Horizons 1500WR Wireless 4-Port Router
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Chapter 1
Getting to Know Your ParkerVision Horizons 1500WR Wireless Router
This chapter introduces the main features of the ParkerVision Horizons 1500WR Wireless Router
1.1 Introduction
The ParkerVision Horizons 1500WR Wireless Router provides wireless connectivity. As an
Internet gateway, your 1500WR Wireless Router can share an Internet connection (through
a cable or xDSL modem) with multiple computers using SUA/NAT and DHCP. The 1500WR
Wireless Router offers highly secured wireless connectivity to your wired network with IEEE
802. lx, WEP data encryption and MAC address filtering.
The 1500WR Wireless Router is easy to install and configure. The embedded web-based
configurator and SNMP network management enables remote configuration and management of
your 1500WR Wireless Router.
1.2 Features of the ParkerVision Horizons PC 1500WR Wireless Router
The following are the essential features of the ParkerVision Horizons 1500WR Wireless Router .
4-Port Switch
A combination of switch and router makes your 1500WR Wireless Router a cost-effective and viable
network solution. You can connect up to four computers to the LAN ports on you 1500WR Wireless
Router without the cost of a hub.
10/100M Auto-negotiating Ethernet/Fast Ethernet Interface
This auto-negotiating feature allows the 1500WR Wireless Router to detect the speed of incoming
transmissions and adjust appropriately without manual intervention. It allows data transfer of either
10 Mbps or 100 Mbps in either half-duplex or full-duplex mode depending on your Ethernet network.
10/100M Auto-crossover Ethernet/Fast Ethernet Interface.
The LAN interface automatically adjusts to either a crossover or straight-through Ethernet
cable. 10/100 Mbps Ethernet WAN.
The 10/100 Mbps Ethernet WAN port attaches to the Internet via broadband modem or
router.
Reset Button
The 1500WR Wireless Router reset button is built into the side panel. Use this button to restore the
factory default password to 1234; IP address to 192.168.1.1, subnet mask to 255.255.255.0 and
DHCP sever enabled with a pool of 32 IP addresses starting at 192.168.1.33.
Brute-Force Password Guessing Protection
The 1500WR Wireless Router has a special protection mechanism to discourage brute-force
password guessing attacks on the 1500WR Wireless Router’s management interfaces. You
can specify a wait-time that must expire before entering a fourth password after three incorrect
passwords have been entered. Please see the appendix for details about this feature.