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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 1 1. T erminology ............................................................................................................................................... 3 2. Introduction ........................................................................................................................................[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 2 6.17.6. Management - Save / Reload Settings ............................................................................................. ...................... 54 6.17.7. Management - Pa ssword Se tup .................................................................................................... ...........[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 3 1. Terminology 3DES Triple Data Encryption Standard AES Advanced E ncryption Standa rd ANSI American National Standards Institute AP Access Point CCK Complementary Cod e Keying CSMA/CA Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection DDNS Dynamic Dom ain [...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 4 WDS Wireless Distribution System WEP Wire d Equivalent Privacy WLAN Wireless Local Area Network WPA Wi-Fi Protected Access 2. Introduction The Wireless LAN Broadband Router is an affordable IEEE 802.11b/g with 802.11n Draft specifications of wireless LAN broadband router solution; setting SOHO a nd enterprise sta[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 5 3. Product Features Generic Router 　 Compatible with IEEE 802.11n Specifications prov ides wireless speed up to 150Mbps data rate. 　 Compatible with IEEE 802.11g high rate standard to prov ide wireless Ethernet spee ds of 54Mbps data rate. 　 Maximizes the performance and ide al for media-centric appl icatio[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 6 LED Indicator State Description on The WLAN Broadband Router is p owered on. 1. PWR LED off The WLAN Broadband Router is powered off. Flashing Data is transmitting or re ceiving on the antenna. 2. WLAN LED off No data is transmitting or receiving on the antenna. Flashing Data is transmitting or re ceiving on the [...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 7 3.3. 4. Appearance and Interface Introduction 4.1. Hardware Installation: 4.1.1. products Appearance Notes:The product shot is for reference only please refer to physical product. LED Panel Waterproof Sliding Door Pass trough Etherne cable from this cable Push these button to remove upper housing[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 8 Wall Mount Pole Mount Lan port with POE WAN port with POE Reset Button[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 9 4.1.2. Hard ware installation steps Step1: push buttons in the sides to remove upper housi ng. Step2: Pass through Ethernet cable from the hole, insert the cabl e to LAN port. Notes:RJ-45 8P8C Ethernet cable i s required[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 10 Step3: Install the upper housing Make sure the housing is well in stalled. Step4: Install POE Injector DC:Insert adapter POE:this hole is linked to Outdoor AP with RJ-45 LAN:this hole is linked to Hub/ro uter/ADSL modem devies with RJ-45[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 11 Step5: Complete diagram[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 12 4.1.3. Software Installation There are no software drivers, patches or utilities installati on needed, but only the configur ation setting. Please refer to chapter 3 for software conf iguration. Notice: It will take about 50 seconds to complete the boot up se quence after powered on the WLAN Broad band Router; P[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 13 4.1.4. 4.1.5. 5. Software configuration There are web based management and c onfiguration functions allowing you to have the jobs done easily. The WLAN Broadband Router is delivered with the fo llowing facto ry default parameters on the Ethernet LAN interfaces . Default IP Address: 192.168.2.1 Default IP subnet [...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 14 4. Select Protocol in the Network Com ponent Type dialog box and click Add button. 5. Select TCP/I P in Microsoft of Select Network Protocol dialog box then click OK button to install the TCP/ IP protocol, it may need the Microsoft Windows CD to complete the installation. Close a nd go back to Network dialog box[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 15 6. Status This page shows the curre nt status and some basic settings of the device, includes sy stem, wirele ss, Ethernet LAN and WAN configuration informatio n. Item Description System Uptime It shows the duration since WLAN AP Router is powered on. Firmware version It shows the firmw are version of WLAN AP Ro[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 16 SSID It shows the SSID of this WLAN AP Router. The SSID is the unique name of WLAN AP Router and shared among its service area, so all device sat tempts to join the same wireless network can identify it. Channel Number It shows the wirel ess channel connected currently. Encryption It shows the stat us of encrypt[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 17 6.1.1. Operation Mode This page followed by Setup Wizard page to define the ope ration mode. 6.1.2. Time Zone Setting This page is used to enable and configu re NTP client.[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 18 6.1.3. LAN Interface Setup This page is used to configure local are a network IP address and subnet mask. 6.1.4. WAN Interface Setup This page is used to configure WAN a ccess type.