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Edimax BR-6218Mg User Manual

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  • Page 1 User’s Manual...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Introduction ... 3 Features ... 3 Minimum Requirements ... 3 Package Content... 3 Note... 3 Get to know the Broadband Router ... 4 Back Panel ... 4 Front Panel... 4 Setup Diagram ... 5 Getting started... 6 Chapter 1 ... 12 Quick Setup...
  • Page 3 2.4.3.1 WEP only... 30 2.4.3.2 802.1x only ... 30 2.4.3.3 802.1x WEP Static key ... 31 2.4.3.4 WPA/WPA2 Pre-shared key... 32 2.4.3.5 WPA/WPA2 Radius ... 33 2.4.4 Access Control ... 34 2.5 QoS ... 35 2.5.1 Port-based QoS... 36 2.5.2 Rate Policing QoS ... 37 2.5.3 Guaranteed / Spare Class QoS...

  • Page 4: Introduction

    Introduction Congratulations on purchasing this Wireless Broadband Router. This Wireless Broadband Router is a cost- effective IP Sharing Router that enables multiple users to share the Internet through an ADSL or cable modem. Simply configure your Internet connection settings in the Wireless Broadband Router and plug your PC to the LAN port and you're ready to share files and access the Internet.

  • Page 5: Get To Know The Broadband Router

    Get to know the Broadband Router Back Panel The diagram (fig1.0) below shows the broadband router’s back panel. The router’s back panel is divided into three sections, LAN, WAN and Reset: 1) Local Area Network (LAN) The Broadband router’s 4 LAN ports are where you connect your LAN’s PCs, printer servers, hubs and switches etc.

  • Page 6: Setup Diagram

    Light Status WAN 10/100M WAN LNK/ACT Flashing LAN 10/100M (Port 1-4) LAN LNK/ACT (Port 1-4) Flashing WLAN-G Flashing Setup Diagram Figure 1.2 below shows a typical setup for a Local Area Network (LAN). Description Router’s power supply is on WAN port 100Mbps is connected WAN port 10Mbps is connected WAN is connected No WAN connection...

  • Page 7: Getting Started

    Getting started This is a step-by-step instruction on how to start using the router and get connected to the Internet. 1) Setup your network as shown in the setup diagram above (fig 1.2). 2) You then need to set your LAN PC clients so that it can obtain an IP address automatically. All LAN clients require an IP address.
  • Page 8 8: Reboot the PC. Your PC will now obtain an IP address automatically from your Broadband Router’s DHCP server. Note: Please make sure that the Broadband router’s DHCP server is the only DHCP server available on your LAN. Once you’ve configured your PC to obtain an IP address automatically, please proceed to Step 3 2b) Windows XP 1: Click the Start button and select Settings, then click Network Connections.
  • Page 9 2c) Windows 2000 1: Click the Start button and select Settings, then click Control Panel. The Control Panel window will appear. 2: Double-click Network and Dial-up Connections icon. In the Network and Dial-up Connection window, double-click Local Area Connection icon. The Local Area Connection window will appear. 3: In the Local Area Connection window, click the Properties button.
  • Page 10 2d) Windows NT 1: Click the Start button and select Settings, then click Control Panel. The Control Panel window will appear. 2: Double-click Network icon. The Network window will appear. Select the Protocol tab from the Network window. 3: Check if the TCP/IP Protocol is on your list of Network Protocols. If TCP/IP is not installed, click the Add button to install it now.
  • Page 11 3) Once you have configured your PCs to obtain an IP address automatically, the router’s DHCP server will automatically give your LAN clients an IP address. By default the Broadband Router’s DHCP server is enabled so that you can obtain an IP address automatically. To see if you have obtained an IP address, see Appendix A.

  • Page 12: Chapter 1

    Menu Select your Internet connection type and then input the configurations needed to Quick Setup Wizard (Chapter 1) connect to your Internet Service Provider (ISP). This section contains configurations for the Broadband router’s advance General Setup functions such as: (Chapter 2) Attack Prevention, DMZ, Special applications and other functions to meet your LAN requirements.

  • Page 13: Quick Setup

    Chapter 1 Quick Setup The Quick Setup section is designed to get you using the broadband router as quickly as possible. In the Quick Setup you are required to fill in only the information necessary to access the Internet. Once you click on the Quick Setup Wizard in the HOME page, you should see the screen below.

  • Page 14: Step 2) Wan Settings

    Step 2) WAN Settings In this section you have to select one of four types of connections that you will be using to connect your broadband router’s WAN port to your ISP (see screen below). Note: Different ISP’s require different methods of connecting to the Internet, please check with your ISP as to the type of connection it requires.

