Linksys
EA6900 Manual: Your Complete User Guide
Troubleshooting
Specs
Install
Port activity indicators
How to configure your router
To fix the problem
Setting Up Basics
Changing firewall settings
How to
Wall-mounting placement
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Product Overview
EA6900
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Top view
Back view
Port activity indicators
Wall-mounting template
Wall-mounting placement
How to create a home network
Setting Up Basics
Where to find more help
What is a network?
To install your router
How to install your router
How to connect to Linksys Smart Wi-Fi
How to configure your router
To connect to Linksys Smart Wi-Fi
How to improve your wireless connection speed
How to connect directly to your router
How to disable remote access
To disable remote access
How to change your router’s local access password
How to change your network’s name and password
To change your router’s name and password
Under Router Settings, click Wireless
How to change your router’s time zone
How to test your Internet connection speed
To set your router’s time zone
To test your Internet connection speed
How to connect a computer to your network
How to connect devices to your network
How to connect a USB printer
To connect a computer to your network
How to manually connect a network device
How to connect other devices
How to connect a network device using Wi-Fi Protected Setup
To view network device details
How to view device details
How to set parental controls
How to set up parental controls
To set parental controls
Under Block specific sites, click Add
How to configure your guest network
To set up guest access to your network
How to back up your router configuration
Using widgets
How to customize Linksys Smart Wi-Fi
Customizing the Device List
How to attach a USB drive
Using an External Drive
Overview
How to set up authorized users and shared folders
How to use secured folder access
To enable access to shared folders
To access shared folders while on your network
How to access shared folders
Click Add User
To configure your router as a media server
How to set up your router as a media server
To set up the FTP server
How to remotely access storage
To connect an UPnP device to your router’s media server
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How to manually set up your router
Setting Up Advanced
How to manually set up your Internet connection
How to configure basic Internet connection settings
To manually configure your router’s IPv6 settings
IPv6 Internet connection settings
To reconfigure your wireless network
How to get the most out of your dual- band router
Mixed Wireless-N Only Wireless-G Only
How to control access to your network
Wireless-N Only 802.11n only Wireless-AC Only
Auto 20 MHz or 40 Mhz MHz Only
Setting Up Advanced
Changing firewall settings
How to improve security using the built-in firewall
To change your firewall settings
VPN Passthrough
Changing IPv6 firewall settings
How to set up the Dhcp server on your router
To set IPv6 firewall settings
To configure your router’s Dhcp server settings
To configure Dhcp reservation
How to set up Dhcp reservation
To set up Ddns
How to access your network on the Internet
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How to connect to your corporate office using a VPN
How to clone a MAC address
Click the Internet Settings tab
To change your VPN passthrough settings
To configure media prioritization
How to optimize your router for gaming and voice
Set the maximum Upstream Bandwidth
How to enable Voice over IP on your network
To configure the router for VoIP
How to configure UPnP
To configure UPnP
To view your new router’s settings
How to use a router as an access point
To add your router to your existing wireless network
How to put your new router behind an existing router
To add your router to an existing router or gateway
To add another router to share an Internet connection
To share an Internet connection
To use their DNS
To extend your network or add wireless capabilities
How to expose a device to the Internet
To set up a device in the DMZ
To extend your network
Setting Up Advanced
How to set up port forwarding for a single port
How to set up port forwarding
To set up single port forwarding
Port Forwarding and Port Triggering
How to set up port forwarding for a range of ports
How to set up port forwarding for multiple ports
To set up single port forwarding for multiple ports
To set up port range forwarding
How to set up port range triggering for online gaming
Click Add a new Port Range Forwarding
Click Add a new Port Range Triggering
To back up your router configuration
How to back up and restore your router configuration
Under Router Settings, click Troubleshooting
To restore your router configuration
How to restore factory defaults
How to upgrade the router’s firmware
How to check the status of your router
How to test your Internet connection
How to disable the Ethernet port status lights
To disable the lights
To enable and view logs
How to configure and use logs
Your router was not successfully set up
Troubleshooting
Windows XP Service Pack update
To install Service Pack
To fix the problem on Windows computers
To fix the problem
Message
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Linksys Smart Wi-Fi does not open in your web browser
After setup
Rebooting your router
Internet appears to be unavailable
All other troubleshooting has been unsuccessful
You cannot access Linksys Smart Wi-Fi
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Specifications
Environmental
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