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RoadRunnerAP
2.4&5G Dual-Band 1.2Gbps
11ac Wireless Gigabit Router
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  • Page 1 RoadRunnerAP 2.4&5G Dual-Band 1.2Gbps 11ac Wireless Gigabit Router User Manual Version 1.0...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP Table of Content Chapter 1 Introduction ..................... 3 1.1 Features......................... 3 1.2 System Requirement ..................... 4 1.3 Package Contents ....................4 Chapter 2 Hardware Installation ..................5 2.1 Led indicators ......................5 2.2 Back Rear Panel....................5 2.3 Side panel ......................
  • Page 3 11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP 4.5 Service Setup ...................... 32 4.5.1 Port Forwarding ..................32 4.5.2 DMZ ......................33 4.6 Security Setup ..................... 33 4.6.1 PORT Filter ....................33 4.6.2 URL Filter ....................34 4.6.3 MAC Filter ....................34 4.6.4 IP Filter ......................

  • Page 4: Chapter 1 Introduction

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP Chapter 1 Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of this outstanding 11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router. The Wireless Router using 2.4G and 5G dual-band concurrent technology, support latest 802.11ac standards, backward compatibility IEEE802.11 a/b/g/n, 2.4GHz and 5GHz wireless transmission rate up to 1167Mbps when concurrent operation, Integrated router, Wi-Fi access point, 4 ports gigabit switch and fire wall functions in one.

  • Page 5: System Requirement

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP 1.2 System Requirement  An Ethernet-Based Cable or xDSL modem  An Ethernet Card on PC  TCP/IP network protocol for each PC  RJ45 Twisted-pair  Microsoft IE (or Firefox or Netscape) 1.3 Package Contents...

  • Page 6: Chapter 2 Hardware Installation

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 2.1 Led indicators The top panel contains LED indicators that show the status of the unit. Name Status Indication Power is off. Power is on. Power There is no device linked to the corresponding port.

  • Page 7: Side Panel

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP WAN: 10/100/1000Mbps RJ45 port. The WAN port is where you will connect Cable/xDSL Modem or other LAN. LAN (1,2,3,4): These four LAN ports are where you will connect networked devices, such as PCs, print servers, remote hard drives, and anything else you want to put on your network.
  • Page 8 11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP 1. Make sure all devices, including your PCs, modem, and Router, are powered down. 2. Using an Ethernet network cable, connect the LAN or Ethernet network port of the cable or DSL modem to the Router’s WAN port.

  • Page 9: Chapter 3 Quick Installation Guide

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP Chapter 3 Quick Installation Guide The chapter mainly presents how to enter the Router’s Web page and simple router settings. After you have finished the hardware installation (Please refer to chapter 2), the following steps will assist you to set the network configurations for you computer.
  • Page 10 11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP 4. Select "Obtain an IP address automatically" or select "Use the following IP address(S)". A. Select "Obtain an IP address automatically" and "Obtain DNS server address automatically". Click "OK". B. "Use the following IP address (S)"...

  • Page 11: Getting Started

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP Click "OK" to save the configurations. 3.2 Getting Started To access the configuration pages, open a web-browser such as Internet Explorer and enter the IP address of the router (192.168.1.1). The Default User/Password: admin...

