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WL-500W SuperSpeed N
Wireless Multi-Function Router
WL-500W
Wireless multi-function router
User Manual
E3336 /July 2007

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  • Page 1 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com ¤ WL-500W SuperSpeed N Wireless Multi-Function Router WL-500W Wireless multi-function router User Manual E3336 /July 2007...
  • Page 2 +886-2-2894-3447 Web site address: www.asus.com.tw General (fax): +886-2-2894-7798 General email: info@asus.com.tw ASUS COMPUTER INTERNATIONAL (America) Company address: 44370 Nobel Drive, Fremont, CA 94538, USA General (fax): +1-510-608-4555 Web site address: usa.asus.com Technical support General support: +1-502-995-0883 Support (fax): +1-502-933-8713 Online support: http://vip.asus.com/eservice/techserv.aspx ASUS COMPUTER GmbH (Germany &...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    1) Sharing USB storage ...............22 2) Setting up FTP site ................24 3) Download Master ................25 4) Web camera ..................26 5) Sharing USB printer .................29 6. Setting up using ASUS utility ..............32 1) Utility Installation for WL-500W ............32 2) EZSetup ...................33...
  • Page 4 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual 7. Configure WL-500W under Vista OS ............. 35 1) Configuring the device ..............35 2) Setting up the network sharing center ..........40 8. Troubleshooting .................47 9. Appendix .....................49...

  • Page 5: Package Contents

    • Quick Start Guide x 1 2. Connecting ADSL modem and wireless router 1) Cable connection Wall power outlet Modem Power Phone Wall telephone outlet Wall power outlet ASUS Wireless Router Power Wall power outlet ASUS Wireless Router Modem Power Phone Power Wall telephone outlet...

  • Page 6: Status Indicators

    3. Tighten two screws until only 1/4'' is showing. 4. Latch the hooks of the ASUS Wireless Router onto the screws. Note: Re-adjust the screws if you cannot latch the ASUS Wireless Router onto the screws or if it is too loose.

  • Page 7: Getting Started

    Therefore, before using the ASUS Wireless Router, check the basic settings to make sure they all work in your environment. ASUS provides a utility named EZSetup for fast wireless configuration. If you would like to use EZSetup for your wireless network configuration, refer to chapter 6 for details.
  • Page 8 Enter the following address in your web browser: http://192.168.1.1 Defaults User name: admin Password: admin After logging in, you can see the ASUS Wireless Router home page. The homepage displays quick links to configure the main features of the wireless router.

  • Page 9: Quick Setup

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual 5) Quick setup To start quick setup, click Next to enter the “Quick Setup” page. Follow the instructions to setup the ASUS Wireless Router. 1. Select your time zone and click Next.
  • Page 10 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual PPTP user If you are using PPTP services, select ADSL connection that requires username, herk036@adsl-comfort password and IP address. Fill in the username, the password and the IP address provided by your ISP into the fields.
  • Page 11 Configuring ASUS WLAN Card with One Touch Wizard If you have installed ASUS wireless card together with its utilities and drives on your PC, click Start -> All Programs -> ASUS Utility-> WLAN Card -> One Touch Wizard to launch the One...
  • Page 12 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual 1) Select Connect to an existing wireless 2) One Touch Wizard searches and displays LAN (Station) radio button and click the available APs in the Available Next to continue. Networks list.
  • Page 13 ® WZC service ® If you use non-ASUS wireless card, you can set up the wireless connection with Windows Wireless Zero Configuration (WZC) service. 1) Double-click the wireless network icon on 2) Input the 10-digit keys you have set on the task bar to view available networks.

  • Page 14: Wireless Router Features

    This chapter provides setup examples of some frequently used router features. You can set up these features via your Web browser. 1) Choosing an appropriate operation mode ASUS WL-500W Wireless Router supports three operation modes: home gateway, router, and access point. Click System Setup ->...

  • Page 15: Setting Up Wireless Encryption

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual 2) Setting up wireless encryption WL-500W provides a set of encryption and authentication methods to meet the different demands of home, SOHO, and enterprise users. Before setting up encryption and authentication for WL-500W, contact your network administrator for advice.

  • Page 16: Setting Up Virtual Server In Your Lan

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual Authentication The authentication methods supported by WL-500W include: Open, shared key, WPA-PSK, WPA, and Radius with 80.211x. Open: This option disables authentication protection for wireless network. Under Open mode, any IEEE802.11b/g client can connect to your wireless network. Shared: This mode uses the WEP keys currently in use for authentication.

  • Page 17: Setting Up Virtual Dmz In Your Lan

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual 4) Setting up virtual DMZ in your LAN To expose an internal host to the Internet and make all services provided by this host available to outside users, enable Virtual DMZ function to open all ports of the host.
  • Page 18 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual 3. After clicking Free Trial, you are directed to the homepage of www.DynDNS. org, where you can register and apply for DDNS service. Read the policy and select "I have read...".
  • Page 19 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual 9. After logging in, you can see this welcome message. 10. Select Services tab. 11. Click Add Dynamic DNS Host . 12. Enter the host name then click Add Host. 13.
  • Page 20 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual 14. Fill the account information into the DDNS setting fields of your wireless router. 15. Click Finish. 16. Click Save & Restart to restart the wireless router and activate the settings. 17.

  • Page 21: Setting Up Bandwidth Management

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual 6) Setting up Bandwidth Management Bandwidth Management provides a mechanism that controls the traffic of you network. To set up bandwidth management: 1. Click Basic Config page in Bandwidth Management folder. In this page you can see four buttons including Gaming Blaster, Internet Application, 500W FTP Server, and VOIP/Video Streaming.
  • Page 22 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual 500W FTP Server After you applying the 500W FTP Server settings, a screen appears asking you to do further configuration:...
  • Page 23 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual VOIP/Video Streaming 2. You can also configure the bandwith manually by clicking "User Specify Services". Input the IP adress, destination port and choose the priority status from the drop-down list.

  • Page 24: Application Features

    WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual 5. Application features ASUS WL-500W Wireless Router provides two USB2.0 ports for connecting the USB storage, the USB camera, and the USB printer. Thus, you can monitor the working environment, share data and printer with both wired and wireless users in your network.
  • Page 25 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual 2. Click Add to add a share folder. 3. Select the folder you want to share from Folder Manager and click Ok. To create a share folder, input the folder name in Add Folder field and press Add.

  • Page 26: Setting Up Ftp Site

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual 2) Setting up FTP site WL-500W can also serve as an FTP site. You can make your FTP site accessible to all users, or set up an access policy to restrict anonymous login. To use this feature, you need to plug a USB storage disk to the USB2.0 port on the rear panel of WL- 500W.

  • Page 27: Download Master

    The Download Master helps to manage the download tasks without turning your computer on. To use this function, you need to: 1) mount a USB storage to WL-500W Wireless Router; and 2) install ASUS Utilities from the support CD. Refer to chapter 6 for utility installation procedures.

  • Page 28: Web Camera

    InComplete folder. 4) Web camera The ASUS Wireless Router implements several applications for a USB Web camera, enabling you to capture images and send them over the Internet. For this function, you need to plug a USB camera onto WL- 500W and enable ActiveX for your Web browser.
  • Page 29 Refer to the USB Web Camera support list on ASUS Website (www.asus.com) for supported Web Camera models. Image Size - Select the image size from the drop down list. 320 x 240 provides a larger image while 160 x 120 provides faster transmission.
  • Page 30 This function allows you to monitor up to 6 Web Cameras in your LAN. You can enter the IP addresses of other ASUS Wireless Routers which have Web Camera attached. Note: When enabling "LAN and WAN" remote control in the Wireless Router, packets from Internet with destination ports 8081 to 8086 will be forwarded to WL-500W in Remote Control fields.

  • Page 31: Sharing Usb Printer

    WL-500W Wireless router, click Status & Log -> Status. If Printer Model is correct and Printer Status is On-Line, you can share this printer within your LAN. Note: Visit ASUS Website for compatible printer vendor and models. Setting up printer client under Windows XP Follow the steps below to install network printer on your clients.
  • Page 32 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual 4. Click Next to setup TCP/IP port for 3. Select Create a new port and set Type accessing the network printer. of port to Standard TCP/IP Port, then click Next.
  • Page 33 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual 10. Install printer driver from the vendor- 9. Press Finish to complete the settings model list. If your printer is not in the and return to Add Printer Wizard. list, click Have Disk to manually assign the location of driver.

  • Page 34: Setting Up Using Asus Utility

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual 6. Setting up using ASUS utility 1) Utility Installation for WL-500W 2. Click Next to continue. 1. Click Install ASUS Wireless Router Utilities to run the setup installation program.

  • Page 35: Ezsetup

    Internet connections will pause for a short period but will then return to normal operation without change. 2) To use EZSetup, we recommend using an ASUS wireless adapter such as WL-100W, WL-100gE, and WL-169gE. Click the EZSetup button in the utility.
  • Page 36 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual If you need to configure the ISP settings for your wireless router, select Configure ISP settings, click Next and follow the instructions to complete the settings. Setup is complete, press Print/Save Wireless LAN Settings button for future reference.

  • Page 37: Configure Wl-500W Under Vista Os

    WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual 7. Configure WL-500W under Vista OS The Windows Simple Config function, which is preinstalled in the ASUS WL-500W, enables the device to be configured via WCN Net process of Windows Vista. Note: The WCN Net process of Windows Vista can only discover the device when it is not configured and is in the default settings state.
  • Page 38 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual 4. A screen prompts you to enter the PIN, which is located on the sticker posted on the device. Enter the PIN in the PIN box, then click Next. 5.
  • Page 39 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual 6. A Passphrase is generated for WPA security for the network. Click Next from this screen. If you want to create a different passphrase, click create a different passphrase for me.
  • Page 40 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual Create a different passphrase Four security methods...
  • Page 41 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual 7. Click Next from the above screens after the configuration is completed. The complete configuration screen appears as shown below. Click Close to finish the process and exit.

  • Page 42: Setting Up The Network Sharing Center

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual 2) Setting up the network sharing center Follow the steps below to set up a sharing center to allow the network users to share printer, file and media. 1.
  • Page 43 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual 3. Click Set up a wireless router or network. 4. Choose Set up a wireless router or access point, then click Next.
  • Page 44 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual 5. Click Next. 6. In the screen that appears, type a network name in the Network name box, then click Next. A passphrase is generated for the WPA security.
  • Page 45 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual 7. Click Next. If you want to use security methods other than WPA-Personal, click Show advanced network security options. 8. Choose a security method and click Next.
  • Page 46 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual 9. A screen prompts you to enter the PIN for the device. Enter the PIN, which is located on the sticker posted on the device, then click Next. 10.
  • Page 47 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual A screen appears showing that the set up is complete as shown below. 11. From the above screen you can choose to View settings or, Save settings to a USB flash drive.
  • Page 48 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual Save settings to a USB flash drive screen 12. When Save settings to a USB flash drive screen appears, plug a USB flash drive into your computer, then select the drive from the Save settings to box and click Next. The settings starts to be saved into the USB drive.

  • Page 49: Troubleshooting

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual 8. Troubleshooting Cannot access to web browser for router configuration 2. Click on "Delete Cookies" and "Delete 1 . O p e n a w e b b r o w s e r a n d o p e n Files".
  • Page 50 The following are factory default values. If you push the Restore button on the back of the ASUS Wireless Router for over 5 seconds, or click the “Restore” button on the “Factory Default” page under “ Advanced Setup”, the following default settings overwrite the old settings on your wireless router.

  • Page 51: Appendix

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual 9. Appendix FCC Warning Statement This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.
  • Page 52 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual Testing for electric safety according to EN 60950-1 has been conducted. These are considered relevant and sufficient. Protection requirements for electromagnetic compatibility – Article 3.1b Testing for electromagnetic compatibility according to EN 301 489-1 and EN 301 489-17 has been conducted.
  • Page 53 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights. These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it.
  • Page 54 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License.
  • Page 55 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent access to copy the source code from the same place counts as distribution of the source code, even though third parties are not compelled to copy the source along with the object code.
  • Page 56 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual 9. The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions of the General Public License from time to time. Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to address new problems or concerns.

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