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Quick Installation Guide
11-2011 / v1.0

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  • Page 1 EW-7303APn v2 Quick Installation Guide 11-2011 / v1.0...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents 1.Terminology ....................... 4 2.Introduction ....................... 6 2.1 package content ..................6 2.2 product features ..................6 2.3 front panel description ................7 2.4 rear panel description ................8 3. Installation ......................8 3.1 Hardware Installation ................9 3.1.1 Appearance and Interface Introduction .........
  • Page 3 5.2 What is Wireless LAN? ................. 61 5.3 What are ISM bands? ................61 5.4 How does wireless networking work? ........... 62 5.5 What is BSSID? ..................62 5.6 What is ESSID? ..................63 5.7 What are potential factors that may causes interference? ...... 63 5.8 What are the Open System and Shared Key authentications? ....

  • Page 4: Terminology

    1.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 Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Extensible Authentication Protocol...
  • Page 5 Temporal Key Integrity Protocol TKIP UPNP Universal Plug and Play Virtual Private Network Wireless Distribution System Wired Equivalent Privacy WLAN Wireless Local Area Network Wi-Fi Protected Access...

  • Page 6: Introduction

    Support Dynamic DNS  Support NTP *Maximum performance, actual data rates, and coverage will vary depending on network conditions and environmental factors. Product specifications and design are subject to change without notice. Copyright © 2012 Edimax Technology Co. Ltd. All rights reserved.

  • Page 7: Front Panel Description

    2.3 front panel description LED Indicator State Description The WLAN Broadband Router is powered ON. 1. PWR LED The WLAN Broadband Router is powered Off. Wireless Radio ON. 2. WLAN LED Wireless Radio Off. Flashing Data is transmitting or receiving on the wireless. Port linked.

  • Page 8: Rear Panel Description

    2.4 rear panel description Interfaces Description For external antenna. You can use the SMA connector to connect with SMA connector 2.4GHz external antenna. The RJ-45 sockets allow LAN connection through Category 5 cables. Secondary(Middle) Support auto-sensing on 10/100M speed and half/ full duplex; comply with IEEE 802.3/ 802.3u respectively.

  • Page 9: Installation

    3. Installation 3.1 Hardware Installation 3.1.1 Appearance and Interface Introduction Notes: The product shot is for reference only please refer to physical product. 1.LED Panel 2. Waterproof Sliding Door 3. Pass trough Ethernet cable from this cable 4. Push this button to remove upper housing...
  • Page 10 Wall Mount 6. Pole Mount Secondary port with POE 8. Main port 9. SMA connector for external antenna...

  • Page 11: Hardware Installation Steps

    3.1.2 Hardware installation steps Step2: Pass through Ethernet cable from the hole, insert the cable to Secondary port. Note: RJ-45 8P8C Ethernet cable is required. Step3: Install the upper housing and make sure the housing is well installed.

  • Page 12: Software Installation

    3.2 Software Installation Step4: Install POE Injector DC: Insert adapter POE: This hole is linked to Secondary port of the Outdoor Router with RJ-45. LAN: This hole is linked to LAN side PC/Hub or Router/ADSL modem device with RJ-45...

  • Page 13: Software Configuration

    Step5: Complete the hardware installation as diagram at below Notes: Use Reset button on POE injector. Push continually the reset button of POE injector about 5 ~ 10 seconds to reset the configuration parameters to factory defaults. There is no software driver or utility installation needed, but only the configuration setting.

  • Page 14: Software Configuration

    4. Software configuration There are web based management and configuration functions allowing you to have the jobs done easily. The Outdoor Router is delivered with the following factory default parameters on the Ethernet LAN interfaces. Default IP Address: 192.168.2.1 Default IP subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 WEB login User Name: admin WEB login Password: 1234...

