Manual OvisLink WHR-609N
Manual OvisLink WHR-609N
Manual OvisLink WHR-609N
© 2010
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Table of Contents
1. Terminology .......................................................................................................... 5
2. Introduction .......................................................................................................... 7
3. Installation .......................................................................................................... 10
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4.3.5.2 Port Forwarding .................................................................... 43
4.3.5.3 DMZ...................................................................................... 45
4.3.5.4 System Security .................................................................... 46
4.3.5.5 4.4.5.5 Content Filtering ....................................................... 46
4.3.6 Administration ............................................................................. 48
4.3.6.1 Management.......................................................................... 48
4.3.6.2 Upload Firmware .................................................................. 49
4.3.6.3 Settings Management ............................................................ 50
4.3.6.4 Status ..................................................................................... 51
4.3.6.5 System Log ........................................................................... 51
4.4 Configuration Examples ...................................................................... 52
4.4.1 Example one – PPPoE on the WAN ............................................ 52
4.4.2 Example two – fixed IP on the WAN ........................................... 54
4.4.3 Example three –set WLAN to be WAN as WiFi Client ............... 56
5.1 What and how to find my PC’s IP and MAC address? ........................ 59
5.2 What is Wireless LAN? ....................................................................... 59
5.3 What are ISM bands?........................................................................... 59
5.4 How does wireless networking work? ................................................. 59
5.5 What is BSSID? ................................................................................... 60
5.6 What is ESSID? ................................................................................... 60
5.7 What are potential factors that may causes interference? .................... 60
5.8 What are the Open System and Shared Key authentications? ............. 60
5.9 What is WEP? ...................................................................................... 60
5.10 What is Fragment Threshold? .............................................................. 61
5.11 What is RTS (Request to Send) Threshold?......................................... 61
5.12 What is Beacon Interval? ..................................................................... 61
5.13 What is Preamble Type? ...................................................................... 61
5.14 What is SSID Broadcast?..................................................................... 61
5.15 What is Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)?............................................. 62
5.16 What is WPA2? .................................................................................... 62
5.17 What is 802.1x Authentication? ........................................................... 62
5.18 What is Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP)?.............................. 62
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5.19 What is Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)? ................................. 62
5.20 What is Inter-Access Point Protocol (IAPP)? ...................................... 62
5.21 What is Wireless Distribution System (WDS)? ................................... 62
5.22 What is Universal Plug and Play (uPNP)?........................................... 62
5.23 What is Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) Size? ........................... 63
5.24 What is Clone MAC Address? ............................................................. 63
5.25 What is DDNS?.................................................................................... 63
5.26 What is NTP Client? ............................................................................ 63
5.27 What is VPN? ...................................................................................... 63
5.28 What is IPSEC?.................................................................................... 63
5.29 What is WLAN Block Relay between Clients? ................................... 63
5.30 What is WMM?.................................................................................... 63
5.31 What is WLAN ACK TIMEOUT? ...................................................... 63
5.32 What is Modulation Coding Scheme (MCS)? ..................................... 63
5.33 What is Frame Aggregation? ............................................................... 64
5.34 What is Guard Intervals (GI)?.............................................................. 64
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1. Terminology
3DES Triple Data Encryption Standard
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TKIP Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
UPNP Universal Plug and Play
VPN Virtual Private Network
WDS Wireless Distribution System
WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy
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2. Introduction
The Outdoor Router is an affordable IEEE 802.11b/g /n specifications of Outdoor Router solution;
setting SOHO and enterprise standard for high performance, secure, manageable and reliable WLAN.
This document describes the steps required for the initial IP address assign and other configuration of
the outdoor router. The description includes the implementation of the above steps.
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2.3 Front Panel Description
Off No link.
Off No link.
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2.4 Rear Panel Description
Interfaces Description
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3. Installation
3.1 Hardware Installation
3.1.1 Appearance and Interface Introduction
Notes: The product shot is for reference only please refer to physical product.
LED Panel
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Wall Mount
Pole Mount
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3.1.2 Hardware installation steps
Step1: Push the button in the side to remove upper housing.
Step2: Pass through Ethernet cable from the hole, insert the cable to LAN port.
Note: RJ-45 8P8C Ethernet cable is required.
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Step3: Install the upper housing and make sure the housing is well installed.
