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150Mbps Wireless N Router

WF2414

User Manual

V1.0

2012-02-14

Summary of Contents for WF2414

Page 1: ...150Mbps Wireless N Router WF2414 User Manual V1 0 2012 02 14 ...

Page 2: ...receiver Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected Consult the dealer or an experienced radio TV technician for help To assure continued compliance any changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user s authority to operate this equipment Example use only shielded interface cab...

Page 3: ...duct from Brand and Copyright Announcement Copyright 2011 Netis Corporation All rights reserved is a registered trademark of Netis Corporation Other trademarks and trade names may be used in this document to refer to either the entities claiming the marks and names or their products Reproduction in any manner without the permission of Netis Corporation is strictly forbidden All the information in ...

Page 4: ... COMPUTER 11 3 1 1 Windows 98 Me 11 3 1 2 Windows 2000 11 3 1 3 Windows XP 14 3 1 4 Windows Vista 17 3 1 5 Windows 7 21 3 1 6 MAC OS 23 3 2 CHECKING CONNECTION WITH THE ROUTER 25 3 3 LOGIN 26 4 ROUTER SETUP 28 4 1 STATUS 28 4 1 1 Version 28 4 1 2 WAN 28 4 1 3 LAN 29 4 1 4 Wireless 29 4 1 5 Router Status 30 4 1 6 Traffic Statistics 30 4 2 QUICK SETUP 30 4 2 1 DHCP dynamic 30 4 2 2 PPPoE 31 4 2 3 St...

Page 5: ...Settings 43 4 5 5 Wireless Advanced 43 4 5 6 Wireless Statistics 45 4 5 7 Multiple AP Settings 45 4 6 DHCP 46 4 6 1 DHCP Settings 46 4 6 2 DHCP Clients List 46 4 6 3 Address Reservation 46 4 7 FORWARDING 47 4 7 1 Virtual Servers 47 4 7 2 Port Triggering 47 4 7 3 DMZ 48 4 7 4 UPnP 48 4 7 5 FTP Private Port 49 4 8 SECURITY 49 4 8 1 Security Settings 49 4 8 2 IP Address Filtering 50 4 8 3 MAC Filteri...

Page 6: ...150Mbps 300Mbps Wireless N AP Repeater Router client User Manual 5 4 12 6 Remote Management 57 4 12 7 Factory Defaults 57 4 12 8 Reboot 57 4 13 ABOUT 58 5 TROUBLESHOOTING 58 ...

Page 7: ...nagement and system log so that network administrators can manage and monitor the network in real time The 150Mbps 300Mbps Wireless N AP Repeater Router client also provides a hardware WPS Wi Fi protected setup button which helps you setup a secure wireless network in a snap The button lets you activate the wireless protection easily 1 2 Main Features Ø Comply with IEEE802 11n g b IEEE802 3 10Base...

Page 8: ...EE 802 11e Ø IEEE 802 11h Ø IEEE 802 11k Ø IEEE 802 11i Ø IEEE 802 3 10Base T Ø IEEE 802 3u 100Base TX 1 4 Working Environment Temperature Ø 0 to 40 C operating Ø 40 to 70 C storage Humidity Ø 10 to 90 non condensing operating Ø 5 to 90 non condensing storage Power Ø DC 9V ...

Page 9: ...ble modem and service with Ethernet port Ø 802 11n b g n wireless adapter or Ethernet adapter and cable for each computer Ø Internet Explorer 5 0 Firefox 2 0 or Safari 1 4 or higher 2 2 Panel Front panel Figure 2 1 LED Function SYS ON and Off Abnormal Flashing Normal WPS Flashing slowly WPS is running OFF WPS is not running WAN On WAN Connection normal ...

Page 10: ...ith computer NIC or Ethernet device 2 3 Restore to factory configuration If the router ever freezes in a setting change process or if you can t access it because you can t remember the IP you have given it or other problem you may have to utilize the reset button on the back of the router to put it back to factory settings You have to press and hole this button for a few seconds 2 6s with a pencil...

