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In no event will Maestro Wireless Solutions Ltd. be liable for any loss or damage including without limitation, indirect or consequential loss, damage, or any loss, damage whatsoever arising from loss of data or profit arising out of, or in connection with, the use of this router product.
ONNECTION WITH THE ABLE 9.4.2 ONNECTION VIA E205 BASIC CONFIGURATION 10.1 ONNECTING TO THE WEB INTERFACE 10.2 CONFIGURATION 10.3 CONFIGURATION 10.3.1 ANUAL 10.3.2 UTOMATIC 10.3.3 E (P OINT OINT ROTOCOL OVER THERNET 10.4 ELLULAR ETUP 10.5 IRELESS 4 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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VENT APPENDIX 19.1 EFAULT SETTINGS 19.2 ESET TO FACTORY DEFAULT SETTING 19.2.1 SING THE WEB BASED USER INTERFACE 19.2.2 SING THE RESET BUTTON ON THE SIDE OF THE ROUTER 19.3 IST OF ACRONYMS 19.4 UPPORT 6 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
Do not pull the power supply cable. Please attach or detach it by holding the connector after switching off the supply. Install and connect the router in accordance to the instruction manual. Failure to do so will void the warranty. 7 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
3 Prerequisites Before continuing with the installation of your E200 Series router, make sure you have a computer equipped with the following: A computer with an Ethernet port or Wi-Fi connectivity A web browser such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Apple Safari 8 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
4 User manual conventions The following symbols are used throughout the user manual: The following symbol indicates attention must be paid The following symbol indicates a warning The following symbol provides information 9 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
Built-in GPS supporting active antenna via an external SMA connector External SMA antenna connectors for 3G One digital inputs/outputs Six color LED‟s for displaying for Wi-Fi and network activity, signal, power and alarm Device management and configuration via a web GUI DIN rail mountable 10 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
5 dBi, 2.4/5.1~5.9 GHz dipole antenna RP-SMA (M) hinged 90° x 1 Industrial grade 1.2 A power supply x 1 DIN clip x 1 If any of these items are missing or damaged, please contact Maestro Support immediately. The Maestro Support website can be found at: http://support.maestro-wireless.com/ 11 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
LED‟s on the top of the aluminum alloy casing will help the user ensure that the device is operating correctly. Users can also remotely manage the router is also available through an HTTPS connection over the LAN or WAN. 12 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
7 Physical dimensions and LED 7.1 Physical dimensions E200 Series dimensions without connector Lenght 83.9mm Depth 60mm Height 25mm Weight 13 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
7.2 LED indicators The E200 Series features 6 LEDs on the front to display critical system information NAME COLOUR STATE DESCRIPTION Wi-Fi network is deactivated WI-FI Flashing Wi-Fi network connection traffic Wi-Fi network is activated Cellular data service is not connected...
7.3 Ethernet port LED indicators The E200 Series router features two Ethernet ports, each with with two LED. STATUS DESCRIPTION There is a valid network link. Green No valid network link detected. Flashing There is activity on Ethernet port Amber...
8.4.2 Connection via Wi-Fi Make sure Wi-Fi antenna is connected (see chapter 8.2) and Wi-Fi is ON on your computer, phone or tablette. Scan for network and select SSID “Maestro E200”. You will be prompted to enter a WPA/WPS-2 mixed-mode password.
You will be invited to enter the admin username and password: Default login – admin Default password – admin (This is the default username and password for Maestro routers. The admin and read-only user passwords can be changed at System>Administration After successfully login the Quick Setup page will show up Figure 1: Quick Setup If you need to access advanced feature you can navigate directly in the menu.
