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Wireless Broadband Router

User Manual

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Page 1: ...Wireless Broadband Router User Manual ...

Page 2: ...hout representation or warranty of any kind The seller therefore assumes no responsibility and shall have no liability of any kind arising from the supply or use of this document or the material contained herein Trademarks Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xeros Corporation 54g is a registered trademark of Broadcom corpor...

Page 3: ...ct sunshine Do not expose the product to moisture Never spill any liquid on the product Do not attempt to connect with any computer accessory or electronic product without instructions from qualified service personnel This may result in risk of electronic shock or file Do not place this product on an unstable stand or table For Using Power off and unplug this product from the wall outlet when it i...

Page 4: ...ified service personnel under the following conditions If the power cord or plug is damaged or frayed If liquid has been spilled into the product If the product has been exposed to rain or water If the product does not operate normally when the operating instructions are followed If the product has been dropped or the cabinet has been damaged If the product exhibits a distinct change in performanc...

Page 5: ...it different from that to which the receiver is connected Consult the dealer or an experienced radio TV technician for help FCC condition This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules Operation is subject to the Following two conditions 1 This device may not cause harmful interference 2 This device must accept any interference received including interference that may cause undesired operation...

Page 6: ...or abbreviations are used interchangeably Access Point AP Wireless LAN WLAN Ethernet network LAN network This User Manual contains information on how to install and configure your Wireless Broadband Router to get your network started accessing the Internet From now on we will guide you through the correct configuration steps to get your device up and run ...

Page 7: ...band Router 7 3 Setting Up Ethernet WLAN Client 9 3 1 Overview 9 3 2 Setting up TCP IP 10 For Windows 98 ME 10 For Windows 2000 XP 12 3 2 Setting up Wireless Client 14 3 3 Checking Connection with the Router 15 4 Web Configuration 17 4 1 Accessing Web Based Configuration Utility 17 To enable Your Settings 18 4 2 Viewing System Status 19 4 3 Configuration for NAT Routing Mode 20 WAN Configuration f...

Page 8: ...ecifing Your IP Filter Rules 36 Filter Types 37 Filter Scenario of the Wireles Broadband Router 38 Viewing Filter Log 39 Other Firewall Settings 39 4 7 Forwarding 41 Setting Up Forwarding Entries 41 If you have a Web server on your network 42 4 8 Administration 44 5 Troubleshooting 47 6 Specification 49 6 1 Hardware 49 6 2 Software 50 ...

Page 9: ... standard the Access Point provides data transfer of up to 54 Mbps up to 5 times faster than 802 11b Since 802 11g operates on the same frequency of 2 4 GHz as 802 11b it is backwards compatible with existing Wi Fi 802 11b devices The benefit is that you can preserve the existing 802 11b infrastructure while migrating to the new screaming fast 802 11g The router can act as a DHCP server to automat...

Page 10: ... technology PPPoE PPP over Ethernet Client with Keep Alive Connect On Demand Support PAP and CHAP Authentication DHCP Client MAC Address Cloning DHCP Server NAT Firewall Support Bridge Mode Support 802 1D Spanning Tree Bridging IP Filtering IP Forwarding DMZ Hosting ASCII HEX Format 64 128 Bit WEP Key for Wireless LAN Allow List for Wireless LAN VPN Support IPSec Passthrough and PPTP Passthrough C...

Page 11: ...ed Wireless Broadband Router x1 Power Adapter and Cord x1 CD ROM x1 RJ 45 Ethernet Cable x1 1 4 System Requirements Cable ADSL modem and an Internet access account for Internet connection One computer with 10 100Base T Ethernet card and TCP IP protocol installed for initial setup Internet Explorer 5 0 or higher for Web configuration 802 11g or 802 11b compliant wireless adapters for wireless conne...

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Page 13: ...below from left to right LEDs Function Color Status Description Off No power is supplied to the unit Power Green Solid Power is connected to the unit Off WLAN interface is not initialized properly On WLAN interface is initialized properly and ready WLAN Wireless LAN Port Ready Activity Green Blinking Transmitting receiving packets on the WLAN port Off Power is off or no Ethernet device is connecte...

Page 14: ...00BaseT switch Connects to a hub switch or NIC equipped PC in your network The LAN ports support Auto MDIX feature which eliminates the need for crossover cables Internet WAN RJ 45 connector Connects to the Cable ADSL Modem The WAN port also supports Auto MDIX feature which eliminates the need for crossover cables Reset button To reset the device to factory defaults insert a straightened paperclip...

