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  • Page 1 WLAN 11g Broadband Router User Manual V 1.0...
  • Page 2 Product Name: X-Micro WLAN 11g Broadband Router Model Name : XWL-11GRTX This product is in compliance with the essential requirements and other relevant provisions of the R&TTE directive 1999/5/EC. COUNTRY 2400-2483.5 MHz Spain France 2400-2454 MHz France 2454-2483.5 MHz 2400-2483.5 MHz Italy 2400-2483.5 MHz...
  • Page 3 Use only with supplied antenna. Unauthorized antenna, modification, or attachments could damage the transmitter and may violate FCC regulations. X-Micro declares that US model of XWL-11GRTX, (FCC ID: RAFRTX) is limited in CH 1~ CH 11 for 2.4G band by specific firmware controlled by the manufacturer and is not user...
  • Page 4 Copyright Copyright 2007 by X-Micro Technology Corp., All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written permission of X-Micro Technology Corp.

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents TERMINOLOGY...I INTRODUCTION... 1 ACKAGE CONTENTS RODUCT PECIFICATIONS RODUCT EATURES ANEL ESCRIPTION INSTALLATION... 5 ARDWARE NSTALLATION OFTWARE NSTALLATION SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION ... 6 REPARE YOUR ONNECT TO THE ANAGEMENT AND CONFIGURATION ON THE 3.3.1 Status ... 8 3.3.2 Setup Wizard ... 10 Operation Mode...
  • Page 6 3.3.11 WAN Interface Setup ... 25 Static IP... 26 DHCP Client ... 27 PPPoE... 29 PPTP ... 31 3.3.12 Firewall - Port Filtering... 32 3.3.13 Firewall - IP Filtering ... 33 3.3.14 Firewall - MAC Filtering ... 34 3.3.15 Firewall - Port Forwarding... 35 3.3.16 Firewall –...
  • Page 7 HAT IS 4.31 W WLAN ACK TIMOUT? ... 60 HAT IS 5.1 E – PPP XAMPLE 5.2 E – F XAMPLE IXED WWW.X-MICRO.COM... 67 ? ... 57 ? ... 57 (WPA)?... 57 CCESS ?... 58 UTHENTICATION NTEGRITY ROTOCOL NCRYPTION TANDARD (IAPP)? ...

  • Page 8: Terminology

    Terminology 3DES Triple Data Encryption Standard Advanced Encryption Standard ANSI American National Standards Institute Access Point Complementary Code Keying CSMA/CA Carrier Sense Multiple Access/ Collision Avoidance CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access/ Collision Detection DDNS Dynamic Domain Name Server Diffie-Hellman Algorithm DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DSSS...
  • Page 9 Virtual Private Network Wireless Distribution System Wired Equivalent Privacy WLAN Wireless Local Area Network Wi-Fi Protected Access...

  • Page 10: Introduction

    1 Introduction The X-Micro Wireless LAN Broadband Router is an affordable IEEE 802.11b/g wireless LAN broadband router solution; setting SOHO and enterprise standard for high performance, secure, manageable and reliable WLAN. This document describes the steps required for the initial IP address assign and other WLAN router configuration.

  • Page 11: Product Features

    1.3 Product Features Generic Router Complies with IEEE 802.11b/g standard for 2.4GHz Wireless LAN. Supports multi-operation (bridge/gateway/WISP) modes between wireless and wired Ethernet interfaces. Supports 64-bit and 128-bit WEP, WPA, WPA2 encryption/decryption function to protect the wireless data transmission. Supports IEEE 802.1x Authentication.

  • Page 12: Panel Description

    10/100M 4. LAN LED 10/100M LAN LED WAN LED State Description The X-Micro WLAN 11g Broadband Router is powered on. The X-Micro WLAN 11g Broadband Router is powered off. Data is transmitting or receiving on the Flashing antenna. No data is transmitting or receiving on the antenna.
  • Page 13 The power jack allows an external DC +7.5 V power supply connection. The external AC to DC adaptor provide adaptive power requirement to the X-Micro WLAN 11g Broadband Router. 5. Reset Push continually the reset button 5 ~ 10 seconds to reset the configuration parameters to factory defaults.

