Chapter 25 Product Specifications
Table 68 Firmware Features
FEATURE | DESCRIPTION |
Default Wireless SSID | ZyXEL |
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Device Management | Use the Web Configurator to easily configure the rich range of features |
| on the |
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Wireless Functionality | Allows IEEE 802.11b and/or IEEE 802.11g wireless clients to connect |
| to the |
| and/or MAC filtering to protect your wireless network. |
| Note: The |
| interference from other 2.4 GHz devices such as microwave |
| ovens, wireless phones, Bluetooth enabled devices, and other |
| wireless LANs. |
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Firmware Upgrade | Download new firmware (when available) from the ZyXEL web site and |
| use the Web Configurator to put it on the |
| Note: Only upload firmware for your specific model! |
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Configuration Backup & | Make a copy of the |
Restoration | |
| configuration. |
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Network Address | Each computer on your network must have its own unique IP address. |
Translation (NAT) | Use NAT to convert a single public IP address to multiple private IP |
| addresses for the computers on your network. |
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Firewall | You can configure firewall on the |
| When the firewall is on, by default, all incoming traffic from the |
| Internet to your network is blocked unless it is initiated from your |
| network. This means that probes from the outside to your network are |
| not allowed, but you can safely browse the Internet and download files |
| for example. |
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Content Filter | The |
| and blocks access to web sites with URLs that contain keywords that |
| you specify. You can define time periods and days during which content |
| filtering is enabled. You can also include or exclude particular |
| computers on your network from content filtering. |
| You can also subscribe to |
| your |
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Bandwidth Management | You can efficiently manage traffic on your network by reserving |
| bandwidth and giving priority to certain types of traffic and/or to |
| particular computers. |
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Remote Management | This allows you to decide whether a service (HTTP or FTP traffic for |
| example) from a computer on a network (LAN or WAN for example) can |
| access the |
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Wireless LAN Scheduler | You can schedule the times the Wireless LAN is enabled/disabled. |
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Time and Date | Get the current time and date from an external server when you turn |
| on your |
| and times are then used in logs. |
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Port Forwarding | If you have a server (mail or web server for example) on your network, |
| then use this feature to let people access it from the Internet. |
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DHCP (Dynamic Host | Use this feature to have the |
Configuration Protocol) | default gateway and DNS servers to computers on your network. |
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Dynamic DNS Support | With Dynamic DNS (Domain Name System) support, you can use a |
| fixed URL, www.zyxel.com for example, with a dynamic IP address. You |
| must register for this service with a Dynamic DNS service provider. |
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