VigorAP 700 User’s Guide
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Page 3: ...VigorAP 700 User s Guide iii V Vi ig go or rA AP P 7 70 00 0 W Wi ir re el le es ss s A Ac cc ce es ss s P Po oi in nt t User s Guide Version 1 21 Date 27 04 2011 ...
Page 4: ...m time to time in the contents thereof without obligation to notify any person of such revision or changes Federal Communication Commission Interference Statement FCC Part 15 This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device pursuant to Part 15 of FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a res...
Page 5: ... possibility of exceeding the FCC radio frequency exposure limits human proximity to the antenna shall not be less than 20cm 8 inches during normal operation The antenna s used for this transmitter must not be co located or operating in conjunction with any other antenna or transmitter R TTE Compliance Statement This equipment complies with all the requirements of DIRECTIVE 1999 5 EC OF THE EUROPE...
Page 6: ...urg the Netherlands Portugal Spain Sweden and the United Kingdom The ETSI version of this device is also authorized for use in EFTA member states Iceland Liechtenstein Norway and Switzerland EU Countries Not intended for use None Please visit http www draytek com user AboutRegulatory php This product is designed for 2 4GHz WLAN network throughout the EC region and Switzerland with restrictions in ...
Page 7: ...nterface 13 2 3 View System Status and Information 14 2 4 Select an Operating Mode for Wireless Access Point 16 2 4 1 AP Mode 17 2 4 2 Station Infrastructure 20 2 4 3 AP Bridge Point to Point Mode 23 2 4 4 AP Bridge Point to Multi Point Mode 25 2 4 5 AP Bridge WDS Mode 27 2 4 6 Universal Repeater 30 2 5 WPS Setting 32 2 6 Advanced Wireless Settings 35 2 7 Security 37 2 7 1 Disable Security 39 2 7 ...
Page 8: ...VigorAP 700 User s Guide viii 2 13 Restart 54 Chapter III Troubleshooting 56 Appendix Glossary 58 ...
Page 9: ...ith IEEE 802 11b g n wireless network standard works with other 802 11b g n wireless devices z High speed wireless network six times faster than conventional 802 11g wireless network up to 300Mbps z Allow wireless devices to connect to existing wired network and share network resources z Supports DHCP server function z Supports 64 128 bit WEP WPA and WPA2 wireless data encryption z Supports MAC ad...
Page 10: ...ildren under 3 years old They may put the small parts in their nose or month and it could cause serious damage to them KEEP THIS ACCESS POINT OUT THE REACH OF CHILDREN z The access point will become hot when being used for long time This is normal and is not a malfunction DO NOT put this access point on paper cloth or other flammable materials z There s no user serviceable part inside the access p...
Page 11: ... starting to use this access point please check if there s anything missing in the package and contact your dealer of purchase to claim for missing items VigorAP 700 main body 1 pcs Antenna 2 pcs Quick Start Guide 1 pcs A C power adapter 1 pcs CD documentation ...
Page 12: ...l LED Status Description On The device is powered on PWR Off The device is powered off On Wireless WPS mode is enabled WLAN Blinking Data is transmitting sending receiving On LAN port is connected Off LAN port is not connected LAN Blinking Data is transmitting sending receiving ...
Page 13: ...th the product Reset WPS Restore the default settings Usage Turn on the VigorAP 700 Press the button and keep for more than 10 seconds Then the AP will restart with the factory default configuration Press the button and keep it less than 5 seconds the WPS connection will be enabled LAN Connecter for local networked devices Connecter for a power adapter ...
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Page 15: ...network through the LAN port of the access point by Ethernet cable 2 Connect a computer to ADSL modem router or switch hub Make sure the subnet IP address of the PC is the same as VigorAP 700 e g 192 168 1 X 3 Connect the A C power adapter to the wall socket and then connect it to the PWR connector of the access point Power on VigorAP and check all LEDs on the front panel PWR LED should be steadil...
