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Netis 3G-C101 User Manual

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2011-06-02

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  • Page 1: User Manual

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual V1.1 2011-06-02...

  • Page 2: Fcc Statement

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual Certification FCC CE FCC Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.
  • Page 3 Reproduction in any manner without the permission of Netis Corporation is strictly forbidden All the information in this document is subject to change without notice.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual Contents INTRODUCTION ........................... 6 1.1.......................... 6 RODUCT VERVIEW 1.2..........................6 EATURES 1.3....................7 UPPORTING TANDARD AND ROTOCOL 1.4........................7 ORKING NVIRONMENT HARDWARE INSTALLATION ........................8 2.1........................8 YSTEM EQUIREMENT 2.2.............................
  • Page 5 Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual 4.4..........................36 NTERNET ETUP 4.4.1. DHCP User (Cable Modem) ....................37 4.4.2. PPPoE user (ADSL)......................38 4.4.3. Static user ......................... 39 4.4.4. PPTP Client + DHCP ......................40 4.4.5. 3G User ..........................41 4.5........................
  • Page 6 Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual 4.13.6. WOL ..........................65 4.13.7. System Time ........................65 TROUBLESHOOTING........................... 67 5 / 69...

  • Page 7: Introduction

    The button lets you activate the wireless protection easily In this User Manual, if there is no specific instruction, we all use 3G-C101 for example 1.2. Main Features Support 3G network card ...

  • Page 8: Supporting Standard And Protocol

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual Upgradeable firmware for future functions  WPS button can setup a secure network easily  Support data encryption mode: WEP, WPA, WPA2  Support multiple BSSID  Support DMZ  1.3. Supporting Standard and Protocol IEEE 802.11b/g/n ...

  • Page 9: Hardware Installation

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual 2. Hardware Installation 2.1. System Requirement Minimum Requirements: Broadband (DSL/Cable) modem and service with Ethernet port  802.11n b/g/n wireless adapter or Ethernet adapter and cable for each computer  Internet Explorer® 5.0, Firefox® 2.0 or Safari® 1.4 or higher ...

  • Page 10: Restore To Factory Configuration

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual LAN Connection normal LAN1-LAN4 Flashing Data transmitting LAN Connection abnormal Flashing Wireless data transmitting WLAN Wireless off Flashing WPS is running slowly WPS is not running Rear panel Figure 2-2 Description Function Connect to Power adapter, please don‟t use the unknown PWR port power adapter, otherwise your device may be damaged.

  • Page 11: Hardware Installation Procedures

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual „System management‟- „Restore‟, and click on the „Restore‟ button. 2.4. Hardware Installation Procedures Figure 2-3 Attach one end of an Ethernet cable to your computer‟s Ethernet port, and the other end to one of  the LAN ports of your router.

  • Page 12: Login

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual 3. Login You can manage the Wireless-N 3G Router through the Web browser-based configuration utility. To configure the device via Web browser, at least one properly configured computer must be connected to the device via Ethernet or wireless network. The Wireless-N 3G Router is configured with the default IP address of 192.168.1.1 and subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 and its DHCP server is enabled by default.

  • Page 13: Windows 2000

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual 3.1.2. Windows 2000 Please follow the steps below to setup your computer: 1. Go to Start  Settings  Control Panel Figure 3-1 2. Double click the icon Network and Dial-up Connections 3. Highlight the icon Local Area Connection, right click your mouse, and click Properties 12 / 69...
  • Page 14 Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual Figure 3-2 4. Highlight Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), and then press Properties button Figure 3-3 5. Choose Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically, and then press OK to close the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties window 13 / 69...
  • Page 15 Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual Figure 3-4 6. Press OK to close the Local Area Connection Properties window Figure 3-5 14 / 69...

  • Page 16: Windows Xp

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual 3.1.3. Windows XP Please follow the steps below to setup your computer: 1. Go to Start  Settings  Control Panel 2. Click Network and Internet Connections Figure 3-6 3. Click Network Connections Figure 3-7 4.
  • Page 17 Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual Figure 3-8 5. Highlight Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), and then press Properties button Figure 3-9 6. Choose Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically, and then press OK to close the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties window 16 / 69...
  • Page 18 Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual Figure 3-10 7. Press OK to close the Local Area Connection Properties window Figure 3-11 17 / 69...

