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Chapter 1 Connecting Your Router to the Internet
Using the Setup Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Logging In to Your N300 Wireless Modem Router . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Using the Setup Wizard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Viewing or Manually Configuring Your ISP Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Configuring ADSL Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Chapter 2 Configuring Your Wireless Network and Security Settings
Planning Your Wireless Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Wireless Placement and Range Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Wireless Security Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Manually Configuring Your Wireless Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Manually Configuring Your Wireless Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Restricting Wireless Access to Your Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Configuring Mixed WPA-PSK+WPA2-PSK Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Configuring WEP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Configuring WPA-802.1x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Using Push 'N' Connect (WPS) to Configure Your Wireless Network . . . . 27
Using a WPS Button to Add a WPS Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Using PIN Entry to Add a WPS Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Connecting Additional Wireless Devices After WPS Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Adding More WPS Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Adding Both WPS and Non-WPS Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Configuring Advanced WPS Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Chapter 3 Protecting Your Network
Protecting Access to Your N300 Wireless Modem Router . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
How to Change the Built-In Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Changing the Administrator Login Time-out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Viewing Logs of Web Access or Attempted Web Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Blocking Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Firewall Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Inbound Rules (Port Forwarding). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Outbound Rules (Service Blocking). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Order of Precedence for Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Setting Times and Scheduling Firewall Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Setting Your Time Zone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