  • Page 12: Setup Wizard

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP 3.3 Setup Wizard Click on "Wizard" pages, it will guide you to setup your router step by step in simple way. In this section, there are seven steps to do it. Please follow the steps and complete the router configuration.
  • Page 13 11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP Step 2 Time Zone Setting The Time Configuration option allows you to configure, update, and maintain the correct time on the internal system clock. Daylight Saving can also be configured to automatically adjust the time when needed.
  • Page 14 11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP IP Address: Enter the IP address of your router. (factory default:192.168.1.1) Subnet Mask: An address code that determines the size of the network. Normally use 255.255.255.0 as the subnet mask. Step 4 WAN Interface Setup The router support six access modes in the WAN side, please choose correct mode according to your ISP Service.
  • Page 15 11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP Default Gateway: Enter the Gateway assigned by your ISP. DNS: The DNS server information will be supplied by your ISP (Internet Service Provider). Mode 3 PPPoE Choose PPPoE (Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet) if your ISP uses a PPPoE connection.
  • Page 16 11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP Dynamic IP (DHCP): Select Dynamic IP if none of the above parameters are provided. Then you just need to enter server IP address provided by you ISP. Static IP: Select Static IP if IP Address/ Subnet Mask/ Gateway and DNS server address have been provided by you ISP.
  • Page 17 11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP Mode 6 3G Choose 3G If you have a 3G USB modem card. During the installation, please select the type of 3G modem card and enter the basic parameters provided by your 3G ISP. Generally speaking, “Access Point Name” and “Dial”...
  • Page 18 11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP like cordless phones and microwave ovens. Step 6 Wireless 5GHz LAN Settings For example, here we configure the basic parameters for 5 GHz wireless network as the following screenshot: Band: This filed determines the wireless mode which the Router works on.
  • Page 19 11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP router. This section you can set WEP and WPA-PSK security mode. The following picture shows how to set the WEP security. Key Length: Specify the Length of the key, 64-bit or 128-bit. Key Format: Specify the format of the key, ASCII or hex.

  • Page 20: Chapter 4 Configuring The Router

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP Chapter 4 Configuring the Router 4.1 Wan Setup There are two submenus under the WAN Setup menu: WAN Setup, DDNS Setup. Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the corresponding function.

  • Page 21: Lan Setup

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP Service Provider: Select one from the drop-down menu, such as DynDNS or TZO. Domain Name: Enter the domain name (Such as host.dyndns.org). User Name/Email: Enter the user name or email the same as the registration name.

  • Page 22: Static Dhcp

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP Subnet Mask: An address code that determines the size of the network. Normally use 255.255.255.0 as the subnet mask. Default Gateway: Enter the gateway IP address of your router. DHCP: Enable or Disable the DHCP server. If you disable the Server, you must have another DHCP server within your network or else you must configure the computer manually.

  • Page 23: Wireless Setup(5Ghz)

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP Refresh: Click this button to refresh the data. 4.3 Wireless Setup(5GHz) There are eight submenus under the Wireless Setup(5GHz) menu: Basic, Advanced, Security, Access Control, WDS, Site Survey, WPS, Schedule. Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the corresponding function.

  • Page 24: Advanced

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP features; uncheck to enable it. Band: Select one mode from the following. The default is 5GHz (A+N+AC)mode. Mode: Support AP, Client, WDS and AP+WDS mode. SSID: SSID (Service Set Identifier) is the unique name of the wireless network.

  • Page 25: Security

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP The beacons are the packets sent by the router to synchronize a wireless network. Beacon Interval value determines the time interval of the beacons. IAPP: Inter-Access Point Protocol. STBC: Space Time Block Coding improves reception by coding the data stream in blocks.

  • Page 26: Site Survey

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP the Ethernet does. To do this, firstly you must set AP Mode to WDS or AP+WDS in basic setting, then enable WDS function and set another AP MAC which you wan to communicate with. The WDS supports WEP and PSK security mode. Of course in order to make APs work, you have to keep them the same channel and security mode.

  • Page 27: Wps

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP 4.3.7 WPS WPS is designed to ease set up of security Wi-Fi networks and subsequently network management. This router supports WPS features for AP mode, AP+WDS mode, Infrastructure-Client mode, and the wireless root interface of Universal Repeater mode.

  • Page 28: Wireless Setup(2.4Ghz)

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP 4.4 Wireless Setup(2.4GHz) There are eight submenus under the Wireless Setup(2.4GHz) menu: Basic, Advanced, Security, Access Control, WDS, Site Survey, WPS, Schedule. Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the corresponding function.

  • Page 29: Advanced

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP Data Rate: Sets the maximum wireless data rate that your network will operate on. Associated Clients: You can see the MAC Address, MAC address, transmission, reception packet counters and encrypted status for each associated wireless client.