These addresses are part of the designated private address range for use in private networks, and should be suitable in most applications. If your network has a requirement to use a different IP addressing scheme, you can make those changes here and click. 19 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
IPv4 Gateway: The gateway to assign this WAN interface. DNS server: The DNS server for the WAN interface. 9.3.2 Automatic The WAN will be setup automatically. 9.3.3 PPPoE (Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet) Acquire IP Address automatically from your Provider using the PPPoE protocol. 20 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
PIN: If required please enter your SIM card‟s PIN code Username and Password: If required enter login credentials provided by your network operator Advanced cellular configuration parameters could be found under Network/Interfaces, under 3G parameters click Edit > Advanced Settings. 21 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
Bring up on boot tick box in Wireless section by default is enabled. Ticking the box will enable the Wi-Fi (Wireless) interface every time the Router Reboots. 22 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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Once the Quick Setup is done, you will have basic LAN connectivity, Internet access over WAN and/or Cellular and Wi-Fi will be configured as Access Point. To verify that your setup were succefully applied and your router is now running go to Network/Interfaces. 23 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
10 E205 advanced configuration 10.1 Flashing firmware and updating your device E200 Series can be updated through the web interface. Go to System/Back- up / Flash Firmware. Under Flash new firmware image, click on Choose File and locate the .bin file on your computer.
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DO NOT POWER OFF THE DEVICE! Wait a few minutes before you try to reconnect. It might be necessary to renew the address of your computer to reach the device again, depending on your settings. 25 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
Enter the default login “admin” and password “admin” By clicking on Status or Overview the page below will be displayed: The Status menu is divided in 5 sub-menus: Overview Firewall Routes System Log Real time Graphs 26 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
The time in HH: MM: SS, for which the router is working Uptime since last power ON The IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) of the IMEI router, a unique code for identifying devices on a GSM network. 27 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
The Memory group provides information on the memory in KB available with the router. ITEM DEFINITION Total available Total available RAM memory Free Free RAM memory Cached Memory used to cache internal router data Buffered Amount of memory used as an internal router buffer 28 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
DHCP lease. This includes IPV4 as well as IPV6 connections 11.1.5 Wireless The wireless group gives the status of the Wi-Fi network being used by the router. 11.1.6 Associated Stations The associated stations group lists out the computers connected to the router. 29 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
Green are live and connected while the ones in red are available but offline. 11.2 Firewall You can verify parameters related to firewall and its settings here. Status of firewalls for both IPv4 and IPv6 can be seen here. 30 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
Traffic indicates the WAN side incoming and outgoing Traffic traffic Wireless indicates the traffic on Wi-Fi irrespective on Wireless whether Wi-Fi is used as an access point (LAN) or Client (WAN) This page gives an overview over currently active network Connections connections. 31 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
External system log server time log will be posted External system log server Port of any external TCP server where the real time log port will be posted Log output level Debug Provides Information useful for 32 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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System is Unusable. Helps you debug cron process which Debug has failed during runtime. Normal Normal informational messages Cron Log Level Indicates some issues can happen or Warning error could be generated in Cron process. 33 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
SSH-Keys (one per line) for SSH public-key authentication. By default the remote SSH access over WAN is disabled, you need to send an SMS from a registered admin number to enable remote SSH access. Please refer to section Services / SMS 34 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
Software page give you access to the list of package installed, you can also add package or filter packaged installed on your router. 13 Network 13.1 Interfaces The E200 has various physical interfaces namely, Wired LAN Wired WAN Wi-Fi Cellular 35 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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Next to the interfaces, there is information regarding the interfaces like connection time, Packets sent, Packets received and IP address. Connect button will connect the interface or reconnect if already connected. Stop will stop the interface. Click Edit to change the Interface Parameters. 36 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
IPv4 broadcast Use custom DNS server Assign a part of given length of every public IPv6-prefix to IPv6 assignment length this interface Assign prefix parts using this hexadecimal subprefix ID for IPv6 assignment hint this interface. 37 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
Metric indicates the priority of the interface. The lower the value the higher the priority of the interface. If no metric is Use gateway metric added, it will assume a default value of “0” The default metric for LAN interface is “0” 38 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
You can create a different VLAN interface and assign the same to a different Firewall Zone. You can then set rules and policies in the firewall section on how you want to channelize the Traffic between two LAN zones. For details, please refer to the firewall section. 39 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
13.2.5.2 Advanced Settings ITEM DEFINITION Dynamically allocate DHCP addresses for clients. If Dynamic DHCP disabled, only clients having static leases will be served. Force DHCP on this network even if another server is Force detected. 40 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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NDP-Proxy relay mode hybrid mode stateless stateless + DHCPv6-Mode stateful Stateful only Always announce default If ticked Announce as default router even if no public router prefix is available. Announced DNS servers Announced DNS domains 41 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
