Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product WL-607 Sitecom
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1 WL-600/ 607 Wireless Broad band Router (802.11bg).
2 Introduc tion Congratul ations on p urch asin g this Wirel ess Broad band Rout er. This Wi reless Broadband R oute r is a cost-e ffective IP Shari ng Router th at enabl es mul tipl e users to share the Internet t hrough an ADSL o r cabl e modem.
3 Get to know the Broadband Router Back Pane l The diag ram (fig 1.0) bel ow shows t he broadban d rout er’s back pan el . The router’s back panel is di vided i nto three secti ons, LAN , WAN and Re set : Figure 1.
4 Front Panel On the router ’s fr ont panel t here are LED lights tha t inform you of the router’s cur rent status . Below is an explanatio n of each L ED and its d escr iption.
5 Setup Diagra m Figure 1.2 belo w shows a typical se tup for a Local A rea Network (LAN). Figure 1.2.
6 Getting starte d This is a s tep-b y -step instruc tion on how t o start us ing the rout er and g et connecte d to the Internet. 1) Setup your network as shown i n the setu p diagram above ( fig 1.2). 2) You then ne ed to set your LAN PC clients so that i t can obt ain an IP ad dress auto m atically.
7 8: Reboot the PC. Your PC w ill now obta in an IP a ddress automaticall y from your Broadband Router’s DH CP serv er. Note : Please m ak e sure that th e Broadband router’s DHCP ser ver is the only D HCP ser ver availa ble on your LAN.
8 5: Click OK to confirm the setti ng. Your PC will no w obtain an I P address autom atically from your Broadband R outer’s DH CP serv er. Note : Please m ak e sure that th e Broadband router’s DHCP ser ver is the only D HCP ser ver availa ble on your LAN.
9 automatica lly and Ob tain DN S server a ddress aut omatically as shown o n the f ollowing screen. 6: Click OK to confirm the setti ng. Your PC will no w obtain an I P address autom atically from your Broadband R outer’s DH CP serv er.
10 button to s tart insta lling the T CP/IP prot ocol. You m ay need your W indows CD to com plete the installa tion. 5: After you install T CP/IP, go bac k to the Net work window. Se lect TCP/I P from the list of Network Pr otocols a nd then clic k the Prop erties but ton.
11 3) Once you h ave configur ed your PCs to obt ain an IP address automatical ly, the rou ter’s DHCP ser ver will autom aticall y give your LA N clients an IP addr ess . By default th e Broadband Ro uter’s D HCP s erver is ena bled so t hat you can obtain an IP addr ess automatical ly.
12 Menu Description Home (Chap ter 1) In this sectio n you ca n see the Broadband router's s ystem inf ormation, Intern et Conn ection, Device Status, S y stem Log, Sec urity Lo g and DHCP client inform ation.
13 tools allow you to Back up (save), R estore, or Restore to F actory Def ault c onfiguration for your Broadband rou ter. T he Firm ware upgrade t ool allows you t o upgrade your Broad band rou ter's firmware. T he RESET tool allo ws you to res et your Broadba nd router.
14 Chapter 1: Home 1.1 Status The Status sec tion al lows you to m onitor the current s tatus of your rout er. You ca n use the Status page to m onitor: the co nnection sta tus of the Broadba nd route.
15 1.2 L A N The LAN Por t screen below allo ws you to specif y a private IP a ddress f or your rout er’s LAN ports as well as a subnet m ask for your LAN segm ent. Paramete rs Defau lt Description IP address 192.168.0.1 This is the rou ter’s LAN port IP address ( Your LAN clients def ault gate way I P address) IP Subnet Ma sk 255.
16 Lease Time The DHCP when enabl ed will tem poraril y give your LAN c lients an I P address . In the Lease Time s etting you can spec ify th e tim e period that the DHCP lends an IP address to your LAN clients.
17 1.3 A ctive DHCP Client View your L AN client's inform ation that is c urrentl y linked to the Broadb and router' s DHCP s erver Paramete rs Descriptio n Active DHCP Client This page sh ows all DH CP clients (LAN PCs) current ly connected to your net work.