Page 16: ... following instructions to configure your computer to use dynamic IP address For the default IP address of this AP is set 192 168 1 2 we recommend you to use 192 168 1 X except 2 in the field of IP address on this section for your computer If the operating system of your computer is Windows 95 98 Me please go to section 2 2 1 Windows 2000 please go to section 2 2 2 Windows XP please go to section ...
Page 17: ...VigorAP 700 User s Guide 9 2 Select Specify an IP address then input the following settings in respective field and click OK when finish IP address 192 168 1 9 Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 ...
Page 18: ...anel Double click Network and Dial up Connections icon double click Local Area Connection and Local Area Connection Properties window will appear Select Internet Protocol TCP IP then click Properties 2 Select Use the following IP address then input the following settings in respective field and click OK when finish IP address 192 168 1 9 Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 ...
Page 19: ...nel Double click Network and Internet Connections icon click Network Connections and then double click Local Area Connection Local Area Connection Status window will appear and then click Properties 2 Select Use the following IP address then input the following settings in respective field and click OK when finish IP address 192 168 1 9 Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 ...
Page 20: ...tus and Tasks then click Manage Network Connections Right click Local Area Netwrok then select Properties Local Area Connection Properties window will appear select Internet Protocol Version 4 TCP IPv4 and then click Properties 2 Select Use the following IP address then input the following settings in respective field and click OK when finish IP address 192 168 1 9 Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 ...
Page 21: ...eb management interface Please start your web browser and input 192 168 1 2 in address bar then press Enter key The following screen should be shown Please input user name and password in the field respectively The default user name is admin and the password is 1234 Next press OK and you can see the web management interface of this access point ...
Page 22: ...ssword back to default value 2 3 View System Status and Information After you connected to the access point by web browser the first page you will see is Status and Information All system and network related information of this access point will be displayed here The information is very helpful when you want to know the detailed information of your access point and when you try to fix the communic...
Page 23: ...lays current wireless operating mode see next Section SSID Displays current SSID the name used to identify this VigorAP 700 Channel Number Displays current wireless channel number Security Displays current wireless security setting BSSID Displays current BSSID a set of unique identification name of this access point it can not be modified by user Associated Clients Displays the number of connected...
Page 24: ...ion Infrastructure Enable the Ethernet device such as TV and Game player connected to the access point to a wireless client AP Bridge Point to Point Establish wireless connection with another VigorAP 700 using the same mode and link the wired network which these two VigorAP 700s connected together Only one access point can be connected in this mode AP Bridge Point to Multi Point Establish wireless...
Page 25: ...to Section 2 4 1 to 2 4 6 listed below 2 4 1 AP Mode This is the most common mode When in AP mode the access point acts as a bridge between 802 11b g n wireless devices and wired Ethernet network and exchanges data between them When you select AP the following screen will be displayed Here are descriptions of every setup item Band Please select the wireless band you wish to use By selecting differ...
Page 26: ...ion 2 4 1 1 Channel Please select a channel number you wish to use If you know a certain channel number is used by other VigorAP 700s nearby please refrain from using the same channel number Associated Clients Click Show Active Clients button and a new popup window will appear which contains the information about all wireless clients connected to this access point You can click Refresh button in p...
Page 27: ...lect the box to enable the different additional SSID SSID Please input the SSID name the name used to identify this VigorAP 700 here You can input up to 32 alphanumerical characters PLEASE NOTE THAT SSID IS CASE SENSITIVE Broadcast SSID Decide if the VigorAP 700 will broadcast its own SSID or not You can hide the SSID of your VigorAP 700 set the option to Disable so only people who know the SSID o...
Page 28: ...s TV and Game player to enable the Ethernet device as a wireless station and join to a wireless network through an access point or AP router Here are descriptions of every setup item Band Please select the wireless band you wish to use By selecting different band setting you ll be able to allow or deny the wireless client of a certain band If you select 2 4GHz B 2 4GHz N or 2 4GHz G only wireless ...
Page 29: ...Survey button then a Wireless Site Survey Table will pop up It will list all available access points nearby You can select one access point in the table It will join wireless LAN through this access point Please go to Section 2 4 2 1 for more information about the Wireless Site Survey Table After you finish with setting please click APPLY and the following screen will be displayed When you see thi...
