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Wireless N 150 Router
Model # AR570W
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Ver. 2A

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  • Page 1: Federal Communication Commission Interference Statement

    Wireless N 150 Router Model # AR570W User’s Manual Ver. 2A...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Federal Communication Commission Interference Statement FCC Part 15 This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

      FEDERAL COMMUNICATION COMMISSION INTERFERENCE STATEMENT...2 TABLE OF CONTENTS ...3 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION...6 ... 6 1.1 F EATURES ... 6 1.2 P ACKAGE ONTENTS ... 6 1.3 R OUTER NTERFACE CHAPTER 2 INSTALLING THE ROUTER...9 2.1 U EZ S SING ETUP IZARD 2.2 C...
  • Page 4 3.5.1 Firewall ... 66 3.5.2 DoS (Denial-of-Service) ... 67 3.5.2.1 DoS – Advanced Settings... 67 3.5.3 VPN Pass through ... 69 3.6 A ... 70 DMINISTRATION 3.6.1 Time ... 70 3.6.2 Management ... 71 3.6.2.1 Password ... 71 3.6.2.2 UPnP ... 72 3.6.2.3 Reset (Reboot)...

  • Page 5: Chapter 1 Introduction

    Chapter 1 Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of Airlink101 Wireless N 150 Router AR570W. This product is ideal for home or SOHO users who need greater bandwidth and higher speed for various networking applications, such as VoIP phone, online gaming or online video/audio streaming.
  • Page 6 Light Status POWER WLAN Flashing LNK/ACT Flashing LAN 1-4 LNK/ACT Flashing Back Panel Item Description Name Antenna The antenna is 3dBi dipole antenna. Radio Switch the button to activate or deactivate the Router’s wireless function. ON/OFF Description Router is powered on. WPS setup is in progress.
  • Page 7 Reset the router to factory default settings (clear all settings) or start security Reset / synchronization function (WPS). Press this button and hold for 10 seconds to restore all settings to factory defaults. Press this button for no longer than 1 second to start security synchronization.

  • Page 8: Chapter 2 Installing The Router

    Chapter 2 Installing the Router 2.1 Using EZ Setup Wizard Step 1 Insert the Setup CD into your CD-ROM drive. Step 2 Click Next to start the configuration.
  • Page 9 Step 3 Connect one end of a network cable to the WAN port of the router and connect the other end to your DSL/Cable modem. Step 4 Connect one end of another network cable to the LAN port of the router and connect the other end to your computer.
  • Page 10 Step 5 Power on the Router. It will take about 30 seconds. Step 6 Make sure POWER, WAN, WLAN, and the LAN port that the computer is connected to are lit. If not, try the above steps again. Step 7 Enter the Router’s password to log in to the Router.
  • Page 11 Step 8 Verify the Internet Connection Type the wizard detected. If it is not correct, please configure it manually. Click Next. Note: If you are not sure which Internet Connection Type you use, please contact your Internet Service Provider for this information. Step 9 Enter the settings for your Internet Connection Type.
  • Page 12 Step 10 Please wait while the Wizard trying to connect to the Internet. If you see the window “Internet Connection Succeed”, your router has been successfully connected to the Internet. Please click Next to configure the wireless settings.
  • Page 13 Step 11 Configure a name for your wireless network. Click Next. Step 12 Configure the security key for your wireless network. Check Enable WPA Pre-Share Key. Enter 8 to 63 characters into WPA-Pre-Share Key. Click Next.
  • Page 14 Step 13 Verify the settings you just configured for the Router. Click Finish to restart the Router. Congratulations! Your router configuration has been finished.  ...

  • Page 15: Connecting To The Router Wirelessly

    2.2 Connecting to the Router Wirelessly You must configure your wireless computer in order to establish a wireless connection to the router. In this section, you can find the instructions of how to connect to the router wirelessly with your Vista computer. You can also refer to the manual of your wireless network card regarding how to connect to a router wirelessly.
  • Page 16 Step 3 Enter the Security key you configured for the Router (see Step 12 in Chapter 2.1). Click Connect. Step 4 Click on Close. Now the wireless connection has been established successfully with the Router. You should be able to connect to Internet wirelessly now.