  • Page 14: Installation

    A straight-through Ethernet cable with appropriate cable length is needed. Step 3: Supply DC power to the X-Micro WLAN 11g Broadband Router. Use only the AC/DC power adapter supplied with the X-Micro WLAN 11g Broadband Router; it may occur damage by using a different type of power adapter.

  • Page 15: Software Configuration

    3 Software configuration There are web based management and configuration functions allowing you to have the jobs done easily. The X-Micro WLAN 11g Broadband Router is delivered with the following factory default parameters on the Ethernet LAN interfaces. Default IP Address: 192.168.1.254 Default IP subnet mask: 255.255.255.0...

  • Page 16: Connect To The X-Micro Wlan 11G Broadband Router

    192.168.1.253 is good to connect the Wireless LAN Access Point. IP Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 8. Click OK to complete the IP parameters setting. 3.2 Connect to the X-Micro WLAN 11g Broadband Router Open a WEB browser, i.e. Microsoft Internet Explore, then enter 192.168.1.254...

  • Page 17: Management And Configuration On The X-Micro Wlan 11G Broadband Router

    URL to connect the X-Micro WLAN 11g Broadband Router. 3.3 Management and configuration on the X-Micro WLAN 11g Broadband Router 3.3.1 Status This page shows the current status and some basic settings of the device, includes system, wireless, Ethernet LAN and WAN configuration information.
  • Page 18 TCP/IP configuration Attain IP Protocol It shows type of connection. IP Address It shows the IP address of LAN interfaces of X-Micro WLAN 11g Broadband Router. Subnet Mask It shows the IP subnet mask of LAN interfaces of X-Micro WLAN 11g Broadband Router.

  • Page 19: Setup Wizard

    DNS1/DNS2/DNS3 It shows the DNS server information. MAC Address It shows the MAC address of WAN interface of X-Micro WLAN 11g Broadband Router. 3.3.2 Setup Wizard This page guides you to configure wireless broadband router for first time Screen snapshot – Setup Wizard...

  • Page 20: Time Zone Setting

    Time Zone Setting This page is used to enable and configure NTP client Screen snapshot – Time Zone Settings LAN Interface Setup This page is used to configure local area network IP address and subnet mask Screen snapshot – LAN Interface Setup...

  • Page 21: Wan Interface Setup

    WAN Interface Setup This page is used to configure WAN access type Screen snapshot – WAN Interface Setup Wireless Basic Settings This page is used to configure basic wireless parameters like Band, Mode, Network Type SSID, Channel Number, Enable Mac Clone(Single Ethernet Client) Screen snapshot –...

  • Page 22: Wireless Security Setup

    Wireless Security Setup This page is used to configure wireless security Screen snapshot – Wireless Security Setup 3.3.3 Operation Mode This page is used to configure which mode wireless broadband router acts Screen snapshot – Operation Mode Item Gateway Description Traditional gateway configuration.

  • Page 23: Wireless - Basic Settings

    3.3.4 Wireless - Basic Settings This page is used to configure the parameters for wireless LAN clients that may connect to your Broadband Router. Here you may change wireless encryption settings as well as wireless network parameters. Screen snapshot – Wireless Basic Settings Each interface (LAN, WAN and Wireless) regards as bridge.

  • Page 24: Wireless - Advanced Settings

    These settings are only for more technically advanced users who have a sufficient knowledge about wireless LAN. These settings should not be changed unless you know what effect the changes will have on your X-Micro WLAN 11g Broadband Router. Description Click on to disable the wireless LAN data transmission.
  • Page 25 Screen snapshot – Wireless Advanced Settings Item Description Authentication Type Click to select the authentication type in Open System, Shared Key or Auto selection. Fragment Threshold Set the data packet fragmentation threshold, value can be written between 256 and 2346 bytes. Refer to 4.10 What is Fragment Threshold? RTS Threshold Set the RTS Threshold, value can be written...

