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WLM-2501

Wireless ADSL2+ Modem Router

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Page 1: ...WLM 2501 Wireless ADSL2 Modem Router ...

Page 2: ...UT 6 4 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 8 5 WLM 2501 PLACEMENT 8 6 SETUP LAN WAN 9 7 PC NETWORK ADAPTER SETUP 10 8 BRING UP THE WLM 2501 13 9 INITIAL SETUP WLM 2501 13 10 CONFIGURATION WIZARD 19 11 BASIC SETTINGS 20 12 ADVANCED SETTINGS 34 13 FIREWALL SETTINGS 49 14 TOOLBOX SETTINGS 59 Version 1 0 ...

Page 3: ...nly a Modem or Wireless Access Point but can also be used to connect wired Ethernet devices For data protection and privacy the WLM 2501 can encode all wireless transmissions with WEP WPA or WPA2 encryption By default the modem is secured with a WPA2 AES encryption key The WPA2 key is printed on the label underneath the modem With a built in DHCP Server powerful SPI firewall the WLM 2501 protects ...

Page 4: ...tion with a 150n or 802 11n wireless adapter Four 10 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet Port Auto Crossover To connect four wired PC s as well Firewall supports Virtual Server Mapping DMZ IP Filter ICMP Blocking SPI Avoids the attacks of Hackers or Viruses from Internet Supports 802 11i WPA WPA2 AES VPN pass through Provide mutual authentication Client and dynamic encryption keys to enhance security Integrate...

Page 5: ...the items listed below are missing Do not discard the packing materials in case of return the unit must be shipped back in its original package 1 WLM 2501 modem router 2 220V 240V Power Adapter 3 Quick Install Guide 4 CD User s Manual 5 Warranty card 6 UTP cable 7 RJ11 cable ...

Page 6: ...L cable this port LAN Connect the cable from your PC or network device to this ports Power connector Connect your power adapter to this port Power button Turn the modem On or Off Power connector LAN computer connections Modem connection WPS Reset button Power button ...

Page 7: ...ower Lights up when powered ON Blinks on TEST RESET ADSL Lights up when an ADSL cable is connected Internet Lights up when internet connection is UP WLAN Lights up in Blue when WLAN is enabled Blinks on traffic OPS Blinks when OPS mode is on LAN1 4 When a LAN cable is connected the corresponding light lights up ...

Page 8: ... Opera Ethernet compatible CAT5 cables 5 WLM 2501 Placement You can place the WLM 2501 on a desk or other flat surface or you can mount it on a wall For optimal performance place your Wireless Broadband Modem Router in the center of your office or your home in a location that is away from any potential source of interference such as a metal wall or microwave oven This location must be close to a p...

Page 9: ...6 Setup LAN WAN Modem connection LAN computer connections ...

Page 10: ...nnections Right mouse click on the Local Area Connection icon and select properties Select Internet Protocol TCP IP Click Properties Select the General tab The WLM 2501 supports DHCP Please select both Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically ...

Page 11: ...Windows Vista Windows 7 Go to Start Menu Control panel View network status and tasks Manage network connections Right mouse click on the Local Area Connection icon and select properties ...

Page 12: ...ct Internet Protocol Version 4 TCP IPv4 and Click Properties Open the General tab The WLM 2501 supports DHCP Please select both Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically ...

Page 13: ...ase the Power LED will blink briefly and then will be lit continuously to indicate that this product is in normal operation 9 Initial Setup WLM 2501 LOGIN procedure 1 OPEN your browser e g Internet Explorer 2 Type http 192 168 0 1 in address bar and press Enter Type user name and password The default username is admin the password can be found on the back label of the device 3 Click OK 4 You will ...

Page 14: ...Status The System status section allows you to monitor the current status of your router the UP time hardware information serial number as well as firmware version information is displayed here ...

