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Wireless Broadband Router User’s Guide

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Page 1: ...Wireless Broadband Router User s Guide ...

Page 2: ...gs to Shenzhen Tenda Technology Co Ltd Without the permission of Shenzhen Tenda Technology Co Ltd any individual or party is not allowed to copy plagiarize imitate or translate it into other languages All the photos and product specifications mentioned in this manual are for references only As the upgrade of software and hardware there will be changes And if there are changes Tenda is not responsi...

Page 3: ... 1 To Set the Network Configuration of your Computer 4 2 2 To Check the Connection 6 2 3 Log in 7 2 4 The Management Interface 8 2 5 Quick Installation Guide 9 2 6 Running Status 12 2 7 Wizard 13 2 8 Advanced Config 13 2 9 WLAN Setting 19 2 10 DHCP Server 30 2 11Virtual Server 32 2 12Security Setting 36 2 13Routing Setting 43 2 14System Tool 44 Features 52 Deployment 53 Physical Environment 54 App...

Page 4: ...plink to a hub or switch RESET Note When you press the RESET Button for 7 seconds the configuration that you have set would be deleted and restore to factory default setting WAN Connectible to ADSL Cable Modem or community broadband AC9V AC9V 1 0A Power Interface 1 2 Hardware Installation 1 Please connect the LAN port of the router to the network adapter of your computer with one cable 1 ...

Page 5: ... LED Indicators LED Indicator Description POWER Always ON Indicates the device is powered up well SYS Always ON Indicates the system is running normally WLAN Blinking Indicates the wireless signal is OK WAN Blinking Indicates the WAN port is receiving transmitting data Always ON Indicates the LAN port connections are OK LAN 1 2 3 4 Blinking Indicates the LAN ports are receiving transmitting data 2...

Page 6: ...Wireless Broadband Router User s Guide 1 4 Topology of the Wireless Router 3 ...

Page 7: ...o Configuration Guide 2 1 To Set the Network Configuration of your Computer 1 Please right click My Network Place on your computer and select Properties 2 In the following dialogue box please click Local Area Network Connection and select Properties 4 ...

Page 8: ...ide 3 In the dialogue box please select Internet Protocol TCP IP and click Properties 4 Please select Obtain an IP address automatically or Use the following IP address a For Obtain an IP address automatically it is as the right figure 5 ...

Page 9: ...ur local ISP and fill in your local DNS server address or you can also use the router as the DNS proxy server After configuration please click OK and then click OK in Local Area Connection Properties 2 2 To Check the Connection 1 Please select Start All Programs Accessories Command Prompt 2 Please input Ping 192 168 0 1 and press Enter if your screen display as the figure this means that your comp...

Page 10: ...our Internet Browser enter http 192 168 0 1 in the address bar 2 In the dialogue box please input User Name admin Password admin And then click OK 3 The router would verify your user name and password When they are right you would see the screen as the right figure 7 ...

Page 11: ...erface 1 On the left side you can see the buttons Running Status Wizard Advanced Config WLAN Setting DHCP Server Virtual Server Security Setting Routing Setting System Tool and Logout 2 On the right side you can see the function configuration of related buttons 8 ...

Page 12: ...router please click Next 2 Now you would enter the Setting Wizard In order to access the Internet you should select your connection type to your ISP Internet Services Provider This router supports Auto Detect and Manual Set a If you are not clear of your connection type please select Auto Detect mode and click Next ...

Page 13: ...l UP PPPoE please input the User Name and Password provided by your ISP B If the connection provided by your ISP is DHCP of Obtain an IP address automatically please click Next C If the connection is Ethernet Broadband fixed IP address provided by ISP Static IP please input the IP Address Sub net Mask Gateway and DNS server address provided by your ISP 10 ...

Page 14: ... 1400 and you can change it according to your requirements MPPE To Encrypt the connection between your router and the server if the ISP needs to encrypt the connection then please select MPPE PPTP provides two access modes If the PPTP offered by your ISP is Dynamic IP Please select Dynamic IP and If the PPTP offered by your ISP is Static IP Please fill in the parameters provided by your ISP and 11...

Page 15: ...he figure beside and click Save to finish the configuration 5 Running Status After configuration please click the Running Status button and check the connection status If the Link Status is Connected now you can access the internet 2 6 Running Status Here we can see the working status of the router ...

Page 16: ...Status Here you can see the status of the LAN port including IP Address Sub net Mask DHCP Server NAT and Firewall 3 Information Here you can see the status of the router including Running Time System Time Client Count Firewall Version Bootcode Version LAN MAC Address WAN MAC Address and Hardware Version 2 7 Wizard Please refer to 2 5 for Quick Installation Guide 2 8 Advanced Config LAN Setting ...

