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1 WL-600/ 607 Wireless Broad band Router (802.11bg)[...]
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2 Introduc tion Congratul ations on p urch asin g this Wirel ess Broad band Rout er. This Wi reless Broadband R oute r is a cost-e ffective IP Shari ng Router th at enabl es mul tipl e users to share the Internet t hrough an ADSL o r cabl e modem. Simp ly confi gure your Internet connecti on setti ngs in th e Wireless B roadband Router an d pl ug y[...]
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3 Get to know the Broadband Router Back Pane l The diag ram (fig 1.0) bel ow shows t he broadban d rout er’s back pan el . The router’s back panel is di vided i nto three secti ons, LAN , WAN and Re set : Figure 1.0 1) Local Area Net work (LAN) The Broadb and router’s 4 LAN port s are whe re you conn ect you r LAN’s PC s, pri nter servers, [...]
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4 Front Panel On the router ’s fr ont panel t here are LED lights tha t inform you of the router’s cur rent status . Below is an explanatio n of each L ED and its d escr iption. LED Light Status: Description PW R ON: Router’s power sup ply is on W AN 10/100M ON: W AN port 100M bps is c onnected OFF: W AN port 10Mbps is connec ted W AN LNK/ACT[...]
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5 Setup Diagra m Figure 1.2 belo w shows a typical se tup for a Local A rea Network (LAN). Figure 1.2[...]
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6 Getting starte d This is a s tep-b y -step instruc tion on how t o start us ing the rout er and g et connecte d to the Internet. 1) Setup your network as shown i n the setu p diagram above ( fig 1.2). 2) You then ne ed to set your LAN PC clients so that i t can obt ain an IP ad dress auto m atically. All LAN clien ts require a n IP addr ess. Jus [...]
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7 8: Reboot the PC. Your PC w ill now obta in an IP a ddress automaticall y from your Broadband Router’s DH CP serv er. Note : Please m ak e sure that th e Broadband router’s DHCP ser ver is the only D HCP ser ver availa ble on your LAN. Once you’ve c onfigure d your PC t o obta in an IP a ddress automaticall y, please pr oceed to Step 3 2b) [...]
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8 5: Click OK to confirm the setti ng. Your PC will no w obtain an I P address autom atically from your Broadband R outer’s DH CP serv er. Note : Please m ak e sure that th e Broadband router’s DHCP ser ver is the only D HCP ser ver availa ble on your LAN. Once you’ve c onfigure d your PC t o obta in an IP a ddress automaticall y, please pr o[...]
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9 automatica lly and Ob tain DN S server a ddress aut omatically as shown o n the f ollowing screen. 6: Click OK to confirm the setti ng. Your PC will no w obtain an I P address autom atically from your Broadband R outer’s DH CP serv er. Note : Please m ak e sure that th e Broadband router’s DHCP ser ver is the only D HCP ser ver availa ble on [...]
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10 button to s tart insta lling the T CP/IP prot ocol. You m ay need your W indows CD to com plete the installa tion. 5: After you install T CP/IP, go bac k to the Net work window. Se lect TCP/I P from the list of Network Pr otocols a nd then clic k the Prop erties but ton. 6: Check each of the tabs and verif y the following s ettings: • IP Addre[...]
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11 3) Once you h ave configur ed your PCs to obt ain an IP address automatical ly, the rou ter’s DHCP ser ver will autom aticall y give your LA N clients an IP addr ess . By default th e Broadband Ro uter’s D HCP s erver is ena bled so t hat you can obtain an IP addr ess automatical ly. To s ee if you ha ve obtaine d an IP ad dress , see Appen [...]
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12 Menu Description Home (Chap ter 1) In this sectio n you ca n see the Broadband router's s ystem inf ormation, Intern et Conn ection, Device Status, S y stem Log, Sec urity Lo g and DHCP client inform ation. Wizard (Chap ter 2) Select your I nternet con nection type and then input the conf igurations needed to connect t o your Internet Servi[...]