[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 19 6.1.5. Wireless Basi c Settings This page is used to configure ba sic wireless paramet ers like Band, Mode, Network Type SSID, Chan nel Number, Enable Mac Clone(Single Ethernet Client). 6.1.6. Wireless Security Setup[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 20 This page is used to configure wireless security. 6.2. Operation Mode This page is used to configure whi c h mode wireless bro adband router acts.[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 21 Item Description Gateway Traditional gateway configuration. It always connects internet via ADSL/Cable Modem. LAN interface, WAN interface, Wireless interface, NAT and Firewall modules are applied to this mode Bridge Each interface (LAN, WAN and Wirele ss) regards as bridge. NAT, Firewall and all router's f[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 22 Item Description Disable Wireless LAN Interface Click on to di sable the wireless LA N data transmission. Band Click to select 2.4GHz(B ) / 2.4GHz(G) / 2.4GHz(N) / 2.4GHz(B+G)/ 2.4GHz(G +N) / 2.4GHz(B+G+N) Mode Click to select the WLAN AP / Client / WDS / AP+WDS wireless mode. Network Type While Mode is selected[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 23 pull-down menu. Broadcast SSID Click to enable or di sabl e the SSID broadcast function. WMM Click Enabled/Disabled to init WMM feature. Data Rate Select the transmis sion data rate from pull-down menu.Data rate can be auto-select, 1M to 54Mb ps or MCS. Associated Clients Click the Show Active Clients button to [...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 24 Item Description Fragment Threshold Set the data packet fragmentation threshold, value can be written between 256 and 2346 bytes. RTS Threshold Set the RTS Threshold, value can be written between 0 and 2347 bytes. Beacon Interval Set the Beacon Interval, value can be written between 20 and 1024 ms. Preamble Type[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 25 Item Description Select SSID Select the SSI D from multiple APs. Encryption Select the encryption supported over wirel ess access. The encryption method can be None, WEP, WPA, WPA2 or WPA-Mixed. Use 802.1x Authentication While Encryption is selected to be WEP. Click the check box to enable IEEE 802.1x authentica[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 26 HEX 10 hexadecimal code s 26 hexadecimal code s 6.6. Wireless - A ccess Control If you enable wireless access control, only those clients whos e wireless MAC ad dresses are in the access control list will be able to connect to your Access Point. When this option is enabled, no wireless clients will be able to co[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 27 Delete Selected Click to delete the se lected clients that will be access right removed from this WLAN Broadband Router. Delete All Click to delete all the registered clients from the access allowed list. Reset Click the Reset button to abort change and recover the previous configuration setting. 6.7. WDS Settin[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 28 Set Security Click button to configure wireles s security like WEP(64bits), WEP(128bits), WPA(TKIP), WPA2(AES) or None Show Statistics It shows the TX , RX packets, rate statistics. Delete Selected Click to delete the se lected clients that will be access right removed from this WLAN Broadband Router. Delete All[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 29 Item Description MAC Address It shows the MAC Address within WDS. Tx Packets It shows the statistic count of sent packets on the wireless LAN interface. Tx Errors It shows the statistic c ount of error sent packets on the Wireless LAN interface. Rx Packets It shows the statistic count of received packets on the [...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 30 Item Description SSID It shows the SSID of AP. BSSID It shows BSSID of AP. Channel It show the current channel of AP occupied. Type It show which type AP acts. Encrypt It shows the encryption status. Signal It shows the power level of current AP. Refresh Click the Refresh button to re-scan site survey on the scr[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 31 Item Description Disable WPS Click on to disable the Wi-Fi Protected Setup function. WPS Status Show WPS status is Configured or UnConfigured . Self-PIN Number Fill in the PIN Num ber of AP to register the wireless distribution system access capability. Push Button Configuration The Start PBC button provides too[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 32 Item Description IP Address Fill in the IP address of LAN interfaces of this WLAN Access Point. Subnet Mask Fill in the subnet mask of LAN interfaces of this WLAN Access Point. Default Gateway Fill in the default gateway for LAN interfaces out going data packets. DHCP Click to select Disabled , Client or Server [...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 33 802.1d Spanning Tree Select enable or disable the IEEE 802.1d Spanning Tree function from pull-down menu. Clone MAC Address Fill in the MAC addres s that is the MAC address to be cloned Apply Changes Click the Apply Changes button to complete the new configuration setting. Reset Click the Reset button to abort c[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 34 Reset Click the Reset button to abort change and recover the previous configuration setting. 