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ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 9 of 52 Chapter 1 - About this Manual 1.1 Introduction This manual provides a general product overview and description of its subsystems and components and basic operation and preventive ...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 10 of 52 Chapter 2 – ADSL Router Description The ADSL Wireless LAN 802.11g 4 Port Ethernet & USB Combo 4 Port Router is a high-speed WAN bridge/router. This full-featured product is s...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 11 of 52 Chapter 3 - Your Gateway At A Glance The ADSL Wireless LAN 802.11g 4 Port Ethernet & USB Combo 4 Port Router may have different ports and LEDs. Let’s take a look at the diffe...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 13 of 52 3.2.2 Back Panel Fig 1-3 shows the back panel indicators of the Wireless-G router. Figure 1-3 : Back Panel Indicators 1. DSL - Connect the telephone jack (RJ-11) to your Telephon...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 14 of 52 Chapter 4 - Installing The ADSL Router 1. Locate a suitable location for the ADSL Router. For connections to the Ethernet and DSL interfaces, please refer to the E asy Start Manu...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 15 of 52 Chapter 5 - Setting Up the ADSL Router The basic tabs consist of features which are catered for basic users. This section will guide you through your ADSL Router’s configuration....

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 16 of 52 If you are not logging in for the first time, the router will direct you to the “Home Page”. See Fig 1-6 . Figure 1-6 : Basic Home Screen 5.2 Quick Start By default the ADSL Rout...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 17 of 52 Note. . . After clicking on Connect, please be sure to click on “Save Settings” to register the username / password or any other changes. Figure 1-7 : Quick Start Page 5.3 LAN / ...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 18 of 52 Note: If you change the start or end values, make sure the values are still within the same subnet as the gateways IP address. In other words, if the gateways IP address is 192.1...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 19 of 52 After running the Diagnostic Test, the screen will indicate the portion which pass or fail the test. Please click on the Help links, which will provide remedy to the problem as s...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 20 of 52 5.5 Wireless 5.5.1 Wireless Setup The SSID default which is set as “yournetworkname” by default. It can be changed. SSID is wireless network name for the wireless router. Your wi...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 21 of 52 Figure 1-13 : Wireless Configuration Page 5.5.3 Wireless Security It is important for user to enforce security in wireless LAN environment, this is to prevent unauthorized wirele...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 22 of 52 In order to implement security, proceed with the following steps. See Fig 1-15 1. Select the WEP option. 2. Check on “Enable WEP Wireless Security” option. 3. Select the “Cipher”...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 24 of 52 5.5.4 Wireless Management Wireless Management consists of Aceess List, Associated Stations and Multiple SSID. 5.5.4.1 Access List This feature permits you to “Allow” or “Ban” any...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 25 of 52 5.6 Advanced This mode is catered for advance users, a brief explanation of the links are listed as shown below. Figure 1-19 : Advanced Screen 5.6.1 WAN Connection On the other s...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 26 of 52 Figure 1-20 : New Connection (PPPOE Connection Setup) 5.6.3 ADSL Modulation To configure the DSL modulation type, Click setup. Under WAN Setup, select Modem Setup. This will brin...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 27 of 52 5.6.4 Quickstart PPPoE is also known as RFC 2516. It is a method of encapsulating PPP packets over Ethernet. PPP or Point-to-Point protocol is a method of establishing a network ...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 28 of 52 Figure 1-22 :Quickstart (PPPOE Connection Setup) 5.6.5 LAN Configuration You can change the ADSL Router’s IP address by, clicking Setup and under LAN Setup, select LAN Configurat...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 29 of 52 Figure 1-23 : LAN Configuration 5.6.6 LAN Clients To add a LAN client select LAN clients, under LAN. If DHCP is used, all DHCP clients are automatically assigned. If a fixed IP a...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 30 of 52 5.6.7 Ethernet Switch Configuration The IGMP Snooping prevents the switch from flooding the LAN ports with multicast frames, and will instead direct them to the CPU port for proc...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 31 of 52 Figure 1-26 : UPnP 5.6.9 SNTP SNTP (Simple Network Timing Protocol) is a protocol used to synchronize the system time to the public SNTP servers. When the SNTP feature is enabled...