Page 11: ...to the following picture Figure 2 3 Ø Attach one end of an Ethernet cable to your computer s Ethernet port and the other end to one of the LAN ports of your router Ø Connect another Ethernet cable from your Cable DSL modem to the WAN port of your router Ø Connect the single DC output connector of the power adapter to the power jack on the back of the router and plug the Power Adapter into an AC ou...

Page 12: ...ion label and ensure that you have network card 4 Select TCP IP If TCP IP appears more than once please select the item that has an arrow à pointing to the network card installed on your computer DO NOT choose the instance of TCP IP with the words Dial Up Adapter beside it 5 Click Properties The TCP IP Properties dialog box appears 6 Ensure the Obtain IP Address Automatically is checked 7 From the...

Page 13: ...nt User Manual 12 Figure 3 1 2 Double click the icon Network and Dial up Connections 3 Highlight the icon Local Area Connection right click your mouse and click Properties Figure 3 2 4 Highlight Internet Protocol TCP IP and then press Properties button ...

Page 14: ... Manual 13 Figure 3 3 5 Choose Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically and then press OK to close the Internet Protocol TCP IP Properties window Figure 3 4 6 Press OK to close the Local Area Connection Properties window ...

Page 15: ...ater Router client User Manual 14 Figure 3 5 3 1 3 Windows XP Please follow the steps below to setup your computer 1 Go to Start à Settings à Control Panel 2 Click Network and Internet Connections Figure 3 6 3 Click Network Connections ...

Page 16: ...ss N AP Repeater Router client User Manual 15 Figure 3 7 4 Highlight the icon Local Area Connection right click your mouse and click Properties Figure 3 8 5 Highlight Internet Protocol TCP IP and then press Properties button ...

Page 17: ... Manual 16 Figure 3 9 6 Choose Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically and then press OK to close the Internet Protocol TCP IP Properties window Figure 3 10 7 Press OK to close the Local Area Connection Properties window ...

Page 18: ...r Router client User Manual 17 Figure 3 11 3 1 4 Windows Vista Please follow the steps below to setup your computer 1 Go to Start à Settings à Control Panel 2 Click Network and Sharing Center Figure 3 12 3 Click Manage Network Connections ...

Page 19: ...P Repeater Router client User Manual 18 Figure 3 13 4 Highlight the icon Local Area Connection right click your mouse and click Properties Figure 3 14 5 Highlight Internet Protocol Version 4 TCP IP and then press Properties button ...

Page 20: ...less N AP Repeater Router client User Manual 19 Figure 3 15 6 Choose Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically and then press OK to close the Internet Protocol TCP IP Properties window ...

Page 21: ...150Mbps 300Mbps Wireless N AP Repeater Router client User Manual 20 Figure 3 16 7 Press OK to close the Local Area Connection Properties window ...

Page 22: ... 1 Please follow the steps blow to setup your computer 2 Go to Start Control Panel Network and Internet 3 Click Network and Sharing Center Change adapter settings 4 Highlight the icon Local Area Connection right click your mouse and click Properties Highlight Internet Protocol version 4 TCP IPv4 ...

Page 23: ...150Mbps 300Mbps Wireless N AP Repeater Router client User Manual 22 Figure 3 18 Figure 3 19 5 Choose Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically ...

Page 24: ...ent User Manual 23 and then press the OK to close the window Figure 3 20 6 Press OK to close the Local Area Connection Properties window 3 1 6 MAC OS Please follow the steps blow to setup your computer 1 Go to Start System preference Settings Network ...

Page 25: ...150Mbps 300Mbps Wireless N AP Repeater Router client User Manual 24 Figure 3 21 2 Click Network Select Use DHCP at the Configuration bar the system will get the IP address automatically Figure 3 22 ...

