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Digisol DG-BR5400QAC User Manual

Ac1200 dual band wireless broadband router
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DG-BR5400QAC User Manual
DG-BR5400QAC
AC1200 Dual band Wireless Broadband Router
User Manual
V1.0
2016-09-22
As our products undergo continuous development the specifications are subject to change without prior notice.

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  • Page 1 DG-BR5400QAC User Manual DG-BR5400QAC AC1200 Dual band Wireless Broadband Router User Manual V1.0 2016-09-22 As our products undergo continuous development the specifications are subject to change without prior notice.
  • Page 2 Trademarks: DIGISOL™ is a trademark of Smartlink Network Systems Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of the respective manufacturers. Safety This equipment is designed with the utmost care for the safety of those who install and use it.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    DG-BR5400QAC User Manual Index 1. Product Introduction ......................3 1-1 Introduction and Safety Information ................3 1-2 Safety Information ......................3 1-3 System Requirements ....................4 1-4 Package Contents ......................4 2. Hardware Installation ......................5 2-1 Get Familiar with your new wireless broadband router ..........5 2-2 Typical install: ......................7...

  • Page 4: Product Introduction

    1-1 Introduction and Safety Information Thank you for purchasing DG-BR5400QAC 867Mbps 802.11ac Wireless Broadband Home Router! DG-BR5400QAC is the best choice for Small office / Home office users, all computers and network devices can share a single cable internet connection at high speed. Easy install procedures allow computer users to setup a network environment in very short time - within minutes, even inexperienced users.

  • Page 5: System Requirements

    Before you start using this router, please check if there’s anything missing in the package, and contact your dealer of purchase to claim for missing items: • DG-BR5400QAC Wireless Broadband Home Router • Power adapter (12V DC, 1A ) • Quick Installation Guide •...

  • Page 6: Hardware Installation

    DG-BR5400QAC User Manual 2. Hardware Installation 2-1 Get Familiar with your new wireless broadband router 2-1-1 Hardware Interface: There is hardware interface on back panel of router as described below: Interfaces Description USB port to connect pen-drive or external disk LAN (1 –...
  • Page 7 DG-BR5400QAC User Manual On top view of router, There is four 5Dbi dipole, non detachable antennas on each corner of router. WPS, RST button and LED to describe connection status of router. : Press this button for 3 seconds to initiate WPS.

  • Page 8: Typical Install

    DG-BR5400QAC User Manual 2-2 Typical install: 2-2-1 Hardware Installation: Please follow the below mentioned instructions to build the network connection between your new WIRELESS router and your computers, network devices: 1) Connect your Internet connection to the WAN port of the router by an Ethernet cable.

  • Page 9: Quick Installation Setup

    DG-BR5400QAC User Manual 4) Please check all LED on the front panel. Power LED should be steadily ON, WAN and LAN LED should be ON. Check if the computer/network device connected to the respective port of the router is powered ON and correctly connected. If power LED is not ON, or any LED you expected is not ON, please recheck the cabling.
  • Page 10 DG-BR5400QAC User Manual 2. Right click "local Area Network Connection" and select "Properties" 3. Select "Internet Protocol (TCP/IPv4)" and click "Properties".
  • Page 11 DG-BR5400QAC User Manual 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".
  • Page 12 DG-BR5400QAC User Manual B. select "Use the following IP address(S)". IP Address: 192.168.2.XXX (XXX is a number from 2~254) Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 Gateway: 192.168.2.1 Click "OK" to save the configurations.
  • Page 13 DG-BR5400QAC User Manual After you assign an IP address to the computer, open the web browser, and type the IP address of the router in the address bar as ‘http://192.168.2.1’. The following web page will display on screen: Please input password in given field to access router configuration, default password is ‘1234’, then press ‘GO’...
  • Page 14 DG-BR5400QAC User Manual Please choose the access (Internet connection) type you’re using in this page. There are three types of Internet connections: Dynamic IP(dhcp), Static IP(static) and PPPoE. If you’re not sure, please contact your Internet service provider. A wrong Internet connection type will cause connection problem, and you will not be able to connect to the internet.
  • Page 15 DG-BR5400QAC User Manual Parameter Description IP address Please input IP address assigned by your service provider. Please input subnet mask assigned by your service Subnet Mask provider Default Please input the default gateway assigned by your service Gateway provider. Please input the DNS IP address in dotted-decimal notation provided by your ISP.
  • Page 16 DG-BR5400QAC User Manual 8.4 WIFI Configuration: Check ‘WIFI setting’ on Quick install page.Enter the ‘SSID’ for both band (i.e for 5GHz and 2.4GHz) and set Password.Password must contain at least 8 character. By default WIFI is open share and any one can access you network. Kindly keep your WIFI secure by setting password.

  • Page 17: Configuring The Router

    DG-BR5400QAC User Manual After applying configuration router will take 90 seconds to reboot. Now router is ready to use. 3. Configuring the Router This section will show each Web page’s key functions and the configuration way. Quick installation page appear first time after reset router, after that you have to configure router by accessing router web page.