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13 tools allow you to Back up (save), R estore, or Restore to F actory Def ault c onfiguration for your Broadband rou ter. T he Firm ware upgrade t ool allows you t o upgrade your Broad band rou ter's firmware. T he RESET tool allo ws you to res et your Broadba nd router. 7) Click on Wizard ( see chapter 2) to start c onfigurin g settings r eq[...]
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14 Chapter 1: Home 1.1 Status The Status sec tion al lows you to m onitor the current s tatus of your rout er. You ca n use the Status page to m onitor: the co nnection sta tus of the Broadba nd router's W AN/LAN interfaces, the current f irmware and hardware v ersion num bers, an y illegal att empts to access your network , and inform ation o[...]
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15 1.2 L A N The LAN Por t screen below allo ws you to specif y a private IP a ddress f or your rout er’s LAN ports as well as a subnet m ask for your LAN segm ent. Paramete rs Defau lt Description IP address 192.168.0.1 This is the rou ter’s LAN port IP address ( Your LAN clients def ault gate way I P address) IP Subnet Ma sk 255.255.255 .0 S [...]
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16 Lease Time The DHCP when enabl ed will tem poraril y give your LAN c lients an I P address . In the Lease Time s etting you can spec ify th e tim e period that the DHCP lends an IP address to your LAN clients. T he DHCP will change your LAN c lient’s IP address when this tim e thr eshold per iod is reached DHCP Client Ran ge You can sel ect a [...]
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17 1.3 A ctive DHCP Client View your L AN client's inform ation that is c urrentl y linked to the Broadb and router' s DHCP s erver Paramete rs Descriptio n Active DHCP Client This page sh ows all DH CP clients (LAN PCs) current ly connected to your net work. T he “Active DHC P Cli ent Table” displays the I P address and the M A C add[...]
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18 1.4 System Log View the op eration lo g of the s ystem. Paramete rs Descriptio n System Log This page sh ows the c urrent s ystem log of th e Broad band router . It displa ys any event occurred af ter s ystem start up. At the bottom of the pa ge, the s ystem log ca n be save d < Save > to a local f ile for further proces sing or the s yste[...]
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19 1.5 Statistics View the stat istics of packets sent and rec eived on W AN, LAN and W ireless LAN. Paramete rs Descriptio n Statistics Shows the counters of packets sent and rece ived on W AN, LAN and W ireless LAN.[...]
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20 Chapter 2: Wizard • Click Wiz ard to configur e the rout er. • The Setup w izard will no w be d isplayed; ch eck that the m odem is connec ted and click Next . • Select your c ountr y from the Co untry list. • From Service, s elect your internet provider. C lick Next .[...]
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21 • Depending on the ch osen provider, you m ay need to enter your user nam e and password, M AC address or hostnam e in the f ollowin g windo w. After you have ent ered the correct inf ormation, c lick Next . • Click O K to com plete the conf iguration. • W ait for about 10 secon ds t o allow the r outer to con nect to the Internet.[...]
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22 Chapter 3: Wireless Settin gs 3.1 Wireless Basic Settings W ireless Access Point builds a wireless LAN a nd can let all PCs equipped with I EEE 802.11 b or 801.11g wire less netw ork adapt or connec t to your Intr anet. It s upports W EP and W PA2 encryption to enhance t he sec urity of your wireless ne twork . Paramete rs Default Description Di[...]
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23 Associated Clients Click “Sho w Active Cli ents” butto n, then an “Active W ireless C lient Table” will pop up. You can see the s tatus of all active wireless stat ions that are conn ecting t o the ac cess point. W LAN MAC This is the M AC address used b y the W ireless interface of this AP when it is in the stati on modes . Clone MAC Cl[...]
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24 3.2 A dvanced Settings You can set advanced wireless LAN param eters of this router. T he param eters include Authenticati on T ype, Fragm ent Threshold, RTS T hreshold, Be acon Inter val, Pre am ble Type …… You should not chang e thes e param eters unless you kno w what ef fect the chang es will ha ve on this router. Paramete rs Description[...]