Page 30: ...e BSSID MAC Address of the access point Encryption Display the encryption setting of the access points If you have selected the access point with security setting you have to go to 2 7 Wireless Security to set the same security with the access point you want to associate Authentication Display the authentication type of the access point Signal The signal strength of each access point will be displ...
Page 31: ...n you set your access point to this mode it will not accept regular wireless clients anymore When you select AP Bridge Point to Point the following screen will be displayed Here are descriptions of every setup item Band Please select the wireless band you wish to use By selecting different band setting you ll be able to allow or deny the wireless client of a certain band If you select 2 4GHz B 2 4...
Page 32: ...igorAP 700 you wish to connect Set Security Click it to open another window for configuring the wireless security After you finish with setting please click APPLY and the following screen will be displayed When you see this message the settings you made is successfully save You can click CONTINUE to return to previous page and continue on other setting items or click APPLY button to restart the Vi...
Page 33: ... screen will be displayed Here are descriptions of every setup item Band Please select the wireless band you wish to use By selecting different band setting you ll be able to allow or deny the wireless client of a certain band If you select 2 4GHz B 2 4GHz N or 2 4GHz G only wireless clients using the wireless band you select 802 11b 802 11n or 802 11g will be able to connect to this access point ...
Page 34: ... another window for configuring the wireless security After you finish with setting please click APPLY and the following screen will be displayed When you see this message the settings you made is successfully save You can click CONTINUE to return to previous page and continue on other setting items or click APPLY button to restart the VigorAP 700 The changes will take effect after about 30 second...
Page 35: ...ireless clients When you select AP Bridge WDS the following screen will be displayed Here are descriptions of every setup item Band Please select the wireless band you wish to use By selecting different band setting you ll be able to allow or deny the wireless client of a certain band If you select 2 4GHz B 2 4GHz N or 2 4GHz G only wireless clients using the wireless band you select 802 11b 802 1...
Page 36: ...a channel number you wish to use The channel number must be same with another VigorAP 700 you wish to connect Associated Clients Click Show Active Clients button and a new popup window will appear which contains the information about all wireless clients connected to this access point You can click Refresh button in popup window to keep information up to date Associated WDS AP Click Show WDS AP bu...
Page 37: ...llowing screen will be displayed When you see this message the settings you made is successfully save You can click CONTINUE to return to previous page and continue on other setting items or click APPLY button to restart the VigorAP 700 The changes will take effect after about 30 seconds ...
Page 38: ... power of this mode is the same as that of WDS and normal AP mode Here are descriptions of every setup item Band Please select the wireless band you wish to use By selecting different band setting you ll be able to allow or deny the wireless client of a certain band If you select 2 4GHz B 2 4GHz N or 2 4GHz G only wireless clients using the wireless band you select 802 11b 802 11n or 802 11g will ...
Page 39: ...Refresh button in popup window to keep information up to date Associated Repeater AP Click Show Repeater AP button and a new popup window will appear which contains the information about all AP with repeater mode connected to this access point You can click Refresh button in popup window to keep information up to date Root AP SSID In Universal Repeater mode this device can act as a station to conn...
Page 40: ...cess point supports two types of WPS Push Button Configuration PBC and PIN code If you want to use PBC you have to switch this access point to WPS mode and push a specific button on the wireless client to start WPS mode You can push Reset WPS button of this access point or click Start PBC button in the web configuration interface to do this if you want to use PIN code you have to provide the PIN c...
Page 41: ...int before WPS is activated the access point will auto set the security to WPA AES and generate a set of passphrase key for WPS connection Passphrase Key Displays the WPA passphrase here all characters will be replaced by asterisk for security reason If encryption is not set on this access point nothing will be displayed here Device Configuration Config Mode There are Registrar and Enrollee modes ...
Page 42: ... When you re using PBC type WPS setup you must press PBC button hardware or software of wireless client within 2 minutes If you didn t press PBC button of wireless client within this time period please press PBC button hardware or software of this access point again ...