  • Page 26: Wireless - Security Setup

    Broadcast SSID IAPP 802.11g Protection RF Output Power Turbo Mode Block Relay Between Clients ACK Timeout Apply Changes Reset 3.3.6 Wireless - Security Setup This page allows you setup the wireless security. Turn on WEP, WPA, WPA2 by using encryption keys could prevent any unauthorized access to your wireless network.
  • Page 27 Item Description Encryption Select the encryption supported over wireless access. The encryption method can be None, WEP, WPA(TKIP), WPA2 or WPA2 Mixed Refer to 4.9 What is WEP? 4.15 What is Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)? 4.16 What is WPA2(AES)? 4.17 What is 802.1X Authentication? 4.18 What is Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP)? 4.19 What is Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)?

  • Page 28: Iwep Key Setup

    WEP Key Setup Screen snapshot – WEP Key Setup Item Key Length Key Format Default Tx Key Encryption Key 1 Encryption Key 2 Encryption Key 3 Encryption Key 4 Apply Changes Close Reset WEP encryption key (secret key) length: Description Select the WEP shared secret key length from pull-down menu.

  • Page 29: Wireless - Access Control

    X-Micro WLAN 11g Broadband Router. Fill in the MAC address of client to register this X-Micro WLAN 11g Broadband Router access capability. Fill in the comment tag for the registered client.

  • Page 30: Wds Settings

    Click the Reset button to abort change and recover the previous configuration setting. It shows the registered clients that are allowed to link to this X-Micro WLAN 11g Broadband Router. Click to delete the selected clients that will be access right removed from this X-Micro WLAN 11g Broadband Router.

  • Page 31: Iwds Security Setup

    Comment Fill in the comment tag for the registered AP. Apply Changes Click the Apply Changes button to register the AP to new configuration setting. Reset Click the Reset button to abort change and recover the previous configuration setting. Set Security Click button to configure wireless security like WEP(64bits), WEP(128bits), WPA(TKIP), WPA2(AES) or None...

  • Page 32: Site Survey

    Screen snapshot – WDS AP Table Item MAC Address Tx Packets Tx Errors Rx Packets Tx Rare (Mbps) Refresh Close 3.3.9 Site Survey This page is used to view or configure other APs near yours. Screen snapshot – Wireless Site Survey Description It shows the MAC Address within WDS.

  • Page 33: Lan Interface Setup

    3.3.10 LAN Interface Setup This page is used to configure the parameters for local area network that connects to the LAN ports of your X-Micro WLAN 11g Broadband Router. Here you may change the setting for IP address, subnet mask, DHCP, etc.

  • Page 34: Wan Interface Setup

    3.3.11 WAN Interface Setup This page is used to configure the parameters for wide area network that connects to the WAN port of your X-Micro WLAN 11g Broadband Router. Here you may change the access method to Static IP, DHCP, PPPoE or PPTP by click the item value of WAN Access Type.

  • Page 35: I Static Ip

    Static IP Screen snapshot – WAN Interface Setup – Static IP Item Description Static IP Click to select Static IP support on WAN interface. There are IP address, subnet mask and default gateway settings need to be done. IP Address If you select the Static IP support on WAN interface, fill in the IP address for it.

  • Page 36: Dhcp Client

    Enable Web Server Click the checkbox to enable web configuration from Access on WAN WAN side. Enable WAN Echo Click the checkbox to enable WAN ICMP response. Reply Enable IPsec pass Click the checkbox to enable IPSec packet pass through on VPN through connection Enable PPTP pass...
  • Page 37 server. Host Name Fill in the host name of Host Name. The default value is empty MTU Size Fill in the mtu size of MTU Size. The default value is 1400 Attain DNS Click to select getting DNS address for DHCP Automatically support.

