AmbiCom WL250-KIT, User Manual

Page 1: ...kes no representations or warranties either expressed or implied with respect to the contents hereof and specifically disclaims any warranties merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose Any software described in this manual is sold or licensed as is Should the programs prove defective following their purchase the buyer and not this company its distributor or its dealer assumes the entir...

Page 2: ... an experienced radio technician for help FCC Caution This equipment must be installed and operated in accordance with provided instructions and a minimum 20 cm spacing must be provided between computer mounted antenna and person s body excluding extremities of hands wrist and feet during wireless modes of operation This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules Operation is subject to the fol...

Page 3: ... of those who install and use it However special attention must be paid to the dangers of electric shock and static electricity when working with electrical equipment All guidelines of this and of the computer manufacture must therefore be allowed at all times to ensure the safe use of the equipment EU Countries Intended for Use The ETSI version of this device is intended for home and office use i...

Page 4: ...Cable Modem 2 3 2 Setup Procedures For Fixed IP xDSL 2 3 3 Setup Procedures For PPPoE xDSL 2 3 4 Setup Procedures For PPTP xDSL 2 3 5 Setup Procedures For L2TP xDSL 2 3 6 Setup Procedures For Telstra Big Pond 2 4 Basic Setup 2 4 1 Time Zone And Time Auto Synchronization 2 4 2 Changing The Management Password 2 4 3 Remote Management 2 5 Setup Internet Connection WAN Setup 2 5 1 Setup Procedures For...

Page 5: ...A RADIUS 2 7 4 Wireless Access Control 2 7 5 Wi Fi Protected Setup WPS 2 7 6 Security Tips For Wireless Network CHAPTER III ADVANCED FUNCTIONS 3 1 Quality OF Service QoS 3 1 1 Basic QoS Settings 3 1 2 Add A New QoS rule 3 2 Network Address Translation NAT 3 2 1 Basic NAT Settings Enable or disable NAT function 3 2 2 Port Forwarding 3 2 3 Virtual Server 3 2 4 Port Mapping For Special Applications 3...

Page 6: ...3 4 5 Active DHCP Client List 3 4 6 Statistics 3 5 Configuration Backup And Restore 3 6 Firmware Upgrade 3 7 System Reset CHAPTER IV APPENDIX 4 1 Hardware Specification 4 2 Troubleshooting 4 3 Glossary ...

Page 7: ... speed of wireless experience ever With a compatible wireless card installed in your PC you can transfer file for up to 300Mbps transfer data rate The radio coverage is also extended Other features of this router including Allow multiple users to share a single Internet line Supports up to 253 users Share a single Cable or xDSL internet connection Access private LAN servers from the internet Four ...

Page 8: ...r dealer of purchase and ask for help DO NOT disassemble the router warranty will be voided 8 If the router falls into water when it s powered DO NOT use your hand to pick it up Switch the electrical power off before you do anything or contact an experienced technician for help 9 If you smell something strange or even see some smoke coming out from the router or power supply remove the power suppl...

Page 9: ...nected Off LAN port is not connected LAN 1 4 Flashing LAN activity transferring or receiving data Back Panel Item Name Description Antenna A B These antennas are 3dBi dipole antennas Radio ON OFF Switch the button to activate or deactivate the wireless functions Reset WPS Press and hold this button for 10 or more seconds to restore all settings to factory defaults POWER LED should flash rapidly Pr...

Page 10: ...c IP address or you are unsure please follow the steps below If the operating system of your computer is Windows 95 98 Me please go to section 2 2 1 Windows 2000 please go to section 2 2 2 Windows XP please go to section 2 2 3 Windows Vista please go to section 2 2 4 2 2 1 Windows 95 98 Me IP Address Setup 1 Click the Start button it should be located at lower left corner of your computer then cli...

Page 11: ...cally then click OK 2 2 5 Router IP Address Lookup 1 Click Start Run at the bottom lower corner of your desktop then type cmd and click OK 2 Input ipconfig then press the Enter key on your keyboard Please note the Default Gateway IP address In this example the IP address of router is 192 168 2 1 please note that this value may be different NOTE If the IP address of Default Gateway is not displayed...

Page 12: ...please start your web browser and input the Default Gateway IP address in address bar The following message should be shown 4 Please input user name and password in the field respectively default user name is admin and default password is 1234 then press the OK button and you can see the web management interface of this router 6 ...

