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WL -326 300N Wir eless 3G R eady R out er (802.11bgn draf t 2.0) User Manua l Revision: 1.0[...]

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Introduction Congratulations on your p urchase of the WL -32 6 W irel ess N etwork Broadband Router . T he WL -326 is compl iant wi th draft 802.1 1n v 2. 0 u p to 6 ti mes faster than sta ndard 8 02.11 g based routers while st il l b eing compati ble with 80 2.11g & 802.1 1b gadgets. The WL -326 is not only a Wireless Access P o int, but al so[...]

1 Key Features F eatures Advantages Incredi bl e Data Rate up to 300Mb ps* Heavy data payloads such as MPEG video streaming IEEE 80 2.11n draft 2.0 Compliant and backward compat ib le wi th 802.1 1b/g Fully Interoperable with IEEE 802.11b / IEEE802.11g compliant device s with legacy protection USB port for 3G U SB m odem Wireless internet everywher[...]

2 Package Content s Open the p ackag e careful ly , an d make sure th at no ne of t he items listed below are m issi ng. D o not di scard t he packi ng material s, i n cas e of r eturn; the unit must b e shi pped ba ck in i ts ori ginal package. 1. WL -32 6 Router 2. 220V~2 40V P ower A dapter 3. Quick Instal l G ui de 4. CD (User’s Manual) 5. W [...]

3 Product Layout Po r t Descript ion Po w er con nector Connect the 12V DC ad apter to thi s port LAN ( Y el low ) Connect your PC’s or network devic es to th is p ort WAN ( Blue ) Connect your ADSL/C able mod em to th is port USB Connect your 3G USB modem to this port[...]

Back label The back l abel descri bes the I P address, l ogin detai ls, SSID, secur ity co de and WPS button f uncti onali ty . Button Descript ion WPS BUTT ON Press 2 seco nds f or WPS mode Press 10 s econds t o reset the ro uter Press 15 Se cond s to reset the rout er to factory defaults.[...]

LED Definition From left to r ight. Port Description LAN ( Bl ue ) Shows the ca bl e is c onnected. LAN ( Bl ue ) Shows the ca bl e is c onnected. WiFi ( Bl ue ) Shows WiF i act ivity an d WPS. Internet ( Blu e ) Shows the int ernet connecti on is active. WAN ( Blue ) Shows the ca bl e is c onnected. 3G ( Blue ) Shows a 3G Dong le i s connect ed. P[...]

4 Net w ork + Syst em Requirement s T o begi n usi ng th e WL - 326, make s ure you meet the fol low ing as mini mum requirements: • PC/Notebook. • Operating System – M icrosoft Win dows XP/200 0/VIST A • 1 Free Ethernet port. • Wi-Fi card/USB don gle (80 2.11 b/ g/n) – opti onal. • External xDS L (ADSL) or Cable mo dem wit h an Ether[...]

6 Setup LAN, W A N WA N connect ion: LAN connection:[...]

7 PC Net w ork Adapter setup Win d o w s XP • Enter [Start Menu]  sele ct [Control pan el]  sel ect [Network]. • Select [L ocal Ar ea Connectio n]) ico n=>sel ect [properti es][...]

• Select [I nternet Protocol (TCP/IP)] =>Click [Properties]. • Select t he [General] tab. a. The WL -32 6 supports [DHCP] fu nction, pleas e s elect both [Obtai n an IP address automati call y] and [Obtai n DNS server address automatical ly].[...]

Win d o w s Vist a • Enter [Start Menu]  sele ct [Control pan el]  sel ect [Vie w network status and tasks] -> s elect [Manage netw ork connecti ons]. • Select [L ocal Ar ea Connectio n]) ico n=>sel ect [properti es][...]

• Select [I nternet Protocol V ersio n 4 (TCP/IPv4)] =>Cli ck [Propertie s]. • Select t he [General] tab. The WL -326 su pports [ DHCP] functio n, pl ease select both [Obtain an IP ad dress automaticall y] and [O btain DNS server address automatic all y].[...]

8 Bringing up t he WL-326 Connect the sup pl ied power-adapter to the po wer inlet port and conn ect it to a wal l outlet. The WL -326 a utomatical ly enters t he se lf-test p hase. Du ri ng self-test phase, th e Power LED wil l be l it con tinuousl y to i ndicate t hat this product i s i n normal operation. 9 Initial Setup of the WL-326 LOGIN proc[...]

3. T ype user nam e and passw ord (default is admi n/admin). 4. Click OK . 5. Y ou wi ll see the home page of the WL - 326. The System status sectio n all ows you t o monitor the current status of your router: the UP time, hardware information, serial number as well as firmware version i nformation is displ ayed here.[...]