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25 Beacon Inte rval The inter val of tim e that this w ireless router broadcast a beacon. Be acon is us ed to synchroni ze the wirel ess network . Data Rate The “Data Rat e” is the r ate this ac cess po int uses to transm it data pac kets . The acc ess point will use the highest pos sible s elected transm ission rate to tr ansmit the d ata pack[...]
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26 3.3 Secur ity This Acc ess Point pro vides com plete wireless LAN se curity functi ons, incl ude WEP, IEEE 802.11x, I EEE 802.11x with W EP, W PA with pre-sh ared ke y and W PA with RADIUS. W ith these security functi ons, you can preve nt your wire less L AN from illegal access . Please m ake sure y our wireless s tations use t he sam e sec uri[...]
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27 Hexadecim al Digits: 12 345abcde Default Key Select one of the four ke y s to encr ypt your data. Only the k ey you selec t it in the "Def ault k ey" will take eff ect. Key 1 - Key 4 The W EP keys are use d to encr ypt data transm itted in the wire less net work. Fil l the text box b y following the ru les below. 64-bit W EP: input 10-[...]
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28 3.3.4 WP A Pre-shared ke y W i-Fi Protected Acces s (WPA) is an ad vanced sec urity standar d. You can use a pr e-shared k ey to authenticat e wireles s stations and encr ypt data dur ing comm unication. It us es T KIP or CCMP(AES) to chan ge the encr yption k ey frequentl y. So the e ncr yption ke y is not eas y to be broken b y hacker s. This [...]
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29 W PA2(AES) This use C CMP protoc ol to c hange encr yption ke y frequentl y. AES can prov ide high le vel encryption to enhance t he wireles s LAN security. W PA2 Mixed This will use T KIP or A ES bas ed on the ot her comm unication peer aut omatica lly. RADIUS Server IP address The IP addr ess of ex ternal RADIU S serv er. RADIUS Server Po rt T[...]
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30 3.4 A ccess Control This wireless router pro vides MAC Addres s Contro l, which pre vents the u nauthorized MAC Addresses f rom accessing your w ireless net work . Paramete rs Descriptio n Enable wireless acce ss control Enable wire less acces s control Add MAC ad dress into the list Fill in the " MAC Addres s" and "Com m ent"[...]
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31 3.5 Site S urvey This page pr ovides a to ol to scan th e wireless networ k. If an y Access Poi nt or IBSS is found, you can choose to connect it manuall y when client m ode is enabled.[...]
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32 3.6 WDS W ireless Distribution S ystem uses wireless media to comm unicate with oth er APs. T o use W DS, you m ust set these A Ps in the s ame c hannel and set MAC addr esses of other APs which you want to com m unicate with in the tab le and the n enab le the W DS. Click the ‘Set Securit y’ button to c hange secur ity opt ions.[...]
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33 Chapter 4: Firew all 4.1 Por t Filtering The W L-161 offer s the option to filter certa in rang es of ports on your l ocal area network . Select ‘Enable Port Filtering ’ to en able the port fi lter opt ion, and enter a por t rang e in the appropriate box.[...]
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34 4.2 IP Filte ring The W L-161 offer s the option to filter UD P or T CP traffic f or certain IP a ddresses on your local area network . Select ‘ Enabl e IP Filtering’ to enable the IP filter optio n, and enter a local I P address in th e appropri ate box.[...]
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35 4.3 M AC Filtering This wireless router pro vides MAC Addres s Contro l, which pre vents the u nauthorized MAC Addresses f rom accessing your net work .[...]
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36 4.4 Por t Forwarding The Port For warding a llows you to re-direct a particul ar range of service port n um bers (from the Internet/W AN Ports ) to a particul ar LAN IP ad dress. It help you t o host som e s ervers behind the router NAT firewall. Paramete r Description Enable Po rt Forwarding Enable Por t Forwardin g IP Address This is the pr iv[...]