  • Page 38: Pppoe

    Select the connection type from pull-down menu. There are Continuous, Connect on Demand and Manual three types to select. Continuous connection type means to setup the connection through PPPoE protocol whenever this X-Micro WLAN 11g Broadband Router is powered Connect on Demand connection type means to...
  • Page 39 setup the connection through PPPoE protocol whenever you send the data packets out through the WAN interface; there are a watchdog implemented to close the PPPoE connection while there are no data sent out longer than the idle time set. Manual connection type means to setup the connection through the PPPoE protocol by clicking the Connect button manually, and clicking the...

  • Page 40: Pptp

    Allow user to make a tunnel with remote site directly to secure the data transmission among the connection. User can use embedded PPTP client supported by this router to make a VPN connection. IP Address If you select the PPTP support on WAN interface, fill in the IP address for it.

  • Page 41: Firewall - Port Filtering

    Encryption Attain DNS Automatically Set DNS Manually DNS 1 DNS 2 DNS 3 Clone MAC Address Fill in the MAC address that is the MAC address to Enable uPNP Enable Web Server Access on WAN Enable WAN Echo Reply Set TTL value Apply Changes Reset 3.3.12 Firewall - Port Filtering...

  • Page 42: Firewall - Ip Filtering

    Screen snapshot – Firewall - Port Filtering Item Enable Port Filtering Click to enable the port filtering security function. Port Range Protocol Comments Apply Changes Reset Delete Selected Delete All Reset 3.3.13 Firewall - IP Filtering Entries in this table are used to restrict certain types of data packets from your local network to Internet through the Gateway.

  • Page 43: Firewall - Mac Filtering

    Screen snapshot – Firewall - IP Filtering Item Enable IP Filtering Local IP Address Protocol Comments Apply Changes Reset Delete Selected Delete All Reset 3.3.14 Firewall - MAC Filtering Entries in this table are used to restrict certain types of data packets from your local network to Internet through the Gateway.

  • Page 44: Firewall - Port Forwarding

    Screen snapshot – Firewall - MAC Filtering Item Enable MAC Filtering Click to enable the MAC filtering security function. MAC Address Comments Apply Changes Reset Delete Selected Delete All Reset 3.3.15 Firewall - Port Forwarding Entries in this table allow you to automatically redirect common network services to a specific machine behind the NAT firewall.
  • Page 45 Screen snapshot – Firewall - Port Forwarding Item Description Enable Port Click to enable the Port Forwarding security Forwarding function. IP Address To forward data packets coming from WAN to a Protocol specific IP address that hosted in local network Port Range behind the NAT firewall, fill in the IP address, Comment...

  • Page 46: Firewall - Url Filtering

    3.3.16 Firewall – URL Filtering URL Filtering is used to restrict users to access specific websites in internet. Screen snapshot – Firewall – URL Filtering Item Enable URL Filtering Click to enable the URL Filtering function. URL Address Apply Changes Reset Delete Selected Delete All...

  • Page 47: Vpn Setting

    Screen snapshot – Firewall - DMZ Item Enable DMZ DMZ Host IP Address To support DMZ in your firewall design, fill in the IP Apply Changes Reset 3.3.18 VPN Setting This page is used to show VPN connection table, configure IPSEC VPN, NAT Traversal, Generate RSA Key, Show RSA Public Key.
  • Page 48 Screen snapshot – VPN Setup Item Description Enable IPSEC VPN Click to enable IPSEC VPN function. Refer to 4.27 What is VPN? and 4.28 What is IPSEC? Enable NAT Click to enable NAT Traversal function. Traversal Generate RSA Key Click to generate RSA key. Show RSA Public Click to show RSA public key that we generate.

  • Page 49: Ivpn Setup - Edit Tunnel

    VPN Setup - Edit Tunnel Screen snapshot – VPN Setup-Edit-1 Item Description Enable Tunnel # Click to enable the IPSEC VPN current tunnel. Connection Name Assign the connection name tag. Auth Type Click to select PSK or RSA. Local Site Click to select Single Address or Subnet Address VPN connection.
  • Page 50 Screen snapshot – VPN Setup-Edit-2 Item Description Key Management Click to select IKE or Manual mode. Advanced Click Advanced button to configure more IKE settings. Connection Type Click to select Initiator or Responder mode. Connect Click to connect manually. [Responder mode only] Disconnect Click to disconnect manually.