L A N setting s The LA N tab gi ves you the opportunity to change the IP setti ngs of th e WL - 326. Click <Ap ply> at the b ottom of this screen to save any cha nges. IP address 192 .168. 0.1. It i s t he router ’ s LAN IP address (Y our LAN cl ients default gateway IP address) . IP Subnet Mask 255. 255.25 5. 0 Specif y a Subnet Mask for y[...]

Lease Time Forever . In the Lease Tim e sett ing y ou can specif y the tim e period that the DHCP le nds an IP address to your LA N cli ents. The DHCP wil l c hange your LAN cli ent’s IP address when thi s tim e threshol d perio d is rea ched. IP Ad dress Pool Y ou can se lect a particular IP address range f or your DHCP server to issu e IP addr [...]

Device S t atus View t he Broadband router’s current config ura tio n settings. Devi ce Status displ ays the c onfi guration sett ings you’ve c onfi gured i n the Wizard / Basic Settings / Wi reless S ettin gs sectio n.[...]

Internet St atus This page displ ays whether the WAN port is c onnecte d t o a Cable/DSL o r 3G connecti on. It also dis plays th e router’s WAN IP address, S ubnet Mask, and ISP Gateway a s w ell as M AC address, th e Prima ry DNS. Press Renew button to renew your WAN IP address.[...]

DHCP Cl ient S t atus DHCP This pa ge shows all DH CP cli ents (LAN PCs) currentl y conn ected to your network. The table shows the assi gned IP ad dress, MAC address and expiration time for each DHCP leased cli ent. Use the R efres h butt on to updat e th e availabl e informatio n. Y ou ca n c heck Enable Static DHCP IP . It is possib le to ad d m[...]

WL-326 Log View the o peration lo g of the WL-326 . This page shows th e current syst em l og of the Broadband router . It disp lays any event occurred after system s tart up. At the bottom of t he page, the system lo g can b e saved <Save> to a l ocal f ile for further processi ng or the system lo g can be cl eared <Clear> or it can be[...]

WL-326 S t atistics Shows the counters of packets se nt and recei ved on WAN, LAN & WLAN.[...]

10 Configuration W izard Click Wizard to c onf igure the router . The S etup wizard wi ll now be di splayed; check that the m odem is con nected an d cli ck Next. Select yo ur country from the Cou ntry l ist. Se lect your i nternet provid er . Click Next. Dependi ng on t he chosen provider , you may n eed t o ent er your user name and password, MAC[...]

Click AP PLY to com plete t he confi guration.[...]

11 Wireless Set tings Y ou can set parameters that are used for th e wirel ess stations t o connect to t his router . The parameters include Mode, E SSID, Channel N umber and Associated Client. Wireles s Function Enable or Disa ble W irele ss functi on here. C lick A pply and wait for mo dule to be ready & load ed.[...]

Basic Settings Mode Allow s you to set the AP to AP , Stat ion, B ridge or WDS mode . Band Allow s you to set the AP f ixed at 802.1 1b or 802.11g mode. Y o u ca n al so select B+G mode to allo w 80211b and 802. 11g cl ients at the same time. SSID Thi s i s the name of the w irel ess si gna l wh ich is broadcasted. A ll the devic es in the same wi [...]

A d vanced Settings This tab allo ws you to set the advanced wi reless opti ons. The optio ns incl uded are Authe ntication T ype, Fragment Thresho ld, R TS Threshold, Beacon Interval, and Preamble T ype. Y ou shou ld not change these para meters unle ss you k now what effect the cha nges wi ll have on the router . Authentication Type There are two[...]

Beacon Interval is the i nterv al of time that thi s w ireless router broadcasts a beacon. A B eacon i s use d to sync hronize the wi rele ss network. Data R ate The “Data Rate” i s the ra te that this acces s point uses to transmit data packets. The acc ess poi nt w il l u se t he hi ghest possib le sel ected transmissi on rate to tran sm it t[...]

Security This Access Point provi des com plete w ire less LAN sec urity funct ions, inc luded are WEP , I EEE 8 02. 11x, IEEE 8 02.11x w ith WEP , WP A w it h pre-shared key and WP A with RADI US. With th ese security funct io ns, you ca n prevent your w irel ess LAN from i lle gal access . Pl ease make sure your wirel ess stati ons use the same se[...]

WEP When you sel ect 64-b it or 12 8-bit WEP key , you have to enter WEP keys to encrypt data. Y ou can gen er ate the key by yourself an d enter it. Y ou can enter four W EP keys an d sel ect one o f them as a d efault k ey . T hen the router can receive any packets e ncrypted by on e of t he four keys. Key Length Y ou can s elect the WEP key le n[...]

