for configuration details.

Bandwidth

Allowance

Monitor

This option allows you to enable bandwidth usage monitoring on this WAN connection for

each billing cycle. When this is not enabled, bandwidth usage each month is still being

tracked, but no action will be taken.

MTU

This setting specifies the maximum transmission unit.By default, MTU is set to Custom

1440.You may adjust the MTU value by editing the text field. Click Default to restore the

default MTU value. Select Auto and the appropriate MTU value will be automatically

detected. The auto-detection will run each time the WAN connection establishes

Roaming

Checking this box will enable Wi-Fi roaming. Click the icon for additional options.

Connect to Any

Open Mode AP

This option is to specify whether the Wi-Fi WAN will connect to any open mode access

point it finds. By default, this is disabled.

Reply to ICMP

PING

If this settingis disabled, the WAN connection will not respond to ICMP pingrequests. By

default, this setting is enabled.

9.3.1 Creating Wi-Fi Connection Profiles

You can manually create a profile to connect to a Wi-Fi connection. This is useful for

creating a profile for connecting to hidden-SSID access points. Click

Network>WAN>Details>Create Profile…to get started.

This will open a window similar to the one shown below: