Advanced Router Settings
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Verizon 4G LTE Broadband Router
4.
Select your preferred mode:
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Wi-Fi Repeater
: Your router communicates
only
with another base station–mode
Wi-Fi device. You must enter the MAC address (physical address) of the other base
station–mode Wi-Fi device. WEP or WPA-PSK (TKIP) should be used to protect this
communication.
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Wi-Fi Base Station
: Select only if this router is the master for a group of
repeater-mode Wi-Fi devices. The other repeater-mode Wi-Fi devices must be set to
Wi-Fi Repeater-mode, using this router’s MAC address. They then send all traffic to
the master router. WEP security settings should be used to protect this traffic.
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If selected, you will need to enter the MAC addresses of the other access points in
the fields provided.
5.
Click
Apply
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Port Forwarding/Port Triggering
Your router is preset to block inbound traffic from the Internet to your computers, except for
replies to your outbound traffic.
You can create exceptions to this rule:
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Allow remote computers on the Internet to access a server on your local network.
•
Allow certain applications and games to work correctly if your router does not recognize
their replies.
Your router provides two features for creating these exceptions:
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Port forwarding
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Port triggering
The next sections provide background information to help you understand these features.
Remote Computer Access Basics
When a computer on your network connects to a remote computer, smartphone or tablet
through the Internet, your computer sends a message containing the source and destination
address and process information to your router. Before forwarding your message to the
remote computer, your router has to:
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Modify the source information
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Create and track the communication session so that replies can be routed back to your
computer
Example: Normal outbound traffic and the resulting inbound responses:
1.
You open a browser, and your operating system assigns port number 5678 to this
browser session.
2.
You enter a website address into the URL field, and your computer creates a web page
request message with the following information to your router.