  • Page 15: Dynamic Ip

    1.1 Dynamic IP Choose Dynamic IP if your ISP will automatically give you an IP address. Some ISP’s may also require that you fill in additional information such as MAC address (see screen below). Note: The MAC address section is optional and you can skip this section if your ISP does not require these settings for you to connect to the Internet.

  • Page 16: Static Ip Address

    1.2 Static IP Address Select Static IP Address if your ISP has given you a specific IP address for you to use. Your ISP should provide all the information required in this section. Parameter IP Address This is the IP address that your ISP has given you. Enter the Subnet Mask provided by your ISP Subnet Mask (e.g.

  • Page 17: Pptp

    Parameter Login ID Enter the Login ID provided by your ISP for the PPPoE connection Password Enter the Password provided by your ISP for the PPPoE connection This is optional. Enter the Service name should your ISP requires it, otherwise Service Name leave it blank.
  • Page 18 Parameter The ISP requires you to obtain an IP address by DHCP automatically before Obtain an IP address connecting to the PPTP server. Use the following IP The ISP give you a static IP to be used to connect to the PPTP server. address This is the IP address that your ISP has given you to establish a PPTP IP Address...

  • Page 19: L2Tp

    1.5 L2TP Select L2TP if your ISP requires the L2TP protocol to connect you to the Internet. Your ISP should provide all the information required in this section. Parameter The ISP requires you to obtain an IP address by DHCP automatically before Obtain an IP address connecting to the L2TP server.

  • Page 20: Chapter 2

    Chapter 2 General Settings Once you click on the General Setup button at the Home Page, you should see the screen below. If you have already configured the Quick Setup Wizard you do NOT need to configure anything thing in the General Setup screen for you to start using the Internet.

  • Page 21: System

    2.1 System The system screen allows you to specify a time zone, to change the system password and to specify a remote management user for the broadband router. Parameter System Settings Select the time zone of the country you are currently in. The router will set its Time Zone time based on your selection.

  • Page 22: Password Settings

    Parameter Select the time zone of the country you are currently in. The router will set its Time Zone time based on your selection. NTP Server # You can manually assign three time server addresses here. Time Here shows the time of current router setting. Click <Apply>...

  • Page 23: Remote Management

    2.1.3 Remote Management The remote management function allows you to designate a host in the Internet the ability to configure the Broadband router from a remote site. Enter the designated host IP Address in the Host IP Address field. Parameter Please specify the IP range to the Remote Management IP fields.

  • Page 24: Wan

    2.2 WAN Use the WAN Settings screen if you have already configured the Quick Setup Wizard section and you would like to change your Internet connection type. The WAN Settings screen allows to specify the type of WAN port connect you want to establish with your ISP. The WAN settings offer the following selections for the router’s WAN port, Dynamic IP, Static IP Address, PPPoE, PPTP, L2TP and DDNS.

  • Page 25: Pptp

    2.2.4 PPTP Select PPTP if your ISP requires the PPTP protocol to connect you to the Internet. Your ISP should provide all the information required in this section. (See chapter 1 “PPTP” for more detail) 2.2.5 L2TP Select L2TP if your ISP requires the L2TP protocol to connect you to the Internet. Your ISP should provide all the information required in this section.

  • Page 26: Lan

    2.3 LAN The LAN Port screen below allows you to specify a private IP address for your router’s LAN ports as well as a subnet mask for your LAN segment. Parameter This is the router’s LAN port IP address (Your LAN clients default gateway IP IP address address) IP Subnet Mask...

  • Page 27: Wireless

    2.4 Wireless Wireless Access Point builds a wireless LAN and can let all PCs equipped with IEEE 802.11b or 801.11g wireless network adaptor connect to your Intranet. It supports WEP and WPA2 encryption to enhance the security of your wireless network. 2.4.1 Basic Settings You can set parameters that are used for the wireless stations to connect to this router.
  • Page 28 AP Bridge-Point to Point mode setting page AP Bridge-Point to Multi-Point mode setting page...

  • Page 29: Advanced Settings

    AP Bridge-WDS mode setting page Parameter Operation Mode It allows you to set the AP to AP, Bridge or WDS mode. It allows you to set the AP fix at 802.11b or 802.11g mode. You also can select RF Band B+G mode to allow the AP select 802.11b and 802.11g connection automatically.
  • Page 30 Parameter "Fragment Threshold" specifies the maximum size of packet during the Fragment Threshold fragmentation of data to be transmitted. If you set this value too low, it will result in bad performance. When the packet size is smaller the RTS threshold, the wireless router will not RTS Threshold use the RTS/CTS mechanism to send this packet.