Page 17: ... IP address of the router in the LAN the factory default value is 192 168 0 1 you can change it according to your requirements For example you can change the IP address of the router as 192 168 3 1 as the figure beside Note If you change this IP address into a new IP address then next time when you log in the router you must use this new IP address to access the management interface of the router ...

Page 18: ...s Guide in the LAN should be set as the value of this new IP address Netmask The default Sub net Mask of this router in the LAN is 255 255 255 0 WAN Setting The configuration parameters for the WAN port are displayed in this page 15 ...

Page 19: ...xample in ADSL mode we can change the parameters as the figure below MTU Value Maximum Transmission Unit Name of the Server AC NAME Some ISP provides the name of the server AC Name and requires using this name during the process of authenti cation Connect Automatica lly connect after start and break off Manual Connect connect by user Connect when needed Please select the connection mode Connect du...

Page 20: ... the router and copy this MAC address to the WAN port of the router You are also able to change the MAC Address manually If you don t know how to input the MAC Address manually we recommend that you should use the MAC Address Clone function to copy the MAC Address automatically For example if you require to change the MAC address of the WAN port into 00 00 00 00 0D A0 you should fill it in manuall...

Page 21: ...ct enable and the configuration of DNS would be effected The DHCP server of the router would distribute the added DNS server address to the client which requires for this 2 DNS Server Address Please add the DNS server address which is obtained from your ISP 3 Secondly DNS Address Optional If your ISP provides two DNS server addresses to you then you can fill the second one here For example If you ...

Page 22: ... Basic Configuration In this page we set the basic wireless parameters 1 SSID Service Set ID SSID is a group name shared by every member of a wireless network Only client PCs with the same SSID are allowed to establish a connection And you are able to change the SSID here For example if you want to change the SSID as Wireless then please fill in the parameters as the figure beside 19 ...

Page 23: ...tting your channel as 11 then please set as the figure beside 4 Close the SSID broadcast Please select Disable SSID to close the SSID broadcasting function the router would stop broadcasting its SSID among the wireless clients If the client requires connecting to the router the user is required to fill in the SSID manually As the figure beside please click the Disable SSID button to close SSID bro...

Page 24: ...Wireless Broadband Router User s Guide 1 WDS Mode Please select to enable WDS function here 2 Wireless Bridge MAC Address Please add a MAC address used for WDS 21 ...

Page 25: ...rched please single click to add it to the WDS table For example please refer to the figure beside We can search the SSID of TENDA with MAC Address of 02 10 18 01 00 B6 in the wireless network and add it to the WDS table 4 Wireless Bridge Information To display the MAC Addresses of all the wireless bridges added Maximum 6 groups are supported You are able to use the Clear button to delete the conf...

Page 26: ...encrypting the data that is transmitted WPA Wi Fi Protected Access is a fairly new standard for wireless networks and is more secure than WEP WPA2 Wi Fi Protected Access 2 is an enhanced version of WPA It is the official 802 11i standard that was ratified by the IEEE in June 2004 It uses Advanced Encryption Standard instead of TKIP see above AES supports 128 bit 192 bit and 256 bit keys WPA2 super...

Page 27: ...he 64 bit Key must be 10 Hexadecimal characters The 128 bit Key must be 26 Hexadecimal characters But 0 is disable c Key Options Only one transmit key is allowed to work at the same time but you are able to save 4 transmit keys as the same time d Key Please input key here please take note the key length and the valid character range e g Your encryption mode is as below Authentication Open system E...

Page 28: ...mode or TKIP mode b Please input key please take note that the Length and valid character of WPA Key is 8 64 ASCII characters c Key Life Please input the Key Life you require 30s 429497295s e g If you require to set WPA mode as follows WPA Type TKIP WPA Key ABCDEFGH Key Life 3600 Then you should fill in the parameters as the figure beside 25 ...

Page 29: ...gher level of encryption mode b WPA Key Please input the key content please note that the Length and valid character of WPA Key is 8 64 ASCII characters c Key Life Please input the Key Life you require 30s 429497295s e g If you require to set WPA2 as follows WPA2 Type AES WPA2 Key ABCDEFGH Key Life 3600 Then you should fill in the parameters as the figure beside 26 ...

