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Chapter 1 . Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of this outstanding product: CDD531AM-U02 WiFi ADSL2/2+ Broadband Router. This product is specifically designed for those who need to have the file sharing, P2P download and printer sharing services beyond his home and office.
1.2 Hardware Installation 1.2.1 Hardware configuration LAN1~LAN4 ADSL Connection WPS / USB LEDs Status OFF Button Wireless Status LED WLAN LED Power Switch On/Off Button Reset: Press “Wireless on/off” and “WPS” button for 5 sec simultaneously.
Receptor for Auto MDI/MDIX RJ-45 Ports Power adapter Automatically sense the types of WAN and LAN when connecting to Ethernet USB Port RJ-11 Port 1.2.2 LED indicators LED Status Description Green in flash power is on Green in fast Reset mode flash Status (USB) Green...
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How to Operate DO NOT connect WiFi Broadband Router to power before performing the installation steps below. Step 1. Plug the RJ45 cable into LAN port 1~4 and connect with your PC or NB. Step 2. Plug your RJ-11 into the DSL port and connect with your xDSL modem.
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Step 4 Power ON. Step 5 Prepare a USB Storage or Printer, and then plug into the USB port.
Chapter 2 . Getting Started Please use windows EZ setup utility or Web UI wizard to enter the setup process. 2.1 Easy Setup by Windows Utility Step 1. Install the Easy Setup Utility from the provided CD click the “Start” then follow the steps to configure the device.
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Step 3. Then click the “Wizard” to continue. Step 4. Click “Next” to continue. Step 5. One free DDNS account ‘ MAC address.ezguard.net’ for end user to access the NAS router remotely, you can rename an alias name to remember it easily. Once you type in a name, you can click ‘...
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Step 6. Select Wireless Enable, and then click “Next” to continue. Step 7. Enter SSID, Channel and Security options, and then click “Next” to continue. Step 8. Select Auto Detect WAN service.
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Step 9. Save the setting. Step 10. Congratulations! Setup is completed. Now you have already connected to Internet successfully.
2.3 Easy Setup by Configuring Web UI You can also browse UI of the web to configure the device. Browse to Activate the Setup Wizard Type in the IP Address (http://192.168.123.254) Type the default Username and password ‘admin’ in the System Password and then click ‘login’...
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Configure with the Setup Wizard Step 1 You can change the password of administrator here. Step 2 Select Time Zone. Step 3 You can select Auto detecting WAN type or setup WAN type manually.
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Step 4 The system will detect the WAN type if you choose to let the system detect automatically. Step 5 Type in Host name and ISP registered MAC address. (if no such information, you can go next) Step 5-1 Wireless setting. Step 5-2 Wireless authentication and encryption.
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Step 6 Check the information again. Step 7 System is applying the setting. Step 8 Click finish to complete it.
Chapter 3 . Making Configuration Whenever you want to configure your network or this device, you can access the Configuration Menu by opening the web-browser and typing in the IP Address of the device. The default IP Address is: 192.168.123.254. Enter the default username and password “admin”...
3.1 Basic Setting Remark : 1. Multi-languages: you can change language here. 2. USB device : you can see the status ‘Ready’ or ‘ Not ready’ of USB device once you plug in USB Hard drive or printer here. ( see also how to use NAS function and printer sharing)
3.1.1 Network Setup There are two ways to configure the network, respectively LAN Setup and Internet setup. 3.1.1.2 LAN type 1. LAN IP Address: The local IP address of this device. The computer on your network must use the LAN IP address of this device as their Default Gateway. You can change it if necessary.
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combo button to choose a correct one from the following options: Ethernet Over ATM(RFC1483 Bridged) with NAT IP over ATM(RFC 1483 Routed) PPP over Ethernet PPP over ATM Activate WWAN for Auto-failover : Once you enable this function, you have to input WWAN information for 3G Auto-Backups (see as WWAN 3G portion).
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B. Dynamic IP Address 1. Activate WWAN for Auto-Failover: With this function enabled, when the Ethernet WAN connection is broken, the device will automatically activate the WWAN connection and keep you connected to internet with the alternative WWAN broadband service. Meanwhile, if the device detected that the Ethernet WAN connection is recovered, your broadband connection will be switched to use the Ethernet WAN service.