  • Page 18: Admin

    As you click on Time/ Language below page will display. Now go to Time synchronization to set time. DG-BR5400QAC router can act as NTP client ans set it’s time according to NTP server set by you. Also you can set it as NTP server by applying ( √...

  • Page 19: Password

    DG-BR5400QAC User Manual 3.2.2 Password Click on Password option from admin, you will able to set password to router web management page. Path to set password -- Admin >> Password. Insert same password in confirmation field as you enter in password field otherwise it will not set password and shows you error.

  • Page 20: Usb

    DG-BR5400QAC User Manual You can add more scheduled task by click on ‘Add’ button at bottom of rules. To set rule or to reschedule please click ‘Edit’ button at right site of rule.You may delete rule by click on ‘Delete’ button. Please click on ‘save & Apply’ to save the changes.

  • Page 21: Advance

    DG-BR5400QAC User Manual Make appropriate changes to make share directories available to user. Please click on ‘Save & Apply’ to save changes. 3.4 Advance Click ‘Advanced’ menu on the top of web management interface, you will find more options to configure you router. Under this section you can configure LAN, WAN, DHCP, Filtering and port forwarding rule, NAT and use some diagnostics network utilities.
  • Page 22 DG-BR5400QAC User Manual A)WAN To configure WAN; Choose menu-- “Advanced >> LAN/WAN >> WAN”. Or you can access WAN setting by clicking ‘Edit’ option in front of WAN status on ‘LAN/WAN’ web interface, 1. General Setting: Once you enter in WAN configuration, below given screen will be displayed, Note: Please obtain WAN setting from your respective ISP.
  • Page 23 DG-BR5400QAC User Manual 3. Physical Setting: Here you can creates a bridge over specified interface(s) 4. Firewall Setting: Here you can assign firewall zone to LAN interface.
  • Page 24 DG-BR5400QAC User Manual B)LAN To configure LAN; Choose menu-- “Advanced >> LAN/WAN >> LAN”. Or you can access LAN setting by clicking ‘Edit’ option in front of LAN status on ‘LAN/WAN’ web interface, 1. General Setting: Once you enter in LAN configuration, below given screen will be displayed, Please set your LAN IP, Netmask, Gateway, DNS and IPv6 setting here.
  • Page 25 DG-BR5400QAC User Manual 3.Physical Setting: Here you can creates a bridge over specified interface(s) 4. Firewall Setting: Here you can assign firewall zone to LAN interface.
  • Page 26 DG-BR5400QAC User Manual C) DHCP Server To configure DHCP server setting; Choose menu-- “Advanced >> LAN/WAN >> WAN” and scroll down to reach DHCP server setting. This is interface base setting (i.e LAN and WAN). Once you reach DHCP server setting you will see below web management interface in computer screen;...

  • Page 27: Wifi

    DG-BR5400QAC User Manual 3.4.2 WIFI Click ‘WIFI’ option from ‘Advanced’ menu on the top of web management interface, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser: This page will show you overview of WIFI setting and associated client on WIFI at bottom of web interface.

  • Page 28: Switch

    DG-BR5400QAC User Manual Here you set channel, bandwidth, SSID, encryption for your WIFI network. Same way we can configure WIFI for radio0 B) MAC-Filter To filter MAC address on you local network please click on ‘MAC-Filter’ once you enter in WIFI setting; below mention window will display. Enable MAC address filter to more secure your WIFI.

  • Page 29: Dhcp And Dns

    DG-BR5400QAC User Manual Please enable VLAN functionality to use VLAN. Note: Images subject to change in future without notification. 3.4.4 DHCP and DNS This is a combined DHCP-Server and DNS-Forwarder for NAT firewalls. On this page you can configure domain, DNS and DHCP advertise setting, enable DNS log, Active DHCP client.
  • Page 30 DG-BR5400QAC User Manual...

  • Page 31: Static Route

    DG-BR5400QAC User Manual 3.4.5 Static Route This management interface allow you to set static route over . Routes specify over which interface and gateway a certain host or network can be reached.Choose menu-- Advanced >>Static Route, below given screen will be displayed.
  • Page 32 DG-BR5400QAC User Manual Here please input dynamic service and click on ‘Add’ to configure Dynamic DNS, also you can remove DNS rule by click on ‘Delete’ button in front of rule. Once click on Add button below given screen will be displayed to configure dynamic DNS.
  • Page 33 DG-BR5400QAC User Manual Please check enable option to enable rule and fill correct entry in respective field to configure DNS, click on Save & Apply to make changes. For advance user there is a ‘Advance setting’ at top of web page in dynamic DNS rule. This is for to set proxy,...
  • Page 34 DG-BR5400QAC User Manual Please click on ‘Timer Setting’ at top of web page in dynamic DNS rule to configure periodic update from dynamic DNS provider. click on Save & Apply to save changes...