  • Page 17: Chapter 3 Using Web Configuration Utility

    Chapter 3 Using Web Configuration Utility The Web Configuration Utility contains advanced features that allow you to configure the router to meet your network’s needs Forwarding (Virtual Server) and other functions. Wizard, you do NOT need to configure any other thing here for you to start using the Internet. Below is a general description of the advanced functions available for this router.
  • Page 18 Step 2 Enter your user name and password and click OK. (The default user name and password are both “admin”.) Step 3 When you see this page coming up, you have successfully logged in to the router. You can now access the complete features/settings of the router.  ...

  • Page 19: Setup Wizard

    3.0 Setup Wizard Click on Setup Wizard and start the basic configuration for this router. If you have gone through the EZ Setup Wizard on the provided CD, you do not need to set up the router again. Step 1 Configure the Time Zone Settings of the Router.
  • Page 20 Time Server Address Daylight Savings Step 2 Select WAN type by which Internet service you are using. Dynamic IP (for Cable or some DSL users) Click on Dynamic IP if you are connecting to Internet through a cable modem. When the Dynamic IP settings appear below, click Clone MAC and click NEXT.
  • Page 21 Primary DNS Secondary DNS PPPoE (for DSL users) For DSL users, your Internet type is either Dynamic IP or PPPoE. If you are not sure which one you have, it is suggested to select PPPoE for your WAN type, and if you cannot connect to the Internet after the Setup Wizard finished, go through the Setup Wizard again and select Dynamic IP.
  • Page 22 Password DNS Address Primary DNS Secondary DNS Service Name Connection Type Idle Time Out Static IP Click on Static IP if your ISP (Internet Service Provider) has provided you a set of IP addresses for your Internet connection. Enter the IP address, Subnet Mask, DNS addresses and Default Gateway provided by your ISP. Note: You must use the addresses provided by your Internet service provider, wrong setting value will cause connection problem.
  • Page 23 PPTP PPTP requires two kinds of setting: WAN interface setting (setup IP address) and PPTP setting (PPTP user name and password). Here we start from WAN interface setting: Select the type of how you obtain IP address from your service provider here. You can choose “Obtain an IP address automatically, or “Use the following IP address”...
  • Page 24 Connection ID BEZEQ-ISRAEL Connection Type Idle Time Out When you finish with all settings, please click NEXT. L2TP L2TP is another connection method for Internet. All required settings are same as PPTP connection. Like PPTP, there are two types of required settings. Start from “WAN Interface Settings”: Select the type of how you obtain IP address from your service provider here.

  • Page 25: Telstra Big Pond

    Parameter User Name Password L2TP Gateway Connection Type Idle Time Out When you finish with all settings, please click NEXT. Telstra Big Pond This setting only works when you are using Telstra Big Pond’s network service in Australia. You need to input: Parameter User Name Description...
  • Page 26 Password Assign login server manually Server IP Address When you finish with all settings, please click NEXT. Step 3 Keep the default LAN IP and DHCP server settings or modify as needed. Click NEXT. Step 4 Keep the default SSID (wireless network name) or change it to a desired name, so you can always recognize your wireless network with it.
  • Page 27 2.4GHz (B): 2.4GHz band, only allows 802.11b wireless network client to connect to this router (maximum transfer rate 11Mbps). 2.4 GHz (N): 2.4GHz band, only allows 802.11n wireless network client to connect to this router (maximum transfer rate 150Mbps). 2.4 GHz (B+G):2.4GHz band, only allows 802.11b and 802.11g wireless network client to connect to this router (maximum transfer rate 11Mbps for 802.11b clients, and maximum 54Mbps for 802.11g clients).
  • Page 28 WPA2(Mixed) Select WPA pre-shared key for Encryption. Enter the settings below: • WPA Unicast Cipher Suite: Select WPA2(Mixed) • Pre-Shared Key Format: Select Passphrase • Pre-shared Key: Enter a key between 8 to 63 characters (alphanumeric, case sensitive). This is the security key for your wireless network Click OK to save the settings.
  • Page 29 If each field has valid numbers or IP addresses being assigned, the router is connected to the Internet.                    ...