Page 26: ...complete this operation automatically At the DOS prompt type the following command If the Command window returns something similar to the following C Documents and Settings admin ping 192 168 1 1 Pinging 192 168 1 1 with 32 bytes of data Reply from 192 168 1 1 bytes 32 time 1ms TTL 64 Reply from 192 168 1 1 bytes 32 time 1ms TTL 64 Reply from 192 168 1 1 bytes 32 time 1ms TTL 64 Reply from 192 168...

Page 27: ...rder to make the whole network operate successfully it is necessary to configure the 150Mbps 300Mbps Wireless N AP Repeater Router client through your computer has a WEB browser installed Please follow up the steps listed below 3 3 Login Ø Open a web browser Safari Internet Explorer etc on the computer you have just connected to the router type http 192 168 1 1 in the address bar and press enter Y...

Page 28: ...s 300Mbps Wireless N AP Repeater Router client User Manual 27 the main options to configure the system and the right screen is the summary information for viewing and adjusting the configurations Figure 3 19 ...

Page 29: ...nternet Figure 4 2 Ø Connection Type Display router s current connection type It should be one of PPPoE DHCP Static IP depending on what kind of connection type your ISP provides Ø Physical Address The physical address of WAN port this is a unique address assigned by manufacturer Ø IP Address The IP address you obtained after connect to the Internet if you haven t connected to the Internet yet thi...

Page 30: ...on You can choose connect or disconnect by manually 4 1 3 LAN This item provides information about router s LAN port display LAN port s physical address IP address and current situation of DHCP server Figure 4 3 4 1 4 Wireless This item provides current running information of wireless Figure 4 4 Ø Wireless status Display wireless interface status is enabled or not Ø Name SSID SSID Service Set Iden...

Page 31: ...roviding you the convenient and simplest method for configure the router the purpose of this item is to provide an easy way for you to use it and configure your router to access the Internet quickly including DHCP dynamic PPPoE Static and Wireless Configuration This is the most convenient tool for you to configure router 4 2 1 DHCP dynamic After select this item you will obtain an IP address from ...

Page 32: ...static IP address to access Internet you should input your WAN IP address subnet mask default gateway and DNS server domain name server according to the information provided by your ISP And every IP address should be input in appropriate IP field a IP address only divided into four IP octets by sign is acceptable Ø WAN IP address The IP address that your Internet access into Ø Subnet mask Specify ...

Page 33: ...he wireless network have the same SSID For added security you should change the default SSID to a unique name Ø Region Choose a correct region which fit your use environment Ø Channel Wireless router communicates to wireless cards in a particular channel which can reduce interference between different channels Ø Authentication Type Different authentication types use different encryption types whic...

Page 34: ... AES mode automatically If you don t want to change your authentication type then when you use this function the router will be encrypted to the mode that you have configured 4 3 1 WPS Settings Figure 4 12 Ø WPS Status You can use this function to setup the wireless connection between this router and wireless network card The default is Enable Ø AP PIN Code This code can mark a wireless product Ø ...

Page 35: ...f the adapter Figure 4 16 3 Select this router in the pop up window then click Select 4 The connection between the adapter and the router is be established automatically Method 3 1 Select Input PIN from AP in WI FI protect setup page input PIN of the router then click PIN Input Config PIN 2 Select this router in the pop up window then click Select 3 The connection between the adapter and the route...

Page 36: ...ven t connected to the Internet yet this field is 0 0 0 0 Ø Subnet Mask The Subnet mask you obtained after connect to the Internet if you haven t connected to Internet yet this field is 0 0 0 0 Ø Gateway The IP address of Default gateway you obtained after connect to the Internet if you haven t connected to Internet yet this field is 0 0 0 0 Ø MTU The MTU Maximum Transmission Unit setting specifie...

Page 37: ...itive and must not exceed 32 characters Make sure all points in the wireless network have the same SSID For added security you should change the default SSID to a unique name Ø Authentication Type None means do not encrypt wireless data Ø Internet Access Type Ask for your ISP to get the correct access type Ø IP The IP address you obtained after connect to the Internet if you haven t connected to t...