  • Page 15: Prepare Your Pc To Configure The Wlan Broadband Router

    4.1 Prepare your PC to configure the WLAN Broadband Router For OS of Microsoft Windows 2000/ XP: 1. Click the Start button and select Settings, then click Control Panel. The Control Panel window will appear. 2. Move mouse and double-click the right button on Network and Dial-up Connections icon. Move mouse and double-click the Local Area Connection icon.
  • Page 16 2. Move mouse and double-click the right button on Network icon. The Network window will appear. Click Protocol tab from the Network window. 3. Check the installed list of Network Protocol window. If TCP/IP is not installed, click the Add button to install it;...

  • Page 17: Connect To The Wlan Broadband Router

    4.2 Connect to the WLAN Broadband Router Open a WEB browser, i.e. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.1 SP1 or above, then enter 192.168.2.1 the URL to connect the WLAN Broadband Router. 4.3 Management and configuration on the Outdoor Router 4.3.1 Wizard This Wizard page guides you to configure Internet connection and Wireless Settings quickly.
  • Page 18 If you select DHCP option, please click Next button to jump at Step2. b. Static Mode (fixed IP) If you select Static Mode (fixed IP), please fill in these fields on next page. Item Description IP Address Fill in the IP address for WAN interface. Subnet Mask Fill in the subnet mask for WAN interface.

  • Page 19: Operation Mode

    c. PPPOE Connection If you select PPPOE, please fill in these fields on next page. Item Description User Name If you select the PPPoE support on WAN interface, fill in the user name and password to login the PPPoE server. Password If you select the PPPoE support on WAN interface, fill in the user name and password to login the PPPoE server.
  • Page 20 d. L2TP If you select L2TP, please fill in these fields on next page. Item Description L2TP Server IP Allow user to make a tunnel with remote site directly to secure the data Address transmission among the connection. User can use embedded L2TP client supported by this router to make a VPN connection.
  • Page 21 Default Gateway Fill in the default gateway for WAN interface out going data packets. Operation Mode Keep Alive: Keep the L2TP connection all the time. Please also configure the Redial Period field. Manual: Let user connect the L2TP connection manually. When you finish these settings, then click Next button to jump at Step2.
  • Page 22 e. PPTP If you select PPTP, please fill in these fields on next page. Item Description Item Description PPTP Server IP Allow user to make a tunnel with remote site directly to secure the data Address transmission among the connection. User can use embedded PPTP client supported by this router to make a VPN connection.
  • Page 23 Step 2: configure Wireless Settings There are three options (Disable, WEP, WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK) for Wireless security connection. OPEN WEP...
  • Page 24 SHAREDWEP WPA-PSK...
  • Page 25 WPA2-PSK Item Description Network Mode Click to select wireless mode from pull down menu. Frequency (Channel) Select the wireless communication frequency/channel from pull-down menu. Network Name (SSID) It is the wireless network name. The SSID can be 32 bytes long. Channel Bandwidth Select the operating channel width 20 MHz or 20/40 MHz.

  • Page 26: Operation Mode

    4.3.2 Operation Mode a. Bridge: The Bridge mode allows that all Ethernet and wireless interfaces are bridged into a single bridge interface. b. Gateway: The Gateway mode allows that the first Ethernet port is treated as WAN port and the Ethernet port and the wireless interface are bridged together and are treated as LAN ports.
  • Page 27 c. Wireless ISP The Wireless ISP mode allows that the wireless interface is treated as WAN port, and the Ethernet ports are LAN ports.

  • Page 28: Internet Settings

    .4.3.3 Internet Settings 4.3.3.1 LAN Item Description Take NIC MAC address of PC on LAN side as the MAC address of WAN MAC Clone interface. IP Address Fill in the IP address for WAN interface. Subnet Mask Fill in the subnet mask for WAN interface. DHCP Type Disable: Disable DHCP server on LAN side.
  • Page 29 IGMP Proxy Select enable or disable the IGMP proxy function from pull-down menu. UPNP Select enable or disable the UPnP protocol from pull-down menu. DNS Proxy Select enable or disable the DNS Proxy function from pull-down menu.