  • Page 30: Network

    3.1 Network 3.1.1 WAN Use the WAN setting page to change your Internet connection type. The WAN setting page allows you to configure the Internet connection type of your ISP. The WAN settings offer the following selections for the router’s WAN port, Dynamic IP, Static IP, PPPoE, PPTP, L2TP and Telstra Big Pond.
  • Page 31 LAN IP section Parameters Default IP address 192.168.2.1 Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0 802.1d Spanning Tree Disable DHCP Server Enable Description This is the router’s LAN IP address (Your LAN clients’ default gateway IP address). Specify a Subnet Mask for your LAN segment. If you wish to activate 802.1d spanning tree function, select “Enabled”, or set it to “Disabled”...
  • Page 32 DHCP Server section Parameters Lease Time DHCP Client Start IP DHCP Client End IP Domain Name Static DHCP Lease Table section This function allows you to assign a static IP address to a specific computer forever, so you don’t have to manually set the IP address for a computer, and still enjoy the benefit of using DHCP server.

  • Page 33: Nat / Static Routing

    If you want to delete a specific item, please check the “Select” box of a MAC address and IP address mapping, then click “Delete” button. If you want to delete all mappings, click “Delete All”. After you finish with all settings, please click “Apply” button. If you want to reset all settings in this page, please click “Cancel”...
  • Page 34 Parameter Enable Static Routing Destination LAN IP Subnet Mask Default Gateway Hop Count Interface Reset From the Current Static Routing Table, you can check each Static Routing setting. Parameter Delete Delete All Description Check/uncheck to disable/enable the NAT function. Enter the IP Address of the destination LAN. Enter the Subnet Mask of the destination LAN.

  • Page 35: Ddns

    Reset After you finish with all settings, please click “Apply” button. If you want to reset all settings in this page, please click “Cancel” button. After you clicked Apply, the following message will be displayed on your web browser: You can click “Continue” to back to previous setup page to continue on other setup procedures, or click “Apply”...
  • Page 36 Provider Domain name Account Password/Key After you finish with all settings, please click “Apply” button. If you want to reset all settings in this page, please click “Cancel” button. After you clicked Apply, the following message will be displayed on your web browser: You can click “Continue”...

  • Page 37: Wireless

    3.2 Wireless 3.2.1 Basic Settings You can set parameters that are used for wireless clients to connect to this router. The parameters include SSID, Channel Number, etc. Parameters Default Band 2.4 GHz (B+G+N) Description Please select the radio band from one of the following options.

  • Page 38: Wireless Security

    3.2.2 Wireless Security The AR570W Wireless 150 Router provides complete wireless LAN security functions, including WEP, IEEE 802.11x, WPA2/WPA-PSK and WPA with RADIUS. With these security functions, you can prevent your wireless LAN from illegal access. Please make sure your wireless clients use the same security settings.
  • Page 39 Parameters Default Encryption Enable 802.1x Authentication After you finish with all security settings, please click “Apply” button. If you want to reset all settings in this page, please click “Cancel” button. After you clicked Apply, the following message will be displayed on your web browser: You can click “Continue”...

  • Page 40: Wep

    3.2.2.1 WEP Select “WEP” for the “Encryption” mode if you wish to use WEP to encrypt your wireless network. Parameters Key Length Key Format Default Tx Key Encryption Key 1~4 3.2.2.2 WPA Pre-share Key Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is an advanced security standard. You can use a pre-shared key to authenticate wireless stations and encrypt data during communication.

