User’s Manual U-011-03E0-000516
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FCC Interference Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against radio interference in a commercial environment. This equipment can generate, use and radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions in this manual, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.
Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction...............................................................................5 1.1 Functions and Features...................................................................5 1.2 Packing List....................................................................................6 Chapter 2 Hardware Installation................................................................7 2.1 Panel Layout.................................................................................
.4 Configuring on Unix based Platforms ..........................................32 Appendix A TCP/IP Configuration for Windows 95/98..........................33 A.1 Install TCP/IP protocol into your PC...........................................33 A.2 Set TCP/IP protocol for working with IP Sharer.........................
Chapter 1 Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of this outstanding Wireless Broadband Router. This product is specifically designed for Small Office and Home Office needs. It provides a complete SOHO solution for Internet surfing, and it is easy to configure and operate for even non-technical users. Instructions for installing and configuring this product can be found in this manual.
l DHCP server supported all of the networked computers can retrieve TCP/IP settings automatically from this product. l Web-based configuring configurable through any networked computer’s web browser using Netscape or Internet Explorer. l Access Control supported allows you to assign different access right for different users. l Virtual Server supported enables you to expose WWW, FTP and other services on your LAN to be accessible to Internet users.
Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 2.1 Panel Layout 2.1.1. Front Panel The front panel features three 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ports, one Wide Area network (WAN) port and diagnostic LED indicators. The WAN port connects your DSL or cable modem to the router. The LAN ports are used to connect to your computers or other network devices. LEDs monitor the status of each port. Figure 2-1 Front Panel Port: WAN: the port where you will connect your cable (or DSL) modem or Ethernet router.
LED: LED Function Color Status M1 System status 1 Orange Blinking On M2 System status 2 Orange Blinking On WAN WAN port activity LAN LAN port activity Green W-Link Backbone activity Green Blinking Wireless activity Green Blinking W-Act Green Blinking On Blinking On Link/Act. 1~3 Link status 10/100 1~3 Data Rate Green Blinking Green On -8- Description This product is functioning properly This product is working for some service This product is being configured or upgraded.
2.1.2. Rear Panel Figure 2-2 Rear Panel Ports: Port ON/OFF DC IN COM Description Power switch Power inlet (DC 5V) Serial port (connect analog modem or console cable) PRINTER Printer Port 2.2 Procedure for Hardware Installation 1. Decide where to place your Wireless Broadband Router: You can place your Wireless Broadband Router on a desk or other flat surface, or you can mount it on a wall.
2. Setup LAN connection: a. Wired LAN connection: connect an Ethernet cable from your computer’s Ethernet port to one of the LAN ports of this product. b. Wireless LAN connection: make sure the antennas are in a vertical position (if not, rotate over 90 degrees). Figure 2-3 Setup of LAN and WAN connections for this product. 3. Setup WAN connection: prepare an Ethernet cable for connecting this product to your cable/xDSL modem or Ethernet backbone. Figure 2-3 illustrates the WAN connection.
4. Power on: Connecting the power cord to power inlet and turning the power switch on, this product will automatically enter the self-test phase. When it is in the self-test phase, the indicators M1 and M2 will be lighted ON for about 10 seconds, and then M1 and M2 will be flashed 3 times to indicate that the self-test operation has finished. Finally, the M1 will be continuously flashed once per second to indicate that this product is in normal operation.
Chapter 3 Network Settings and Software Installation To use this product correctly, you have to properly configure the network settings of your computers and install the attached setup program into your MS Windows platform (Windows 95/98/NT/2000). 3.1 Make correct network settings of your computer The default IP address of this product is 192.168.123.254, and the default subnet mask is 255.255.255.0. These addresses can be changed on your need, but the default values are used in this manual.
there must be something wrong in your installation procedure. You have to check the following items in sequence: 1. Is the Ethernet cable correctly connected between this product and your computer? Tip: The LAN LED of this product and the link LED of network card on your computer must be lighted. 2. Is the TCP/IP environment of your computers properly configured? Tip: If the IP address of this product is 192.168.123.254, the IP address of your computer must be 192.168.123.