WP A Pre-shared Ke y Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is an advanced security sta ndard. Y o u can use a pre-shared key to authe nticate w irel ess statio ns and encrypt data d uring communicati on. It uses TKIP or CCMP (AES) to change the encrypt ion key frequentl y . So the encrypt ion key i s not easy to be cracked by hacke rs. This is the best secu[...]

A CL This wirel ess router supports MAC Address Control, whic h prevents unauthorized cli ents from ac cessin g your wirel ess n etwork. Enable wireless access c ontrol Enabl es the w ireless access control fu nction Adding an address into the list Enter the "MAC Address" and "C omment" of the w irele ss statio n t o be added an[...]

WPS Wi-Fi Protect ed Setup (WPS) i s th e s impl est way to establ ish a connecti on between the wirele ss c li ents an d the wire less router . Y ou don’t have to select the encryptio n mo de and fi ll in a long encrypti on passphrase every t ime w hen you try to setup a wirel ess connect ion. Y ou onl y n eed to press a button on b oth w irel e[...]

WPS Current Status If t he wirel ess sec urity (encrypt ion) fun ction of th is wirel ess router is properly set, you’ll see a ‘Config ured’ mes sage here . Otherwi se, you’ll se e ‘UnConfi gured ’ . Self Pin Code This i s the WPS PIN code of th e wire less ro uter . Y o u may need this informatio n whe n connecti ng to ot her WPS-enabl[...]

12 Firewall Settings The Broadba nd ro uter pr ovides extensi ve fi rewall protecti on by restricti ng connecti on parame ters, thus li miti ng the ri sk of hacker attacks, and d efendi ng against a w ide arra y of common I nternet attacks. H owever , f or ap plic ations that require unrestricted acce ss to the Internet , you can conf igure a spec [...]

DMZ If you h ave a cl ient PC that cannot run an Internet ap plicat ion (e.g. Games) properly from behi nd the NA T f irewall , t hen you can open up th e firewal l restricti ons to unrestrict ed tw o-w ay Internet access by def ini ng a DMZ Host. The DMZ f uncti on al lows you to re-direct al l pac k ets g oi ng to your WAN port IP address to a pa[...]

Denial of Service (DoS) The Broadband router's firewall can block common hacker attacks, incl uding Denial of Servic e, Pi ng of D eath, Port Scan an d Sync Fl ood. If Inter net attacks occur the router ca n l og the e vents. Ping of Death Protections from P in g of Death attack Discard Ping From WAN The router’ s WAN port wi ll not res pond[...]

A c cess Y ou can r estrict us ers from access ing certai n Internet appl icati ons/servi ces ( e.g. Internet websites , email , FTP etc.). Access Control all ows users to define the traffic type permi tted in your LAN. Y ou can control wh ich PC cli ent can have access to th ese servi ces. Deny If you sel ect “De ny ” th en all cl ients wi ll [...]

Filter client PC by MAC Check “ Enable MA C Fi ltering ” to enabl e MAC Fi ltering . Add PC Fill i n “Cl ient PC MAC A ddress” an d “Comment ” of th e PC that i s al lowed to acces s the I nternet, an d the n cl ick “ Ad d” . If you fi nd any typo before addin g it and want to retype a gain, j ust cl ick "Reset" an d the f[...]

URL block Y ou can block access to some W eb sites from particu lar PCs by enterin g a ful l URL address or just keywords of th e W eb site. Enable URL Blocki ng E nable/di sable UR L Block ing. Add U RL Keyword Fil l i n “URL/Keyword” and then cl ick “ Add” . Y ou can enter the full URL address or th e keyword of t he web s ite you want to[...]

13 Advanced Sett ings Network Address T ranslation (NA T) al lows mu lti ple us ers at your lo cal si te to access the Inter net through a singl e Public IP Address or m ultip le Public IP Addresses. NA T provi des Firewal l protectio n f rom hacker attacks an d has the flexi bi lity to allow you to map Priva te IP Addresse s to Publi c IP A ddress[...]

Port Range The range of p orts to b e forward to the private IP . Comment descri ption o f this setting. Add Port Forwarding Fill i n th e "Priv ate IP", “T ype” , “P ort Range” and "Comment" of t he setti ng to be adde d and then click "Add". Then this P ort Fo r warding s etting w ill be ad ded int o the &quo[...]

Virtual S erver Use the V irtual Server fu nction when you want dif ferent servers/clie nts in your LAN t o handl e dif ferent servic e/Internet ap plic ation ty pe (e. g. Emai l, FTP , Web server etc.) fr om the Internet. Computers use numbers cal led port n umbers to recognize a particular service/I nternet appli cation type. The V irtual Server [...]