18 1.4 System Log View the op eration lo g of the s ystem. Paramete rs Descriptio n System Log This page sh ows the c urrent s ystem log of th e Broad band router .
19 1.5 Statistics View the stat istics of packets sent and rec eived on W AN, LAN and W ireless LAN. Paramete rs Descriptio n Statistics Shows the counters of packets sent and rece ived on W AN, LAN and W ireless LAN.
20 Chapter 2: Wizard • Click Wiz ard to configur e the rout er. • The Setup w izard will no w be d isplayed; ch eck that the m odem is connec ted and click Next . • Select your c ountr y from the Co untry list. • From Service, s elect your internet provider.
21 • Depending on the ch osen provider, you m ay need to enter your user nam e and password, M AC address or hostnam e in the f ollowin g windo w. After you have ent ered the correct inf ormation, c lick Next . • Click O K to com plete the conf iguration.
22 Chapter 3: Wireless Settin gs 3.1 Wireless Basic Settings W ireless Access Point builds a wireless LAN a nd can let all PCs equipped with I EEE 802.11 b or 801.11g wire less netw ork adapt or connec t to your Intr anet. It s upports W EP and W PA2 encryption to enhance t he sec urity of your wireless ne twork .
23 Associated Clients Click “Sho w Active Cli ents” butto n, then an “Active W ireless C lient Table” will pop up. You can see the s tatus of all active wireless stat ions that are conn ecting t o the ac cess point. W LAN MAC This is the M AC address used b y the W ireless interface of this AP when it is in the stati on modes .
24 3.2 A dvanced Settings You can set advanced wireless LAN param eters of this router. T he param eters include Authenticati on T ype, Fragm ent Threshold, RTS T hreshold, Be acon Inter val, Pre am ble Type …… You should not chang e thes e param eters unless you kno w what ef fect the chang es will ha ve on this router.
25 Beacon Inte rval The inter val of tim e that this w ireless router broadcast a beacon. Be acon is us ed to synchroni ze the wirel ess network . Data Rate The “Data Rat e” is the r ate this ac cess po int uses to transm it data pac kets .
26 3.3 Secur ity This Acc ess Point pro vides com plete wireless LAN se curity functi ons, incl ude WEP, IEEE 802.11x, I EEE 802.11x with W EP, W PA with pre-sh ared ke y and W PA with RADIUS. W ith these security functi ons, you can preve nt your wire less L AN from illegal access .
27 Hexadecim al Digits: 12 345abcde Default Key Select one of the four ke y s to encr ypt your data. Only the k ey you selec t it in the "Def ault k ey" will take eff ect. Key 1 - Key 4 The W EP keys are use d to encr ypt data transm itted in the wire less net work.
28 3.3.4 WP A Pre-shared ke y W i-Fi Protected Acces s (WPA) is an ad vanced sec urity standar d. You can use a pr e-shared k ey to authenticat e wireles s stations and encr ypt data dur ing comm unication. It us es T KIP or CCMP(AES) to chan ge the encr yption k ey frequentl y.
29 W PA2(AES) This use C CMP protoc ol to c hange encr yption ke y frequentl y. AES can prov ide high le vel encryption to enhance t he wireles s LAN security. W PA2 Mixed This will use T KIP or A ES bas ed on the ot her comm unication peer aut omatica lly.
30 3.4 A ccess Control This wireless router pro vides MAC Addres s Contro l, which pre vents the u nauthorized MAC Addresses f rom accessing your w ireless net work .
31 3.5 Site S urvey This page pr ovides a to ol to scan th e wireless networ k. If an y Access Poi nt or IBSS is found, you can choose to connect it manuall y when client m ode is enabled.
32 3.6 WDS W ireless Distribution S ystem uses wireless media to comm unicate with oth er APs. T o use W DS, you m ust set these A Ps in the s ame c hannel and set MAC addr esses of other APs which you want to com m unicate with in the tab le and the n enab le the W DS.