  • Page 31: Security

    2.4.3 Security This Router provides complete wireless LAN security functions, include WEP, IEEE 802.11x, IEEE 802.11x with WEP, WPA with pre-shared key and WPA with RADIUS. With these security functions, you can prevent your wireless LAN from illegal access. Please make sure your wireless stations use the same security function.

  • Page 32: 802.1X Wep Static Key

    Parameter RADIUS Server Port The service port of the external RADIUS server. RADIUS Server IP The IP address of external RADIUS server. address RADIUS Server Password The password used by external RADIUS server. Click <Apply> at the bottom of the screen to save the above configurations. You can now configure other advance sections or start using the router (with the advance settings in place) 2.4.3.3 802.1x WEP Static key IEEE 802.1x is an authentication protocol.

  • Page 33: Wpa/Wpa2 Pre-Shared Key

    2.4.3.4 WPA/WPA2 Pre-shared 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. It uses TKIP or CCMP(AES) to change the encryption key frequently. So the encryption key is not easy to be broken by hackers. This can improve security very much.

  • Page 34: Wpa/Wpa2 Radius

    2.4.3.5 WPA/WPA2 Radius Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is an advanced security standard. You can use an external RADIUS server to authenticate wireless stations and provide the session key to encrypt data during communication. It uses TKIP or CCMP(AES) to change the encryption key frequently. This can improve security very much. Parameter TKIP can change the encryption key frequently to enhance the wireless LAN WPA(TKIP)

  • Page 35: Access Control

    2.4.4 Access Control This wireless router provides MAC Address Control, which prevents the unauthorized MAC Addresses from accessing your wireless network. Parameter Enable wireless access Enable wireless access control control Fill in the "MAC Address" and "Comment" of the wireless station to be added and then click "Apply".

  • Page 36: Qos

    2.5 QoS This router supports various types of QoS – Port-based QoS, Rate Policing QoS, and Guaranteed/Spare Class QoS. For Port based QoS, user can specify the High/Low queue priority for each Ethernet port and can apply total rate limit to any port from 128Kbps to 32Mbps or at Full-rate(100Mbps). Flow control can also be enabled/disabled on per-port basis.

  • Page 37: Port-Based Qos

    2.5.1 Port-based QoS For Application based QoS, user can specify a destination port number and associate it with a egress priority(High or Low). For example, if user config port 7297 with high priority, then user would experience better service quality for such flows. For Port based QoS, user can specify the High/Low queue priority for each Ethernet port and can apply total rate limit to any port from 128Kbps to 32Mbps or at Full-rate(100Mbps).

  • Page 38: Rate Policing Qos

    2.5.2 Rate Policing QoS This router supports Rate Policing QoS. User can specify a L3/4 criterion and associate it with a maximum token (packet rate or data rate based). If a packet arrives and it matches to a rate policing entry, router decreases entry’s allocated token by one (if pps based) or by packet length in bytes(if bps based).

  • Page 39: Guaranteed / Spare Class Qos

    2.5.3 Guaranteed / Spare Class QoS User can first specify maximum WAN total bandwidth and then set bandwidth allocation rules according to two different classes: Guaranteed or Spared. Rules in Guaranteed class are guaranteed to have specified percentage of WAN Total bandwidth. At any period of time, if the aggregated bandwidth used by flows in guaranteed class doesn’t exceed total bandwidth, the spared bandwidth is then available for allocating to the flows in Spared class, according to the percentage configured.

  • Page 40: Nat

    2.6 NAT Network Address Translation (NAT) allows multiple users at your local site to access the Internet through a single Public IP Address or multiple Public IP Addresses. NAT provides Firewall protection from hacker attacks and has the flexibility to allow you to map Private IP Addresses to Public IP Addresses for key services such as Websites and FTP.

  • Page 41: Virtual Server

    2.6.1 Virtual Server Use the Virtual Server function when you want different servers/clients in your LAN to handle different service/Internet application type (e.g. Email, FTP, Web server etc.) from the Internet. Computers use numbers called port numbers to recognize a particular service/Internet application type. The Virtual Server allows you to re-direct a particular service port number (from the Internet/WAN Port) to a particular LAN private IP address and its service port number.

  • Page 42: Special Applications

    2.6.2 Special Applications Some applications require multiple connections, such as Internet games, video conferencing, Internet telephony and others. In this section you can configure the router to support multiple connections for these types of applications.
  • Page 43 Parameter Name The description of this setting. Incoming Type Select the Inbound port protocol type: “TCP”, “UDP” or both Enter the In-coming (Inbound) port or port range for this type of application (e.g. 2300-2400, 47624) Incoming Port Range Note: Individual port numbers are separated by a comma (e.g. 47624, 5775, 6541 etc.).