Page 43: ...llowing screen will be displayed Here are descriptions of every setup item Fragment Threshold Set the Fragment threshold of wireless radio Do not modify default value if you don t know what it is default value is 2346 RTS Threshold Set the RTS threshold of wireless radio Do not modify default value if you don t know what it is default value is 2347 Beacon Interval Set the beacon interval of wirele...
Page 44: ...l broadcast its own SSID or not You can hide the SSID of your VigorAP 700 set the option to Disable then only people who know the SSID of your VigorAP 700 can get connected WMM WMM Wi Fi Multimedia technology which can improve the performance of certain network applications like audio video streaming network telephony VoIP and others When you enable WMM function the access point will define the pr...
Page 45: ...ata transferred by radio signals in the air will become unreadable for those people who don t know correct encryption key encryption password There are two ways to set wireless security z Click Security on the left of web management interface z Choose Encryption mode from the drop down list for the wireless operating mode selected with AP Bridge Point to Point AP Bridge Point to Multi Point or AP ...
Page 46: ... and do something bad to your computers and servers which could cause serious problem There are several things you can do to improve wireless security 1 Always enable data encryption Only disable it when you want to open your VigorAP 700 to the public 2 Never use simple words as encryption password Use the random combination of symbols numbers and alphabets will greatly improve security 3 Use WPA ...
Page 47: ...ntinue on other setting items or click APPLY button to restart the VigorAP 700 The changes will take effect after about 30 seconds 2 7 2 WEP WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy is a common encryption mode It is safe enough for home and personal use However if you need higher level of security please consider using WPA encryption see next section Some wireless clients do not support WPA but support WEP Th...
Page 48: ...he length of WEP key is 10 characters Default Tx Key You can set up to four sets of WEP key and you can decide which key is being used as default here If you don t know which one you should use select Key 1 Encryption Key 1 to 4 Input WEP key characters here the number of characters must be the same as the number displayed at Key Format field You can use any alphanumerical characters 0 9 a z and A...
Page 49: ...red Key WPA Pre shared key is the safest encryption method currently and it is recommended to be used to ensure the safety of your data When you select WPA pre shared key as encryption type the following screen will be displayed Here are descriptions of every setup item WPA Unicast Cipher Suite Available options are WPA TKIP WPA2 AES and WPA WPA2 Mixed You can select one of them but you have to ma...
Page 50: ...art the VigorAP 700 The changes will take effect after about 30 seconds 2 7 4 WPA RADIUS WPA Radius is the combination of WPA encryption method and RADIUS user authentication If you have a RADIUS authentication server you can check the identification of every wireless client by user database When you select WPA RADIUS as encryption type the following screen will be displayed Here are descriptions ...
Page 51: ...ut the password of RADIUS authentication server here After you finish with setting please click APPLY and the following screen will be displayed When you see this message the settings you made is successfully save You can click CONTINUE to return to previous page and continue on other setting items or click APPLY button to restart the VigorAP 700 The changes will take effect after about 30 seconds...
Page 52: ...tion After you finish with setting please click APPLY and the following screen will be displayed When you see this message the settings you made is successfully save You can click CONTINUE to return to previous page and continue on other setting items or click APPLY button to restart the VigorAP 700 The changes will take effect after about 30 seconds ...
Page 53: ... supports it or not The internal radius server supports 96 users and 16 IP addresses If the number of user and or IP address you need is more than this please use external radius server To setup internal radius server click RADIUS Server on the left of web management interface and the following information will be displayed Here are descriptions of every setup item Enable Radius Server Check this ...
Page 54: ...onding field and click Add button to add the IP address to radius server database You can click Cancel to clear the text you typed in above three fields All current IP addresses will be listed here If you want to delete one or more addresses check the box of that address and click Delete Selected button Or you can click Delete All button to delete all addresses in radius server database After you ...