Page 13: ...s you need to access the Internet in very short time HERE And the following message will be displayed 1 Set Time Zone 1 2 3 Set Time Zone 1 Choose your time zone by clicking on the button Time Server Address 2 Input the IP address host name of time server here Default Daylight Savings 3 Enable Daylight saving feature 7 ...

Page 14: ...ike xDSL Also some cable modem uses PPPoE so you can choose PPPoE xDSL for such cable modem connection even you re using a cable modem Cable Modem Please go to section 2 3 1 Fixed IP xDSL Please go to section 2 3 2 PPPoE xDSL Please go to section 2 3 3 PPTP xDSL Please go to section 2 3 4 L2TP xDSL Please go to section 2 3 5 Telstra Big Pond Please go to section 2 3 6 If you re not sure please con...

Page 15: ...ere If you re using the computer which used to connect to Internet via cable modem you can simply press Clone Mac address button to fill the MAC address field with the MAC address of your computer When all settings are finished you ll see the following message displayed on your web browser Please click Apply button to prepare to restart the router and you ll see this message Please wait for about ...

Page 16: ...ress 4 Please input the IP address of DNS server provided by your service provider Note You must use the addresses provided by your Internet service provider wrong setting value will cause connection problem When all settings are finished you ll see the following message displayed on your web browser Please click Apply button to prepare to restart the router and you ll see this message Please wait...

Page 17: ...onnect on Demand Only connects to Internet when there s a connect attempt 3 Manual Only connects to Internet when Connect button on this page is pressed and disconnects when Disconnect button is pressed Idle Time Out 6 Please input idle time out Specify the time to shutdown Internet connects after no internet activity is detected by minute This option is only available when connection type is Conn...

Page 18: ... in these fields PPTP settings section 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 User ID 1 Please input user ID user name assigned by your Internet service provider here Password 2 Please input the password assigned by your Internet service provider here PPTP Gateway 3 Please input the IP address of PPTP gateway assigned by your Internet service provider here Connection ID 4 Please input the connection ID here Optional MTU...

Page 19: ...t activity is detected by minute This option is only available when connection type is Connect on Demand When all settings are finished you ll see the following message displayed on your web browser Please click Apply button to prepare to restart the router and you ll see this message Please wait for about 30 seconds then click OK button You ll be back to router management interface again and the ...

Page 20: ...s L2TP settings section 1 2 4 5 6 3 User ID 1 Please input user ID user name assigned by your Internet service provider here Password 2 Please input the password assigned by your Internet service provider here L2TP Gateway 3 Please input the IP address of L2TP gateway assigned by your Internet service provider here MTU 4 Please input the MTU value of your network connection here If you don t know ...

Page 21: ... Connect on Demand When all settings are finished you ll see the following message displayed on your web browser Please click Apply button to prepare to restart the router and you ll see this message Please wait for about 30 seconds then click OK button You ll be back to router management interface again and the router is ready with new settings 15 ...

Page 22: ... login server manually 3 Check this box to choose login server by yourself Login Server 4 Please input the IP address of login server here When all settings are finished you ll see the following message displayed on your web browser Please click Apply button to prepare to restart the router and you ll see this message Please wait for about 30 seconds then click OK button You ll be back to router m...

Page 23: ...our web browser Please select time zone at Set time zone drop down list and input the IP address or host name of time server If you want to enable daylight savings setting please check Enable Function box and set the duration of daylight setting When you finish click Apply You ll see the following message displayed on web browser Press Continue to save the settings made and back to web management ...

Page 24: ...ed on your web browser 1 2 3 Current Password 1 Please input current password here New Password 2 Please input new password here Confirmed Password 3 Please input new password here again When you finish click Apply If you want to keep original password unchanged click Cancel If the password you typed in New Password 2 and Confirmed Password 3 field are not the same you ll see the following message...

Page 25: ...s router from a specific IP address by enabling the Remote Management Function Please click System menu on the left of web management interface then click Remote Management and the following message will be displayed on your web browser 1 2 3 Host Address 1 Input the IP address of the remote host you wish to initiate a management access Port 2 You can define the port number this router should expe...

Page 26: ...it will not be a problem but if the IP address your service provider assigns to you will vary every time you establish an Internet connection this will be a problem Please either asks your service provider to give you a static IP address or use dynamic IP to host name mapping services like DDNS Please refer to chapter 2 5 8 DDNS client for details NOTE Default port number the web browser will use ...