6.12. WAN Interface Setup This page is used to configure the para meters for wide ar ea network that connects to the WAN port of your WLAN Broadband Router. Here you may chan ge the access method to Static IP, DHCP, PPPo[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 35 IP Address If you select t he Static IP support on WAN interface, fill in the IP address for it. Subnet Mask If you select t he Static IP support on WAN interface, fill in the subnet mask for it. Default Gateway If you select the Static IP support on WAN interface, fill in the default gateway for WAN interface o[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 36 Item Description DHCP Client Click to select DHCP support on WAN interface for IP address assigned automatically from a DHCP server. Host Name Fill in the host name of Host Name. The default value is empty. MTU Size Fill in the mtu size of MTU Size. The default value is 1400. Attain DNS Automatically Click to se[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 37 DNS 1 Fill in the IP address of Domain Name Server 1. DNS 2 Fill in the IP address of Domain Name Server 2. DNS 3 Fill in the IP address of Domain Name Server 3. Clone MAC Address Fill in the MAC address that is the MAC address to be cloned. Enable uPNP Click the checkbox to enable uPNP function. Enable IGMP Pro[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 38 Item Description PPPoE Click to select PPPoE support on WAN interface. There are user name, password, connection type and idle time settings need to be done. User Name If you select the PPPoE support on WAN interface, fill in the user name and password to login the PPPoE server. Password If you select the PPPoE [...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 39 interface, fill in the user name and password to login the PPPoE server. Service Name Fill in the service name of Service Name. The default value is empty. Connection Type Select the connection type from pull-down menu. There are Continuous, Connect on Demand and Manual three types to select. Continuous connecti[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 40 response. Enable Web Server Access on WAN Click the checkbox to enable web configuration from WAN side. Enable IPsec pass through on VPN connection Click the checkbox to enable IPSec packet pass through. Enable PPTP pass through on VPN connection Click the checkbox to enable PPTP packet pass through. Enable L2TP[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 41 Item Description PPTP Allow user to make a tunnel with remote site directly to secure the data transmission among the connection. User can use embedded PPTP client supported by this router to make a VPN connection. Enable Dynamic Mode Click to select PPTP Dynamic support on WAN interface for IP addres s assigned[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 42 from a PPTP server. IP Address If you select the PPTP support on WAN interface, fill in the IP address for it. Subnet Mask If you select the PPTP support on WAN interface, fill in the subnet mask for it. Gateway If you select the Static PPTP support on WA N interface, fill in the gateway for WAN interface out go[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 43 connection pass through. Enable PPTP pass through on VPN connection Click the checkbox to enable PPTP packet pass through. Enable L2TP pass through on VPN connection Click the checkbox to enable L2TP packet pass through. Apply Changes Click the Apply Changes button to complete the new configuration setting. Rese[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 44 Apply Changes Click the Apply Changes button to complete the new configuration setting. Reset Click the Reset button to abort change and recover the previous configuration setting. Delete Selected Click to delete t he selected port range that will be removed from the port-filtering list. Delete All Click to dele[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 45 Reset Click the Reset button to abort change and recover the previous configuration setting. Delete Selected Click to delete t he selected port range that will be removed from the IP-filtering list. Delete All Click to delete all t he registered entries from the IP-filtering list. Reset Click the Reset button to[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 46 removed from the MAC-filtering list. Delete All Click to delete all t he registered entries from the MAC-filtering list. Reset Click the Reset button to abort change and recover the previous configuration setting. 6.16.3. Firewall - Port Forwarding Entries in this table allow you to automat ically redirect commo[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 47 Reset Click the Reset button to abort change and recover the previous configuration setting. Delete Selected Click to delete the selected IP address and port number that will be removed from the port-forwarding list. Delete All Click to delete all t he registered entries from the port-forwarding list. Reset Clic[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 48 URL Filtering list. Reset Click the Reset button to abort change and recover the previous configuration setting. 6.16.5. Firewall - DMZ A Demilitarized Zone is used to provide In ternet services without sa crificing unauthorized acce ss to its local private network. Typically, the DMZ host contains devices acces[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 49 Item Description Wireless LAN Sent Packets It shows the statistic count of sent packets on the wireless LAN interface. Received Packets It shows the statistic count of received packets on the wireless LAN interface. Ethernet LAN Sent Packets It shows the statistic count of sent packets on the Ethernet LAN interf[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 50 Item Description Enable DDNS Click the checkbo x to enable DDNS service. Service Provider Click the dr op down menu to pickup the right provider. Domain Name To configure the Domain Name. User Name/Email Configure User Name, Email. Password/Key Configure Password, Key. Apply Change Click the Apply Changes button[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 51 Item Description Current Time It show s th e current time. Time Zone Select Click the time zone in your country. Enable NTP client update Click the checkbox to enable NTP client update. NTP Server Click select default or input NTP server IP address. Apply Change Click the Apply Changes button to save and enable [...