  • Page 19: Windows Vista/7

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual 3.1.4. Windows Vista/7 Please follow the steps below to setup your computer: 1. Go to Start  Settings  Control Panel 2. Click Network and Sharing Center Figure 3-12 3. Click Manage Network Connections Figure 3-13 4.
  • Page 20 Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual Figure 3-14 5. Highlight Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IP) and then press Properties button 19 / 69...
  • Page 21 Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual Figure 3-15 6. Choose Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically, and then press OK to close the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties window 20 / 69...
  • Page 22 Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual Figure 3-16 7. Press OK to close the Local Area Connection Properties window 21 / 69...

  • Page 23: Mac Os

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual Figure 3-17 3.1.5. MAC OS Please follow the steps blow to setup your computer: Go to Start→ System preference Settings→ Network. 22 / 69...
  • Page 24 Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual Figure 3-18 Click Network, Select Use DHCP at the Configuration bar, the system will get the IP address automatically. Figure 3-19 23 / 69...

  • Page 25: Checking Connection With The Router

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual Press Apply to complete this operation and close the window. 3.2. Checking Connection with the Router After configuring the TCP/IP protocol, use the ping command to verify if the computer can communicate with the Router. To execute the ping command, open the DOS window and Ping the IP address of the Wireless-N 3G Broadband Router at the DOS prompt: For Windows 98/Me: Start ->...

  • Page 26: Login

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Ping statistics for 192.168.1.1: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss), Verify your computer's network settings are correct and check the cable connection between the router and the computer.
  • Page 27 Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual Figure 3-21 Login successfully and the home page appears, the left navigation bar shows the main options to  configure the system, the right screen is the summary information for viewing the configurations. Figure 3-22 26 / 69...

  • Page 28: System Configuration

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual 4. System Configuration 4.1. Convenient Setup Providing you the convenient and simplest method for configure the router, the purpose of this item is to provide an easy way for you to use it and configure your router to access the Internet quickly; including „DHCP‟, „PPPoE‟, „Static IP‟, „PPTP Client + DHCP‟, „3G user‟...

  • Page 29: Pppoe User (Adsl)

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual 4.1.2. PPPoE user (ADSL) Figure 4-2 If your ISP provides you the PPPoE service (all ISP with DSL transaction will supply this service, such as the most popular ADSL technique), please select this item. In the “Convenient configuration” You can input your PPPoE username and password to access the Internet.

  • Page 30: Static User

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual 4.1.3. Static User Figure 4-3 This item should only be used when users use a static IP address to access Internet, you should input your “WAN IP address”, ”subnet mask”,” default gateway” and “DNS server (domain name server) IP address”...

  • Page 31: Pptp Client + Dhcp

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual 4.1.4. PPTP Client + DHCP Figure 4-4 This item should be used when users use a PPTP client as well as a DHCP to access Internet, you should input the information that you get from your ISP 30 / 69...

  • Page 32: User

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual 4.1.5. 3G User Figure 4-5 ISP: Select ISP of your 3G card  3G card type: Select your 3G card type  Wireless Configuration 4.1.6. Figure 4-6 You can choose “Enable” or “Disable” to enable or disable the wireless function. The default setting is “enable”.

  • Page 33: System Information

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual wireless network. The SSID must be identical for all devices in the wireless network. It is case-sensitive and must not exceed 32 characters. 4.2. System Information This page indicate current status of the router, including „Internet Access‟, „LAN Info‟, „Wireless Info‟, „Secondary AP‟, „System‟...

  • Page 34: Lan Info

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual if you haven‟t connected to Internet yet, this field is 0.0.0.0. Primary DNS: The DNS server translates domain or website names into IP address, input the  most common DNS server address you used or provided by your ISP. Secondary DNS: Input IP address of a backup DNS server or you can leave this field blank ...

  • Page 35: Wireless Info

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual 4.2.3. Wireless Info Figure 4-9 This item provides current running information of wireless. Wireless status: Display wireless interface status is enabled or not  Wireless Mode: Current wireless mode of wireless router  Channel: Display current channel of your wireless router. ...

  • Page 36: System

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual This item provides current running information of Secondary AP Wireless status: Display wireless interface status is enabled or not  Wireless Mode: Current wireless mode of wireless router  Channel: Display current channel of your wireless router. ...