Page 27: ... your web browser Please select an Internet connection method depend on the type of connection you re using You can either click the connection method on the left 1 or right 2 If you select the connection method on the right please click More Configuration button after a method is selected 1 2 Dynamic IP Please go to section 2 5 1 Static IP Please go to section 2 5 2 PPPoE Please go to section 2 5...

Page 28: ... here If you re using the computer which used to connect to Internet via cable modem you can simply press Clone Mac address button to fill the MAC address field with the MAC address of your computer After you finish with all settings please click Apply the following message will be displayed on your web browser Please click Continue to back to previous setup menu to continue on router setup or cli...

Page 29: ...vider Gateway Address 3 Please input the IP address of DNS server provided by your service provider After you finish with all settings please click Apply the following message will be displayed on your web browser Please click Continue to back to previous setup menu to continue on router setup or click Apply to reboot the router so the settings will take effect Please wait for about 30 seconds whi...

Page 30: ...onnect on Demand Only connects to Internet when there s a connect attempt 6 Manual Only connects to Internet when Connect button on this page is pressed and disconnects when Disconnect button is pressed Idle Time Out 6 Please input idle time out Specify the time to shutdown Internet connects after no internet activity is detected by minute This option is only available when connection type is Conn...

Page 31: ...u don t know what you should fill in these fields PPTP settings section 1 2 3 4 5 7 6 8 User ID 1 Please input user ID user name assigned by your Internet service provider here Password 2 Please input the password assigned by your Internet service provider here PPTP Gateway 3 Please input the IP address of PPTP gateway assigned by your Internet service provider here Connection ID 4 Please input th...

Page 32: ...down Internet connects after no internet activity is detected by minute This option is only available when connection type is Connect on Demand When all settings are finished you ll see the following message displayed on your web browser Please click Apply button to prepare to restart the router and you ll see this message Please wait for about 30 seconds then click OK button You ll be back to rou...

Page 33: ...P settings section 1 2 4 5 6 3 User ID 1 Please input user ID user name assigned by your Internet service provider here Password 2 Please input the password assigned by your Internet service provider here L2TP Gateway 3 Please input the IP address of L2TP gateway assigned by your Internet service provider here MTU 4 Please input the MTU value of your network connection here If you don t know you c...

Page 34: ... Connect on Demand When all settings are finished you ll see the following message displayed on your web browser Please click Apply button to prepare to restart the router and you ll see this message Please wait for about 30 seconds then click OK button You ll be back to router management interface again and the router is ready with new settings 28 ...

Page 35: ... login server manually 3 Check this box to choose login server by yourself Login Server 4 Please input the IP address of login server here When all settings are finished you ll see the following message displayed on your web browser Please click Apply button to prepare to restart the router and you ll see this message Please wait for about 30 seconds then click OK button You ll be back to router m...

Page 36: ... DNS server provided by your service provider Only numeric characters and dots are accepted Secondary DNS Address 2 Please input the IP address of another DNS server provided by your service provider this is optional Only numeric characters and dots are accepted When all settings are finished you ll see the following message displayed on your web browser Please click Apply button to prepare to res...

Page 37: ...roviders for example DynDNS http www dyndns org TZO http www tzo com Please go to one of DDNS service provider s webpage listed above and get a free DDNS account by the instructions given on their webpage 1 2 3 4 5 Dynamic DNS 1 If you want to enable DDNS function please select Enabled otherwise please select Disabled Provider 2 Select your DDNS service provider here Domain Name 3 Input the domain...

Page 38: ...an for your network here are some suggestions 1 A valid IP address has 4 fields a b c d for most of home and company users it s suggested to use 192 168 c d where c is an integer between 0 and 254 and d is an integer between 1 and 254 This router is capable to work with up to 253 clients so you can set d field of IP address of router as 1 or 254 or any number between 1 and 254 and pick a number be...

Page 39: ...ee Disabled DHCP Server Enabled 2 6 2 DHCP Server 1 3 2 4 These settings are only available when DHCP Server in LAN IP section is Enabled and here are descriptions of every setup items Lease Time 1 Please choose a lease time the duration that every computer can keep a specific IP address of every IP address assigned by this router from dropdown menu Start IP 2 Please input the start IP address of ...

Page 40: ...ign a certain IP address to a specific computer since IP addresses will be assigned in random order by this way 1 4 2 3 Enable Static DHCP Leases 1 Check this box to enable this function otherwise uncheck it to disable this function MAC Address 2 Input the MAC address of the computer or network device total 12 characters with character from 0 to 9 and from a to f like 001122aabbcc IP address 3 Inp...