  • Page 44: Alg Settings

    2.6.3 ALG Settings You can select applications that need “Application Layer Gateway” to support. Parameter Description You can select to enable “Application Layer Gateway”, then the router will let Enable that application correctly pass though the NAT gateway. Click <Apply> at the bottom of the screen to save the above configurations. You can now configure other advance sections or start using the router (with the advance settings in place) 2.6.4 UPnP Settings With UPnP, all PCs in you Intranet will discover this router automatically.

  • Page 45: Static Routing

    Parameter You can Enable or Disable UPnP feature here. After you enable the UPnP feature, all client systems that support UPnP, like Windows XP, can discover this router automatically and access the Internet through this router without any UPnP Feature configuration.

  • Page 46: Firewall

    2.7 Firewall The Broadband router provides extensive firewall protection by restricting connection parameters, thus limiting the risk of hacker attack, and defending against a wide array of common Internet attacks. However, for applications that require unrestricted access to the Internet, you can configure a specific client/server as a Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).

  • Page 47: Access Control List

    2.7.1 Access Control List If you want to restrict users from accessing certain Internet applications/services (e.g. Internet websites, email, FTP etc.), then this is the place to set that configuration. Access Control allows users to define the traffic type permitted in your LAN. You can control which PC client can have access to these services. Parameter Policy User can choose to log or not to log packets which match any configured ACL.
  • Page 48 Example: Access Control In the example below, LAN client A can only access websites that use Port 80. However, LAN client B is able to access websites and any other service that uses ports between 80 and 999.

  • Page 49: Url Filter

    2.7.2 URL Filter You can block access to some Web sites from particular PCs by entering a full URL address or just keyword of the Web site. Parameter You can enter the full URL address or the keyword of the web site you want to URL String Pattern block.

  • Page 50: Anti-Dos (Denial Of Service)

    2.7.3 Anti-DoS (Denial of Service) The Broadband router's firewall can block common hacker attacks, including Denial of Service, Ping of Death, Port Scan and Sync Flood. If Internet attacks occur the router can log the events. Parameter DoS Prevention Enable Enables selected Anti-DoS features. Ignore LAN-Side Check Skip DoS checks for all LAN WAN packets.

  • Page 51: Dmz

    2.7.4 DMZ If you have a local client PC that cannot run an Internet application (e.g. Games) properly from behind the NAT firewall, then you can open the client up to unrestricted two-way Internet access by defining a DMZ Host. The DMZ function allows you to re-direct all packets going to your WAN port IP address to a particular IP address in your LAN.

  • Page 52: Chapter 3

    Chapter 3 Status The Status section allows you to monitor the current status of your router. You can use the Status page to monitor: the connection status of the Broadband router's WAN/LAN interfaces, the current firmware and hardware version numbers, any illegal attempts to access your network, and information on all DHCP client PCs currently connected to your network.

  • Page 53: Status And Information

    3.1 Status and Information The Status and Information section allows you to view the router’s system information Parameter Description You can see the router’s system information such as the router’s: System Information Information, LAN Information, WAN Information, and Wireless Information. 3.2 Logs This router supports five types of Log messages: System Log, ACL Log, URL filter, DoS Log and New connection Log.

  • Page 54: Acl Log

    3.2.2 ACL Log 3.2.3 URL Filter Log 3.2.4 DoS Log 3.2.5 New Connection Log...

  • Page 55: Chapter 4

    Chapter 4 Tool This page includes the basic configuration tools, such as Configuration Tools (save or restore configuration settings), Firmware Upgrade (upgrade system firmware) and Reset. Parameter Firmware Version This shows your current firmware version. This tool allows you to upgrade the Broadband router’s system firmware. To upgrade the firmware of your Broadband router, you need to download the Firmware Upgrade firmware file to your local hard disk, and enter that file name and path in the...

  • Page 56: Appendix A

    Appendix A How to Manually find your PC’s IP and MAC address 1) In Window’s open the Command Prompt program 2) Type Ipconfig /all and <enter> • Your PC’s IP address is the one entitled IP address (192.168.1.77) • The router’s IP address is the one entitled Default Gateway (192.168.1.254) •...

  • Page 57: Glossary

    Glossary Default Gateway (Router): Every non-router IP device needs to configure a default gateway’s IP address. When the device sends out an IP packet, if the destination is not on the same network, the device has to send the packet to its default gateway, which will then send it out towards the destination. DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.
  • Page 58 comprised of two parts: 3 bytes of data that corresponds to the Manufacturer ID (unique for each manufacturer), plus 3 bytes that are often used as the product’s serial number. NAT: Network Address Translation. This process allows all of the computers on your home network to use one IP address.

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