Step4:
Install POE Injector
DC: Insert adapter
POE: This hole is linked to LAN port of the Outdoor Router with RJ-45.
LAN: This hole is linked to LAN side PC/Hub or Router/ADSL modem device with RJ-45
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Step5: Complete the hardware installation as diagram at below.
4. Software configuration
There are web based management and configuration functions allowing you to have the jobs done
easily.
The Outdoor Router is delivered with the following factory default parameters on the Ethernet LAN
interfaces.
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4.1 Prepare your PC to configure the WLAN Broadband Router
For OS of Microsoft Windows 2000/ XP:
1. Click the Start button and select Settings, then click Control Panel. The Control Panel window
will appear.
2. Move mouse and double-click the right button on Network and Dial-up Connections icon. Move
mouse and double-click the Local Area Connection icon. The Local Area Connection window will
appear. Click Properties button in the Local Area Connection window.
3. Check the installed list of Network Components. If TCP/IP is not installed, click the Add button to
install it; otherwise go to step 6.
4. Select Protocol in the Network Component Type dialog box and click Add button.
5. Select TCP/IP 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
and go back to Network dialog box after the TCP/IP installation.
6. Select TCP/IP and click the properties button on the Network dialog box.
7. Select Specify an IP address and type in values as following example.
IP Address: 192.168.1.10 is good to connect the Wireless LAN Access Point.
IP Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
8. Click OK to complete the IP parameters setting.
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4.2 Connect to the WLAN Broadband Router
Open a WEB browser, i.e. Microsoft Internet Explore 6.1 SP1 or above, then enter 192.168.1.200 on
the URL to connect the WLAN Broadband Router.
Click Next button to next step for Internet connection settings. There are five
options (DHCP, Static Mode, PPPOE, L2TP, PPTP) for Internet connection on WAN
port.
If you select DHCP option, please click Next button to jump at Step2.
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b. Static Mode (fixed IP)
If you select Static Mode, please fill in these fields on next page.
Item Description
IP Address Fill in the IP address for WAN interface.
Default Gateway Fill in the default gateway for WAN interface out going data packets.
When you finish these settings, then click Next button to jump at Step2.
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c. PPPOE (ADSL)
Item Description
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 support on WAN interface, fill in the user name and
password to login the PPPoE server.
Verify Password Fill in the password again for verification.
Operation Mode Keep Alive: Keep the PPPoE connection all the time. Please also configure the
Redial Period field.
On Demand: Please configure the Idle Time field. When time is up, the PPPoE
connection will disconnect. The connection will re-connect when any outgoing
packet arise.
Manual: Let user connect the PPPoE connection manually.
When you finish these settings, then click Next button to jump at Step2.
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d. L2TP
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Item Description
L2TP Server IP Allow user to make a tunnel with remote site directly to secure the data
Address transmission among the connection. User can use embedded L2TP client
supported by this router to make a VPN connection.
If you select the L2TP support on WAN interface, fill in the IP address for it.
User Name Fill in the user name and password to login the L2TP server.
Password Fill in the user name and password to login the L2TP server.
Address Mode Static: To configure the IP address information by manually, please fill in the
related setting at below.
Dynamic: The option allows the machine to get IP address information
automatically from DHCP server on WAN side.
IP Address Fill in the IP address for WAN interface.
Default Gateway Fill in the default gateway for WAN interface out going data packets.
Operation Mode Keep Alive: Keep the L2TP connection all the time. Please also configure the
Redial Period field.
Manual: Let user connect the L2TP connection manually.
When you finish these settings, then click Next button to jump at Step2.
e. PPTP
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Item Description
PPTP Server IP Allow user to make a tunnel with remote site directly to secure the data
Address transmission among the connection. User can use embedded PPTP client
supported by this router to make a VPN connection.
If you select the PPTP support on WAN interface, fill in the IP address for it.
User Name Fill in the user name and password to login the PPTP server.
Password Fill in the user name and password to login the PPTP server.
Address Mode Static: To configure the IP address information by manually, please fill in the
related setting at below.
Dynamic: The option allows the machine to get IP address information
automatically from DHCP server on WAN side.
IP Address Fill in the IP address for WAN interface.
Default Gateway Fill in the default gateway for WAN interface out going data packets.
Operation Mode Keep Alive: Keep the PPTP connection all the time. Please also configure the
Redial Period field.