Page 38: ...s of LAN port is used for access router itself by computers that connect to the router directly here you can set IP address you need The IP address format is like and default IP address is 192 168 1 1 the default subnet mask is 255 255 255 0 Figure 4 1 4 4 3 MAC Clone The WAN port of router has a unique MAC address assigned by manufacturer it called as Default MAC The Clone MAC is used for some sp...

Page 39: ... the IGMP Proxy Enabled and Disabled Figure 4 23 4 5 Wireless 4 5 1 Wireless Settings Providing basic configuration items for wireless router users including wireless network status SSID Radio Band Radio Mode MAC SSID broadcasting Channel width Channel sideband Region and Channel several basic configuration items ...

Page 40: ...disable the broadcast SSID function If the setting of this field is disable wireless client can t obtain this SSID to login in then user have to input the SSID value manually Ø Channel width This switch allows you to set Router s wireless bandwidth 20MHz In this mode you can get low bandwidth little interference and slow rate 40MHz In this mode you can get high bandwidth high interference and rapi...

Page 41: ...the same time the speed of wireless is more slower Ø Key Mode If you select WEP to encrypt your data choose the bits of password it should be 64 bits or 128 bits Then choose the format of password it should be HEX or ASCII The valid character for HEX format should be numbers from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F HEX support mixed letter and number mode And ASCII supports all characters that in keybo...

Page 42: ...wal you can configure the renewal time between 60 to 86400 seconds Ø Key Length description you need to input 8 to 63 ASCII characters no matter which type you select 4 5 2 4 WPA2 PSK The WPA2 PSK is similar to WPA PSK and with stronger encryption method than WPA PSK using WPA2 PSK you should input password leave this value in the range of 8 to 63 characters and key renewal time leave this value i...

Page 43: ...select permit or deny The default is permit Ø MAC address input the MAC address that you want to control The default format is e g 00 22 33 da cc bb Follow the following steps to set MAC filter 1 Enable MAC Filter then select save 2 Add MAC address you want to control in the MAC address field the format is then click Add button and you will see the MAC address has displayed in the MAC list 3 There...

Page 44: ...t setup WDS connection between the AP that the MAC address is 00 22 4f cc ae f5 we call it AP1 and the AP that the MAC address is 00 22 4f bc af 5d we call it AP2 please follow the next steps 1 Select radio mode is WDS in wireless management basic of AP1 2 Input WDS name e g default input MAC address of AP2 00 22 4f bc af 5d click add then the record named default will appears in WDS list 3 We can...

Page 45: ...TS Threshold You can set RTS Threshold value in this field the valid range should be 256 2347 and default value is 2347 If a network packet is smaller than the preset RTS threshold size the RTS CTS mechanism will not be enabled Ø Aggregation You can accelerate the wireless transmission speed by enabling the aggregation function The default is AMPDU AMSDU Ø Fragmentation Threshold It specifies the ...

Page 46: ...provides much communication reliability the default setting is Long Preamble 4 5 6 Wireless Statistics Display current status of the wireless client associate with AP Figure 4 32 4 5 7 Multiple AP Settings The default status of secondary AP is disable you can select enable to enable the secondary AP Please refer to Quick Setup Wireless Security and Wireless Statistics for details Figure 4 33 ...

Page 47: ...6 2 DHCP Clients List Display the state of assigned IP by DHCP Server Figure 4 35 4 6 3 Address Reservation Figure 4 36 Ø Address Reservation reserve IP address for designed physical address host If you want to configure a fixed IP address for some host please input physical address and IP address then click add ...

Page 48: ...e web server within LAN you can select the HTTP template then the router will input port number 80 automatically Ø External Port Input an extranet port number the users in Internet can see these ports Ø Internal Port Input an intranet port number 4 7 2 Port Triggering Port trigger module dynamically registers virtual server rules when any IP host generates the packet from the specified trigger pro...