This is a specialized protocol supported by a few ISPs. PPPoATM You need appropriate login credentials from your ISP for the same Do not select any other protocol other than DHCP, Static, PPPoE or PPPoATM. 42 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
WANs, this interface has the highest default priority. The Load Balancer will use these Metric Values to determine priority of a particular WAN. 13.3.3 Physical Settings Unless you are an advanced user do not change setting of this page. 43 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
Zone. By default the WAN interfaces is assigned to a „wan‟ firewall zone. In firmware version 2.0, you cannot create a WAN side firewall zone (Planned in firmware release 2.1). Hence it is advisable to keep this configuration untouched. 44 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
The router will connect only to GPRS GPRS network Enter the APN provided by your network operator Enter the SIM PIN if any Username Username for your SIM card if any Password Password for your SIM card if any 45 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
“0” value will keep the 3G connection always on. Any other value „X‟ will turn off the 3G connection after „X‟ Inactivity timeout seconds of inactivity 46 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
“Add VPN Interface” Button. You can add either PPTP or L2TP interface. For more details on adding PPTP or L2TP interface, please refer to the PPTP and L2TP configuration guides. 47 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
When you create a new VPN interface (refer to chapter 13.5) select PPTP Enter the IP address of the VPN server in your network, followed by the username and password for this server. Click save and apply to add the PPTP VPN interface. 48 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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“0” value will keep the 3G connection always on. Any other value „X‟ will turn off the 3G connection after „X‟ Inactivity timeout seconds of inactivity Override MTU Press Save and Apply to apply your settings. 49 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
VPN applications can also establish connections via IPv6. It has the ability to work through most proxy servers (including HTTP) and is good at working through Network address translation (NAT) and getting out through firewalls. The server configuration has the ability to "push" certain network configuration 50 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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These include IP addresses, routing commands, and a few connection options E200 series supports Open VPN client, Server and Pass Through. 51 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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Here you can set the output verbosity level. Higher the Verb verbosity, higher will be the internal log details Tun_ipv6 This will make the tunnel IPv6 capable Nobind Does not bin local address and port Comp_lzo Uses lzo compression 52 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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Select and upload Client key generated at the server side. Browse to the location where client key is located on the computer. Select and upload (Select each and add to enter configuration) 53 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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Once you have the entire configuration loaded and certificates loaded, your screen should look like this: 54 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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VPN scheme. Pull – Accept options pushed from the Server – enabling this option will enable the router to accept the routes pushed from the OpenVPN server. It is recommended to keep it ticked. 55 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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Once you have the entire configuration in place, you can start the VPN service as follows The above screen shows that Open VPN service has started and the below screen shows OpenVPN is connected and running smoothly. 56 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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14.2 Wi-Fi as Access Point It shows a Generic connection, with no network configured on the router. To enable connection click the edit button to configure the default network with the SSID Maestro E200. 57 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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You can choose the channel frequency from the drop down menu, or choose „auto‟, to select it automatically. You can also choose transmit power, the default being 20dBM or 100mW, which is the maximum value. 58 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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It prevents collision of wireless packets, particularly in case of hidden nodes or in a noisy RTS/CTS Threshold environment. In case of access point setting, it is recommended not to use RTS/CTS threshold. 59 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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Should be set-up as Access Point ESSID shows the device name you have assigned to the ESSID router, by default, it is Maestro E200 In Access Point LAN must be selected, as the router will Network supply Wi-Fi internet to its clients on LAN...
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Please take care that you enter the MAC address in the required format, else, the field will be shown RED. After you are satisfied with all your selections, press SAVE AND APPLY button. Your settings will be applied to the router. 61 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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Create / Assign firewall- router to work in client mode, the internal network is zone connected on LAN so the firewall must be on the WAN side. Alternatively you can create your own firewall zone. 62 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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Internet access to only second group while restricting it for former group. After you make all the settings, click on SAVE AND APPLY button to create the new interface. Back to the Network / Wi-Fi you will see the second SSID. 63 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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15 Setting up Failover and Load Balancing Maestro E200 and E220 series Router can be configured in a way that it could have 3 sources of WAN: Wired Ethernet WAN Wi-Fi when configured in Client Mode (WWAN) Cellular You can setup the Load Balancing functions in two different way depending what you want to achieve: Failover –...