  • Page 51: Advanced Ike Setup

    Advanced IKE Setup Screen snapshot – Advanced VPN Settings for IKE Item Description Phase 1 Negotiation Mode Main mode. Encryption Algorithm Click to select 3DES or AES128 encryption. Authentication Click to select MD5 or SHA1 authentication. Algorithm Key Group Click to select DH1(modp768), DH2(modp1024) or DH5(modp1536) key group.

  • Page 52: Management - Statistics

    Key Life Time Encapsulation Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) Cancel 3.3.19 Management - Statistics This page shows the packet counters for transmission and reception regarding to wireless, Ethernet LAN and Ethernet WAN networks. Screen snapshot – Management - Statistics Item Wireless LAN Sent Packets Wireless LAN Received Packets...

  • Page 53: Management - Ddns

    3.3.20 Management - DDNS This page is used to configure Dynamic DNS service to have DNS with dynamic IP address. Screen snapshot – Management – DDNS Item Enable DDNS Service Provider Domain Name User Name/Email Password/Key Apply Change Reset 3.3.21 Management - Time Zone Setting This page is used to configure NTP client to get current time.

  • Page 54: Management - Denial-Of-Service

    Screen snapshot – Management – Time Zone Settings Item Current Time Time Zone Select Enable NTP client update NTP Server Apply Change Reset Refresh 3.3.22 Management – Denial-of-Service This page is used to enable and setup protection to prevent attack by hacker’s program.

  • Page 55: Management - Log

    Screen snapshot – Management – Denial-of-Service Item Enable DoS Prevention Whole System Flood / Per-Source IP Flood… Select ALL Clear ALL Apply Changes 3.3.23 Management - Log This page is used to configure the remote log server and shown the current log.

  • Page 56: Management - Upgrade Firmware

    Please note, do not power off the device during the upload because it may crash the system. Description Click the checkbox to enable log. Show all log of wireless broadband router Only show wireless log Only show Denial-of-Service log Click the checkbox to enable remote log service.

  • Page 57: Management Save/ Reload Settings

    Click the Browse button to select the new version of web firmware image file. Click the Upload button to update the selected web firmware image to the X-Micro WLAN 11g Broadband Router. Click the Reset button to abort change and recover the previous configuration setting.

  • Page 58: Management - Password Setup

    3.3.27 Management - WatchDog This page is used to do watchdog function using ping command. User set IP address, interval and ping fail count conditions to decide whether router reboots or not. parameter to factory defaults. Description Fill in the user name for web management login control.

  • Page 59: Management - Quality Of Service

    Click to enable watchdog. IP address that is referred. Fill in the value by seconds. Fill in the value that is the threshold to reboot router when ping fails. Click the Apply Changes button to complete the new configuration setting.
  • Page 60 Screen snapshot – Management – Qaulity of Service Item Description Enable QoS Click to enable QoS. ISP Bandwidth Download Fill in the value that is the download stream from ISP by KB/s. Upload Fill in the value that is the upload stream from ISP by KB/s.

  • Page 61: Logout

    Piority Apply Changes Reset Delete Selected Delete All Reset 3.3.29 Logout This page is used to logout web management page. This item will be activated next time you login after you define user account and password. Screen snapshot – Logout Screen snapshot –...

  • Page 62: Frequently Asked Questions (Faq)

    4 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 4.1 What and how to find my PC’s IP and MAC address? IP address is the identifier for a computer or device on a TCP/IP network. Networks using the TCP/IP protocol route messages based on the IP address of the destination.

  • Page 63: What Is Bssid

    Example 1: wireless Infrastructure Mode Ad hoc mode (also called peer-to-peer mode or an Independent Basic Service Set, or IBSS) is simply a set of 802.11 wireless stations that communicate directly with one another without using an access point or any connection to a wired network.