Manual: Let user connect the PPTP connection manually.
When you finish these settings, then click Next button to jump at Step2.
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Step 2: configure Wireless Settings
There are three options (Disable, WEP, WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK) for Wireless
security connection.
Disable
WEP
WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK
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Item Description
Network Name It is the wireless network name. The SSID can be 32 bytes long.
(SSID)
Security Please select the security mode related wireless data encryption.
KEY WEP: When you select WEP, please input 5, 13 (ASCII), 10 or 26 (HEX)
characters for WEP Key.
WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK: When WPA/WPA2 Pre-shared key encryption is
selected, please fill in the Pre-shared key. The format can be passphrase or Hex
(64 characters).
When you finish these settings, then click Apply button to save.
The Bridge mode allows that all Ethernet and wireless interfaces are bridged into
a single bridge interface.
b. Gateway:
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The Gateway mode allows that the first Ethernet port is treated as WAN port and
the Ethernet port and the wireless interface are bridged together and are treated as
LAN ports.
c. Ethernet Converter:
The Ethernet Converter mode allows that the wireless interface is treated as
WAN port, and the Ethernet ports are LAN ports.
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Item Description
IP Address Fill in the IP address for WAN interface.
Default Gateway Fill in the default gateway for WAN interface out going data packets.
MAC Clone Take NIC MAC address of PC on LAN side as the MAC address of WAN
interface.
b. DHCP
Item Description
Hostname Fill in the host name of Host Name of DHCP server. The default value is empty.
MAC Clone Take NIC MAC address of PC on LAN side as the MAC address of WAN
interface.
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c. PPPoE
Item Description
User Name If you select the PPPoE support on WAN interface, fill in the user name and
password to login the PPPoE server.
Pasword If you select the PPPoE support on WAN interface, fill in the user name and
password to login the PPPoE server.
Verify Password Fill in the password again for verification.
MAC Clone Take NIC MAC address of PC on LAN side as the MAC address of WAN
interface.
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d. L2TP
Item Description
Server IP Allow user to make a tunnel with remote site directly to secure the data
transmission among the connection. User can use embedded L2TP client
supported by this router to make a VPN connection.
If you select the L2TP support on WAN interface, fill in the IP address for it.
User Name Fill in the user name and password to login the L2TP server.
Password Fill in the user name and password to login the L2TP server.
Address Mode Static: To configure the IP address information by manually, please fill in the
related setting at below.
Dynamic: The option allows the machine to get IP address information
automatically from DHCP server on WAN side.
IP Address Fill in the IP address for WAN interface.
Default Gateway Fill in the default gateway for WAN interface out going data packets.
Operation Mode Keep Alive: Keep the L2TP connection all the time. Please also configure the
Redial Period field.
On Demand: Please configure the Idle Time field. When time is up, the L2TP
connection will disconnect. The connection will re-connect when any outgoing
packet arise.
Manual: Let user connect the L2TP connection manually.
MAC Clone Take NIC MAC address of PC on LAN side as the MAC address of WAN
interface.
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e. PPTP
Item Description
Server IP 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.
If you select the PPTP support on WAN interface, fill in the IP address for it.
User Name Fill in the user name and password to login the PPTP server.
Password Fill in the user name and password to login the PPTP server.
Address Mode Static: To configure the IP address information by manually, please fill in the
related setting at below.
Dynamic: The option allows the machine to get IP address information
automatically from DHCP server on WAN side.
IP Address Fill in the IP address for WAN interface.
Default Gateway Fill in the default gateway for WAN interface out going data packets.
Operation Mode Keep Alive: Keep the PPTP connection all the time. Please also configure the
Redial Period field.
On Demand: Please configure the Idle Time field. When time is up, the PPTP
connection will disconnect. The connection will re-connect when any outgoing
packet arise.
Manual: Let user connect the PPTP connection manually.
MAC Clone Take NIC MAC address of PC on LAN side as the MAC address of WAN
interface.
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4.3.3.2 LAN
Item Description
MAC Address Show the MAC address of LAN interface.
IP Address Fill in the IP address of LAN interfaces.
Subnet Mask Fill in the subnet mask of LAN interfaces.
Default Gateway Fill in the default gateway for LAN interfaces out going data packets.
DHCP Type Disable: Disable DHCP server on LAN side.