Page 49: ...P Ø Forward Port you can select a part of ports 4 7 3 DMZ DMZ opens all the ports of one computer exposing the computer to the Internet So it should only be used for some special purpose especial for Internet online games Using this function you can select DMZ item and input IP address of DMZ host then click Save For the purpose of security we suggested that using Virtual servicer instead of DMZ F...

Page 50: ...unkey Web server are no longer effect when behind the NAT router so this item provides function of port mapping from LAN to WAN Figure 4 41 4 8 Security 4 8 1 Security Settings VPN is commonly used for encapsulate and encrypt data across the public network For VPN tunnel the router supports IPSEC pass through PPTP pass through and L2TP pass through Figure 4 42 ...

Page 51: ...sted in Protocol Template You can select appropriate item and apply it Or you can input protocol type and port number manually click add button then the item will displayed in the list Follow the following steps to set Internet Access Control 1 You can select enable and click Save to enable IP Firewall function This is only the first step you should continue to create appropriate rules for IP Fire...

Page 52: ...t MAC Filter lists Ø Rule you can select permit or deny The default is permit Ø MAC address input the MAC address that you want to control The default format is e g 00 22 33 da cc bb Follow the following steps to set MAC filter 1 Enable MAC Filter then select save 2 Add MAC address you want to control in the MAC address field the format is then click Add button and you will see the MAC address has...

Page 53: ...ck Save to enable DNS Filter function This is only the first step you should continued to create appropriate rules for DNS Filter 2 Input DNS Filter Key words 3 There are two items supplied Permit through the router for DNS Key words listed others are denied and Deny through the router for DNS Key words listed others are permitted Select the item you want and click Save button 4 If you want to del...

Page 54: ...net Mask Subnet mask is used for distinguish Network portion and Host portion for an IP address Ø Next hop IP Address This is an IP address of the next hop device and also is the gateway address for local host that allows forwarding data between router and remote network or host Ø Routing Table You can check out all current route items click delete button to delete a route item existed in routing ...

Page 55: ...IP Address Set the IP address range for restricted hosts Ø Minimum bandwidth setup uplink and downlink bandwidth Ø Maximum bandwidth setup uplink and downlink bandwidth 4 11 Dynamic DNS The DDNS feature allows you using domain name not IP address to access Internet Before you can use this feature you need to register an account for DDNS service at DDNS service providers such as roay cn TZO com Dyn...

Page 56: ...from DDNS service providers you will get User Name Password Dynamic Domain Name Input information in appropriate field 4 12 System Tools System management includes password setup web Setup upgrade reboot restore WOL and System time 4 12 1 Firmware Click Browse button and select a File to upgrade after you have selected the appropriate file click Upgrade button to execute upgrade procedure Do not c...

Page 57: ...word to one of your choice here enter a new password and then Re enter it again to confirm your new password Click Save button to save settings Figure 4 51 4 12 4 WOL Input host MAC address and then click button of Wake up to wake up the target host which in the LAN Figure 4 52 4 12 5 System Logs Examine system logs You can configure items shown in one Page the default is 10 ...

Page 58: ...b setup Check the Management Port and enter the port number and then press save button to enable web management Figure 4 54 4 12 7 Factory Defaults Click Restore button the Router will erase all of your settings and replace them with the factory defaults make sure you have backup current settings before click this button Figure 4 55 4 12 8 Reboot Click Reboot button to restart the router Figure 4 ...

Page 59: ...rver Ø Check that the IP address you entered is correct If the router s LAN IP address has been changed you should enter the reassigned IP address instead 2 I forget Password Reset the Router without Login Ø Use a pencil to press the button for about 2 6 seconds when it is working then leave your hands it will restore settings to the factory configuration The default username and password is Blank...

Page 60: ...y the ISP Ø For cable users if your ISP requires a registered Ethernet card MAC address make sure you have cloned the network adapter s MAC address to the WAN port of the router See the MAC Address field in WAN Setup 5 My wireless client cannot communicate with another Ethernet computer Ø Ensure the wireless adapter functions properly You may open the Device Manager in Windows to see if the adapte...

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