  • Page 41: Wpa Radius

    change the encryption key frequently. So the encryption key is not easy to be broken by hackers. This can improve security very much. Select “WPA Pre-share Key” for the “Encryption” mode if you wish to use WPA-PSK or WPA2- PSK to encrypt your wireless network. Parameters WPA Unicast Cipher Suite Pre-shared Key Format...

  • Page 42: Mac Control

    Parameters WPA Unicast Cipher Suite RADIUS Server IP Address RADIUS Server Port RADIUS Server Password 3.2.3 MAC Control This function will help you to prevent unauthorized users from connecting to your wireless router. Only those wireless devices with the MAC addresses you specified here are allowed to access your wireless router.
  • Page 43 Parameters Enable MAC Control MAC Address Comment Clear Delete Delete All After you finish with all settings, please click “Apply” button. If you want to reset all settings in this page, please click “Cancel” button. After you clicked Apply, the following message will be displayed on your web browser: Description Check/Uncheck to enable/disable wireless MAC control.

  • Page 44: Advanced Settings

    You can click “Continue” to back to previous setup page to continue on other setup procedures, or click “Apply” to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 30 seconds while router is rebooting). 3.2.4 Advanced Settings You can set advanced wireless LAN parameters of this router.
  • Page 45 RTS Threshold Beacon Interval DTIM Period Data Rate N Data Rate Channel Width Preamble Type Broadcast ESSID CTS Protect Tx Power After you finish with all settings, please click “Apply” button. If you want to reset all settings in this page, please click “Cancel” button. After you clicked Apply, the following message will be displayed on your web browser: When the packet size is smaller than the RTS threshold, the wireless router will not use the RTS/CTS mechanism to send this...

  • Page 46: Wps

    3.2.5 WPS The Airlink101 Wireless 150 Router AR570W has a built-in Easy Setup Button which allows you to connect your wireless computer with the router easily and safely. Your wireless adapter must support this feature as well. If not, you will need to set up the wireless security manually and you can skip this section.
  • Page 47 Step 2 Push and hold the Easy Setup Button on the Adapter until you see the following window pops up on the computer monitor. Step 3 Within the following 2 minutes, push the Easy Setup Button the Router. The WLAN LED will stay solid green instead of blinking.
  • Page 48 Parameters Enable WPS Wi-Fi Protected Setup Information Config Mode Description Check this box to enable WPS function, uncheck it to disable WPS. WPS-related system information will be displayed here: WPS Status: If the wireless security (encryption) function of this wireless router is properly set, you’ll see “Configured” message here.
  • Page 49 Configure by Push Button Configure by Pin Code                                       Click “Start PBC” to start Push-Button style WPS setup procedure. This wireless router will wait for WPS requests from wireless clients for 2 minutes.

  • Page 50: Application & Gaming

    3.3 Application & Gaming   3.3.1 Virtual Server (Port Forwarding) The Virtual Server allows you to re-direct a particular range of service port numbers (from the Internet/WAN Ports) to a particular LAN IP address. It helps you to host some servers behind the router NAT firewall.

  • Page 51: Special Applications (Port Triggering)

    Public Port Comment Current Virtual Server Table Delete Delete All Reset After you finish with all settings, please click “Apply” button. If you want to reset all settings in this page, please click “Cancel” button. After you clicked Apply, the following message will be displayed on your web browser: You can click “Continue”...
  • Page 52 Parameter Enable Special Applications IP Address Computer Name TCP/UDP Port to Open Comment Popular Application Add (in red box) Description Check to enable Special Applications, or uncheck to disable. This is the private IP of the computer/server behind the NAT firewall.

  • Page 53: Dmz

    From the Current Trigger-Port Table, you can select each Special Application setting by checking the “Select” checkbox. Parameter Delete Delete All Reset After you finish with all settings, please click “Apply” button. If you want to reset all settings in this page, please click “Cancel” button. After you clicked Apply, the following message will be displayed on your web browser: You can click “Continue”...
  • Page 54 Parameter Enable DMZ Check/uncheck to enable/disable DMZ. Public IP You can select “Dynamic IP” or “Static IP” here. If you select “Dynamic IP”, you have to select an Internet connection session from drop down menu; if you select “Static IP”, please input the IP address that you want to map to a specific private IP address.