Server: Enable DHCP server on LAN side.
Start IP Address Fill in the start IP address to allocate a range of IP addresses; client with DHCP
function set will be assigned an IP address from the range.
End IP Address Fill in the end IP address to allocate a range of IP addresses; client with DHCP
function set will be assigned an IP address from the range.
802.1d Spanning Select enable or disable the IEEE 802.1d Spanning Tree function from pull-down
Tree menu.
LLTD Select enable or disable the Link Layer Topology Discover function from
pull-down menu.
IGMP Proxy Select enable or disable the IGMP proxy function from pull-down menu.
UPNP Select enable or disable the UPnP protocol from pull-down menu.
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4.3.3.3 DHCP clients
The “DHCP clients” page shows all the active DHCP clients. The table window
shows the active clients with their Hostname, MAC address, assigned IP address, and
time expired information.
Item Description
L2TP Passthrough Select enable or disable the L2TP pass-through function from pull-down menu.
IPSec Passthrough Select enable or disable the IPSec pass-through function from pull-down menu.
PPTP Passthrough Select enable or disable the PPTP pass-through function from pull-down menu.
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4.3.4 Wireless Settings
4.3.4.1 Basic
Item Description
Wireless On/Off Click Wireless OFF button to turn off wireless RF radio.
Click Wireless ON button to turn on wireless RF radio.
Wireless Mode Click to select wireless mode from pull down menu.
SSID It is the wireless network name. The SSID can be 32 bytes long.
User can use the default SSID or change it.
Broadcast Network Enable or disable the SSID broadcast function.
Name (SSID)
AP Isolation Wireless network is similar to the virtual local area network. All of the Wireless
client devices can access each other completely.
When you enable this function, it will turn off connection between wireless
clients. Only allows connection between wireless client and this AP router.
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MBSSID AP Enable this function will turn off connection between clients with different
Isolation
MBSSID. Example: The client connected with BSSID 1. When enable this
function, it will not connect with BSSID 2. Only can access between clients with
SSID 1.
Frequency (Channel) Select the wireless communication frequency/channel from pull-down menu.
Operating Mode Select “Mixed Mode” for 11b/g/n mode or “Green Field” for 11n mode.
Channel BandWidth Select the operating channel width 20 MHz or 20/40 MHz.
Guard Interval Select “Long” or “Auto”. Guard intervals are used to ensure that distinct
transmissions do not interfere with one another. Only effect under Mixed Mode.
MCS Select 0~7 or “Auto” from pull down menu. The default is “Auto”. Only effect
under Mixed Mode.
4.3.4.2 Advanced
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Item Description
B/G Protection Default: Auto. You can select the other options including On and Off. The B/G
Mode
protection technology is CTS-To-Self. It will try to reserve the throughput for
11g clients from 11b clients connecting to the device as AP mode.
Beacon Interval Beacons are the packets sending by Access point to synchronize the wireless
network. The beacon interval is the time interval between beacons sending by
this unit in AP or AP+WDS operation. The default and recommended beacon
interval is 100 milliseconds.
Data Beacon
This is the Delivery Traffic Indication Map. It is used to alert the clients that
Rate(DTM)
multicast and broadcast packets buffered at the AP will be transmitted
immediately after the transmission of this beacon frame. You can change the
value from 1 to 255. The AP will check the buffered data according to this value.
For example, selecting “1” means to check the buffered data at every beacon.
Fragment
Threshold The fragmentation threshold determines the size at which packets are
fragmented (sent as several pieces instead of as one block). Use a low setting in
areas where communication is poor or where there is a great deal of radio
interference. This function will help you to improve the network performance.
RTS Threshold
The RTS threshold determines the packet size at which the radio issues a request
to send (RTS) before sending the packet. A low RTS Threshold setting can be
useful in areas where many client devices are associating with the device, or in
areas where the clients are far apart and can detect only the device and not each
other. You can enter a setting ranging from 0 to 2347 bytes.
TX Power The default TX power is 100%. In case of shortening the distance and the coverage
of the wireless network, input a smaller value to reduce the radio transmission
power. For example, input 80 to apply 80% Tx power.
Short Preamble Default: Disable. It is a performance parameter for 802.11 b/g mode and not
supported by some of very early stage of 802.11b station cards. If there is no such
kind of stations associated to this AP, you can enable this function.