  • Page 37: System Log

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual 4.3. System Log Connection Logs 4.3.1. Figure 4-13 Examine system log, there are most ten logs can be showed in one Page 3G Logs 4.3.2. Figure 4-14 Display 3G connection logs. You can configure items show in every single page 4.4.

  • Page 38: Dhcp User (Cable Modem)

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual 4.4.1. DHCP User (Cable Modem) After select this item, you will obtain an IP address from your ISP automatically, those ISP who supply Cable modem always use DHCP Figure 4-15 Clone MAC address: The WAN port of router has a unique MAC address assigned by ...

  • Page 39: Pppoe User (Adsl)

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual 4.4.2. PPPoE user (ADSL) Figure 4-16 If your ISP provides you the PPPoE service (all ISP with DSL transaction will supply this service, such as the most popular ADSL technique), please select this item. In the “Convenient Setup” You can input your PPPoE username and password to access the Internet PPPoE username: Input PPPoE username provided by ISP ...

  • Page 40: Static User

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual Secondary DNS: Input IP address of backup DNS server, or you can leave this field blank  You can select three modes: connect to Internet automatically (Default), auto disconnect when idle or time out, connect to Internet manually 4.4.3.

  • Page 41: Pptp Client + Dhcp

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual MTU manually, and you should leave this value in the 1200 to 1500 range. If the value you set is not in accord with the value ISP provide, it may causes some problems, such as fail to send Email, or fail to browse website.

  • Page 42: User

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual For example, ISP only allows certain MAC address to access the Internet, thus you can modify your WAN port‟s MAC address in accord with the requirement of ISP, avoiding ISP‟s detection MTU: The MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) setting specifies the largest packet size ...

  • Page 43: Wireless Management

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual User name & password: Input username and password  Primary DNS: DNS server is used for resolve domain name. Your ISP will provides you with at  least one DNS IP address, input IP address of your DNS server in this field Secondary DNS: Input IP address of backup DNS server, or you can leave this field blank.

  • Page 44: Security

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual Radio mode: You can select radio mode of wireless router, the default setting is AP mode  SSID: The default is default  SSID Broadcasting: You can select “enable” or “disable” to enable or disable the broadcast SSID ...
  • Page 45 Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual Figure 4-22  Key Length: There are two basic levels of WEP encryption, 64 bits and 128 bits, the more bits password have, the better security wireless network is, at the same time the speed of wireless is more slower.
  • Page 46 Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual TKIP means “Temporal Key Integrity Protocol”, which incorporates Message Integrity Code (MIC) to provide protection against hackers. AES, means “Advanced Encryption System”, which utilizes a symmetric 128-Bit block data.  Key Renewal: you can configure the renewal time between 60 to 86400 seconds. ...

  • Page 47: Wds

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual configure it according with WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK 4.5.1.3. Figure 4-26 If you have selected WDS or AP+WDS mode in Wireless Basic-Radio Mode, please do the following configurations WDS Name: Give a description of your wireless bridge to tell apart ...
  • Page 48 Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual Select radio mode is WDS or AP+WDS in wireless management-basic of AP1.   Click on „Wireless Management‟- „AP Setup‟- „Security‟ and select and save None as authentication type. Click on „Wireless Management‟- „AP Setup‟- „Security‟ and select and save None as WDS ...

  • Page 49: Host Filter

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual 4.5.1.4. Host Filter Figure 4-27 Wireless Access Control Status: the default is disable. To disable “Wireless Access Control  Status”, keep the default setting “Disable” Please select “enable” if you want to configure Wireless Access Control, then you can follow the following steps to set: 1.

  • Page 50: Wps

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual 4.5.1.6. Wi-Fi Protect Setup (WPS) function can let you create a safety network easily. You can through „PIN Input Config (PIN)‟ or ‟Push Button (PBC)‟to encrypt your network. This router also provides WPS button, you only need to push the WPS button in this router and the wireless network card which support WPS function, then the router will be encrypted to WPA2-AES mode automatically.

  • Page 51: Advanced

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual  Push and hold WPS button on back of Router until WPS LED flashes or for about 3seconds  Push WPS button on wireless network adapter and hold for about 3-5 seconds  A safe connection will be established automatically in a moment ...

  • Page 52: Multiple Ap Setup

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual These settings are only for more technically advanced users who have a sufficient knowledge about wireless LAN. These settings should not be changed unless you know what effect the change will have on your AP Authentications type: The default is set to “Auto”, which allows “Open System”...