Page 15: ...f IP packets on the networking interfaces You will not typically need to view this data but you may find it helpful when working with your ISP to diagnose network and Internet data transmission problems To display statistics for any new data click Refresh ...

Page 16: ...ADSL Statistics This page shows the ADSL line statistic information ...

Page 17: ...ows all DHCP clients LAN PCs currently connected to your network The table shows the assigned IP address MAC address and expiration time for each DHCP leased client Use the Refresh button to update the available information ...

Page 18: ...ee the following message Please follow the Setup Wizard to finish WAN configuration before setting up QoS Parameter Description Queue Description The description of the queue will appear automatically according to your selection Queue Status The status of the queue is selected here Queue Interface The WAN interface of the queue is selected here Queue Priority The priority of the queue is selected ...

Page 19: ... connected and click Next Select your country from the Country list Select your internet provider Click Next Depending on the chosen provider you may need to enter your user name and password or hostname in the following window After you have entered the correct information click Next Click Finish to complete the configuration ...

Page 20: ...dary IP Assign second IP address to LAN IGMP Snooping Enable disable the IGMP snooping function for the multiple bridged LAN ports When IGMP Snoop Internet Group Management Protocol Snoop is enabled the router can make intelligent multicast forwarding decisions by examining the contents of each frame s IP header Without the function the router will broadcast the multicast packets to each port and ...

Page 21: ...CP server please configure the router in the DHCP Server page while acting as DHCP Relay you can setup the relay in the DHCP Relay page DHCP Relay Some ISPs perform the DHCP server function for their customers home small office network In this case you can configure this device to act as a DHCP relay agent When a user s computer on your network requests Internet access the router contacts your ISP...

Page 22: ... Press Continue to save the settings made and go back to the web management interface press Apply to save the settings made and restart the router so the settings will take effect after it reboots DHCP Server When the DHCP server is enabled the router will automatically give your LAN clients an IP address If the DHCP is not enabled then you ll have to manually set your LAN client s IP addresses Pa...

Page 23: ... threshold period is terminated Domain Name A user friendly name that refers to the group of hosts subnet that will be assigned addresses from this pool Gateway Address The IP address of the ADSL router MAC Base Assignment Click this button and you can assign a static IP Address to the computer with the designated MAC Address The MAC Address is the 12 digit hexadecimal number for example 00 d0 59 ...

Page 24: ...nable Enable Disable bitswap capability SRA Enable Enable Disable SRA seamless rate adaptation capability ADSL Tone Choose tones to be masked The masked tones will not carry any data Click Tone Mask to mask the tone number you have selected or all the tone numbers When you finish click Apply You ll see the following message displayed on the web browser Press Continue to save the settings made and ...

Page 25: ...tain the IP addresses of the DNS servers Parameter Description Attain DNS Automatically Select this item if you want to use the DNS servers obtained from ISP Set DNS Manually Select this item to specify up to three DNS IP addresses When you finish click Apply Changes You ll see the following message displayed on web browser Press Continue to save the settings made and back to web management interf...

Page 26: ...lient to connect this router maximum transfer rate 54Mbps 2 4 GHz B G 2 4GHz band only allows 802 11b and 802 11g wireless network client to connect this router maximum transfer rate 11Mbps for 802 11b clients and maximum 54Mbps for 802 11g clients 2 4 GHz N 2 4GHz band only allows 802 11n wireless network client to connect this router maximum transfer rate 150Mbps 2 4 GHz G N 2 4GHz band only all...

Page 27: ...5 to channel 11 While lower band is selected the channel number you can select is from channel 1 to channel 7 Channel Number It is the radio channel used by the wireless LAN All devices in the same wireless LAN should use the same channel Please select the country you are located and designate a channel that the router will use If you want to let the router automatically to find an available chann...