Short Slot It is used to shorten the communication time between this AP and station.
TX Burst The device will try to send a serial of packages with single ACK reply from the
clients. Enable this function to apply it.
Country Code Select the country code for wireless from pull down menu.
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4.3.4.3 Security
a. Disable
If you set Security Mode to “Disable”, the wireless data transmission will not
include encryption to prevent from unauthorized access and monitoring.
b. WEPAUTO
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If you set Security Mode to “WEPAUTO”, please fill in the related
configurations at below.
Item Description
Default Key Specify a Key number for effective.
WEP Keys When you select WEPAUTO, please input 5, 13 (ASCII), 10 or 26 (HEX)
(1~4) characters for WEP Key.
c. WPAPSK/WPA2PSK
Item Description
WPA Algorithms Select TKIP, AES, or TKIPAES for WPA algorithms.
Pass Phrase Please fill in a passphrase like ‘test wpa 123’, or a hexadecimal string like '65E4
E123 456 E1'.
Key Renewal
Please fill in a number for Group Key Renewal interval time.
Interval
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d. WPA1WPA2
Item Description
WPA Algorithms Select TKIP or AES for WPA algorithms.
Key Renewal
Please fill in a number for Group Key Renewal interval time.
Interval
PMK Cache Period Only valid in WPA2 security. Set WPA2 PMKID cache timeout period, after
time out, the cached key will be deleted. PMK Cache Period unit is minute.
Pre-Authentication Only valid in WPA2 security. The most important features beyond WPA to
become standardized through 802.11i/WPA2 are: Pre-authentication, which
enables secure fast roaming without noticeable signal latency.
IP Address Enter the RADIUS Server’s IP Address provided by your ISP.
Port Enter the RADIUS Server’s port number provided by your ISP. (The Default is
1812.)
Shared Secret Enter the password that the Wireless Router shares with the RADIUS Server.
Session Timeout Session timeout interval is for 802.1x re-authentication setting. Set to zero to
disable 802.1x re-authentication service for each session. Session timeout
interval unit is second and must be larger than 60.
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e. Access Policy
Item Description
Policy Select the Disabled, Allow or Reject of drop down menu choose wireless access
control mode. This is a security control function; only those clients registered in
the access control list can link to this WLAN Broadband Router.
Add a station MAC Fill in the MAC address of client to register this AP router access capability.
4.3.4.4 WDS
a. Disable
If you set WDS to “Disable”, Wireless Distribution System function will not effect.
b. Lazy Mode
Lazy mode allows user to operate in an automatic mode that detects and learns
WDS peer addresses from received WDS packets, without the need to configure a
MAC address list. This feature allows the Wireless 11n Access Point/Repeater to
associate with other Wireless 11n Access Point/Repeaters in the network and use their
WDS MAC address list. Lazy mode requires one other Wireless 11n Access
Point/Repeater within the wireless network that is configured in Bridge or Repeater
mode, and has a configured MAC address list.
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If you set WDS to “Lazy Mode”, please fill in the related configurations at
below.
Item Description
Phy Mode Select wireless physical mode from pull down menu. CKK (11b). OFDM (11g).
HTMIX (11b/g/n mixed mode)
Encryp Type Select encryption type for wireless data transmission. There are four options:
None, WEP, TKIP or AES.
Encryp Key When you select WEP encryption type on above, please input 5, 13 (ASCII), 10 or
26 (HEX) characters for WEP Key.
When you select TKIP or AES encryption type on above, please input a
Passphrase or Hex (64 characters).
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c. Bridge Mode
Bridge mode allows user to operate as a standard bridge that forwards traffic
between WDS links (links that connect to other units in Repeater or Lazy mode). The
MAC addresses of WDS peers must be configured on the Wireless 11n Access Points/
Repeaters. Basically this mode is used when you have a 2.4G outdoor router with
more than one WDS link to other AP/Repeaters.
Note: In this mode wireless clients will not be able to connect to the 2.4G outdoor
router directly.
Item Description
Phy Mode Select wireless physical mode from pull down menu. CKK (11b). OFDM (11g).
HTMIX (11b/g/n mixed mode)
Encryp Type Select encryption type for wireless data transmission. There are four options:
None, WEP, TKIP or AES.
