Supplemental setup instructions for
Asus AAM6030VI
Wireless ADSL Router
(read these notes whilst also referring to the manual supplied with the product)
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Page 1: ...Supplemental setup instructions for Asus AAM6030VI Wireless ADSL Router read these notes whilst also referring to the manual supplied with the product 1 ...
Page 2: ...ng to the manual supplied with the product 1 Supplemental 4 2 Connecting to your network 4 3 Configuration 4 3 1 Configuration with no WEP security 5 3 2 With WEP security 7 3 2 1 Setup the Router 7 3 2 2 Client Setup for PCI 8 3 2 3 Using a PCMCIA Wireless card 10 3 3 WLAN Bridging Mode 13 3 ...
Page 3: ...etup the TCP IP settings of the router and your computers LAN card see other notes After checking your connections and TCP settings see above you are ready to run your browser in order to configure the router Any browser can be used on any operating system The configuration screens are the same If you are using Explorer then click on your Explorer icon to start your browser When your browser start...
Page 4: ... you have to change any settings then click on submit and then on save to store the changes Next click on Advanced Things to check on this screen are that the Fragmentation Threshold and RTS Threshold match those used on you wireless clients adapters Check that the Authentication type is set to Open System this means NO security Check that Basic and Transfer Rates are both set to 1 2 5 5 11 so tha...
Page 5: ...ve setup is called Ad hoc or sometimes peer to peer With Peer to peer client setup each clients expects to talk to another client If the clients are set this way they won t be able to communicate with the VI router A good analogy to use for the different between Infrastructure and Peer to peer is to compare with using normal copper network cables to connect clients together If the clients are conn...
Page 6: ...th WEP security If you are really worried about network security I can t imagine the average home user being all that bothered you can configure the VI router to use 64 or 128 bit WEP security This security relies upon both the router and your clients using an encryption key word on all transmitted and received data 3 2 1 Setup the Router To configure WEP security on the router first of all go to ...
Page 7: ...e changes the IEEE Status page should look like this 3 2 2 Client Setup for PCI With WEP security it is especially important that you get the client setup exactly correct Get it wrong and it just won t work For the purposes of this example setup will be for the Pheenet PCI wireless network card However the principles are the same and will apply equally to any other make or brand of wireless adapte...
Page 8: ... Type is Infrastructure Now check that the Encryption is set to 128 Bit to match the router You will now need to correctly setup the WEP security key for the clients For the Pheenet PCI wireless card this means running a separate utility So exit the Properties setup for your adapter saving any changes you ve done you may need to reboot your PC Now setup the WEP security 9 ...
Page 9: ...ble to see the VI router If your wireless adapters have a signal strength utility then this can be used to check how good a signal you are getting from the VI router If your clients cannot see the router but they could with security off see above then the reason for it not working now will be because you ve made a mistake with the security setup of either your router or client Take great care typi...
Page 10: ...ced Now it s just a case of ensuring that every setting of the card matches the router First of all check the Fragmentation Threshold the default setting for the router is 2304 check this on the IEEE 80211b Advanced screen Alter the card setting to match Next check the Network Type when using the VI router or an access point you need to use Infrastructure The other possible setting is Peer to Peer...
Page 11: ...s the PCMCIA card Wireless The Channel setup doesn t matter for the PCMCIA card because the card driver will auto scan until it finds the channel to use If you do any changes you need to a Submit and then a Save to store the new values Next check the Fragmentation Threshold and the RTS Threshold and set the Authentication to Open If you do any changes you need to a Submit and then a Save to store ...
Page 12: ...ou to control the way the wired and wireless networks integrate The three options are None this means that clients on the wired network can see the router but can t see any clients on the wireless network and vice a versa wireless clients can see the router but not the wired clients Bridged Mode This is the default mode and in this mode the wireless network forms an extension of the wired network ...
Page 13: ...m the wired section but IP routeing between the two networks is allowed Since the wireless network is a separate network then the wireless point at the router needs to be given an IP address e g the wired segment might have 192 168 1 1 for the router end and then clients could be 192 168 1 2 or 192 168 1 3 etc Then you could tell the WLAN Configuration that the IP address of the wireless point at ...