  • Page 55: Alg Settings

    Reset You can also click ‘Reset’ button to unselect all. After you finish with all settings, please click “Apply” button. If you want to reset all settings in this page, please click “Cancel” button. After you clicked Apply, the following message will be displayed on your web browser: You can click “Continue”...

  • Page 56: Qos

    There are many applications listed here. Please check the box of the special support for applications you need. After you finish with all settings, please click “Apply” button. If you want to reset all settings in this page, please click “Cancel” button. After you clicked Apply, the following message will be displayed on your web browser: You can click “Continue”...

  • Page 57: Add A New Qos Rule

    Parameter Enable QoS Total Download Bandwidth Total Upload Bandwidth Current QoS Table Edit Delete Delete All Move Up Move Down 3.3.5.1 Add a new QoS rule After you click “Add” button on QoS page, the following message will appear: Description Check this box to enable QoS, and uncheck this box to disable QoS.
  • Page 58   Parameter Rule Name Please give a name to this QoS rule (up to 15 alphanumerical characters).   Bandwidth Set the bandwidth limitation of this QoS rule. You have to select the data direction of this rule (Upload of Download), and the speed of bandwidth limitation in Kbps, then select the type of QoS: “guarantee”...

  • Page 59: Protocol

    the limitation on all traffics from / to the specified IP address / port number), select “None”.   Protocol Please select the protocol type of this rule, available options are TCP and UDP. If you dont know what protocol your application uses, please try “TCP”...

  • Page 60: Access Restrictions

    3.4 Access Restrictions This function allows you to configure some Internet access rules for your local computers based on the IP address, applications, URL or keywords. 3.4.1 IP & Port Filtering If you want to restrict users from accessing certain Internet applications/services (e.g. Internet websites, email, FTP etc.) by their IP addresses, then you can set up the filtering rules here.
  • Page 61 Parameters Client PC Description Client PC IP address Client Service Protocol Port Range Description Please input any text to describe this IP address, up to 16 alphanumerical characters. Please input the starting IP address in the left field, and input the end IP address in the right field to define a range of IP addresses, or just input the IP address in the left field to define a single IP address.

  • Page 62: Mac Filtering

    After you finish with all settings, please click “Apply” button. If you want to reset all settings in this page, please click “Cancel” button. After you clicked Apply, the following message will be displayed on your web browser: You can click “Continue” to back to previous setup page to continue on other setup procedures, or click “Apply”...

  • Page 63: Url/Keyword Filtering

    Parameters Enable MAC Filtering Client PC MAC Address Computer Name Comment Reset Current Filtering Table Delete Delete All Reset 3.4.3 URL/Keyword Filtering You can block access to certain websites or web contents from local PCs by entering a full URL address or just keywords about the web contents.
  • Page 64 Parameter Enable URL Filtering URL/Keyword Current URL Blocking Table Delete Delete All Reset After you finish with all settings, please click “Apply” button. If you want to reset all settings in this page, please click “Cancel” button. After you clicked Apply, the following message will be displayed on your web browser: You can click “Continue”...

  • Page 65: Security

    These functions include inbound attack prevention, and block outbound traffics. The Wireless 150 Router AR570W has built in SPI Firewall which is a type of firewall that inspects incoming data packets to make sure they correspond to an outgoing request.

  • Page 66: Dos (Denial-Of-Service)

    3.5.2 DoS (Denial-of-Service) Denial of Service (DoS) is a common attack measure, by transmitting a great amount of data or request to your Internet IP address and server, the Internet connection will become very slow, and server may stop responding because it is not capable to handle too much traffics. This router has a built-in DoS attack prevention mechanism;...
  • Page 67   Parameter Ping of Death Port Scan Sync Flood After you finish with all settings, please click “Apply” button. If you want to reset all settings in this page, please click “Cancel” button. After you clicked Apply, the following message will be displayed on your web browser: Description Set the threshold of when this DoS prevention mechanism will be activated.