Encryp Key When you select WEP encryption type on above, please input 5, 13 (ASCII), 10 or
26 (HEX) characters for WEP Key.
When you select TKIP or AES encryption type on above, please input a
Passphrase or Hex (64 characters).
AP MAC Address Fill in the MAC address of AP which WDS links in Repeater or Lazy mode.
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d. Repeater Mode
Repeater mode allows user to operate as a wireless repeater, extending the range
for remote wireless clients and connecting them to an AP connected to the wired
network. The MAC addresses of WDS peers must be configured on the Wireless 11n
Access Point/Repeater.
Item Description
Phy Mode Select wireless physical mode from pull down menu. CKK (11b). OFDM (11g).
HTMIX (11b/g/n mixed mode)
Encryp Type Select encryption type for wireless data transmission. There are four options:
None, WEP, TKIP or AES.
Encryp Key When you select WEP encryption type on above, please input 5, 13 (ASCII), 10 or
26 (HEX) characters for WEP Key.
When you select TKIP or AES encryption type on above, please input a
Passphrase or Hex (64 characters).
AP MAC Address Fill in the MAC address of AP which WDS links in Repeater or Lazy mode.
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4.3.4.5 WPS
Item Description
WPS Select Enable or Disable the Wi-Fi Protected Setup function. Then click Apply
button to take effect function after change.
WPS Summary After enabling the WPS function, if there is connection the WPS Summary will
show related information and status.
AP PIN Here shows the AP’s PIN code (Personal Identification Number) that the
enrollee should enter the registrar’s PIN code to make a connection.
Click Generate button to generate a new AP PIN code.
Reset OOB Click Reset OOB button to reset WPS AP to the OOB (out-of-box)
configuration.
WPS mode Select WPS mode. PIN: Personal Identification Number. PBC: Push Button
Communication.
PIN Input enrollee’s PIN code to AP-registrar.
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4.3.5 Firewall
4.3.5.1 MAC/IP/Port Filtering
Item Description
MAC/IP/Port
Select Enable or Disable the MAC/IP/Port Filtering function.
Filtering
Item Description
Source MAC
Fill in the MAC address of source NIC, to restrict data transmission.
address
Dest IP Address Fill in the IP address of destination, to restrict data transmission.
Source IP Address Fill in the IP address of source, to restrict data transmission.
Protocol Select the protocol that you want to restrict. There are four options: None, TCP,
UDP and ICMP.
Dest Port Range Fill in the start-port and end-port number of destination, to restrict data
transmission.
Source Port Range Fill in the start-port and end-port number of source, to restrict data transmission.
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Item Description
□ Make a mark for next action.
Delete Selected Click Delete Selected button to delete all that you selected.
Reset Click Reset button to clear selected items.
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Item Description
Port Forwarding Select Enable or Disable the Port Forwarding function.
IP Address To forward data packets coming from WAN to a specific IP address that hosted
in local network behind the NAT firewall, fill in the IP address.
Port Range To forward data packets coming from WAN to a specific IP address that hosted
in local network behind the NAT firewall, fill in the port range.
Protocol Specify protocol, TCP&UDP, TCP or UDP.
Delete Selected Click Delete Selected button to delete all that you selected.
Item Description
Virtual Server Select Enable or Disable the Virtual Server function.
IP Address To forward data packets coming from WAN to a specific IP address that hosted
in local network behind the NAT firewall, fill in the IP address.
Public Port To forward data packets coming from WAN to a specific IP address that hosted
in local network behind the NAT firewall, fill in the public port.
Private Port To forward data packets coming from WAN to a specific IP address that hosted
in local network behind the NAT firewall, fill in the private port.
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Protocol Specify protocol, TCP&UDP, TCP or UDP.
Delete Selected Click Delete Selected button to delete all that you selected.
4.3.5.3 DMZ
Item Description
DMZ Settings Enable or Disable the DMZ function.
DMZ IP Address To support DMZ in your firewall design, fill in the IP address of DMZ host that
can be access from the WAN interface.
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4.3.5.4 System Security
Item Description
Remote
Select Deny or Allow for remote management function.
management
Ping form WAN
Select Disable or Enable for Ping permit from WAN.
Filter
SPI Firewall Select Disable or Enable for SPI firewall function.
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Item Description
Filters Select an option or multi-option for Webs content filter. Then click Apply button
to save or click Reset button to clear all.