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 32 of 52 9. Day Light - Check/uncheck this option to enable/disable day light saving. See Fig 1-27 Figure 1-27 : SNTP 5.6.10 SNMP SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a troublesho...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 33 of 52 Figure 1-28 : SNMP Management 5.6.11 IP QoS When QoS is enabled in the AR7, the designated machine, application or person would have precedence over peers when competing for band...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 34 of 52 Figure 1-29 : IP QoS 5.6.12 IGMP Multicast If the ADSL Router is connected to more than one network, you may need to set up a static route between them. A static route is a pre-d...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 35 of 52 Figure 1-30 : IGMP Multicast 5.6.13 Dynamic DNS Client Dynamic DNS allows the user to register with a Dynamic DNS Provider as listed. The dynamic DNS will be linked with the WAN ...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 36 of 52 5.6.14 DNS Proxy This feature allows the user to select the (Domain Name Server) DNS Server Priority as well as enter IP addresses for Primary DNS and secondary DNS. See Fig 1-32...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 37 of 52 Private IP Ranges Class A: 10.0.0.0 ~ 10.255.255.255 Class B: 172.16.0.0 ~ 172.31.255.255 Class C: 192.168.0.0 ~ 192.168.255.255 4. Auto NetBIOS: It allow proxy server to use any...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 38 of 52 Figure 1-34 : Port Forwarding 5.6.17 MAC Filtering (Bridge Filters) The bridge filtering mechanism provides a way for the users to define rules to allow/deny frames through the b...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 39 of 52 Figure 1-35 : MAC Filtering (Bridge Filters) 5.6.18 Access Control Access control allows you to open the access from the Internet LAN to the following management ports of the DSL...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 40 of 52 Figure 1-36 : Access Control 5.6.19 Static Routing If the ADSL Router is connected to more than one network, you may need to set up a static route between them. A static route is...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 41 of 52 Figure 1-37 : Static Routing 5.6.20 Dynamic Routing Dynamic Routing allows the ADSL Router to automatically adjust to physical changes in the network. The ADSL Router, using the ...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 42 of 52 Figure 1-38 : Dynamic Routing 5.6.21 Routing Table Routing Table shows the information used by routers when making packet forwarding decisions. Packets are routed according to th...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 43 of 52 5.6.22 System Password You can change your ADSL Router’s username and password by clicking on User Management. From here you can change the login name and password. You can also ...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 44 of 52 5.6.23 Firmware Upgrade You can upgrade the ADSL Router’s firmware, clicking on Update Gateway under the Tools page. To upgrade the firmware, click browse, find the firmware file...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 45 of 52 5.6.24 Restore to Default The restore to factory defaults feature will set the ADSL Router to its factory default configuration by resetting the ADSL Router. You may need to plac...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 46 of 52 5.7.1 IP Filters IP filter is identical to what Port blocking to Access Control. Fig 1-44 demonstrates that the router will block workstations with the IP in the defined range of...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 47 of 52 5.7.3 URL Filter This feature allows the router to block access to certain websites by examining its URL, a text string describing a unique location on the Internet. If the URL c...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 48 of 52 5.8 Status This status section allows users to view the following connections and interfaces: •••• Connection Status •••• System Log •••• Remote Log •••• Network Statistics •••• ...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 49 of 52 Figure 1-48 : Connection Status 5.8.2 System Log You can display the ADSL Router’s log by going under the Status title, click System log. From here you can view all logged inform...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 50 of 52 5.8.3 Remote Log Settings This feature is for users to enable remote logging. Settings mentioned below are essential for this feature to work: •••• Log Level •••• Adding / Deleti...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 51 of 52 5.8.5 DHCP Clients Shows the users connected. It also shows the MAC address, IP address, host name and lease time. Figure 1-52 : DHCP Clients 5.8.6 Modem Status This screen will ...

ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide ADSL 4-Port Ethernet USB Wireless-G Router User Guide Page 52 of 52 5.8.7 Product Information This screen will show a summary of all the product information and software version that comes bundled with the ADSL Router. Figure 1-54 : Product Infor...