Page 41: ...so use the built in security functions to protect your network from being intruded by intruders Please click Wireless menu on the left of web management interface and the following message will be displayed on your web browser You must enable wireless function of this router or the wireless interface of this router will not function Please select Enable then click Apply button If you re coming her...

Page 42: ...router can act as Station and AP at the same time It can use Station function to connect to a Root AP and use AP function to service all wireless stations within its coverage NOTE For AP Bridge Point to Point and AP Bridge Point to Multi Point mode wireless router is operated in wireless bridge dedicated mode wireless router is only used to expand the scope of network and no wireless clients will ...

Page 43: ...mber the channel number you use some wireless client supports manual channel number select and this would help in certain scenario when there is some radio communication problem Associated Clients 5 Click Show Active Clients button then an Active Wireless Client Table will pop up You can see the status of all active wireless stations that are connecting to the access point 2 7 1 2 Setup Procedures...

Page 44: ...rks between two buildings NOTE Two wireless routers must use the same mode band channel number and security setting 1 2 3 4 5 Band 2 Select the band you want to use two wireless routers must use the same setting Channel Number 3 Select the channel you want to use two wireless routers must use the same setting MAC address 4 Input the MAC address of another wireless router Set Security 5 Click to se...

Page 45: ... the band you want to use all the wireless routers must use the same setting ESSID 3 Input the ESSID of your wireless router the setting should be the same with other wireless routers for the convenience of roaming Channel Number 4 Select the channel you want to use all the wireless routers must use the same setting Associated Clients 5 Click Show Active Clients button then an Active Wireless Clie...

Page 46: ... one which is meaningful to you like myhome office_room1 etc Channel Number 4 Select the channel you want to use all the wireless routers must use the same setting Associated Clients 5 Click Show Active Clients button then an Active Wireless Client Table will pop up You can see the status of all active wireless stations that are connecting to the access point Root AP SSID 6 In Universal Repeater m...

Page 47: ... setting is Short Preamble Broadcast ESSID 9 Decide if the wireless router will broadcast its own ESSID or not You can hide the ESSID of your wireless router set the option to Disable so only people those who know the ESSID of your wireless router can get connected CTS Protect 10 Enabling this setting will reduce the chance of radio signal collisions between 802 11b and 802 11g n wireless access p...

Page 48: ...ettings Please click Wireless menu on the left of web management interface then click Security Settings then follow the following instructions to set wireless security settings 2 7 3 1 Disable Wireless Security When you select this mode data encryption is disabled and every wireless device in proximity will be able to connect your wireless router if no other security measure is enabled like MAC ad...

Page 49: ...aracters here the number of characters must be the same as the number displayed at Key Format field You can use any alphanumerical characters 0 9 a z and A Z if you select ASCII key format and if you select Hex as key format you can use characters 0 9 a f and A F You must enter at least one encryption key here and if you entered multiple WEP keys they should not be same with each other Enable 802 ...

Page 50: ... about 30 seconds then click OK button You ll be back to router management interface again and the router is ready with new settings 2 7 3 3 Wi Fi Protected Access WPA When you select this mode the wireless router will use WPA encryption and the following setup menu will be shown on your web browser 1 2 3 4 WPA Unicast Cipher Suite 2 Please select a type of WPA cipher suite Available options are W...

Page 51: ...WPA TKIP WPA2 AES and WPA2 Mixed You can select one of them but you have to make sure your wireless client support the cipher you selected RADIUS Server IP address 3 Please input the IP address of your Radius authentication server here RADIUS Server Port 4 Please input the port number of your Radius authentication server here Default setting is 1812 RADIUS Server Password 5 Please input the passwo...

Page 52: ...click Delete All button Reset 4 You can also click Reset button to unselect all MAC addresses Enable Wireless Access Control 5 To enforce MAC address filtering you have to check Enable Wireless Access Control When this item is unchecked wireless router will not enforce MAC address filtering of wireless clients MAC Address 6 Input the MAC address of your wireless devices here dash or colon are not ...

Page 53: ...wireless router supports two types of WPS Push Button Configuration PBC and PIN code If you want to use PBC you have to push a specific button on the wireless client to start WPS mode and switch this wireless router to WPS mode too You can push Reset WPS button of this wireless router or click Start PBC button in the web configuration interface to do this if you want to use PIN code you have to kn...