URL
Fill in a URL string for URL filter. Then click Add button to save the URL filter
policy or click Reset button to clear the field.
Item Description
Keyword Fill in a word for Webs Host Filter policy.
□ Make a mark for next action.
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4.3.6 Administration
4.3.6.1 Management
Item Description
Username Fill in the user name for web management login control.
Time Zone Select the time zone in your country from pull-down menu..
NTP Fill in a number to decide the synchronization frequency with NTP server.
synchronization
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Item Description
Dynamic DNS
Click the drop down menu to pick up the right DDNS provider you registered.
Provider
Account Fill in the account of DDNS you registered.
Password Fill in the password of DDNS you registered.
DDNS Fill in the domain name that you registered.
Item Description
Location Click the Browse button to select the new firmware image file on PC.
And click the Apply button to upgrade firmware.
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4.3.6.3 Settings Management
Item Description
Export Button Click Export button to export the current configuration to your PC.
Settings file
Click Browse button to select the configuration file from your PC, then click
location
Import button to update the configuration.
Load Default Click the Load Default button to reset the configuration parameter to factory
Button defaults.
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4.3.6.4 Status
This page shows the current status and some basic settings of the device, includes system info,
Internet Configurations and Local Network .
Item Description
Refresh Click the Refresh button to refresh the log shown on the screen.
Clear Click the Clear button to clear the log display screen.
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4.4 Configuration Examples
4.4.1 Example one – PPPoE on the WAN
Sales division of Company ABC likes to establish a WLAN network to support mobile communication
on sales’ Notebook PCs. MIS engineer collects information and plans the WLAN Broadband Router
implementation by the following configuration.
WAN configuration:PPPoE
User Name user123
Password password123
Note: User Name and password that ISP provided.
LAN configuration:
IP Address 10.10.10.254
Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
DHCP Client Range 10.10.10.100 – 10.10.10.200
WLAN configuration:
SSID AP
Channel Number AutoSelect
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2. Configure the LAN interface:
Open “Local Area Network (LAN) settings” page, enter the IP Address “10.10.10.254”, Subnet Mask
“255.255.255.0”. Enable DHCP Server, DHCP client range “10.10.10.100” to “10.10.10.200”, default
Gateway “10.10.10.254” .
Press “Apply” button to confirm the configuration setting.
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4.4.2 Example two – fixed IP on the WAN
Company ABC likes to establish a WLAN network to support mobile communication on all
employees’ Notebook PCs. MIS engineer collects information and plans the WLAN Broadband Router
implementation by the following configuration.
LAN configuration:
IP Address 10.10.10.254
Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
DHCP Client Range 10.10.10.100 – 10.10.10.200
WLAN configuration:
SSID AP
Channel Number AutoSelect
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2. Configure the LAN interface:
Open “Local Area Network (LAN) settings” page, enter the IP Address “10.10.10.254”, Subnet Mask
“255.255.255.0”. Enable DHCP Server, DHCP client range “10.10.10.100” to “10.10.10.200”, default
Gateway “10.10.10.254” .
Press “Apply” button to confirm the configuration setting.
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4.4.3 Example three –set WLAN to be WAN as WiFi Client
User Mr. ABC likes to configure this WLAN Broadband Router to be a WiFi client. In order to
communicate with another AP. Mr. ABC collects information and plans the WLAN Broadband Router
implementation by the following configuration.
WiFi client:
LAN configuration:
IP Address 10.10.10.254
Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
DHCP Client Range 10.10.10.100 – 10.10.10.200
WLAN configuration:
SSID Depend on AP
Channel Number Depend on AP
WiFi server:
AP configuration:
SSID TEST AP
Channel Number Channel 1
Wireless Encryption WPA2
DHCP server 192.168.0.33~192.168.0.254
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2. Site Survey:
Open “Site Survey” page under Wireless Settings, and select the AP “testap”.
Press “Connect” button to connect with the AP.
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4. Station Link Status:
After connection with AP, you can open “Link Status” page under Wireless Settings to check Link
Status.
5 Status:
You also can open “Status” page under Administration to check Internet Configurations.
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5. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ)
Enter topic text here.
The MAC (Media Access Control) address is your computer's unique hardware number. (On an
Ethernet LAN, it's the same as your Ethernet address.) When you're connected to the Internet from your
computer (or host as the Internet protocol thinks of it), a correspondence table relates your IP address to
your computer's physical (MAC) address on the LAN.