Step 2: Click on the INSTALL button. Wait until the following Welcome dialog to appear, and click on the Next button. Step 3: Select the destination folder and click on the Next button. Then, the setup program will begin to install the programs into the destination folder.
Step 4: When the following window is displayed, click on the Finish button. Step 5: Select the item to restart the computer and then click the OK button to reboot your computer. Step 6: After rebooting your computer, the software installation procedure is finished. Now, you can configure the Internet Sharer (refer to Chapter 4) and setup the Print Server (refer to Chapter 5).
Chapter 4 Configuring Wireless Broadband Router This product provides Web based configuration scheme, that is, configuring by Netscape Communicator or Internet Explorer. This approach can be adopted in any MS Windows, Macintosh or UNIX based platforms. 4.1 Start-up and Log in Activate your browser, and disable the proxy or add the IP address of this product into the exceptions. Then, type this product’s IP address in the Location (for Netscape) or Address (for IE) field and press ENTER.
4.2 Status This option provides the function for observing this product’s working status: A. WAN Port Status. If the WAN port is assigned a dynamic IP, there may appear a “Renew” or “Release” button on the Sidenote column. You can click this button to renew or release IP manually. B. Modem Status. C. Printer Status. The possible kinds of printer status include “Ready,” “Not ready,” “Printing… ”, and “Device error.” When a job is printing, there may appear a “Kill Job” button on the Sidenote column.
4.3 Toolbox This option enables you change the administrator password. Besides, you can get the information about Firmware version and WAN's MAC Address. You can also reboot this product by clicking the Reboot button. Note: we strongly recommend you to change the system password for security reason. If you forgot the system password, please refer to Appendix A to reset a new one.
4.4 Primary Setup This option is primary to enable this product to work properly. The setting items and the web appearance depend on the WAN type. Choose correct WAN type before you start. 1. LAN IP Address: this product’s IP address. The default address is 192.168.123.254. You can change it on your need. 2. WAN Type: WAN connection type of your ISP. You can click Change button to choose a correct one from the following four options: A. Static IP Address: ISP assigns you a static IP address. B.
4.4.1 Static IP Address WAN IP Address, Subnet Mask, Gateway, Primary and Secondary DNS: enter the proper setting value provided by your ISP. 4.4.2 Dynamic IP Address 1. Host Name: optional. Required by some ISPs, for example, @Home. 2. Renew IP Forever: this feature enable this product renew IP address automatically when the lease time is being expired even the system is in idle state. 4.4.3 PPP over Ethernet 1. PPPoE Account and Password: the account and password your ISP assigned to you.
4.5 DHCP Server The settings of TCP/IP environment include Host IP, Subnet Mask, Gateway, and DNS configurations. It is not a simple task to correctly configure all the computers in your LAN environment. Fortunately, DHCP provides a rather simple approach to handle all these settings. This product supports the function of DHCP server.
4.6 Virtual Server This product’s NAT firewall filters out unrecognized packets to protect your Intranet, so all hosts behind this product are invisible to the outside world. If you wish, you can make some of them accessible by enabling the Virtual Server Mapping. A virtual server is defined as a Service Port, and all requests to this port will be redirected to the computer specified by the Server IP. For example, if you have an FTP server (port 21) at 192.168.123.1, a Web server (port 80) at 192.168.123.
4.7 Special AP Some applications require multiple connections, like Internet games, Video conferencing, Internet telephony and so on. Due to the firewall function, these applications can not work with pure NAT router. Special Applications makes some of these applications to work with NAT router. If Special Applications is still insufficient to allow an application to function correctly, try DMZ host in the Misc Items options. 1. Trigger: the outbound port number the application issued first. 2.
4.8 Access Control Access Control allows you to assign different access right for different users. First, you have to divide users into different groups. Users are identified by their IP addresses. You can assign the members of Group 1, 2 and 3. The others are all members of Default Group. Second, you have to assign the access right of each group. Access right can allow or block users to access specified TCP and UDP ports.
