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Product Description Wireless N Gigabit Router
DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY
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Chapter
CONTENTS
4.7.3
4.17.7 Password
4.17.3 Firmware Upgrade
4.17.4 Factory Defaults
4.17.5 Backup & Restore
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Package Contents
1.1 Overview of the Router
Flexible Access Control
Simple Installation
Chapter 1. Introduction
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1.3 Main Features
Status
1.4 Panel Layout
1.4.1 The Front Panel
Name
1.4.2 The Rear Panel
¾ RESET
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2.1 System Requirements
Chapter 2. Connecting the Router
2.2 Installation Environment Requirements
2.3 Connecting the Router
7. Power on your PC and Cable/DSL Modem
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electrical outlet. The Router will start to work automatically
3.1 TCP/IP Configuration
Chapter 3. Quick Installation Guide
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Please check the connection following these steps
3.2 Quick Installation Guide
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Figure 3-3 Login the Router
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Figure 3-7 Quick Setup - PPPoE
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Figure 3-6 Choose WAN Connection Type
Figure 3-8 Quick Setup - MAC Clone
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Figure 3-9 Quick Setup - MAC Clone
Figure 3-10 Quick Setup - Static IP
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Figure 3-11 Quick Setup - Wireless
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z PSK Password - You can enter ASCII or Hexadecimal characters
6. Click the Next button. You will then see the Finish page
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Chapter 4. Configuring the Router
4.1 Login
4.2 Status
Please refer to Section 3.2 Quick Installation Guide
4.3 Quick Setup
4.4 QSS
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Method One
I. By PBC
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Method Two
The QSS Configuration Screen of Wireless Adapter
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Method Three
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II. By PIN
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Next
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4.5.1 WAN
4.5 Network
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Figure 4-6 WAN - Static IP
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Figure 4-7 WAN - PPPoE
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Static IP - You can check this radio button to use Static IP as the secondary connection to connect to the local area network provided by ISP
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Click the Save button to save your settings
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NSW / ACT - nsw.bigpond.net.au
Figure 4-9 WAN - BigPond Cable
Figure 4-10 WAN -L2TP
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¾ Dynamic IP/ Static IP - Choose either as you are given by your ISP. Click the Connect button to connect immediately. Click the Disconnect button to disconnect immediately
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Figure 4-11 WAN -PPTP
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4.5.2 LAN
Dynamic IP - Connections which use dynamic IP address assignment
Static IP - Connections which use static IP address assignment
Only the PC on your LAN can use the MAC Address Clone function
4.5.3 MAC Clone
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4.6.1 Wireless Settings
4.6 Wireless
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4.6.2 Wireless Security
¾ Disable Security - If you do not want to use wireless security, select this check box, but it’s strongly recommended to choose one of the following modes to enable security
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Encryption - You can select either Automatic, or TKIP or AES
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4.6.3 Wireless MAC Filtering
¾ Status - The status of this entry either Enabled or Disabled
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To modify or delete an existing entry
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4.6.4 Wireless Advanced
This page will be refreshed automatically every 5 seconds
4.6.5 Wireless Statistics
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4.7 DHCP
4.7.1 DHCP Settings
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4.7.2 DHCP Clients List
To Reserve IP addresses
4.7.3 Address Reservation
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To modify or delete an existing entry
4.8 USB Settings
4.8.1 Storage Sharing
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Follow the instructions below to set up your Router as a file server
1. The Router can automatically locate new USB drive
4.8.2 FTP Server
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To set up your FTP Server, please follow the instructions below
¾ Display Name - You can enter a display name for the share folder
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4.8.3 Media Server
To set up your media server, please follow the instructions below
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4.8.4 Print Server
To add a new user account, please follow the steps below
4.8.5 User Accounts
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1. Please restart the service for the new settings to take effect
4.9.1 Virtual Servers
4.9 Forwarding
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To modify or delete an existing entry
To setup a virtual server entry
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¾ Modify - To modify or delete an existing entry
To add a new rule, follow the steps below
4.9.2 Port Triggering