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37 Table" belo w. If you fin d any t ypo before add ing it and want t o ret ype again, j ust click "Clear" and the fields will be cleare d. Remove Po rt Forwarding into the table If you want t o rem ove some Port F orwarding settings f rom the " Curre nt Port For wardi ng Table", select t he Port For wardi ng settings you w[...]
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38 4.5 DMZ If you have a local cl ient PC that cannot run an Intern et application ( e.g. Gam es) pr operly from behind the N AT f irewall, then you can open the client up to unrestr icted tw o-wa y Internet acces s by defining a DMZ Hos t. The DMZ f unction allows you to re-direct all pack ets going to your W AN port IP addr ess to a part icular I[...]
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39 Chapter 5: Toolbox 5.1 Password Settings You can cha nge the pas swor d required to log into t he broad band router 's s y stem web-based managem ent. By def ault, there is n o pass word. So p lease ass ign a pass word to t he Adm inistrator as soon as possible, and store it in a safe pl ace. Pass words can con tain 0 to 1 2 alphanum eric c[...]
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40 5.2 Time Zone The T ime Zone allo ws your router t o refer ence or bas e its tim e on the sett ings con figured h ere, which will aff ect f unctions such as Lo g entries and Fire wall sett ings. Paramete r Description Select Time Zone Select the tim e zone of the c ountry you are currentl y in. The router will set its time based o n your se lect[...]
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41 5.3 Firmwa re Upgrade This page a llows you to upgrade t he router ’s firm ware Paramete rs Descriptio n Firmware Upgrade This tool al lows you to upgrade t he Broa dband router ’s s ystem firmware. T o upgrade t he firm ware of your Broadban d router, you need t o downloa d the firm ware file to your local h ard disk , and enter that f ile [...]
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42 5.4 Backup The Conf iguration T ools screen a llows you to save ( B ackup ) th e router ’s current configurat ion setting. Sav ing the conf iguration s ettings pr ovides an added pr otection an d conve nience shou ld problem s occ ur with the router an d you ha ve to reset to fac tory default. W hen you save the configurat ion setting (B ackup[...]
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43 5.5 DDNS DDNS allo ws you to m ap the s tatic dom ain name to a dynam ic IP addres s. You m ust get an account, pas sword and your static dom ain nam e from the DDNS ser vice provid ers. T his router supports D ynDNS, T ZO and oth er com mon DDN S service prov iders. Paramete rs Defau lt Description Enable/Disab le Disable Enable/Disa ble the DD[...]
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44 Appendix A How to Manually find your PC ’s IP and M AC address 1) In W indow’s open the C omm and Prom pt program 2) T ype Ipconfig /all a nd <enter > • Your PC’s I P address is t he one entitled IP ad dress ( 192.168.1 .77) • The router’s I P addres s is the o ne entitled D efault G atew ay (192.168.1.25 4) • Your PC’s MAC[...]
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45 Glossar y Default Gat eway (Ro uter): Ever y non-router IP devic e needs to configur e a defau lt gatewa y’s IP address. W hen the de vice s ends out an IP pack et, if the des tination is not on the same net work, the device h as to send t he pack et to its def ault gatew ay, which will then se nd it ou t towards t he destination. DHCP: D ynam[...]
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46 ISP: Internet Service Provider. A n ISP is a business that provides c onnect ivit y to the Internet f or individuals and other bus ines ses or organ izations. LAN: Local Area Netw ork. A L AN is a gro up of c omputers and d evices c onnected together i n a relativel y small area ( such as a house or an off ice). Your hom e network is conside red[...]
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47 create IP ad dress num bers us ed onl y within a part icular netw ork ( as opposed to valid IP addr ess number s recognized by the Intern et, which m ust be as signed b y InterNIC). TCP/IP, UD P: Transm ission Con trol Prot ocol/Intern et Protoco l (TCP/IP) a nd Unre liable Datagr am Protocol (UD P). T CP/IP is the s tandard pr otocol for data t[...]