(service/Internet appl ication) port nu mber from the Internet that wi ll be re- directed t o the a bove Private IP address h ost in your LAN. Comment The descri ption of thi s settin g. Add Virtual Server Fil l in th e "Priv ate IP", " Private P ort", "T ype", “Pub lic P ort ” and "Comment" of t he setti[...]

Special A ppl ications Some appl icati ons re quire mult ip le connect ions, such as Internet ga mes, vi deo Conferencin g, Int ernet tel ephony and others. In th is secti on you can config ure the router to s upport m ultip le con nections for these typ es of ap plicat ions. Enable T rigger Port Enable the Sp ecial A ppl ication functi on. Trigger[...]

select ion. O nce you hav e sel ecte d a n a ppl ication, sele ct a location ( 1-10) in the Copy t o se lectio n b ox and then cl ick the Copy to butt on. This wil l a utomatical ly list the Publ ic Ports re quired f or thi s pop ular ap pl ication in the locati on (1- 10) you specif ie d. Add S pecial Application Fil l i n th e "T ri gger P o[...]

A L G Y ou can select ap plicat ions that need “ A ppl ication Layer Gateway ” sup port. Enable sele ct enabl e “ A ppli cation La yer Gateway” , then the router will let the selected appl icati on correctly pass throug h the NA T gateway .[...]

UPNP With UP nP , al l PCs in you Intranet wi ll disc ov er this router automatical ly , so you don’t have to co nfig ure your PC and it can easi ly access the I nternet through this router . UPnP F eature Y ou c an enable or Disa ble the UPnP feature here. After y ou enable the UPnP f eature, a ll cli ent systems that supp ort UPnP , l ike Windo[...]

QoS QoS can let you class ify Int ernet appli cation traffic by source/ desti nation IP address an d port number . Y ou can ass ign priority for each type o f appli cation and reserve bandw idth f or it. The packets of ap plicat ions with hi gher p riority w il l always go fi rst. Lower priority app licati ons w il l get bandw i dth after hi gher p[...]

Edit a QoS rule Select t he ru le you want to edi t and cli ck “Edit ” , then enter the detail form of the QoS rule. Cli ck “ App ly ” after editi ng the f orm and the rule wi ll be saved. Adjust QoS rule pri ority Y o u can se lect the rule an d cli ck “Move Up” to make its priority high er . Y o u als o can select t he rul e and cl ic[...]

14 T O OLBOX Sett ings Password change opt ions Y ou ca n chang e the passwor d req uired to l og into the broadband router's syst em web-based management. By de fault, t he password is: a dmin. P asswor ds can contain 0 to 12 alphan umeric characters, and a re case sensit ive. Current P assword Fill i n the c urrent passw ord t o all ow chang[...]

T ime Zone The Ti me Zone a ll ows your router to ba se its time on t he setti ngs conf igured here, whi ch w ill affect functi ons such a s Log e ntries and Firewall settings . Set Time Zone S elect the time zo ne of the country you are c urrently i n. The router wil l set its t ime based on y our s electi on. Time Server Address Y ou can set an N[...]

Remote Managem ent The remote management f unction a ll ows you to des ignate a h ost i n the Inter net the ability to c onfi gure the Broad band r outer f rom a remote s ite. E nter t he desi gnated h ost IP Ad dress in th e Host IP A ddress fi el d. Host Address This is the IP a ddress of the host in the Int ernet that wi ll have management/conf [...]

Firmware Upgrade This page al lows you to upgrade the rout er’ s f irmware . Firmware Upg rade This tool a ll ows you t o upgrade the Broadband router’s system f irmware. T o up gr ade the firmware of your B roadband router , you need to downloa d t he f irmware fi le to your loca l har d d isk, and e nter that fi le name a nd path in th e appr[...]

Backup Settings The Backup screen al lows you to save (Backup) the router ’ s curre nt config uration settings. Wh en you save the confi guration setti ng (Backup) you can r e-load t he saved confi guration i nto the router through the Restore select ion. If extreme problems occur you ca n use the Restore to F actory D efaults sel ection, thi s w[...]

Reset Y ou can reset the router ’ s system shoul d any problem exi st. The reset fu nction essentia ll y re-boots your router’ s system. Click < Ap ply > at the b ottom of the s creen to s a ve the above confi gurations.[...]

DDNS DDNS allow s you to map the static domai n name to a d ynamic IP address. Y ou must get a n ac count, password and your sta tic domai n nam e from the DDNS service providers. Thi s router su pports DynDN S, TZ O and other common DDN S service pr oviders. Enable/Disable Enable or dis able th e DDNS f unction of this router . Provider Select a D[...]

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