  • Page 68: Vpn Pass Through

    You can click “Continue” to back to previous setup page to continue on other setup procedures, or click “Apply” to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 30 seconds while router is rebooting). 3.5.3 VPN Pass through  ...

  • Page 69: Administration

    3.6 Administration The Administration page allows you to specify a time zone, to change the system password and to specify a remote management port, to upgrade firmware, to save/reload configuration settings, to enable system log, to view the statistics information, and to enable/disable UPnP for the Router.

  • Page 70: Management

    You can click “Continue” to back to previous setup page to continue on other setup procedures, or click “Apply” to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 30 seconds while router is rebooting). 3.6.2 Management 3.6.2.1 Password You can change the password required to log into the Router’s web configuration utility.

  • Page 71: Upnp

    After you finish with all settings, please click “Apply” button. If you want to reset all settings in this page, please click “Cancel” button. After you clicked Apply, the following message will be displayed on your web browser: You can click “Continue” to back to previous setup page to continue on other setup procedures, or click “Apply”...

  • Page 72: Remote Management

    3.6.3 Remote Management You can manage this router remotely by enabling the ‘Remote Management’ function. Parameters Description Host Address Input the IP address of the remote host you wish to initiate a management access. “0.0.0.0” means any remote IP address. If you specify an IP address here, then the router will only allow remote access from this specific IP address.

  • Page 73: Firmware Upgrade

    You can click “Continue” to back to previous setup page to continue on other setup procedures, or click “Apply” to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for about 30 seconds while router is rebooting). 3.6.4 Firmware Upgrade To upgrade the firmware for the Router, you need to download the firmware file and save it to your local hard disk first.

  • Page 74: Configuration Settings

    3.6.5 Configuration Settings The Configuration Settings screen allows you to save (Backup) the router’s current configuration setting. Saving the configuration settings provides an added protection and convenience should problems occur with the router and you have to reset to factory default. When you save the configuration settings (Backup) you can re-load the saved settings into the router through the Restore function.

  • Page 75: Log

    3.6.6 Log All important system events and system security are logged. You can use this function to check the log of your router.   Parameters Description Save Clear Refresh Save current event log to a text file. Delete all event logs displayed here. Refresh the event log display.

  • Page 76: Statistics

    3.6.7 Statistics View the statistics of packets sent and received on WAN, LAN and Wireless LAN. Click Refresh to display the latest information.

  • Page 77: Status

    3.7 Status   The Status section allows you to monitor the current status of your router. You can use the Status page to monitor: the Internet, LAN connection, Wireless status, and the current firmware version of the Router. 3.7.1 Internet Connection Status You can use this function to view the status of current Internet connection.

  • Page 78: System Status

    You can use this function to show the Wireless LAN status of your router, including ESSID (the name of your wireless network), Channel number, and Security.   3.7.4 System Status   You can use this function to know the system information and firmware version (Runtime Code Version) of this router.

  • Page 79: Chapter 4 Troubleshooting

    Chapter 4 Troubleshooting   If you have trouble connecting to the Internet, try the following steps: Step 1 Power off the Cable/DSL modem, router, and computer and wait for 5 minutes. Step 2 Turn on the Cable/DSL modem and wait for the lights on the modem to settle down. Step 3 Turn on the router and wait for the lights on the router to settle down.

  • Page 80: Technical Support

    Technical Support     E-mail: support@airlink101.com Toll Free: 1-888-746-3238 Website: www.airlink101.com   *Theoretical maximum wireless signal rate derived from IEEE standard 802.11 specifications. Actual data throughput will vary. Network conditions and environmental factors, including volume of network traffic, building materials and construction, mix of wireless products used, radio frequency interference (e.g., cordless telephones and microwaves) as well as network overhead lower actual data throughput rate.

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