Page 28: ... of security than WPA WEP supports 64 bit and 128 bit key lengths to encrypt the wireless data WPA TKIP WPA uses Temporal Key Integrity Protocol TKIP for data encryption TKIP utilized a stronger encryption method and incorporates Message Integrity Code MIC to provide protection against hackers WPA2 AES WPA2 also known as 802 11i uses Advanced Encryption Standard AES for data encryption AES utilize...

Page 29: ...efer to Authentication RADIUS Server setting below for RADIUS setting Personal Pre Shared Key Pre Shared Key authentication is based on a shared secret that is known only by the parties involved To use WPA Pre Shared Key select key format and enter a password in the Pre Shared Key Format and Pre Shared Key setting respectively Pre Shared Key Format You may select to select Passphrase alphanumeric ...

Page 30: ...er Disable Disable this function Allow Listed Only allow the wireless clients with the MAC Address you have specified can access to the router Deny Listed The wireless clients with the MAC Address you have specified will be denied accessing to the router MAC Address Enter the MAC Address of the wireless clients for the filtering control Current Access Control List If you want to remove some MAC ad...

Page 31: ...sh click Apply Changes You ll see the following message displayed on web browser Press Continue to save the settings made and back to web management interface press Apply to save the settings made and restart the router so the settings will take effect after it reboots ...

Page 32: ...aphs will describe the function of each item The webpage is as below Parameter Description Disable WPS Check to disable the Wi Fi protected Setup WPS Status When AP s settings are factory default out of box it is set to open security and un configured state WPS Status will display it as UnConfigured If it already shows Configured some registrars such as Vista WCN will not configure AP Users will n...

Page 33: ...ant their station to join AP s network The length of PIN is limited to four or eight numeric digits If users enter eight digit PIN with checksum error there will be a warning message popping up If users insist on this PIN AP will take it When you finish click Apply Changes You ll see the following message displayed on web browser Press Continue to save the settings made and back to web management ...

Page 34: ...em Shared Key and Auto Open System Open System authentication is not required to be successful while a client may decline to authenticate with any particular other client Shared Key Shared Key is only available if the WEP option is implemented Shared Key authentication supports authentication of clients as either a member of those who know a shared secret key or a member of those who do not IEEE 8...

Page 35: ...ould select from a range of transmission speeds or you can select Auto to have the wireless router automatically use the fastest possible data rate and enable the Auto Fallback feature Auto Fallback will negotiate the best possible connection speed between the router and a wireless client The default setting is Auto Preamble Type The Preamble Type defines the length of the CRC Cyclic Redundancy Ch...

Page 36: ... 802 11n draft specifies two guard intervals 400ns short and 800ns long Support of the 400ns GI is optional for transmit and receive Enable this function will increase network efficiency When you finish click Apply Changes You ll see the following message displayed on web browser Press Continue to save the settings made and back to web management interface press Apply to save the settings made and...

Page 37: ...ritize types of traffic 802 1P IEEE 802 1p is a 3 bit field within an Ethernet frame header when using tagged frames on an 802 1 network It specifies a priority value of between 0 and 7 inclusive that can be used by Quality of Service QoS disciplines to differentiate traffic Source IP The IP address of the traffic source Netmask Source The source IP netmask This field is required if the source IP ...

Page 38: ...802 1p marking is workable on a given PVC channel only if the VLAN tag is enabled in this PVC channel IP Pred_Mark Select this field to mark the IP precedence bits in the packet that match this classification rule TOS_Mark The IP Internet Protocol uses the ToS Type of Service field to provide an indication of the quality of service desired These parameters are to be used to guide the selection of ...

Page 39: ...r through web browser Parameter Description UPnP Enable or disable UPnP feature WAN Interface The upstream WAN interface is selected here Select WAN interface that will use UPnP from the drop down lists When you finish click Apply Changes You ll see the following message displayed on web browser Press Continue to save the settings made and back to web management interface press Apply to save the s...