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 52 Item Description Enable DoS Prevention Click the checkbox to enable DoS prevention. Whole System Flood / Per-Source IP Flood… Enable and setup prevention in details. Select ALL Click the checkbox to enable all prevention items. Clear ALL Click the checkbox to disable all prevention items.[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 53 Apply Changes Click the Apply Changes button to save above settings. 6.17.4. Management - Log This page is used to configure the rem o te log server and show n the current log . Item Description Enable Log Click the checkbox to enable log. System all Show all log of wireless broadband router. Wireless Only show [...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 54 6.17.5. Management - Upgrade Firmwa re This page allows you upgrade the Access Poi nt firmware to new version. Please note, do not power off the device during the upload because it may crash the syste m. Item Description Select File Click the Browse button to select the new version of web firmware image file. Up[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 55 Reset Settings to Default Click the Reset button to reset the configuration parameter to factory defaults. 6.17.7. Management - Password Setup This page is used to set the account to access the web se rver of Access Point. Empty user name and password will disable the protection. Item Description User Name Fill [...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 56 To find your PC’s IP and MAC address, 　 Open the Command program in the Microsoft Wind ows. 　 Type in ipconfig /all then press the Enter button. 　 Your PC’s IP address is the one entitled IP Address a nd your PC’s MAC address is the one entitled Physical Address. 7.2. What is Wireless LAN? A wireless[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 57 7.5. What is BSSID? A six-byte address that distinguishes a particula r a partic ular access point from others. Also know as just SSID. Serves as a network ID or name. 7.6. What is ESSID? The Extended Service Set ID (ESSID) is the name of the network you want to ac cess. It is used to identify different wireless[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 58 If you find that your corrupted packets or asymmetric packe t recept ion (all send packets, for example). You may want to try lowering your fragmentation threshold. This will ca use packe ts to be broken into smaller fragments. These small fragments, if corrupted, can be re sent faster than a larger fragment. Fr[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 59 7.17. What is 802.1x Authentication? 802.1x is a framework for authent icated MAC-level access cont rol, defines Extensible Au thentication Protocol (EAP) over LANs (WAPOL). The standard en capsulates and leverages much of EAP, which was defined for dial -up authentication with Point-to-Point Protocol in RFC 22 [...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 60 7.26. What is NTP Client? NTP client is designed for fetching the current timesta mp fr om internet via Network Time protocol. User can specify time zone, NTP server IP address. 7.27. What is VPN? VPN is the abbreviation of Virtual Priv ate Network. It is designed for creating po int-to point pri vate link via s[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 61 8. Configuration examples 8.1. Example one - PPPoE on the WAN Sales division of Company ABC likes to establish a WL AN network to support mobile communi cation on sales’ Notebook PCs. MIS engineer collects inf ormation and plan s the WLAN Broadband Router implementation b y the following configuration. WAN con[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 62 8.1.2. Configure the LAN interface: Open LAN Interface Setup page, enter the IP Addres s “192.168.1.254”, Subnet Mask “255.255.255.0”, Default Gateway “0.0.0.0”, enable DHCP Server , DHCP cli ent range “192.168.1.100” to “192.168.1.200”. Press button to confirm the configuration setting.[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 63 8.1.3. Configure the WLAN interface: Open WLAN Interface Setup page, enter the SSID “AP”, Channel Number “11”. Press button to confirm the configuration setting.[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 64 8.2. Example two - fixed IP on the WAN Company ABC likes to establish a WLA N network to support mobile communication on all employees’ Noteboo k PCs. MIS engineer collects information and pl ans the WLAN Broadband Router implementation by the following configuration. WAN configuration: Fixed IP IP Address 192[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 65 Channel Number 11 8.2.1. Configure the WAN interface: Open WAN Interface Setup page, select Fixed IP then enter IP Addres s “ 192.168.2.254 ”, subnet mask “ 255.255.255.0 ”, Default gateway “ 192.168.2.10 ”. Press button to confirm the configuration setting. 8.2.2. Configure the LAN interface: Open L[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 66 8.2.3. Configure the WLAN interface: Open WLAN Interface Setup page, enter the SSID “AP”, Channel Number “11”. Press button to confirm the configuration setting.[...]

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    WLAN Broadband Router User Manual 67[...]