Page 15: ...ices Step 1 Connecting Your network to the LAN port Attach one end of the Ethernet cable with RJ 45 connectors to your hub switch or a PC s Ethernet port and the other end to the LAN port of your Wireless Broadband Router Step 2 Connecting Cable ADSL Modem to the Internet WAN port Connect the Ethernet cable attaching to your Cable ADSL modem to the Internet WAN port of your Wireless Broadband Rout...

Page 16: ...Wireless Broadband Router User Manual 8 The figure below illustrates a connection diagram example ...

Page 17: ...ort of the device though it is also allowed to configure the device via a wireless client Whatever your connection method the computer s Ethernet wireless interface must be on the same subnet with the router As the Wireless Broadband Router is configured with these default values IP address 192 168 1 1 Subnet mask 255 255 255 0 DHCP server Enabled with the IP address pool from 192 168 1 100 to 192...

Page 18: ...fer to Windows documentations for installation instructions 2 For initial verification we suggest that you connect only one PC directly to an LAN port on the Wireless Broadband Router not through a hub For Windows 98 ME Step 1 Click on the Start menu point to Settings and click on Control Panel Step 2 Double click the Network icon Step 3 In the Network window highlight TCP IP protocol for your NIC...

Page 19: ... set the IP address as 192 168 1 x x is between 2 and 254 subnet mask as 255 255 255 0 Select the Gateway tab and set the gateway to 192 168 1 1 Step 5 Click OK twice to finish the configuration If your network settings have been changed you will be prompted to restart your computer Click Yes to have new settings take effect ...

Page 20: ...necessary click Release and then Renew to get a new IP address Click the drop down arrow to select your Ethernet adapter For Windows 2000 XP Step 1 Click on the Start menu point to Settings and click on Control Panel Step 2 Double click the Network and Dial up Connections or Network Connections icon Step 2 Right click the Local Area Connection icon for your NIC or wireless adapter and then click P...

Page 21: ...y if your network adapter gets an IP address within the DHCP IP pool range 192 168 1 100 192 168 1 150 by default of the router If not you may need to renew the IP information Step 1 Click Run from the Start menu to open the Run dialog box Step 2 Type cmd in the dialog box and then click OK Step 3 At prompt type ipconfig to see the IP information from DHCP server Step 4 If you want to get a new IP...

Page 22: ...02 11g or 802 11b wireless adapter and has appropriate WLAN card driver utility and TCP IP installed 2 Set the wireless adapter to use appropriate TCP IP settings as described in previous section 3 Launch the wireless adapter s provided utility and verify that your wireless client is configured with these settings Operation Mode Infrastructure SSID 11g AP Authentication Open WEP Mode Disabled ...

Page 23: ...he IP address of the router at the DOS prompt For example ping 192 168 1 1 If the following response occurs Reply from 192 168 1 1 bytes 32 time 100ms TTL 253 Then the connection between the Wireless Broadband Router and the network has been successfully established Otherwise if you get a failed ping with the response of Request time out Then the connection is fail Verify your network setting is c...

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Page 25: ...router s LAN port has been specified with new IP address enter the new IP instead 2 After connecting to the device you will be prompted to enter the username and password Leave the username empty and enter the default password of admin Figure 4 1 Login to Web Configuration Utility After you login the System Overview page of the Wireless Broadband Router displays From now on the Wireless Broadband ...

Page 26: ...able Your Settings After you have customized the settings and then click the Apply button the device will begin registering your settings You will be prompted to wait for a few seconds for the router to commit changes to permanent storage During this process it is important not to power on or off the router otherwise damage may be caused to the device After the settings have been registered the sc...

Page 27: ...s Broadband Router including the system WAN LAN interface and Wireless LAN interface information You may click the Update button to update the overall status If firewall is enabled an additional item Firewall is displayed at the bottom of the page Clicking the Show Log button under this item will display the firewall activity log in a separate window Figure 4 3 System Overview ...

Page 28: ...lient Some ISPs use a PPPoE session to make connection with their clients If this is the case you should enable this option and finish the PPPoE Client settings The WAN port of the device will be assigned a public IP address from your ISP s server PPTP Client This router supports VPN Virtual Private Network pass through for both PPTP Point to Point Tunneling Protocol and IPSec IP Security VPN allo...

Page 29: ...ng to the connection type offered by your ISP 3 If required in the MAC Address field enter your network adapter s MAC address in the format of xx xx xx xx xx xx Otherwise just keep the default values This field allows you to clone a network adapter s MAC address to the WAN port of the router Some ISPs use the MAC address of NIC which was connected to your Cable ADSL modem for static mapping and th...

Page 30: ...atus group Figure 4 4 WAN Configuration DHCP Client X PPPoE Client If PPPoE Client is your option configure these fields as required by your ISP PPPoE Connection Status This item is not configurable It displays whether the connection is up or down Username Password Enter the username and password provided by your ISP used to log on to Internet connection Connection Mode Select your PPP connection ...