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C. PPP over Ethernet 1. Activate WWAN for Auto-Failover: With this function enabled, when the Ethernet WAN connection is broken, the device will automatically activate the WWAN connection and keep you connected to internet with the alternative WWAN broadband service. Meanwhile, if the device detected that the Ethernet WAN connection is recovered, your broadband connection will be switched to use the Ethernet WAN service.
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Manually: The device will not make the link until someone clicks the connect-button in the Status-page. 4. Maximum Idle Time: the amount of time of inactivity before disconnecting your PPPoE session. Set it to zero or enable “Auto-reconnect" to disable this feature.
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D. PPPoA 1. LAN IP Address: The local IP address of this device. The computer on your network must use the LAN IP address of this device as their Default Gateway. You can change it if necessary. 2. PPPoA Account ,Password, Primary and Secondary DNS: Enter the proper settings provided by your ISP.
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is enabled, this device will connect with ISP automatically after system is restarted or connection is dropped. 5. Service Name: Sometimes your ISP would give you a specified service name to dial-up. 6. Assigned IP Address: If your ISP give you a specified IP address, fill it here. 7.
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Dial-Up Profile: select auto or manual to continue. Country: select your country. Telecom: select your telecom. 3G Network: select the 3G Network. APN: Enter the APN for your PC card here.(Optional) Pin Code: Enter the Pin Code for your SIM card(Optional) Dial-Number: This field should not be altered except when required by your service provider.
3.1.2 DHCP Server 1. DHCP Server: Choose either Disable or Enable. If you enable the DHCP Server function, the following settings will be effective. 2. IP Pool Starting/Ending Address: Whenever there is a request, the DHCP server will automatically allocate an unused IP address from the IP address pool to the requesting computer.
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Press “Fixed Mapping” and the DHCP Server will reserve the special IP for designated MAC address.
3.1.3 Wireless Settings Wireless settings allow you to set the wireless configuration items. 1. Wireless Module: You can enable or disable wireless function. 2. Network ID (SSID): Network ID is used for identifying the Wireless LAN (WLAN). Client stations can roam freely over this device and other Access Points that have the same Network ID.
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Open Open system authentication simply consists of two communications. The first is an authentication request by the client that contains the station ID (typically the MAC address). This is followed by an authentication response from the AP/router containing a success or failure message. An example of when a failure may occur is if the client's MAC address is explicitly excluded in the AP/router configuration.
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Another encryption options for WPA-PSK-TKIP and WPA2-PSK-AES, the others are same as the WPA-PSK. WPA/WPA2 Another encryption options for WPA-TKIP and WPA2-AES, the others are same the WPA. Press “WDS Setting” and It allows PC to get connected to wireless network within the area. 1.
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WPS:.You can enable this function by selecting “Enable”. WPS offers a safe and easy way to allow the wireless clients connected to your wireless network. AP PIN: You can press Generate New Pin to get an AP PIN. Config Mode: Select your config Mode from “Registrar” or “Enrollee”. Config Status: It shows the status of your configuration.
3.1.4 Change Password You can change the System Password here. We strongly recommend you to change the system password for security reason. Click on “Save” to store your settings or click “Undo” to give up the changes.
3.2. NAS Configuration 3.2.1. Disk Utility 1. Format This utility would format the certain partition. Please be noted! This action will clear all your data in this partition. You will not be able to recover it any more. 2. Check This utility could help you check the partition, find the lost files, try to fix some problems.
3.2.2.2. FTP Service These settings are for FTP service. 1. FTP Port: The default port is 21, but sometimes you might want to hide your FTP service by changing it. We have the ability to receive the request on non-standard FTP port, but please be noted, some NAT router could not support non-standard FTP port, that means some of your clients might have to use passive mode to get file.
3.2.3.1. User Configuration In this page, you can manage the user account. Key in the user name and password then press “Add” could let you add a new user. If you want to delete an account, select it and click “Delete” button. 3.2.4.
3.3. Download Assistant 3.3.1. FTP If you want to download something from a FTP site regularly but you don’t want to spend time on remembering doing this, this FTP download assistant could help you. 1. Job Name: It’s for you to remember the job easily, and the device would use this name to info you when the job is done.
