Airlink101 AR570W - Manual

6 Chapter 1 Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of Airlink101 Wireless N 150 Router AR570W. This product is ideal for home or SOHO users who need greater bandwidth and higher speed for various networking applications, such as VoIP phone, online gaming or online video/audio streaming. Based...

9 Chapter 2 Installing the Router 2.1 Using EZ Setup Wizard Step 1 Insert the Setup CD into your CD-ROM drive. Step 2 Click Next to start the configuration.

10 Step 3 Connect one end of a network cable to the WAN port of the router and connect the other end to your DSL/Cable modem.   Step 4 Connect one end of another network cable to the LAN port of the router and connect the other end to your computer.

11 Step 5 Power on the Router. It will take about 30 seconds. Step 6 Make sure POWER , WAN , WLAN , and the LAN port that the computer is connected to are lit. If not, try the above steps again. Step 7 Enter the Router’s password to log in to the Router. The default password is “admin”. It is recomm...

12 Step 8 Verify the Internet Connection Type the wizard detected. If it is not correct, please configure it manually. Click Next . Note: If you are not sure which Internet Connection Type you use, please contact your Internet Service Provider for this information. Step 9 Enter the settings for your...

13 Step 10 Please wait while the Wizard trying to connect to the Internet. If you see the window “Internet Connection Succeed”, your router has been successfully connected to the Internet. Please click Next to configure the wireless settings.

14 Step 11 Configure a name for your wireless network. Click Next . Step 12 Configure the security key for your wireless network. Check Enable WPA Pre-Share Key . Enter 8 to 63 characters into WPA-Pre-Share Key. Click Next .

15 Step 13 Verify the settings you just configured for the Router. Click Finish to restart the Router. Congratulations! Your router configuration has been finished.  

16 2.2 Connecting to the Router Wirelessly You must configure your wireless computer in order to establish a wireless connection to the router. In this section, you can find the instructions of how to connect to the router wirelessly with your Vista computer. You can also refer to the manual of your...

17 Step 3 Enter the Security key you configured for the Router (see Step 12 in Chapter 2.1). Click Connect . Step 4 Click on Close . Now the wireless connection has been established successfully with the Router. You should be able to connect to Internet wirelessly now.

19 Step 2 Enter your user name and password and click OK . (The default user name and password are both “admin”.) Step 3 When you see this page coming up, you have successfully logged in to the router. You can now access the complete features/settings of the router.  

20 3.0 Setup Wizard Click on Setup Wizard and start the basic configuration for this router. If you have gone through the EZ Setup Wizard on the provided CD, you do not need to set up the router again. Step 1 Configure the Time Zone Settings of the Router. You can click on Copy Time from PC . Enable...

21 Time Server Address Input the IP address / host name of time server here Daylight Savings If the country you live uses daylight saving, please check the Enable box and choose the duration of daylight saving. Step 2 Select WAN type by which Internet service you are using. Dynamic IP (for Cable or ...

22 Primary DNS Please input the IP address of DNS server provided by your service provider. Secondary DNS Please input the IP address of another DNS server provided by your service provider, this is optional. PPPoE (for DSL users) For DSL users, your Internet type is either Dynamic IP or PPPoE . If ...

23 Password Please input the password assigned by your Internet service provider here. DNS Address Select the type of how you obtain IP address from your service provider here. You can choose “Obtain an IP address automatically”, or “Use the following IP address” (i.e. static IP address). Primary DN...

24 PPTP PPTP requires two kinds of setting: WAN interface setting (setup IP address) and PPTP setting (PPTP user name and password). Here we start from WAN interface setting: Select the type of how you obtain IP address from your service provider here. You can choose “Obtain an IP address automatica...

25 Connection ID Please input the connection ID here, this is optional and you can leave it blank. MTU Please input the MTU value of your network connection here. If you don’t know, you can use default value. BEZEQ - ISRAEL Setting item BEZEQ-ISRAEL is only required to check if you’re using the serv...

27 Password Please input the password assigned by Telstra. Assign login server manually Check this box to choose login server by yourself. Server IP Address Please input the IP address of login server here. When you finish with all settings, please click NEXT . Step 3 Keep the default LAN IP and DHC...

31 3.1 Network 3.1.1 WAN Use the WAN setting page to change your Internet connection type. The WAN setting page allows you to configure the Internet connection type of your ISP. The WAN settings offer the following selections for the router’s WAN port, Dynamic IP, Static IP, PPPoE , PPTP , L2TP and ...

33 ¾ DHCP Server section Parameters Description Lease Time 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. DHCP Client Start IP Please input the start IP address of the IP range. DHCP Client ...

36 Reset You can also click ‘Reset’ button unselect all. After you finish with all settings, please click “Apply” button. If you want to reset all settings in this page, please click “Cancel” button. After you clicked Apply, the following message will be displayed on your web browser: You can click ...