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Ad hoc mode (also called peer-to-peer mode or an Independent Basic Service Set, or IBSS) is simply a
set of 802.11 wireless stations that communicate directly with one another without using an access
point or any connection to a wired network. This mode is useful for quickly and easily setting up a
wireless network anywhere that a wireless infrastructure does not exist or is not required for services,
such as a hotel room, convention center, or airport, or where access to the wired network is barred
(such as for consultants at a client site).
5.8 What are the Open System and Shared Key authentications?
IEEE 802.11 supports two subtypes of network authentication services: open system and shared key.
Under open system authentication, any wireless station can request authentication. The station that
needs to authenticate with another wireless station sends an authentication management frame that
contains the identity of the sending station. The receiving station then returns a frame that indicates
whether it recognizes the sending station. Under shared key authentication, each wireless station is
assumed to have received a secret shared key over a secure channel that is independent from the 802.11
wireless network communications channel.
WEP relies on a secret key that is shared between a mobile station (e.g. a laptop with a wireless
Ethernet card) and an access point (i.e. a base station). The secret key is used to encrypt packets before
they are transmitted, and an integrity check is used to ensure that packets are not modified in transit.
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5.10 What is Fragment Threshold?
The proposed protocol uses the frame fragmentation mechanism defined in IEEE 802.11 to achieve
parallel transmissions. A large data frame is fragmented into several fragments each of size equal to
fragment threshold. By tuning the fragment threshold value, we can get varying fragment sizes. The
determination of an efficient fragment threshold is an important issue in this scheme. If the fragment
threshold is small, the overlap part of the master and parallel transmissions is large. This means the
spatial reuse ratio of parallel transmissions is high. In contrast, with a large fragment threshold, the
overlap is small and the spatial reuse ratio is low. However high fragment threshold leads to low
fragment overhead. Hence there is a trade-off between spatial re-use and fragment overhead.
Fragment threshold is the maximum packet size used for fragmentation. Packets larger than the size
programmed in this field will be fragmented.
If you find that your corrupted packets or asymmetric packet reception (all send packets, for example).
You may want to try lowering your fragmentation threshold. This will cause packets to be broken into
smaller fragments. These small fragments, if corrupted, can be resent faster than a larger fragment.
Fragmentation increases overhead, so you'll want to keep this value as close to the maximum value as
possible.
This setting is useful for networks with many clients. With many clients, and a high network load, there
will be many more collisions. By lowering the RTS threshold, there may be fewer collisions, and
performance should improve. Basically, with a faster RTS threshold, the system can recover from
problems faster. RTS packets consume valuable bandwidth, however, so setting this value too low will
limit performance.
Beacon Interval represents the amount of time between beacon transmissions. Before a station enters
power save mode, the station needs the beacon interval to know when to wake up to receive the beacon
(and learn whether there are buffered frames at the access point).
Some wireless devices don't work properly if SSID isn't broadcast (for example the D-link DWL-120
USB 802.11b adapter). Generally if your client hardware supports operation with SSID disabled, it's
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not a bad idea to run that way to enhance network security. However it's no replacement for WEP,
MAC filtering or other protections.
To upgrade a WLAN network to support WPA, Access Points will require a WPA software upgrade.
Clients will require a software upgrade for the network interface card, and possibly a software update
for the operating system. For enterprise networks, an authentication server, typically one that supports
RADIUS and the selected EAP authentication protocol, will be added to the network.
Beyond encapsulating EAP packets, the 802.1x standard also defines EAPOL messages that convey the
shared key information critical for wireless security.
IAPP defines messages and data to be exchanged between Access Points and between the IAPP and
high layer management entities to support roaming. The IAPP protocol uses TCP for inter-Access Point
communication and UDP for RADIUS request/response exchanges. It also uses Layer 2 frames to
update the forwarding tables of Layer 2 devices.
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ultimate goal is to allow data communication among all UPnP devices regardless of media, operating
system, programming language, and wired/wireless connection.
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modulation, and the data rate on each stream. Radios establishing and maintaining a link must
automatically negotiate the optimum MCS based on channel conditions and then continuously adjust
the selection of MCS as conditions change due to interference, motion, fading, and other events.
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