Page 54: ... will follow the router s wireless settings for WPS connection When Enrolle mode is enabled the router will follow the wireless settings of wireless client for WPS connection Configure via Push Button 4 Click Start PBC to start Push Button style WPS setup procedure This wireless router will wait for WPS requests from wireless clients for 2 minutes The WLAN LED on the wireless router will be steady...

Page 55: ...nction you can limit the maximum bandwidth or give a guaranteed bandwidth for a specific computer to avoid said unpleasing result from happening 3 1 1 Basic QoS Settings Please click Qos menu on the left of web management interface and the following message will be displayed on your web browser 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Enable QoS 1 Check this box to enable QoS function unselect this box if you don ...

Page 56: ...ter you click Apply the following message will be displayed on your web browser Please wait for about 30 seconds then click OK button You ll be back to router management interface again and the router is ready with new settings 3 1 2 Add A New QoS Rule After you click Add button in QoS menu the following message will appear 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Rule Name 1 Please give a name to this QoS rule up to 15 a...

Page 57: ...k Traffic Type 7 Please select the traffic type of this rule available options are None SMTP HTTP POP3 and FTP You can select a specific traffic type for this rule if you want to make this rule as a IP address based rule apply the limitation on all traffics from to the specified IP address port number select None Protocol 8 Please select the protocol type of this rule available options are TCP and...

Page 58: ...ase click NAT menu on the left of web management interface then click Port Forwarding and the following message will be displayed on your web browser 1 4 5 6 2 3 7 8 12 11 10 9 Enable Port Forwarding 1 Check this box to enable port mapping and uncheck this box to disable port mapping Private IP 2 Input the IP address of the computer on local network which provides internet service Computer Name 3 ...

Page 59: ...address on WAN port to a specified port of an IP address on local network so you can setup an Internet service on the computer on local network without exposing it on Internet directly You can also build many sets of port redirection to provide many different Internet services on different local computers via a single Internet IP address Please click NAT menu on the left of web management interfac...

Page 60: ...t all mappings After you finish all settings please click Apply button on the bottom of this page After you click Apply the following message will be displayed on your web browser Please wait for about 30 seconds then click OK button You ll be back to router management interface again and the router is ready with new settings 3 2 4 Port Mapping For Special Applications Some applications require mo...

Page 61: ...he Current Trigger Port Table select the Special Application settings you want to remove in the table and then click Delete Selected If you want remove all Special Appliacation settings from the table just click Delete All button Click Reset will clear your current selections Delete Selected 11 Please select a special application by clicking the Select box of the mapping then click Delete Selected...

Page 62: ...on UPnP function nowadays Please click NAT menu on the left of web management interface then click UPnP and the following message will be displayed on your web browser After you finish all settings please click Apply button on the bottom of this page After you click Apply the following message will be displayed on your web browser Please wait for about 30 seconds then click OK button You ll be bac...

Page 63: ...T architecture Please click NAT menu on the left of web management interface then click ALG Settings and the following message will be displayed on your web browser After you finish all settings please click Apply button on the bottom of this page After you click Apply the following message will be displayed on your web browser Please wait for about 30 seconds then click OK button You ll be back t...

Page 64: ...ined keywords Please click Firewall menu on the left of web management interface and the following message will be displayed on your web browser After you finish all settings please click Apply button on the bottom of this page After you click Apply the following message will be displayed on your web browser Please wait for about 30 seconds then click OK button You ll be back to router management ...

Page 65: ...sh or colon are not required i e If the MAC address label of your wireless device indicates aa bb cc dd ee ff or aa bb cc dd ee ff just input aabbccddeeff Computer Name 3 Pull down the menu and all the computers connected to the router will be listed here You can easily to select the computer name without checking the IP address of the computer Comment 4 You can input any text here as the comment ...

Page 66: ...ddresses in filtering table will be listed here Add PC 13 Click this button to add a new IP address to IP filtering table up to 20 IP addresses can be added Please refer to section 3 3 1 1 Add PC below Delete Selected 14 If you want to delete a specific IP address entry check the select box of the IP address you want to delete then click Delete Selected button You can select more than one IP addre...

Page 67: ...o allow or deny this IP address to use you can check multiple services Protocol 4 If the service you need is not listed above you can create a new service on your own Please select TCP or UDP if you re not sure please select Both Port Range 5 Please input the port range of new service here If you want to specify port 80 to 90 please input 80 90 if you want to apply this rule on a single port just ...