  • Page 30: Access Control

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP 4.4.4 Access Control The Wireless MAC Address Filtering feature allows you to control wireless stations accessing the router, which depend on the station’s MAC addresses. Mode: If you choose 'Allowed Listed', only those clients whose wireless MAC addresses are in the access control list will be able to connect to your Access Point.

  • Page 31: Site Survey

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP Enable WDS: Check this box to enable WDS function. MAC Address: Enter the remote AP MAC address. Data Rate: Sets the maximum wireless data rate that your network will operate on. Comment: You can add some comment for this item.

  • Page 32: Wps

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP 4.4.7 WPS WPS is designed to ease set up of security Wi-Fi networks and subsequently network management. This router supports WPS features for AP mode, AP+WDS mode, Infrastructure-Client mode, and the wireless root interface of Universal Repeater mode.

  • Page 33: Service Setup

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP 4.5 Service Setup There are two submenus under the Service Setup menu: Port Forwarding, DMZ. Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the corresponding function. 4.5.1 Port Forwarding If you configure the router as Virtual Server, remote users accessing services such as Web or FTP at your local site via public IP addresses can be automatically redirected to local servers configured with private IP address.

  • Page 34: Dmz

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP local IP. Comment: You can add some comment for this item. Current Port Forwarding Table: The table shows all you have configured. You can delete one or all. 4.5.2 DMZ If you have a client PC that cannot run Internet application properly from behind the NAT firewall or after configuring the Port Forwarding, then you can open the client up to unrestricted two-way Internet access.

  • Page 35: Url Filter

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP Enable Port Filtering: Check this box will enable Port Filtering function. Port Range:The port range that you want to filter. Protocol: The protocol that you want to filter, either TCP, UDP, or Both.

  • Page 36: Ip Filter

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP Each networking device has a unique address called a MAC address (a 12 digit hex number). Enable MAC Filtering: Check this box will enable MAC Filtering function. MAC Address: The LAN device’s MAC address that you want to filter.

  • Page 37: Dos

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP 4.6.5 DoS A Denial of Service attack is an attempt by a user (or users) to make a server’s or network’s services unavailable. The user sends a server multiple requests with false return addresses.

  • Page 38: Dynamic Route

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP 4.7.1 Dynamic Route Dynamic Routing allows the Router to automatically learn network destinations for devices/networks that are directly connected to the router. RIP and RIP2 are routing protocols that may be used for the router to learn routes from other routers running those same protocols.

  • Page 39: Route Table

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP must be the same network segment with the WAN or LAN port. Metric: Enter the metric or priority of the route. The metric range is 1-15, the lowest number 1 being the highest priority. (e.g. 1) Interface: Select interface type, LAN or WAN.

  • Page 40: System

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP 4.9 System There are four submenus under the System menu: Time Zone, Upgrade Firmware, Save/Load Config, Password. Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the corresponding function. 4.9.1 Time Zone You can maintain the system time by synchronizing with a public time server over the Internet.

  • Page 41: Password

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP Save Settings to File: Get the router’s settings and store it in your local computer. Load Settings from File: Restore the settings from the file you backup before from your local computer, the router will go to the former settings.

  • Page 42: Chapter 5 Status

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP Chapter 5 Status There are three submenus under the Status menu: Status, Statistics, Log. Click anyone, you will see the following status. 5.1 Status The System Status provides you with a snapshot of your Router’s current connections and settings.

  • Page 43: Statistics

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP 5.2 Statistics This page shows the packet counters for transmission and reception regarding to wireless and Ethernet networks. The Wireless 1/2 LAN connection statistics shows all data activity for both the 5.0GHz and 2.4GHz wireless networks separately.
  • Page 44 11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP Enable Log: Click this box to enable Log.

  • Page 45: Appendix: Technical Specifications

    11ac Dual-Band Wireless Gigabit Router A-Link RoadRunnerAP Appendix: Technical Specifications IEEE802.11ac, IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g, Standards IEEE 802.11n, IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u, IEEE802.3ab LAN: 4 x 10/100/1000M RJ45 Ports(Auto MDI/MDIX) Interface Type WAN: 1 x 10/100/1000M RJ45 Port(Auto MDI/MDIX) USB host: 1 X USB 2.0 port...

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