Page 40: ...wnstream is the interface data from the multicast router are sent to hosts in the multicast group database Parameter Description IGMP Proxy Enable or disable IGMP proxy feature Proxy Interface The upstream WAN interface is selected here When you finish click Apply Changes You ll see the following message displayed on web browser Press Continue to save the settings made and back to web management i...

Page 41: ...on The destination can be specified as the IP address of a subnet or a specific host in the subnet It can also be specified as all zeros to indicate that this route should be used for all destinations for which no other route is defined this is the route that creates the default gateway Subnet Mask The network mask of the destination subnet The default gateway uses a mask of 0 0 0 0 Next Hop The I...

Page 42: ...ick Delete Selected to delete a selected destination route on the Static Route Table When you finish click Apply Changes You ll see the following message displayed on web browser Press Continue to save the settings made and back to web management interface press Apply to save the settings made and restart the router so the settings will take effect after it reboots ...

Page 43: ...gn an administratively name for the router System Location The physical location of the router System Object ID It is the vendor object identifier The vendor s authoritative identification of the network management subsystem contained in the entity Trap IP Address Destination IP address of the SNMP trap Community name read only Name of the read only community This read only community allows read o...

Page 44: ...Press Continue to save the settings made and back to web management interface press Apply to save the settings made and restart the router so the settings will take effect after it reboots ...

Page 45: ...u ve obtained from DDNS service provider DynDns Settings Username Enter the username assigned by the DDNS service provider Password Enter the password assigned by the DDNS service provider TZO Settings Email Enter the Email account that your DDNS service provider assigned to you Key Enter the password that your DDNS service provider assigned to you Add Modify Remove These buttons are for you to ma...

Page 46: ...Press Continue to save the settings made and back to web management interface press Apply to save the settings made and restart the router so the settings will take effect after it reboots ...

Page 47: ...ing circumstances apply to your network Your home network setup includes an additional router or RIP enabled PC other than the ADSL Router The ADSL Router and the router will need to communicate via RIP to share their routing tables Your network connects via the ADSL line to a remote network such as a corporate network In order for your LAN to learn the routes used within your corporate network th...

Page 48: ...ou have configured will be listed in the table If you want to delete some settings please select the settings and click Delete Selected When you finish click Apply Changes You ll see the following message displayed on web browser Press Continue to save the settings made and back to web management interface press Apply to save the settings made and restart the router so the settings will take effec...

Page 49: ... LAN IP address It helps you to host some servers behind the router NAT firewall Parameter Description Port Forwarding Check this item to enable or disable the port forwarding feature Protocol This is the protocol type to be forwarded You can choose to forward TCP or UDP packets only or select Both to forward both TCP and UDP packets Comment Enter the comment for the setting Enable Check this item...

Page 50: ...the port forwarding settings from the table select the items and then click Delete Selected If you want remove all settings just click Delete All button When you finish click Apply Changes You ll see the following message displayed on web browser Press Continue to save the settings made and back to web management interface press Apply to save the settings made and restart the router so the setting...

Page 51: ...the Internet Incoming Default Action Specify the default action on the WAN to LAN Traffic from Internet forwarding path You can choose Allow if you allow the IP Addresses listed in the following table from connecting to the Internet choose Deny if you deny the IP Addressed listed in the following table from connecting to the Internet Direction Select the traffic forwarding direction outgoing or in...

Page 52: ...s the port or port ranges that define the application Current Filter Table If you want to remove some IP Port filter settings from the Current Filter Table select the items you want to remove in the list and then click Delete Selected If you want remove all the items from the table just click Delete All button When you finish click Apply Changes You ll see the following message displayed on web br...

Page 53: ...LAN Traffic from Internet forwarding path You can choose Allow if you allow the IP Addresses listed in the following table from connecting to the Internet choose Deny if you deny the IP Addressed listed in the following table from connecting to the Internet Specify the default action on the WAN to LAN Traffic from Internet forwarding path You can choose Allow if you allow the IP Addresses listed i...