37 Provider Select a DDNS service provider. Domain name Your static domain name that use DDNS. Account The account/username that your DDNS service provider assigned to you. Password/Key The password you set for the DDNS service account above. After you finish with all settings, please click “Apply” ...

39 SSID airlink101 This is the name of your wireless network. You can type any alphanumerical characters here, maximum 32 characters. SSID is used to identify your own wireless router from others when there are other wireless routers in the same area. It’s recommended to change default SSID value to...

43 Parameters Description WPA Unicast Cipher Suite Please select a type of WPA cipher suite. Available options are: 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 Please inpu...

45 You can click “Continue” to back to previous setup page to continue on other setup procedures, or click “Apply” to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 30 seconds while router is rebooting). 3.2.4 Advanced Settings You can set advanced wireless LAN parameters ...

48 Step 2 Push and hold the Easy Setup Button on the Adapter until you see the following window pops up on the computer monitor. Step 3 Within the following 2 minutes, push the Easy Setup Button the Router. The WLAN LED will stay solid green instead of blinking. Step 4 The Router will now start the ...

52 Public Port Input the port number of Internet IP address which will be redirected to the port number of local IP address defined above. Comment The description of this setting. Current Virtual Server Table From the table, you can check each Virtual Server setting. Delete If you want to delete a s...

53 Parameter Description Enable Special Applications Check to enable Special Applications, or uncheck to disable. IP Address This is the private IP of the computer/server behind the NAT firewall. Note: You need to give your PC a fixed/static IP address for Special Applications to work properly. Comp...

54 From the Current Trigger-Port Table , you can select each Special Application setting by checking the “Select” checkbox. Parameter Description Delete If you want to delete a setting, check the ‘select’ box of the setting you want to delete, then click ‘Delete’ button. (You can select more than on...

60 the limitation on all traffics from / to the specified IP address / port number), select “None”.   Protocol Please select the protocol type of this rule, available options are TCP and UDP. If you dont know what protocol your application uses, please try “TCP” first, and switch to “UDP” if this ru...

61 3.4 Access Restrictions This function allows you to configure some Internet access rules for your local computers based on the IP address, applications, URL or keywords. 3.4.1 IP & Port Filtering If you want to restrict users from accessing certain Internet applications/services (e.g. Interne...

62 Parameters Description Client PC Description Please input any text to describe this IP address, up to 16 alphanumerical characters. Client PC IP address Please input the starting IP address in the left field, and input the end IP address in the right field to define a range of IP addresses, or ju...

63 Add When you finish with all settings, please click “Add” to save settings, you’ll be brought back to previous menu, and the rule you just set will appear in current IP filtering table. After you finish with all settings, please click “Apply” button. If you want to reset all settings in this page...

64 Parameters Description Enable MAC Filtering Check this box to enable the MAC filtering function. Please select “Deny” or “Allow” to decide the behavior of MAC filtering table. If you select Deny, all MAC addresses listed in filtering table will be denied from connecting to the network; if you sel...

66 3.5 Security 3.5.1 Firewall Excepting NAT, this router also provides firewall function to block malicious intruders from accessing your computers on local network. These functions include inbound attack prevention, and block outbound traffics. The Wireless 150 Router AR570W has built in SPI Firew...

68   Parameter Description Ping of Death Set the threshold of when this DoS prevention mechanism will be activated. Please check the box of Ping of Death, and input the frequency of threshold (how many packets per second, minute, or hour), you can also input the ‘Burst’ value, which means when this ...

73 3.6.3 Remote Management You can manage this router remotely by enabling the ‘Remote Management’ function. Parameters Description Host Address Input the IP address of the remote host you wish to initiate a management access. “0.0.0.0” means any remote IP address. If you specify an IP address here,...

74 You can click “Continue” to back to previous setup page to continue on other setup procedures, or click “Apply” to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 30 seconds while router is rebooting). 3.6.4 Firmware Upgrade To upgrade the firmware for the Router, you ne...

75 3.6.5 Configuration Settings The Configuration Settings screen allows you to save ( Backup ) the router’s current configuration setting. Saving the configuration settings provides an added protection and convenience should problems occur with the router and you have to reset to factory default. W...

76 3.6.6 Log All important system events and system security are logged. You can use this function to check the log of your router.   Parameters Description Save Save current event log to a text file. Clear Delete all event logs displayed here. Refresh Refresh the event log display.

80 Chapter 4 Troubleshooting   If you have trouble connecting to the Internet, try the following steps: Step 1 Power off the Cable/DSL modem, router, and computer and wait for 5 minutes . Step 2 Turn on the Cable/DSL modem and wait for the lights on the modem to settle down. Step 3 Turn on the route...

81 Technical Support    E-mail: [email protected] Toll Free: 1-888-746-3238 Website: www.airlink101.com   *Theoretical maximum wireless signal rate derived from IEEE standard 802.11 specifications. Actual data throughput will vary. Network conditions and environmental factors, including volume ...