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1. Job Name: It’s for you to remember the job easily, and the device would use this name to info you when the job is done. 2. URL: The URL for the file you want to download. You have to use this format: IP/path/file, you don’t have to add protocol part such like “http://”.
3.3.3. BT (Bit Torrent) 3.3.3.1. Start BT download First, you have to get a seed file, which we called “torrent”. Then click the “Open” link on UI, it would pop up a sub menu to let you upload. Or, if your torrent file could be download from network, you could just enter a URL.
3.3.3.2. BT download status After you upload the torrent, download job would be started immediately. The device could support 3 concurrent download jobs, other jobs would wait in job queue. If one of the three running job is done, the next new job would be started. At this page, you could see the download process and the bandwidth.
3.3.4. Download Status At this page, you could check the download jobs of HTTP and FTP. 3.3.5. How to access data on the NAS? 3.3.5.1. Windows User 3.3.5.1.1. By network place Then start your “file manager”, type the IP with “\\” on the beginning, as follow picture shown.
3.3.5.1.2. By Web HDD This Web HDD can allow you to enter HDD by web UI, and also can allow you to let ‘guest’ to enter the ‘public’ area only. 3.3.5.2. Unix User We do not provide NFS support, so the only way for UNIX to get files is FTP. Use your FTP client to connect the FTP server.
Virtual Server 3.4.1. This product’s NAT firewall filters out unrecognized packets to protect your Intranet, so all hosts behind this product are invisible to the outside world. If you wish, you can make some of them accessible by enabling the Virtual Server Mapping. A virtual server is defined as a Service Port, and all requests to this port will be redirected to the computer specified by the Server IP.
Special AP 3.4.2. Some applications require multiple connections, like Internet games, Video conferencing, Internet telephony, etc. Because of the firewall function, these applications cannot work with a pure NAT router. The Special Applications feature allows some of these applications to work with this product. If the mechanism of Special Applications fails to make an application work, try setting your computer as the DMZ host instead.
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Miscellaneous 1. IP Address of DMZ Host DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) Host is a host without the protection of firewall. It allows a computer to be exposed to unrestricted 2-way communication for Internet games, Video conferencing, Internet telephony and other special applications. 2.
3.4.3. Security Setting Packet Filters 3.4.3.1. Packet Filter includes both outbound filter and inbound filter. And they have same way to setting. It enables you to control what packets are allowed to pass the router. Outbound filter applies on all outbound packets. However, inbound filter applies on packets that destined to Virtual Servers or DMZ host only.
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You can specify 8 rules for each direction: inbound or outbound. For each rule, you can define the following: • Source IP address • Source port • Destination IP address • Destination port • Protocol: TCP or UDP or both. •...
Domain Filters 3.4.3.2. Domain Filter prevents users under this device from accessing specific URLs. 1. Domain Filter: Check if you want to enable Domain Filter. 2. Log DNS Query: Check if you want to log the action when someone accesses the specific URLs.
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1. URL Blocking: Check if you want to enable URL Blocking. 2. URL: If any part of the Website's URL matches the pre-defined word, the connection will be blocked. For example, you can use pre-defined word "sex" to block all websites if their URLs contain pre-defined word "sex".
MAC Control 3.4.3.4. MAC Address Control allows you to assign different access right for different users and to assign a specific IP address to a certain MAC address. 1. MAC Address Control: Check “Enable” to enable the “MAC Address Control”. All of the settings in this page will take effect only when “Enable”...
Miscellaneous 3.4.3.5. 1. Administrator Time-out: The time of no activity to logout automatically, you may set it to zero to disable this feature. 2. Remote Administrator Host/Port In general, only Internet user can browse the built-in web pages to perform administration task.
3.4.4. Advanced Setting System Log 3.4.4.1. This page supports two methods to export system logs to specific destination by means of syslog (UDP) and SMTP(TCP). The items you have to setup include:...
1. IP Address for Syslog: Host IP of destination where syslog will be sent to. Check Enable to enable this function. 2. Setting of Email alert: Check if you want to enable Email alert (send syslog via email). 3. SMTP Server: Port: Input the SMTP server IP and port, which are connected with ':'.