33 Chapter 4: Firew all 4.1 Por t Filtering The W L-161 offer s the option to filter certa in rang es of ports on your l ocal area network . Select ‘Enable Port Filtering ’ to en able the port fi lter opt ion, and enter a por t rang e in the appropriate box.
34 4.2 IP Filte ring The W L-161 offer s the option to filter UD P or T CP traffic f or certain IP a ddresses on your local area network . Select ‘ Enabl e IP Filtering’ to enable the IP filter optio n, and enter a local I P address in th e appropri ate box.
35 4.3 M AC Filtering This wireless router pro vides MAC Addres s Contro l, which pre vents the u nauthorized MAC Addresses f rom accessing your net work .
36 4.4 Por t Forwarding The Port For warding a llows you to re-direct a particul ar range of service port n um bers (from the Internet/W AN Ports ) to a particul ar LAN IP ad dress.
37 Table" belo w. If you fin d any t ypo before add ing it and want t o ret ype again, j ust click "Clear" and the fields will be cleare d.
38 4.5 DMZ If you have a local cl ient PC that cannot run an Intern et application ( e.g. Gam es) pr operly from behind the N AT f irewall, then you can open the client up to unrestr icted tw o-wa y Internet acces s by defining a DMZ Hos t.
39 Chapter 5: Toolbox 5.1 Password Settings You can cha nge the pas swor d required to log into t he broad band router 's s y stem web-based managem ent. By def ault, there is n o pass word. So p lease ass ign a pass word to t he Adm inistrator as soon as possible, and store it in a safe pl ace.
40 5.2 Time Zone The T ime Zone allo ws your router t o refer ence or bas e its tim e on the sett ings con figured h ere, which will aff ect f unctions such as Lo g entries and Fire wall sett ings. Paramete r Description Select Time Zone Select the tim e zone of the c ountry you are currentl y in.
41 5.3 Firmwa re Upgrade This page a llows you to upgrade t he router ’s firm ware Paramete rs Descriptio n Firmware Upgrade This tool al lows you to upgrade t he Broa dband router ’s s ystem firmware.
42 5.4 Backup The Conf iguration T ools screen a llows you to save ( B ackup ) th e router ’s current configurat ion setting. Sav ing the conf iguration s ettings pr ovides an added pr otection an d conve nience shou ld problem s occ ur with the router an d you ha ve to reset to fac tory default.
43 5.5 DDNS DDNS allo ws you to m ap the s tatic dom ain name to a dynam ic IP addres s. You m ust get an account, pas sword and your static dom ain nam e from the DDNS ser vice provid ers. T his router supports D ynDNS, T ZO and oth er com mon DDN S service prov iders.
44 Appendix A How to Manually find your PC ’s IP and M AC address 1) In W indow’s open the C omm and Prom pt program 2) T ype Ipconfig /all a nd <enter > • Your PC’s I P address is t he one entitled IP ad dress ( 192.168.1 .77) • The router’s I P addres s is the o ne entitled D efault G atew ay (192.
45 Glossar y Default Gat eway (Ro uter): Ever y non-router IP devic e needs to configur e a defau lt gatewa y’s IP address. W hen the de vice s ends out an IP pack et, if the des tination is not on the same net work, the device h as to send t he pack et to its def ault gatew ay, which will then se nd it ou t towards t he destination.
46 ISP: Internet Service Provider. A n ISP is a business that provides c onnect ivit y to the Internet f or individuals and other bus ines ses or organ izations. LAN: Local Area Netw ork. A L AN is a gro up of c omputers and d evices c onnected together i n a relativel y small area ( such as a house or an off ice).
47 create IP ad dress num bers us ed onl y within a part icular netw ork ( as opposed to valid IP addr ess number s recognized by the Intern et, which m ust be as signed b y InterNIC). TCP/IP, UD P: Transm ission Con trol Prot ocol/Intern et Protoco l (TCP/IP) a nd Unre liable Datagr am Protocol (UD P).
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