Page 55: ...k MAC Filtering on the left of web management interface and the following screen will be displayed Note If you have enabled Multiple SSID function please select the SSID network you wish to configure in advance This page contains MAC filtering information All allowed MAC addresses will be listed in this page For adding new MAC address please type new MAC addresses in the MAC Address field and clic...
Page 56: ...of this MAC address like ROOM 2A Computer or anything You can input up to 16 alphanumerical characters here This is optional and you can leave it blank However it is recommended to use this field to write a comment for every MAC addresses as a memory aid This is optional Add When you finish inputting MAC address and optional Comment click this button to add the MAC address to the list Clear Remove...
Page 57: ...tion menu of this VigorAP 700 Please click System Utility on the left and the following screen will be displayed Please input current password in Current Password field then input new password in both New Password and Confirm Password field After you finish please go to the bottom of this page and click APPLY The following screen will be displayed When you see this message the settings you made is...
Page 58: ...ng field and you can input the IP address of gateway in Gateway Address field if you need to manage this VigorAP 700 from other network like Internet If you want to activate the DHCP server function of this VigorAP 700 please select Enabled in DHCP Server option and see next Section for detailed instructions If you don t want to use DHCP server function of this VigorAP 700 or there s another DHCP ...
Page 59: ...way of your network here Domain Name Server IP Please input the IP address of domain name server DNS here Start IP Please input the start IP address of the IP range End IP Please input the end IP address of the IP range Domain Name If you wish you can also optionally input the domain name for your network This is optional Lease Time Please choose a lease time the duration that every computer can k...
Page 60: ...ion Tool on the left of web management interface and the following screen will be displayed on your web browser Here are descriptions of every buttons Backup Press Backup button and you ll be prompted to download the configuration as a file default filename is config bin You can save it as another filename for different versions and keep it in a safe place Restore Press Browse to pick a previously...
Page 61: ...grade file Please download the latest firmware file from our website and use it to upgrade your access point After a firmware upgrade file is selected click Apply button The access point will start firmware upgrade procedure automatically The procedure may take several minutes please be patient Note Never interrupt the upgrade procedure by closing the web browser or physically disconnect your comp...
Page 62: ... is not responding you may have to switch it off by unplugging the power plug and plugging it back again after 10 seconds To restart your access point please click Restart on the left The following screen will be displayed Please click Apply A popup message will ask you again to make sure you really want to restart the access point Click OK to reset the access point or click Cancel to abort Please...
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Page 64: ...must use the same IP address section which access point uses d Are you using MAC or IP address filter Try to connect the access point by another computer and see if it works If not please perform a hard reset pressing Reset WPS button e Set your computer to obtain an IP address automatically DHCP and see if your computer can get an IP address f If you have done a firmware upgrade and this happens ...
Page 65: ... big files other people will think Internet is really slow c Change channel number and see if this works I can t log onto web management interface password is wrong a Make sure you re connecting to the correct IP address of the access point b Password is case sensitive Make sure the Caps Lock light is not illuminated c If you really forget the password do a hard reset Access point become hot a Thi...
Page 66: ...r your ISP has assigned to you DSL Modem DSL stands for Digital Subscriber Line A DSL modem uses your existing phone lines to transmit data at high speeds Ethernet A standard for computer networks Ethernet networks are connected by special cables and hubs and move data around at up to 10 100 million bits per second Mbps Idle Timeout Idle Timeout is designed so that after there is no traffic to the...
Page 67: ...usiness that provides connectivity to the Internet for individuals and other businesses or organizations LAN Local Area Network A LAN is a group of computers and devices connected together in a relatively small area such as a house or an office Your home network is considered as LAN MAC Address MAC stands for Media Access Control A MAC address is the hardware address of a device connected to a net...
Page 68: ...net Mask A subnet mask which may be a part of the TCP IP information provided by your ISP is a set of four numbers e g 255 255 255 0 configured like an IP address It is used to create IP address numbers used only within a particular network as opposed to valid IP address numbers recognized by the Internet which must be assigned by InterNIC TCP IP UDP Transmission Control Protocol Internet Protocol...