Host Name: Register a domain name to the DDNS provider. The fully domain name is concatenated with hostname(you specify) and a suffix(DDNS provider specifies). Username/E-mail: Input username or E-mail based on the DDNS provider you select. Password/Key: Input password or key based on the DDNS provider you select. Afterwards, click on “Save”...
6. Enable: Check to enable the corresponding QOS rule. 7. User Rule#: The QoS rule can work with Scheduling Rule number#. Please refer to the Section 3.4.1.7 Schedule Rule. Afterwards, Click on “Save” to store your settings or click “Undo” to give up the changes.
the device with SNMP protocol. Afterwards, click on “Save” to store your settings or click “Undo” to give up the changes. Routing 3.4.4.5. If you have more than one routers and subnets, you will need to enable routing table to allow packets to find proper routing path and allow different subnets to communicate with each other.
System Time 3.4.4.6. 1. Time Zone: Select a time zone where this device locates. 2. Auto-Synchronization: Check the “Enable” checkbox to enable this function. Besides, you can select a NTP time server to consult UTC time. 3. Sync with Time Server: Click on the button if you want to set Date and Time by NTP Protocol .
Scheduling 3.4.4.7. You can set the schedule time to decide which service will be turned on or off. 1. Schedule: Check to enable the schedule rule settings. 2. Add New Rule: To create a schedule rule, click the “New Add” button. You can edit the Name of Rule, Policy, and set the schedule time (Week day, Start Time, and End Time).
You can view the System Information and System log, and download/clear the System log, in this page. Firmware Upgrade 3.4.5.2. You can upgrade firmware by clicking “Upgrade” button.
Backup Setting 3.4.5.3. You can backup your settings by clicking the “Backup Setting” function item and save it as a bin file. Once you want to restore these settings, please click Firmware Upgrade button and use the bin file you saved. Reset to Default 3.4.5.4.
Reboot 3.4.5.5. You can also reboot this device by clicking the Reboot function item. Miscellaneous 3.4.5.6. MAC Address for Wake-on-LAN: It enables you to power up a networked device remotely. If you would like to trigger this function, you have to know the MAC address of this device.
4 . Troubleshooting This Chapter provides solutions to problems for the installation and operation of the WiFi Broadband Router. You can refer to the following if you are having problems. 1 Why can’t I configure the router even the cable is plugged and the LED is lit? Note: It is recommended that you use an...
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Right-click on Wireless Card bus Adapter or your specific network adapter. Select Properties to ensure that all drivers are installed properly. Look under Device Status to see if the device is working properly. Click “OK”. 2 What can I do if my Ethernet connection does not work properly? Make sure the RJ45 cable connects with the router.
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ii. Select View Available Wireless Networks in Wireless Configure. Ensure you have selected the correct available network. iii. Reset the WiFi Broadband Router to default setting Why does my wireless connection keep dropping? Antenna Orientation. i. Try different antenna orientations for the WiFi Broadband Router. ii.
Appendix A. Spec Summary Table Device Interface CDD531AM-U02 1-port ADSL2+ RJ11 connector ADSL2 /2+ ITU 992.1 (G.dmt) Annex A, Standard ITU 992.2 (G.lite), ● Module ITU 992.3 ADSL2 (G.dmt.bis), ITU 992.5 ADSL2+ Wireless WAN USB 2.0 for external HSPA modem...
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Sharing Samba server, FTP server Media server UPnP AV media server, iTunes server ● Scheduling Download HTTP ● management BitTorrent Management SNMP, UPnP IGD, syslog ● Web-based UI, remote login, backup/restore Administration ● setting Environment & Certification Package CDD531AM-U, Power adapter, Quick Installation ●...
Appendix B. Licensing information This product includes copyrighted third-party software licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Please refer to the GNU General Public License below to check the detailed terms of this license. The following parts of this product are subject to the GNU GPL, and those software packages are copyright by their respective authors.
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GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. Preamble The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it.
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term "modification".) Each licensee is addressed as "you". Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the Program (independent of having been made by running the Program).
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c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.) The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it.
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rest of this License. 8. If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the original copyright holder who places the Program under this License may add an explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding those countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or among countries not thus excluded.
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