  • Page 53: Basic

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual 4.5.1.1. Basic Figure 4-31 The default status of secondary AP is disable, you can select enable to enable the secondary AP. Please refer to Basic for details 4.5.1.2. Security Figure 4-32 Please refer to Security for details 4.5.1.3.

  • Page 54: Mac Filter

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual control” and “DNS Filter” MAC Filter 4.6.1. Figure 4-34 MAC Filter Status: the default is disable. You can filter wired users by enabling this function;  thus unauthorized users can not access the network Description: describe MAC Filter list to tell from different MAC Filter lists ...

  • Page 55: Internet Access Control

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual 4.6.2. Internet Access Control Figure 4-35 IP Firewall Status: The default is disable. The rules of “Internet access control” based on  source IP, port number and protocol Description: Describe IP Firewall list to tell from different IP Firewall lists ...

  • Page 56: Dns Filter

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual 3. There are two items supplied, “Permit through the router for IP address listed, others are denied” and “Deny through the router for IP address listed, others are permitted”, Select the item you want, and click “Save” button 4.

  • Page 57: Qos Setup

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual 3. There are two items supplied, “Permit through the router for DNS Key words listed, others are denied” and “Deny through the router for DNS Key words listed, others are permitted”, Select the item you want, and click “Save” button 4.

  • Page 58: Lan Setup

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual 4.8. LAN Setup It includes LAN IP address, DHCP Server and DHCP Client Info. You can change the default IP address of LAN port by using this item, after changing IP address of LAN port, the router will restarted automatically.

  • Page 59: Dhcp Client Info

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual DHCP Server Status: Keep the default setting “Enable”, so router is able to use DHCP function.  If a router‟s DHCP server has already existed in the network, please select “Disable”. IP Address Pool: The IP Address pool is used for allocate IP address by DHCP server; The IP ...

  • Page 60: Virtual Service

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual 4.9.1. Virtual Service Figure 4-41 Some games, servers, and applications (such as BT, QQ video, Edunkey, Web server) are no longer effect when behind the NAT router, so this item provides function of port mapping from LAN to WAN.

  • Page 61: Dmz Setting

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual 4.9.2. DMZ Setting Figure 4-42 DMZ opens all the ports of one computer, exposing the computer to the Internet. So it should only be used for some special-purpose, especial for Internet online games. Using this function you can select „DMZ‟...

  • Page 62: Port Trigger

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual 4.9.4. Port Trigger Figure 4-44 Port trigger module dynamically registers virtual server rules when any IP host generates the packet from the specified trigger protocol and port. Port trigger module use forward protocol type and port number and use the IP address of host that generates the trigger packet when it registers a rule.

  • Page 63: Ddns

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual Figure 4-45 PPTP Pass-through: PPTP means the “Point to Point Tunneling Protocol”, you can select “enable”  to allow PPTP pass-through the router L2TP Pass-through: L2TP means the “Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol”, you can select “enable” to ...

  • Page 64: Routing

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual information in appropriate field 4.12. Routing Most of broadband router and wireless router are using NAT mode, so this feature is designed for most common network environment Figure 4-47 Destination Network or IP Address: Specify a certain destination Network or IP address which ...

  • Page 65: Password Setup

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual 4.13.1. Password Setup Figure 4-48 The default username/password is guest/guest. To ensure the Router‟s security, it is suggested that you change the default password to one of your choice, here enter a new password and then Re-enter it again to confirm your new password.

  • Page 66: Reboot

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual 4.13.4. Reboot Figure 4-51 Click “Restart” button to restart the router 4.13.5. Restore Figure 4-52 Click "Restore" button, the Router will erase all of your settings and replace them with the factory defaults, make sure you have backup current settings before click this button 4.13.6.
  • Page 67 Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual You can choose the time server and the time zone for the system time 66 / 69...

  • Page 68: Troubleshooting

    Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual 5. Troubleshooting 1. I cannot access the Web-based Configuration Utility from the Ethernet computer used to configure the router. Check that the LAN LED is on. If the LED is not on, verify that the cable for the LAN ...
  • Page 69 Wireless-N 3G Router User Manual to see if the adapter is properly installed. Make sure the wireless client uses the same SSID and security settings (if enabled) as the  150Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router.  Ensure that the wireless adapter‟s TCP/IP settings are correct as required by your network administrator.

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