4.9 Misc Items 1. IP Address of DMZ Host: DMZ (DeMilitarized Zone) Host is a host without the protection of firewall. It allows a computer to be exposed to unrestricted 2-way communication. Note that, this feature should be used only when needed. 2. Remote Administrator Host: In general, only Intranet user can browse the built-in web pages to perform administration task. This feature enables you to perform administration task from remote host.
4.10 Wireless Setting Wireless settings allow you to set the wireless configuration items. 1. Network ID(SSID): Network ID is used for identifying the WLAN. Client stations can roam freely over this product and other Access Points that have the same Network ID. (The factory setting is “default”) 2. Channel: The radio channel number. The permissible channels depend on the Regulatory Domain. (The factory setting is channel 7) 3. Security: Select the data privacy algorithm you want.
4.11 Wireless Access Control 1. Access Control: Enable or disable the wireless access control. 2. Access Granted & Access Denied: List the client stations which will be granted or denied to access your wireless network. Please enter the hardware address (MAC address) of the client stations into these fields. For example: 00-80-c8-23-69-f1 3. Other stations: Other client stations, which are not listed above, will be granted or denied.
Chapter 5 Print Server This product provides the function of network print server for MS Windows 95/98/NT/2000 and Unix based platforms. 5.1 Configuring on Windows 95/98 Platforms After you finished the software installation procedure described in Chapter 3, your computer has possessed the network printing facility provided by this product. For convenience, we call the printer connected to the printer port of this product as server printer.
1. Find out the corresponding icon of your server printer, for example, the HP LaserJet 6L. Click the mouse’s right button on that icon, and then select the Properties item: 2.
3. Choose the “PRTmate: (All-in-1)” from the list attached at the Print To item. Be sure that the Printer Driver item is configured to the correct driver of your server printer. 4. Click on the button of Port Settings: Type in the IP address of this product and then click the OK button. 5. Make sure that all settings mentioned above are correct and then click the OK button. 5.
Compared to the procedure in last section, the selection of Details is equivalent to the selection of Ports, and Port Settings is equivalent to Configure Port. 5.3 Configuring on Windows 2000 Platforms The configuration procedure for a Windows 2000 platform is similar to that of Windows 95/98 except the screen of printer Properties: Compared to the procedure in last section, the selection of Details is equivalent to the selection of Ports, and Port Settings is equivalent to Configure Port.
5.4 Configuring on Unix based Platforms Please follow the traditional configuration procedure on Unix platforms to setup the print server of this product. The printer name is “lp.
Appendix A TCP/IP Configuration for Windows 95/98 This section introduces you how to install TCP/IP protocol into your personal computer. And suppose you have been successfully installed one network card on your personal computer. If not, please refer to your network card manual. Moreover, the Section A.2 tells you how to set TCP/IP values for working with this IP Sharer correctly. A.1 Install TCP/IP protocol into your PC 1. Click Start button and choose Settings, then click Control Panel. 2.
5. Select Microsoft item in the manufactures list. And choose TCP/IP in the Network Protocols. Click OK button to return to Network window. 6. The TCP/IP protocol shall be listed in the Network window. Click OK to complete the install procedure and restart your PC to enable the TCP/IP protocol. A.2 Set TCP/IP protocol for working with IP Sharer 1. Click Start button and choose Settings, then click Control Panel.
2. Double click Network icon. Select the TCP/IP line that has been associated to your network card in the Configuration tab of the Network window. 3. Click Properties button to set the TCP/IP protocol for this IP Sharer. 4. Now, you have two setting methods: A.
a. Select Obtain an IP address automatically in the IP Address tab.
b. Don’t input any value in the Gateway tab.
c. Choose Disable DNS in the DNS Configuration tab.
B. Configure IP manually a. Select Specify an IP address in the IP Address tab. The default IP address of this product is 192.168.123.254. So please use 192.168.123.xxx (xxx is between 1 and 253) for IP Address field and 255.255.255.0 for Subnet Mask field.
b. In the Gateway tab, add the IP address of this product (default IP is 192.168.123.254) in the New gateway field and click Add button.
c. In the DNS Configuration tab, add the DNS values which are provided by the ISP into DNS Server Search Order field and click Add button.