Page 31: ...tion you probably want to enable this option and enter an idle time value best suitable for your network Manual Connect If enabled the system administrator can manually connect or disconnect the PPP session by clicking the Connect Disconnect buttons in this page MTU MRU Allows you to adjust the Maximum Transmission Receive Unit in bytes for the WAN interface The packets larger than the specified v...

Page 32: ...ction to the PPTP server Server IP Address Enter the IP address of the PPTP server IP Address Subnet Mask Enter the Internet IP address subnet mask that the ISP assigns to this router for reaching the PPTP server Idle Disconnect If you want to automatically terminate the connection to your ISP when there is no connection for a period of time check this option and enter the desired idle time Figure...

Page 33: ...e IP address of the Domain Name Server Your LAN side DHCP clients use the DNS to map a domain name to its corresponding IP address and vice versa Up to three DNS servers are allowed If no DNS server is specified or the specified servers are not available the router will automatically assign a DNS server to the DHCP clients WINS Servers Optional for Windows Internet Names Service Enter the IP addre...

Page 34: ...amic Host Configuration Protocol server on its LAN and WLAN interface which dynamically assigns IP addresses to the DHCP clients on the LAN WLAN The DHCP server also provides a default gateway the router s LAN IP address and DNS addresses for DHCP clients to access the Internet DHCP function spares you the hassle of manually assigning a fixed IP address to each PC on the LAN WLAN It is probably yo...

Page 35: ... amount of time Figure 4 8 LAN Configuration in Router Mode Viewing Current DHCP Assignments When DHCP server function is enabled the router keeps a record of any machine either Ethernet or Wireless node that has leased IP from the specified IP pool The DHCP lease table is displayed under System Overview LAN Interface Figure 4 9 DHCP Lease Table ...

Page 36: ...on as the WAN LAN relation and then click Apply to commit the changes Figure 4 10 Enabling Bridging Mode Part 2 LAN configuration 1 In the Protocol item select DHCP Client or Manual Config as required DHCP Client Select this option if there is already a DHCP server in your network which assigns IP to this bridge If enabled no further configuration is needed since the DHCP server will pass the requ...

Page 37: ...ver service is enabled proceed to set up the items below DHCP Lease Time Specify the time that a network device can lease a private IP address before the device reassigning the IP address IP Pool Range Specify the starting and ending IP address of the IP address pool Whenever a network device requests an Internet session the device will allocate an unused IP addresses from this pool and lease them...

Page 38: ...Wireless Broadband Router User Manual 30 Figure 4 12 Bridge Mode Manual Config ...

Page 39: ...adcast its SSID to allow the wireless clients to recognize their presence However this creates a security hole since any wireless station with SSID set to any or got the broadcast may associate to your AP It is recommended to set this option to Closed to have your AP only accept stations whose SSIDs are the same as this AP Country Select the country where you use this AP When the country setting i...

Page 40: ...g all kinds of requests mainly used in cases where connectivity is more important than security Shared Key Utilizes WEP capability to further verify if a wireless client is authorized to share this AP s resource If the client has the wrong key or no key it will fail authentication and will not be allowed to associate with the AP If you select Open System or Shared Key wireless stations with or wit...

Page 41: ...r wireless stations set identical key tables Note All Wireless Stations must use identical encryption algorithm level and Key values same key position in its key table to ensure successful data transmission X Access Control MAC Address Access Control This AP has the capability to control the wireless client access based on the MAC address of a wireless client We offer you the flexibility to custom...

Page 42: ...ion threshold value are not fragmented DTIM Specifies the Deferred Traffic Indicator Map DTIM period This value determines at which interval the AP will send its broadcast traffic The default value is 3 Rate The default setting Auto allows the AP to automatically use the fastest possible data rate Selecting a specific rate forces the AP to transmit at a particular speed Basic Rate Set The Default ...

Page 43: ...4 Web Configuration 35 54g Performance Only 802 11g wirless clients can communicate with the AP 802 11b Only Only 802 11b clients can communicate with the AP Figure 4 13 Wireless LAN Configuration ...

Page 44: ...e allowed to pass through the WAN port depending on whether packets match your filter rules and whether your filter type is Listed Pass or Listed Block In addition to filter settings the Filters page also allows to configure other firewall settings including WAN Management WAN Port Ping Reply and Report Log to TFTP Server Specifing Your IP Filter Rules If you are going to specify your filter rules...

