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Back Panel
The diagram (fig1.0) below shows the broadband router’s back panel. The
router’s back panel is divided into four sections, LAN, WAN, USB, and Reset:
Figure 1.0
1) Local Area Network (LAN)
The Broadband router’s 4 LAN ports are where you connect your LAN’s PCs,
hubs / switches etc.
2) Wide Area Network (WAN)
The WAN port connected to your xDSL or Cable modem which linked to the
Internet.
3) USB
The USB ports allow you to share your files or printer through them. Each port
can support both printer and USB mass storage devices.
Note 1: Please plug the external power of your USB mass storage devices
before you connect them to the broadband router.
Note 2: If you have USB mass storage device (like USB external HDD), please
plug it to this NAS router’s USB 1 port, and plug the USB flash disk you wish to
share files among different PCs and notebooks to the USB 2 port.
4) Reset button
When you experience some problem on using this router, or you forgot your
password, you can press the reset button for
longer
than 10 seconds and the
router will reset itself to the factory default settings (
warning
: your original
configurations will be replaced with the factory default settings)
Front Panel
On the router’s front panel there are LEDs, which shows the status of this
router. Below is the list of each LED and its description.