Page 30: ...an select AES b Key Please input key content please note that the Length and valid character of WPA Key is from 8 to 64 ASCII character c Key Life Please input the Key Life you require 30s 429497295s e g If you require to set WPA mode as follows WPA Type TKIP WPA2 Type AES WPA Key ABCDEFGH WPA2 Key STUVWXYZ Key Life 3600 Then you should fill in the parameters as the figure beside 27 ...

Page 31: ...elect the negotiated transmission speed to wireless LAN card under the 802 11g standard Fragmentation Threshold 256 2346 the period each data package should be divided RTS Request to Send Threshold 256 2432 When the data packet exceeds this threshold using CTS RTS mechanism can reduce the possibility of collision Beacon Interval 1 65525 Please set the parameters for Beacon Period DTIM Interval 1 2...

Page 32: ...ntrol the clients to access the wireless network a When you select Allow only the clients listed on MAC Address Tables are able to have access to the wireless network b When you select Block all the clients listed on the MAC Address Table are not allowed to access the wireless network and the ones which are not listed are able to have access to the wireless network 2 Config MAC Address e g You cou...

Page 33: ...lete them if necessary Link Status You can view wireless clients access status like their MAC Address and transmission rate 2 10 DHCP Server DHCP Server setting Tips DHCP is the abbreviation of Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol which can assign IP address Subnet Mask Default Gateway of LAN Client on TCP IP automatically ...

Page 34: ... the requested client should be within the IP Pool e g when you configure IP address pool from 20 to 30 the IP Address which can be obtained by the clients would be between 20 and 30 4 Lease Time You can set the time period during which the DHCP allows the assigned IP addresses to be used by the clients By setting a suitable lease time you would enable the DHCP to take better advantage of the IP a...

Page 35: ...ase time etc DHCP Client List shows the binding MAC address namely IP address assigning to corresponding MAC address 1 IP Address Please input corresponding LAN IP Address 2 MAC Address Please input corresponding MAC Address e g If you need to bind IP Address 192 168 0 11 to MAC Address 00 C0 9F AD FF C5 please fill in parameters as the figure beside 2 11 Virtual Server Virtual Server 32 ...

Page 36: ...ave to allow some computers from the WAN to have legal access to the servers in LAN In order to achieve this operation the Virtual function of the router enables you to do this The virtual server defines a service port through which the computers from WAN are able to have access to the corresponding servers Then this function is to bind the service port and the IP address of the server in LAN 33 ...

Page 37: ...numbers which are not displayed here you could fill it manually For example the server in the LAN with IP address of 192 168 0 1 offers WEB service with port number of 80 in order to enable visitors in the Internet to have successful access to this server you should configure as the figure beside Note If you configure a virtual server server port 80 you should configure the remote WEB management i...

Page 38: ...k Enable and then click Save For example if you want to set the computer in your LAN with IP address of 192 168 0 10 as a DMZ Host in order to realize its intercommunication with another host computer in the Internet please set as the figure beside UPnP Setting It supports latest Universal Plug and Play This function goes into effect on Windows XP or Windows ME Note The operating system must have ...

Page 39: ... is offered by the request of the application 1 Remote Host The description of the remote Host which receives or transmits response 2 Public Port The port of the router for port switching 3 Private Host The description of the private host which receives or transmits response 4 Private Port The description of the private port which receives or transmits response 5 Protocol To indicate port switchin...

Page 40: ... click Accept you are only allowing the host in LAN with the corresponding IP address to go through the router by the corresponding port 3 IP Please fill in the IP address of the controlled computer in the LAN You are able to use a range of IP addresses 4 Port Please fill in the TCP UDP protocol port that you require to control you can set a range of IP addresses 5 Type Select the protocol of data...

Page 41: ...bsite during 8 00 18 00 and forbidding the computer with IP of 192 168 0 8 receiving emails all day you can set as the figure beside URL Filter In order to control the computer to have access to websites You can use URL filtering to allow the computer to have access to certain websites at fixed time and forbids it having access to certain websites at fixed time 38 ...

Page 42: ...r in LAN to be managed or you can also input a range of IP addresses 4 URL String Input full or part of the domain name 5 Enable To enable the selected URL filter rules 6 Save To save your settings For Example If you require forbid the computers in LAN with IP Address of from 192 168 0 10 to 192 168 0 100 from having access to the websites with the domain of sex or part of its domain name with wor...

Page 43: ... address column Also you could choose Accept to allow the MAC in the list to have access to Internet 3 MAC address Fill in the MAC address which you need to control 4 Comment To fill in the description of this computer with this MAC address 5 Action Click ADD to add the MAC Address in the MAC address column 6 Save Please click Save and you could save your settings For example you don t want the co...