  • Page 35: Web-Filter

    DG-BR5400QAC User Manual User can view logs, Please go to top of web page in dynamic DNS rule and click on ‘Logs file Viewer’ and then click on ‘Read/ Reread file’ to view logs. 3.4.7 Web-Filter This page is used to configure the filtered keyword. Here you can add/delete filtered keyword.

  • Page 36: Firewall

    DG-BR5400QAC User Manual Field Description Allow/block Set to allow or block any URL that you want. Bydefault all URL is allowed. Web URL Specify URL name that you want to allow or block Jump Please input IP address here. It will redirect you to the website destination of given IP address for specified URL.
  • Page 37 DG-BR5400QAC User Manual To edit zone setting click on Edit, below mention web interface will appear on screen,This section defines common properties "wan". The input and output options set the default policies for traffic entering and leaving this zone while the forward option describes the policy for forwarded traffic between different networks within the zone.
  • Page 38 DG-BR5400QAC User Manual Port forwarding: Port forwarding allows remote computers on the Internet to connect to a specific computer or service within the private LAN. To access this management interface Click-- Advanced>>Firewall>> Port forwards, Here you can add more port forwarding rule by click on ‘Add’ at bottom of web management interface.
  • Page 39 DG-BR5400QAC User Manual Traffic Rules: Traffic rules define policies for packets traveling between different zones, for example to reject traffic between certain hosts or to open WAN ports on the router. To access this management interface Click-- Advanced>>Firewall>> Traffic Rules,...
  • Page 40 DG-BR5400QAC User Manual Here you can add more traffic rule by click on ‘Add’ at bottom of web management interface. To rule setting please click on ‘Edit’, after below window will appear on screen, make appropriate changes to make rule effective. Please click...
  • Page 41 DG-BR5400QAC User Manual Source NAT: Source NAT is a specific form of masquerading which allows fine grained control over the source IP used for outgoing traffic, for example to map multiple WAN addresses to internal subnets. To access this management interface Click-- Advanced>>Firewall>>...
  • Page 42 DG-BR5400QAC User Manual This page allows you to change advanced properties of the traffic rule entry, such as matched source and destination hosts. Here you can add more NAT rule by click on ‘Add’ at bottom of web management interface. To rule setting please click on ‘Edit’, after below window will appear on screen, make appropriate changes to make rule effective.

  • Page 43: Diagnostics

    DG-BR5400QAC User Manual 3.4.9 Diagnostics To use diagnostics network utility Choose menu-- Advanced >> Diagnostics, below given screen will be displayed. Different Network utility are describe here: Ping: This utility is used to ping destination host or network. Diagnostic Ping can check remote network host is reachable or not.

  • Page 44: Backup / Restore

    DG-BR5400QAC User Manual 3.5.1 Backup / Restore Once you click on system you will see backup / restore utility. Fields of backup / restore are define below. Field Description Download Click "Generate archive" to download a tar archive of the...

  • Page 45: Appendix

    DG-BR5400QAC User Manual After click on perform reboot router will take 90 seconds to reboot operation. 4. Appendix • Hardware Specifications: - Antenna: four fixed 5 dBi antenna - WPS Push Button - Factory reset button • Network Ports: - 1 * 10/100Mbps UTP WAN Port - 4 * 10/100Mbps UTP LAN Ports •...

  • Page 46: Glossary

    DG-BR5400QAC User Manual 5. Glossary Default Gateway (Router): Every non-router IP device needs to configure a default gateway IP address. When the device sends out an IP packet, if the destination is not on the same network, the device has to send the packet to its default gateway, which will then send it to the destination.
  • Page 47 DG-BR5400QAC User Manual For example, if the IP address for a device is, in its binary form, 11011001.10110000.10010000.00000111, network mask 11111111.11111111.11110000.00000000 It means the device’s network address is 11011001.10110000.10010000.00000000, host 00000000.00000000.00000000.00000111. This is a convenient and efficient method for routers to route IP packets to their destination.
  • Page 48 DG-BR5400QAC User Manual Application Protocol Port Number Telnet SMTP POP3 H.323 1720 SNMP SNMP Trap HTTP PPTP 1723 PC Anywhere 5631 PC Anywhere 5632 PPPoE: (Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet.) Point-to-Point Protocol is a secure data transmission method originally created for dial-up connections; PPPoE is for Ethernet connections.
  • Page 49 This means the user can use the familiar Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer to Control/configure or monitor the device being managed. Following are the solutions to problems that may occur during the installation and operation of the DIGISOL DG-BR5400QAC Wireless Broadband Router. 1. Cannot login into the router.
  • Page 50 DG-BR5400QAC User Manual 3. Wireless client cannot locate the router. Verify whether Wireless is off in router’s web configuration. Verify whether the antenna is properly connected and in correct direction. Is your wireless client far away from your router? Try to get closer to the router.

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