Introduction

Chapiter 1

And' besides available on CDRom a Quick Start Guide for a fast configuration.

1.1 An Overview of the I-Fly Wireless Broadband Router

The device for a total freedom of movement without losing the connection. Easy to be installed and fast and flexible, with I-Fly Wireless Broadband Router there is no more obligation for a fixed working place: you can easily work or navigate for fun from your own garden or in different rooms of your office, always in wireless connection.

I-Fly Wireless Router is extremely flexible and you can choose the technology for your connection to internet, i.e. through an ISDN device or through the fast solution of the broadband. Your whole office can be connected to the web simultaneously and throughout, thanks to our I-Fly Wireless Router, which can serve up to 253 users. The Roaming function gives you a complete freedom of movement and two or more Wireless Router can serve wireless also large headquarters.

Thanks to advanced security functions which are integrated and thanks to the troughput of the protocol IEE802.11G you are going to have a fast and flexible wireless net, hacker safe.

The chipsets fully support Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) and the IEEE 802.11i draft security standards in hardware and high-speed encryption engines for both the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) and the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) with no performance degradation.

Last, but not least, this product implements Atheros Super G™ (available for devices with chipset Atheros) capabilities to deliver 108 Mbps raw data rates and 90 Mbps TCP/IP throughput for 802.11g wireless LANs (Real-time hardware data compression, Dynamic transmit and modulation optimization and Standards-compliant bursting mode adapts to the network).

This product also serves as an Internet firewall, protecting your network from being accessed by outside users. Not only provides the natural firewall function (Network Address Translation, NAT), it also provides rich firewall features to secure a user’s network. All incoming data packets are monitored and filtered. Besides, it can also be configured to block internal users from accessing to the Internet.

The product provides three levels of security support. First, it masks LAN users’ IP addresses which are invisible to outside users on the Internet, making it much more difficult for a hacker to target a machine on your network. Secondly it can block and redirect certain ports to limit the services that outside users can access. For example, to ensure that games and other Internet applications will run properly, a user can open some specific ports for outside users to access internal services in the network. Finally it can also detect and block many Hacker Patterns and not allow hackers into your network.

Integrated DHCP services, client and server, allows up to 253 users to get their IP addresses automatically on boot up from the product. Simply set local machines as a DHCP client to accept a dynamically assigned IP address from DHCP server and reboot. Each time a local machine is powered up; the router will recognize it and assign an IP address to instantly connect it to the LAN.

For advanced users, The Virtual Server function allows the product to provide limited visibility to local machines with specific services for outside users. An ISP provided IP address can be set to the