Page 68: ...artoon stock or anything Add 3 Click Add button to add the URL keyword to the URL Keyword filtering table Reset 4 Click Reset to remove the value you inputted in URL Keyword field Current URL Blocking Table 5 All existing URL Keywords in filtering table will be listed here Delete Selected 6 If you want to delete a specific URL Keyword entry check the select box of the MAC address you want to delet...

Page 69: ...th with a lot of PING request data packet to make your internet connection become very slow even unusable Check this box and the router will ignore all inbound PING request but when you activate this function you will not be able to ping your own router from internet too Port Scan 3 Some malicious intruder will try to use a port scanner to know how many ports of your Internet IP address are open a...

Page 70: ...net connection become very slow even unusable Check this box and the router will ignore all inbound PING request but when you activate this function you will not be able to ping your own router from internet too Port Scan 3 Some malicious intruder will try to use a port scanner to know how many ports of your Internet IP address are open and they can collect a lot of valuable information by doing s...

Page 71: ... Internet connection session from dropdown menu if you select Static IP please input the IP address that you want to map to a specific private IP address Client PC IP address 3 Please input the private IP address that the Internet IP address will be mapped to Computer Name 4 Pull down the menu and all the computers connected to the router will be listed here You can easily to select the computer n...

Page 72: ...4 System Status The functions described here will provide you with system related information To enter system status menu please either click Status link located at the upper right corner of web management interface or click Status button in main menu 3 4 1 System Information And Firmware Version You can use this function to know the system information and firmware version of this router Please cl...

Page 73: ...owing message will be displayed on your web browser NOTE This information will vary depending on the connection status 3 4 3 Device Status You can use this function to know the status of your router Please click Device Status menu on the left of web management interface and the following message will be displayed on your web browser NOTE This information will vary depending on the device status 67...

Page 74: ...2 Delete all event logs displayed here Refresh 3 Refresh the event log display 3 4 5 Security Log All information about network and system security is kept here and you can use this function to check the security event log of your router Please click Security Log menu on the left of web management interface and the following message will be displayed on your web browser 1 2 3 Save 1 Save current e...

Page 75: ...played on your web browser All information about active DHCP leases issued by this router will be displayed here You can click Refresh button to display latest information 3 4 6 Statistics You can use this function to check the statistics of wireless LAN and WAN interface of this router Please click Statistics menu on the left of web management interface and the following message will be displayed...

Page 76: ...figuration file from your computer and then click Upload to transfer the configuration file to router After the configuration is uploaded the router s configuration will be replaced by the file you just uploaded Restore to Factory Default 3 Click this button to remove all settings you made and restore the configuration of this router back to factory default settings 3 6 Firmware Upgrade The system...

Page 77: ... firmware you uploaded is corrupt the firmware upgrade will fail and you may have to return this router to the dealer of purchase to ask for help Warranty voids if you interrupted the upgrade procedure 3 7 System Reset If you think the network performance is bad or you found the behavior of the router is strange you can perform a router reset sometime it will solve the problem To do so please clic...

Page 78: ...router b If all LEDs on this router are off please check the status of A C power adapter and make sure it s correctly powered c You must use the same IP address section which router uses d Are you using MAC or IP address filter Try to connect the router by another computer and see if it works if not please restore your router to factory default settings pressing reset button for over 10 seconds e ...

Page 79: ... the Caps Lock light is not illuminated c If you really forget the password do a hard reset Router become hot a This is not a malfunction if you can keep your hand on the router s case b If you smell something wrong or see the smoke coming out from router or A C power adapter please disconnect the router and A C power adapter from utility power make sure it s safe before you re doing this and call...

Page 80: ...11111 00000000 Therefore sometimes a network mask can also be described simply as x number of leading 1 s When both are represented side by side in their binary forms all bits in the IP address that correspond to 1 s in the network mask become part of the IP network address and the remaining bits correspond to the host ID For example if the IP address for a device is in its binary form 11011001 10...

Page 81: ...transmission method originally created for dial up connections PPPoE is for Ethernet connections PPPoE relies on two widely accepted standards Ethernet and the Point to Point Protocol It is a communications protocol for transmitting information over Ethernet between different manufacturers Protocol A protocol is a set of rules for interaction agreed upon between multiple parties so that when they ...

Page 82: ...reliable They both run on top of the IP Internet Protocol a network layer protocol WAN Wide Area Network A network that connects computers located in geographically separate areas e g different buildings cities countries The Internet is a wide area network Web based management Graphical User Interface GUI Many devices support a graphical user interface that is based on the web browser This means t...