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Figure 4-49 Add or Modify a Triggering Entry
Once the Router is configured, the operation is as follows
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To modify or delete an existing entry
To assign a computer or server to be a DMZ server
4.9.3 DMZ
4.9.4 UPnP
3. Incoming Ports ranges cannot overlap each other
External Port - The port which the Router opened for the application
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4.10.1 Basic Security
4.10 Security
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4.10.2 Advanced Security
Figure 4-54 Advanced Security
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4.10.3 Local Management
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4.10.4 Remote Management
Figure 4-56 Remote Management
To add a new entry, please follow the steps below
4.11 Parental Control
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¾ Enable - Check this option to enable a specific entry
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7. Click the Save button
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4.12.1 Rule
4.12 Access Control
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There are two methods to add a new rule Method One
Figure 4-63 Quick Setup - Create an Access Target Entry
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Figure 4-64 Quick Setup - Create an Advanced Schedule Entry
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Method Two
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In Host field, select Host1 In Target field, select Target1
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To add a new entry, please follow the steps below
4.12.2 Host
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Figure 4-67 Host Settings
Figure 4-69 Add or Modify a Host Entry
4.12.3 Target
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Figure 4-70 Target Settings
Figure 4-72 Add or Modify an Access Target Entry
To add a new entry, please follow the steps below：
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Figure 4-71 Add or Modify an Access Target Entry
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4.12.4 Schedule
Figure 4-73 Schedule Settings
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To add a new schedule, follow the steps below
Figure 4-74 Advanced Schedule Settings
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4.13 Advanced Routing
4.13.1 Static Routing List
To add static routing entries
4.13.2 System Routing Table
Other configurations for the entries
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4.14 Bandwidth Control
4.14.1 Control Settings
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To add/modify a Bandwidth Control rule, follow the steps below
4.14.2 Rules List
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4.15.1 Binding Settings
4.15 IP & MAC Binding Setting
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To add IP & MAC Binding entries, follow the steps below
To modify or delete an existing entry, follow the steps below
To find an existing entry, follow the steps below
4.15.2 ARP List
4.16 Dynamic DNS
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4.16.1 Comexe.cn DDNS
To set up for DDNS, follow these instructions
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Figure 4-89 Dyndns.org DDNS Settings
4.16.2 Dyndns.org DDNS
4.16.3 No-ip.com DDNS
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Figure 4-91 The System Tools menu
4.17 System Tools
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Figure 4-90 No-ip.com DDNS Settings
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4.17.1 Time Setting
To set Daylight Saving
4.17.2 Diagnostic
To set time manually
To set time automatically
Figure 4-94 Diagnostic Tools
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4.17.3 Firmware Upgrade
1. Only one user can use the diagnostic tools at one time
To upgrade the Routers firmware, follow these instructions below
4 The firmware version must correspond to the hardware
4.17.4 Factory Defaults
4.17.5 Backup & Restore
All changed settings will be lost when defaults are restored
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4.17.6 Reboot
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4.17.7 Password
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4.17.8 System Log
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4.17.9 Statistics
Reset
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Statistics Table
1. How do I configure the Router to access Internet by ADSL users?
Appendix A FAQ
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Figure A-4 Virtual Servers
3. I want to use Netmeeting, what do I need to do?
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Figure A-3 MAC Clone
Figure A-5 Add or Modify a Virtual server Entry
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Figure A-6 DMZ
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4. I want to build a WEB Server on the LAN, what should I do?
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5. The wireless stations cannot connect to the Router
1. Install TCP/IP component
Appendix B Configuring the PCs
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Figure B-2
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Figure B-3
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Environmental and Physical
Appendix C Specifications
Wireless
General
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Appendix D Glossary
identifying a wireless local area network. For the wireless devices in a network to communicate with each other, all devices must be configured with the same SSID. This is typically the configuration parameter for a wireless PC card. It corresponds to the ESSID in the wireless Access Point and to the wireless network name
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