Page 45: ...e allowed or prohibited to pass through the WAN port You may enter the same address in both Start and End fields to define a single IP address Up to 5 entries are allowed TCP Port Filters Allows or prohibits certain LAN machine to use TCP based service in the specified port range through the WAN port Up to 12 entries are allowed For example to allow or prohibit local PC 192 168 1 210 to use FTP se...

Page 46: ...to block any packet All packets can pass through the WAN port Defaults If any filter is enabled only the packets matching the specified rule are blocked other packets can pass through the WAN port When Filter Type is Listed Pass If all the filters are disabled No filter rule is specified to allow any packet to pass All packets are blocked If any filter is enabled Only the packets matching the spec...

Page 47: ...ll is enabled If available this item is disabled by default that rejects any external access from the WAN port If this option is enabled a WAN Port filed is displayed with the default value 80 If required you may enter another port number used by the external WAN access If WAN Management is enabled using a non 80 port the router s HTTP service Web Configuration Utility will be accessible via the r...

Page 48: ...if an external host will get reply when trying to ping the IP address of your WAN port It s disabled by default Report Log to TFTP Server Available only when Firewall is enabled If available it specifies whether to report firewall event log to your TFTP server If enabled a LAN TFTP Server field is present for you to specify the IP address of the TFTP server All the filter logs are sent to TFTP ser...

Page 49: ...incoming packets that do not match the forwarding criteria will be redirected to the DMZ IP address That is forwarding demands a higher priority than DMZ Setting Up Forwarding Entries To set up your forwarding entries enter these fields DMZ IP Address DMZ setting allows a local machine to be exposed to the Internet If you specify a DMZ host here the incoming packets containing no port information ...

Page 50: ...lters and want to designate another Web server on your local network take either of the procedures below to avoid port confliction Option 1 In Filters page with WAN Management enabled enter a port number other than 80 for example 1234 and reserve the number 80 for your Web server If any external host wants to access your Web management server through the WAN port it should use the address below ht...

Page 51: ...e standard port number 80 and the router will not forward the packets since no forwarding entry matches As a result if a WAN computer tries to access the LAN s Web server it will turn to access the Web service on the WAN port i e the Web Configuration Utility of the router instead Figure 4 15 Forwarding ...

Page 52: ...our geographic location Option 2 Specifying the router as your network NTP server 1 In Set by item enable the Manual Setup option 2 Manually enter the date and time information in respective fields X Management Setup Username Password For administration security specify required User Name and Password and re enter password in corresponding field for confirmation This setting limits your Web based ...

Page 53: ...ings can be retrieved easily if required even after you reload factory defaults Retrieve User Configurations If you have loaded factory defaults either via the Load Default button on the back panel or via the Restore button in this group you can restore your settings by clicking the Retrieve button Restore Factory Defaults To restore factory defaults click the Restore button and then wait for a fe...

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Page 55: ...o pint the router s LAN IP address to veify the connection Make sure your browser is not configured to use a proxy server Check that the IP address you entered is correct If the router s LAN IP address has been changed you should enter the reassigned IP address instead I can browse the router s Web based configuration but cannot access the Internet Check the WAN LED is illuminated If not check the...

Page 56: ...work administrator Check that the wireless adapter s MAC address is not in the MAC address list if Access Control is enabled to use a deny list See Wireless LAN page in Web configuration utility If you are using a 802 11b wireless adapter check that the 54g Mode item in Wireless LAN page is not configured to use 54g Performace On the other hand if you are using 802 11g adapter check the 54g Mode i...

Page 57: ...orts for 10 100Base TX auto sensing crossover Ethernet Switch LAN connection 802 11g wireless LAN Two external antennas for wireless technology Physical Front Panel 7 LEDs Power x 1 LAN x 4 WAN x 1 Wireless x 1 Back Panel Reset button Power Jack RJ 45 LAN Port x 4 RJ 45 WAN Port x 1 Dimensions 145 mm L x 240 mm W x 40 mm H Case types Lay down Power Adapter and Environmental Requirement DC Adaptor ...

Page 58: ...n Demand Support PAP and CHAP Authentication DHCP Client MAC Address Cloning Settable and Changeable IP Address LAN Port Features DHCP Server Settable and Changeable IP Address Router Features NAT Firewall Support Bridge Mode Support 802 1D Spanning Tree Bridging IP Filtering IP Forwarding DMZ Hosting DNS Forwarding UPNP Support Microsoft NetMeeting Passthrough Support Microsoft XP Messenger Passt...

Page 59: ...ssthrough Wireless LAN Features Fully compatible to 802 11g standard Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum DSSS technology exploitation Seamless roaming within wireless LAN infrastructure Low power consumption via efficient power management Configuration and Management Features Configurable through Web Browser via WAN LAN Software Upgrade DHCP Server function for IP distribution to local network users N...

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