  • Page 64: What Are The Open System And Shared Key Authentications

    Electrical devices: microwaves, monitors and electrical motors. Solutions to overcome the interferences: Minimizing the number of walls and ceilings. Position the WLAN antenna for best reception. Keep WLAN devices away from other electrical devices, eg: microwaves, monitors, electric motors, … etc. Add additional WLAN Access Points if necessary.

  • Page 65: What Is Rts (Request To Send) Threshold

    to low fragment overhead. Hence there is a trade-off between spatial re-use and fragment overhead. Fragment threshold is the maximum packet size used for fragmentation. Packets larger than the size programmed in this field will be fragmented. If you find that your corrupted packets or asymmetric packet reception (all send packets, for example).

  • Page 66: What Is Preamble Type

    buffered frames at the access point). 4.13 What is Preamble Type? There are two preamble types defined in IEEE 802.11 specification. A long preamble basically gives the decoder more time to process the preamble. All 802.11 devices support a long preamble. The short preamble is designed to improve efficiency (for example, for VoIP systems).

  • Page 67: What Is 802.1X Authentication

    amendment to the 802.11 standard. 4.17 What is 802.1x Authentication? 802.1x is a framework for authenticated MAC-level access control, defines Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) over LANs (WAPOL). The standard encapsulates and leverages much of EAP, which was defined for dial-up authentication with Point-to-Point Protocol in RFC 2284.

  • Page 68: What Is Maximum Transmission Unit (Mtu) Size

    Clone MAC address is designed for your special application that request the clients to register to a server machine with one identified MAC address. Since that all the clients will communicate outside world through the X-Micro WLAN 11g Broadband Router, so have the cloned MAC address set on the X-Micro WLAN 11g Broadband Router will solve the issue.

  • Page 69: What Is Wlan Ack Timout

    WMM adds prioritized capabilities to Wi-Fi networks and optimizes their performance when multiple concurring applications, each with different latency and throughput requirements, compete for network resources. By using WMM, end-user satisfaction is maintained in a wider variety of environments and traffic conditions.

  • Page 70: Example One - Pppoe On The Wan

    5.1 Example One – PPPoE on the WAN Sales division of Company ABC likes to establish a WLAN network to support mobile communication on sales’ Notebook PCs. MIS engineer collects information and plans the X-Micro WLAN 11g Broadband Router implementation by the following configuration. WAN configuration:...
  • Page 71 Configure the WAN interface: Open WAN Interface Setup page, select PPPoE then enter the User Name “H890123456” and Password “PW192867543210”, the password is encrypted to display on the screen. Press button to confirm the configuration setting. Configure the LAN interface: Open LAN Interface Setup page, enter the IP Address “192.168.1.254”,...

  • Page 72: Example Two - Fixed Ip On The Wan

    5.2 Example Two – Fixed IP on the WAN Company ABC likes to establish a WLAN network to support mobile communication on all employees’ Notebook PCs. MIS engineer collects information and plans the X-Micro WLAN 11g Broadband Router implementation by the following configuration. WAN configuration:...
  • Page 73 Channel: 11 DHCP client Ethernet Cable 192.168.2.10/ 255.255.255.0 Internet xDSL/ CM Router mode Figure 4 – Configuration Example Two – Fixed IP on the WAN SSID: MyWLAN Channel: 11 DHCP client SSID: MyWLAN Channel: 11 DHCP range: 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.200 WAN IP: 192.168.2.254/ 255.255.255.0...
  • Page 74 Configure the WAN interface: Open WAN Interface Setup page, select Fixed IP then enter IP Address “192.168.2.254”, subnet mask “255.255.255.0”, Default gateway “192.168.2.10”. Press button to confirm the configuration setting. Configure the LAN interface: Open LAN Interface Setup page, enter the IP Address “192.168.1.254”, Subnet Mask...
  • Page 75 Configure the WLAN interface: Open WLAN Interface Setup page, enter the SSID “MyWLAN”, Channel Number “11”. Press button to confirm the configuration setting.

  • Page 76: Www.x-Micro.com

    www.x-micro.com...

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