  • Page 30: Vpn Passthrough

    4.3.3.3 VPN Passthrough Item Description L2TP Passthrough Select enable or disable the L2TP pass-through function from pull-down menu. IPSec Passthrough Select enable or disable the IPSec pass-through function from pull-down menu. PPTP Passthrough Select enable or disable the PPTP pass-through function from pull-down menu.

  • Page 31: Wireless Settings

    4.3.4 Wireless Settings 4.3.4.1 Basic Item Description Click Wireless OFF button to turn off wireless RF radio. Click Wireless ON Wireless On/Off button to turn on wireless RF radio. Select Internal antenna or External antenna for using. The default is using Antenna Switch Internal antenna.
  • Page 32 Wireless network is similar to the virtual local area network. All of the Wireless client devices can access each other completely. When you enable this function, AP Isolation it will turn off connection between wireless clients. Only allows connection between wireless client and this AP router. Enable this function will turn off connection between clients with different MBSSID AP MBSSID.

  • Page 33: Security

    4.3.4.2 Security a. Disable f you set Security Mode to “Disable”, the wireless data transmission will not include encryption to prevent from unauthorized access and monitoring. b. OPEN-WEP // SHARED-WEP...
  • Page 34 If you set Security Mode to “OPEN-WEP or SHARED-WEP`”, please fill in the related configurations at below. Item Description Default Key Specify a Key number for effective. WEP Keys (1~4) When you select WEPAUTO, please input 5, 13 (ASCII), 10 or 26 (HEX) characters for WEP Key.
  • Page 35 c. WPA-PSK/WPA2PSK If you set Security Mode to “WPAPSK or WPA2-PSK”, please fill in the related configurations at below. Item Description WPA Algorithms Select TKIP, AES, or TKIPAES for WPA algorithms. Please fill in a passphrase like ‘test wpa 123’, or a hexadecimal string like Pass Phrase '65E4 E123 456 E1'.
  • Page 36 d. WPA-RADIUS Item Description WPA Algorithms Select TKIP or AES for WPA algorithms. Key Renewal Please fill in a number for Group Key Renewal interval time. Interval Enter the RADIUS Server’s IP Address provided by your ISP. IP Address Enter the RADIUS Server’s port number provided by your ISP. (The Default is Port 1812.) Shared Secret...
  • Page 37 e.802.1X Item Description Select Disable or Enable For WEP Enter the RADIUS Server’s IP Address provided by your ISP. IP Address Enter the RADIUS Server’s port number provided by your ISP. (The Default is Port 1812.) Shared Secret Enter the password that the Wireless Router shares with the RADIUS Server. Session Timeout Session timeout interval is for 802.1x re-authentication setting.
  • Page 38 f. Access Policy Item Description Policy Select the Disabled, Allow or Reject of drop down menu choose wireless access control mode. This is a security control function; only those clients registered in the access control list can link to this WLAN Broadband Router. Add a station Fill in the MAC address of client to register this AP router access capability.

  • Page 39: Wps

    4.3.4.3 WPS Item Description Select Enable or Disable the Wi-Fi Protected Setup function. Then click Apply button to take effect function after change. WPS Summary After enabling the WPS function, if there is connection the WPS Summary will show related information and status. Here shows the AP’s PIN code (Personal Identification Number) that the AP PIN enrollee should enter the registrar’s PIN code to make a connection.

  • Page 40: 5Administration

    4.3.5Administration 4.3.5.1 Management Item Description Username Fill in the user name for web management login control. Password Fill in the password for web management login control. Current Time It shows the current time. Time Zone Select the time zone in your country from pull-down menu.. NTP Server Fill in NTP server IP address.
  • Page 41 Item Description Dynamic DNS Click the drop down menu to pick up the right DDNS provider you registered. Provider Account Fill in the account of DDNS you registered. