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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Table of Contents FCC Interference Statement................2 Introduction....................4 1.1. Package Contents .................4 1.2. System Requirements for Configuration........5 1.3. Interfaces ..................5 The Rear View ....................5 The Top View....................6 1.4. LEDs– the Front View..............7 1.5. Features ..................9 Configuring Wireless WAN Mobile broadband Router ......10 2.1.
All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 1. Introduction The WiFi Mobile Broadband Gateway is a high-performance tool that supports wireless networking at home, work, or in a public place. The WiFi Mobile Broadband Gateway supports uses a USB 3G modem card, either WCDMA or EVDO and even HSDPA as well, and supports wireless data transfers up to 80M bps, and wired data transfers up to 100 Mbps.
All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Using a power supply with a different voltage rating than the one included Caution: with the WiFi Mobile Broadband Gateway will cause damage and void the warranty for this product. 1.2. System Requirements for Configuration •...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com The Side View USB port for connecting Reset Button WPS Button with 3G USB modem Restore to Original factory WiFi Network security defaulted setting setup NOTE: Press the reset button 3 seconds: the LEDs (WiFi and USB) will flash 2 times, and Ethernet port be resented to LAN.
All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 1.4. LEDs– The Top View Power LED (Battery Status) WiFi LED Ethernet LED USB LED A green light as A green light as (3G Status) connection on WAN is connected A green light as WLAN available power is on and Power LED: (and Battery Status)
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Green in flash: data packet transferred via Ethernet USB LED: (WAN) Green: 3G/3.5G connection is established Green in flash: data packet transferred via 3G/3.5G connection WiFi LED: Green: WLAN is active and available Green in flash: data packet transferred via WLAN...
All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 1.5. Features IEEE 802.11b/g/n compliant ¾ Backward compatible to IEEE 802.11b standards ¾ Max physical rate up to 54Mbps in 802.11g mode ¾ Security Supports: WEP (64/128 bits), WPA, WPA2, WPA-PSK, WPA2-PSK, and 802.1x ...
All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 2. Configuring Wireless WAN Mobile broadband Router 2.1. Installation Considerations The WiFi Mobile Broadband Gateway allows you access your network using a wireless connection, from virtually anywhere within its operating range. Keep in mind however, that the number, thickness, and location of walls, ceilings, or other objects that the wireless signals must pass through, may limit this range.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com a. Insert the battery into battery holder 3. Connect a USB modem with service to the WiFi Mobile Broadband Gateway in one of the following ways: Æ You can plug your USB modem into the USB interface.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Picture 2.3 The WiFi Mobile Broadband Gateway Ethernet Port is “Auto-MDI/MDIX.” Note: This provides patch Ethernet cable Ethernet Port access. 4. Connect the power adapter to the receptor on the back panel of your WiFi Mobile Broadband Gateway.
All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 6. The LEDs (See Picture 2.5) a. The Power LED will turn ON to indicate power has been applied. b. Reference the Section 1.4, LEDs– the Top View. Picture 2.5 2.1.2. Establish WiFi Connection If you selected either encryption, ensure these settings WPA-PSK...
All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3. Using the Configuration M Once properly configured, the WiFi Mobile Broadband Gateway will obtain and assign IP address information automatically. Configuration settings can be established through the WiFi Mobile Broadband Gateway Configuration Menu. You can access this interface by performing the steps listed below: 1.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3.1. Wizard setting Press “Wizard” button Æ for basic settings with simpler way. (Please check section 3.1) Or you may click on “Advanced Setup” Æ for advanced settings. (Please check the section Administrator’s Main Menu. Each item from section 3.2) Click on “Enter”...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Step 1: Allow you to change the system password. You can change Password here. It is recommended that you change the system password into the one you prefer to on the basis of security. 1.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3: Enter your Password again for confirmation; it must be the same as the New Password. Then on “Next” to get into next installation. click Step 2: Allow you to change the Time Zone. You can change Time Zone here.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Step : Select WAN Types will be used for Internet connection The Ethernet Port will be set as WAN port, if you select the Dynamic, Static, PPPOE, PPTP or L2TP WAN Types. The Ethernet Port will be set as LAN port, if you select the 3G WAN Type. Pick up one of types you preferred to.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Step 4: Configure the LAN IP Address, Host Name and WAN MAC Address. LAN is short for Local Area Network, and is considered your internal network. These are the IP settings of the LAN interface for the WiFi Mobile Broadband Gateway, and they may be referred to as Private settings.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Step 5: Configure the wireless settings. 1. Select “ ” or “ ”. The default setting is “ ”. Enable Disable Enable 2. Network ID( SSID) will be defaulted. Select Wireless Channel matching to your local area for Wireless ChannelÆ...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Step 6: Select the Wireless security method of your wireless configuration. Click on “Next” to continue.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Step 7: Summary 1. Select the option box “The Ethernet Port will be set as WAN Port after saving, confirm?” or “The Ethernet Port will be set as LAN Port after saving, confirm?” for continues. 2.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Step 8: System is applying. Click “Finish” button to back the Status Page.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3.2.1.1 Primary Setup Ethernet port Configuration: Off: Disable the Ethernet port. LAN: The Ethernet port is as LAN port. WAN: The Ethernet port is as LAN port. Auto: It will be WAN Port if detect a DHCP server on the Ethernet port. Otherwise will be LAN port.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 4.2 Dynamic IP Address: 1. Host Name: optional, required by some ISPs, for example, @Home. 2. Connection Control: There are 3 modes to select: Connect-on-demand: The device will link up with ISP when the clients send...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com outgoing packets. Auto Reconnect Always-on): The device will link with ISP until the connection is established. Manually: The device will not make the link until someone clicks the connect-button in the Status-page. 4.3 PPP over Ethernet 1.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 4.4 PPTP First, please check your ISP assigned and Select Static IP Address or Dynamic IP Address. For example: Use Static, the private IP address, subnet mask and Gateway are your ISP assigned to you. 1.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com default MTU value is 0(auto). 4.5 L2TP First, please check your ISP assigned and Select Static IP Address or Dynamic IP Address. For example: Use Static, the private IP address, subnet mask and Gateway are your ISP assigned to you.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 4.6 3G For 3G WAN Networking. The WAN fields may not be necessary for your connection. The information on this page will only be used when your service provider requires you to enter a User Name and Password to connect to the 3G network. Please refer to your documentation or service provider for additional information.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com established. Manually: The device will not make the link until someone clicks the connect-button in the Status-page. Connection will be broken when the idle time arrives. 10. Maximum Idle Time: The 11. Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU): Most ISP offers MTU value to users. The default MTU value is 0(auto).