Page 44: ...r Remote WEB Manager This section is to set the WEB managing port and set the IP address in WAN which is allowed to execute remote WEB manager function 1 Enable Enable remote WEB manager function 2 IP Address The IP address in WAN which is allowed to execute remote WEB managing function 3 Port The port through which the computer in WAN execute remote WEB manager function Note 1 The default port th...

Page 45: ...te WEB manager function If you change this default IP take 218 88 93 33 for example only the compute with IP of 218 88 93 33 is able to log in and execute this function For example we just allow the IP of 218 88 93 33 to log in and execute remote WEB manager function via port 8080 you would set the data as the figure beside WAN Ping Ignore ping from WAN port When enabling this function the compute...

Page 46: ...he router to choose the best path i e routing arithmetic In order to finish this function many transferring paths i e routing table are saved in the router for choosing when needed Static Route Tips The routing table which is set by administrator in advance is called static route Usually it is set according to network configuration when installing the operation system It would not be changed accor...

Page 47: ... taken into effect Note 1 Gateway IP must be in the same IP segment as WAN port or LAN port 2 If the destination IP is the IP address of a host the Subnet mask must be 255 255 255 255 3 If the destination IP is IP segment it should be matching with the Sub net Mask For example If destination IP is 10 0 0 0 the Subnet Mask must be 255 0 0 0 If the destination IP is 10 1 2 0 the Subnet Mask must be ...

Page 48: ...o Internet and obtain GMT time or come to this page for setting the time of the router and the time restriction of other functions for example firewall would take into effect DDNS Tips DDNS is short for Dynamic Domain Name Server It is to map the dynamic IP address of the user to a fixed Domain Name Server The main function is 1 The ISP only supplies dynamic IP address DDNS captures the changing I...

Page 49: ... PASSWORD 123456 Domain Name test vicp net Virtual Sever defines the mapping relationship between service port of WAN and network server of LAN Please fill in the figure as the figure beside to define the relation And fill in User ID and password in DDNS And then please enter http test vicp net and you are able to access your WEB Backup Restore Here you could backup or restore th e configuration o...

Page 50: ...ce program 2 Save this program in a fixed file and run it 3 Backup Click Backup to form a backup file in TFTP appliance program Also we could put the files which are to be uploaded in the TFTP directory and then click Backup and then please reboot the router and you could backup your router with the file which you put in the TFTP directory ...

Page 51: ...bsite www tenda cn and download software for upgrading with higher version It is in WinRAR format 2 Please establish a TFTP server in your computer Then please unpack the WinRAR files which you download and put in under the directory of TFTP and please remember the name of this unpacked file For example You could establish a folder named Update in your disk C Put TFTP server and the unpacked WinRA...

Page 52: ...the router would restart automatically Note Do not shut down the router power during upgrade otherwise the router would be damaged If upgrading successfully the router will restart automatically It would take several minutes for restarting Please wait Restore Factory setting Please click Restore it will reset all configurations to factory default setting z Default USER ID admin z Default Password ...

Page 53: ...nge Password This section is to change password for administrator Please input the original password firstly and then input the one you want to adopt If the original password is correct you would change the password successfully by clicking Save For example We want to change the USER Name and password into the parameters as follows USER Name tenda Password tenda Please fill in the data as the figu...

Page 54: ...gly suggest that you change the factory default USER Name and Password Log In Log you could check various status of the system after it starts and could also check if there is network attack towards the router Clear Please click Clear to delete the existing log information ...

Page 55: ...s RTS CTS protocol and data partitioning function z Provides one 10 100Mbps Auto Negotiation Ethernet WAN ports for WAN connection z Provides four 10 100Mbps Auto Negotiation Ethernet LAN ports for LAN connections z Supports xDSL Cable MODEM static and dynamic IP in community networking z Supports remote local Web management and TFTP upgrade z Supports SSID stealth mode and access control based ov...

Page 56: ...provides you with wireless connection solution for high speed reliable and low cost Its deployment is as follows 1 For staff who requires high mobility in their office they require to have access to the office traditional wired or wireless network in any location of their office 2 For the staff or enterprise who often changes the layout of the LAN 3 Limited by architecture or budget some companies...

Page 57: ...elessly 3 WAN port connectible to WAN ADSL Cable Modem etc 4 IE5 5 Firefox 1 0 or above 5 Operation System supporting Windows Linux NetWare etc And network with TCP IP communication protocol 6 Place the router horizontally 7 Please keep the router away from heater 8 Please don t place the router in dirty or humid location Appendix Package Contents Please unpack the packing carefully and you could ...

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