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Load Balancing / Configuration tab as shown below. Rest of the interfaces are still beings used for “tracking interface up / down” purposes. You can re-assign or change the interface priority and failover policies by clicking on the Configuration tab. 66 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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15.1.1.2 Configuration Metric defines the priority. The screenshot shown above is the default configuration. You assign Rules for Policies which are associated with Members which are linked to Interfaces 67 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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1 for WAN, 2 for WWAN and 3 for 3G. It is extremely critical these values are exactly same as the values in Metrics Load Balancing / Members. If you choose to change these values, please ensure that they are same at both places. 68 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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Please be careful in adjusting these values as per your requirements. 15.1.1.2.2 Policies and Rules You need to note that in Failover Mode, the following is the configuration for Policies and Rules. Changing these parameters will revert the router in Load Balancing. 69 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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To set the Router in Load Balancer Mode, you need to first assign Metric and Weight to all the Members and create more Members if necessary Next step would be to create Policies corresponding to each Member 70 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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UDP connections from LAN IP 192.168.1.104 will be sent via WAN All requests to WAN IP 223.30.182.58 on Port 2404 will be sent via WWAN All incoming and outgoing PING will be sent via 3G 71 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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For the current version of Firmware, only LAN side Firewall Zones can be created and you can associate multiple VLANs to the LAN side firewall Zones. However there will be a single WAN side firewall zone. 72 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
Dynamic DNS allows that your router can be reached with a fixed hostname while having a dynamically changing IP address. The following note describes the procedure to create Dyn DNS. Click on Services / Dynamic DNS. 73 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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If you select the option URL, then a URL needs to be given which fetches IP address of the router from Internet. An example of such URL is http://checkip.dyndns.com/ and appears by default. 74 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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You can add a new DynDNS by choosing a name and clicking on ADD button. 17.2 SMS diagnostic SMS diagnostic let you configure up to 4 admins to receive diagnostic information of the router after a command is send by SMS. International number format is as follow: <countrycode><phonenumber> 75 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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Software information: will give you software information AT+SWI? such as firmware version 17.3 DOTA DOTA (download over the air) will allow you to remotely update your firmware, enter your server IP address the filename, username and password 76 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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By clicking Enable Data Send you will open a new menu where you could select the IP address, the port and the protocol format to receive the data, etheir TCP, UDP or HTTP. You can also setup a backup server by clicking on the Backup checkbox 77 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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On the text box enter a text (max.160 characters) that will be send to the corresponding mobile number when a change of event occurs. Click add once your rules are set-up. Click Save and Apply to save preset events. 78 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
18 Appendix 18.1 Default settings The following tables list the default settings for the E200 Series router. LAN (MANAGEMENT) Static IP Address: 192.168.1.1 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway: 192.168.1.1 ADMIN MANAGER ACCOUNT Username: admin Password: admin 18.2 Reset to factory default setting Restoring factory defaults will reset the E200 Series router to its factory default configuration.
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When you have reset your E200 Series router to its default settings you will be able to access the device‟s configuration web interface using http://192.168.1.1 with username admin or root and password admin. 80 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
SMA (Sub Miniature version A) connectors are semi-precision coaxial RF connectors Short Message Service Serial Peripheral Interface SSID Service set identification Transmission Control Protocol TKIP Transmission Control Protocol Transmission User Datagram Protocol UPnP Universal Plug and Play Virtual private network Wide Area network 81 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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Local area wireless technology that allows an electronic device to exchange data or connect to the internet using 2.4 GHz UHF and 5 GHz SHF radio waves Wi-Fi Protected Access WPA2 Wi-Fi Protected Access II 82 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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18.4 Support There are several resources available to you for support and troubleshooting of your Maestro product or for resolving configuration difficulties at Maestro‟s support website, http://support.maestro-wireless.com/knowledgebase.php. Try these troubleshooting steps to eliminate your problem. After working through these steps and if your problem is not solved, please send a ticket to Maestro support team.
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An archive file “backup-Maestro-201x-xx-xx.tar.gz will be downloaded on your default download folder, please attached the file while filling the support request online. 84 Maestro E200 Series www.maestro-wireless.com...
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