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3.2.1.2 DHCP Server Press “More>>”, 1. DHCP Server: Choose either Disable or Enable 2. Lease Time: DHCP lease time to the DHCP client 3. 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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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com DHCP Clients List The list of DHCP clients shows here. DHCP Fixed Mapping The DHCP Server will reserve the special IP for special MAC address, shows below.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3.2.1.3 Wireless Settings Wireless settings allow you to set the wireless configuration items. is the Selecting this option will allow you to set your Wireless: Enabled default. Wireless Access Point (WAP) settings. Choose AP mode or Client mode. The factory default Wireless Operation Mode: setting is AP mode.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 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.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com WPS (Wi-Fi Protection Setup) WPS is Wi-Fi Protection Setup which is similar to WCN-NET and offers safe and easy way in Wireless Connection. The Config Method, we are support the PIN Code only. Wireless Client List The list of wireless client is shows here.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3.2.1.4 Change Password You can change Password here. We strongly recommend you to change the system password for security reason. Click on “Save” to store what you just select or “Undo” to give up...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3.2.2.1 Virtual Server 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.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3.2.2.2 Special AP 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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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3.2.2.3 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.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3.2.3.1 Packet Filters Packet Filter includes both outbound filter and inbound filter. And they have same way to setting. Packet Filter enables you to control what packets are allowed to pass the router. Outbound filter applies on all outbound packets.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Each rule can be enabled or disabled individually. Click on “Save” to store what you just select or “Undo” to give up...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3.2.3.2 Domain Filters 1. Domain Filter Let you prevent users under this device from accessing specific URLs. 2. Domain Filter Enable Check if you want to enable Domain Filter. 3. Log DNS Query Check if you want to log the action when someone accesses the specific URLs.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com URL Blocking URL Blocking will block LAN computers to connect to pre-define Websites. The major difference between “Domain filter” and “URL Blocking” is Domain filter require user to input suffix (like .com or .org, etc), while URL Blocking require user to input a keyword only. In other words, Domain filter can block specific website, while URL Blocking can block hundreds of websites by simply a keyword.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3.2.3.3 MAC Control 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”...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3.2.3.4 Miscellaneous 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 Intranet user can browse the built-in web pages to perform administration task.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3.2.3.6 System Log This page support two methods to export system logs to specific destination by means of syslog (UDP) and SMTP(TCP). The items you have to setup including: 1. IP Address for Sys log Host IP of destination where sys log will be sent to.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3.2.3.7 Dynamic DNS To host your server on a changing IP address, you have to use dynamic domain name service (DDNS). So that anyone wishing to reach your host only needs to know the name of it. Dynamic DNS will map the name of your host to your current IP address, which changes each time you connect your Internet service provider.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3.2.3.8 Provide different priority to different users or data flows, or guarantee a certain level of performance. 1. Enable This Item enables QoS function or not. 2. Bandwidth of Upstream Set the limitation of upstream speed. 3.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 4.7.7 schedule. Click on “Save” to store what you just select or “Undo” to give up...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3.2.3.9 SNMP In brief, SNMP, the Simple Network Management Protocol, is a protocol designed to give a user the capability to remotely manage a computer network by polling and setting terminal values and monitoring network events.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3.2.3.10 Routing 1. Routing Tables Allow you to determine which physical interface address to use for outgoing IP data grams. 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.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3.2.3.11 System Time 1. Time Zone Select a time zone where this device locates. 2. Auto-Synchronization Select the “Enable” item to enable this function. 3. Time Server Select a NTP time server to consult UTC time 4.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3.2.3.12 Scheduling You can set the schedule time to decide which service will be turned on or off. Select the “Enable” item. Press “Add New Rule” You can write a rule name and set which day and what time to schedule from “Start Time”...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3.2.4.1 System Info You can view the System Information and System log. And download/clear the System log, in this page.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3.2.4.2 Firmware Upgrade You can upgrade firmware by clicking “Upgrade” button. 3.2.4.3 Backup Setting You can backup your settings by clicking the “Backup Setting” button and save it as a bin file. Once you want to restore these settings, please reference the Section 3.2.5.2 Firmware Upgrade.
All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Troubleshooting This section provides an overview of common issues, and possible solutions for the installation and operation of the WiFi Mobile Broadband Gateway. 1. Unable to access the Configuration Menu when I use my computer to configure the router.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com or drop altogether. To avoid interference, change the Channel on the WiFi Mobile Broadband Gateway, and all devices in your network. • Keep your product at least 3-6 feet away from electrical devices that generate RF noise.
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