Page 54: ...Address you want to remove in the table and then click Delete Selected If you want remove all settings from the table just click Delete All button When you finish click Apply Changes You ll see the following message displayed on web browser Press Continue to save the settings made and back to web management interface press Apply to save the settings made and restart the router so the settings will...

Page 55: ...e table please select the settings and click Delete Selected If you want remove all settings from the table just click Delete All button Keyword Enter the keyword of the URL Address that you want to filter Keyword Filtering Table The keyword settings will be listed in the table If you want to delete some keyword settings from the table please select the settings and click Delete Selected If you wa...

Page 56: ... will be blocked to access all the URLs belong to yahoo com domain That means you can protect your computer your house your office and anything else that uses DNS from being able to service domains that you don t want to load Parameter Description Domain Blocking Check this item to enable the Domain Blocking feature Domain The blocked domain If the URL of Taiwan Yahoo web site is tw yahoo com the ...

Page 57: ... IP Address Enter the IP address that is allowed to access the router Subnet Mask Enter the Subnet Mask that is allowed to access the router ACL Table The ACL settings will be listed here You can click Delete Selected to delete the settings you have selected If you want remove all settings from the table just click Delete All button When you finish click Apply Changes You ll see the following mess...

Page 58: ...n you can open the client up to unrestricted two way Internet access by defining a DMZ Host Parameter Description DMZ Host Check the item to enable the DMZ function DMZ Host IP Address Enter a static IP Address to the DMZ Host This IP Address will be exposed to the Internet When you finish click Apply Changes You ll see the following message displayed on web browser Press Continue to save the sett...

Page 59: ... admin as administrator or user as user account and configure the password When you finish click Apply Changes If the password you typed in New Password and Confirmed Password field are not the same you ll see the following message Please retype the new password again when you see above message If you see the following message ...

Page 60: ...revious menu and try to input current password again If the current and new passwords are correctly entered after you click Apply you ll be prompted to input your new password Please use new password to enter web management interface again and you should be able to login with new password ...

Page 61: ...outer will set its time based on your selection Enable SNTP client update Check the box to enable router to update time from SNTP server SNTP server The IP address or the host name of the SNTP server You can select from the list or set it manually When you finish click Apply Changes You ll see the following message displayed on web browser Press Continue to save the settings made and back to web m...

Page 62: ...cription LAN Check un check the services on the LAN column to allow un allow the services access from LAN side WAN Check un check the services on the WAN column to allow un allow the services access from WAN side WAN Port This field allows the user to specify the port of the corresponding to the service Take the HTTP service for example when it is changed to 8080 the HTTP server address for the WA...

Page 63: ...e and restart the router so the settings will take effect after it reboots Firmware Upgrade This page allows you to upgrade the firmware for the router Click Browse button to select the firmware file and click Upload button to start upgrading IMPORTANT Do not turn off your router while this procedure is in progress ...

Page 64: ...n Save Settings to File Click Save button to save the ADSL router current configuration to a file named config bin on your PC Load Settings from File Click Browse button to search the file you have saved before and click Upload button to restore the saved configuration to the ADSL router Restore Settings to Default Click Reset button if you want to force the ADSL router to perform a power reset an...

Page 65: ...s are initially placed in temporary storage To save your change for future use you have to click Apply to reboot the router If you have encountered problems during the configuration You can click the OPS button in the top panel of the router over 15 seconds to reset default settings ...

Page 66: ... segment endpoints within the VP VC This page allows you to use ATM ping to test the reachable of a segment endpoint or a connection endpoint Parameter Description Select PVC Select the PVC channel you want to do the loop back diagnostic Flow Type The ATM OAM flow type The selection can be F5 Segment or F5 End to End ATM uses F4 and F5 cell flows as follows F4 used in VPs F5 used in VCs Loopback L...

Page 67: ...Diagnostic Test The Diagnostic Test page shows the test results for the connectivity of the physical layer and protocol layer for both LAN and WAN sides ...

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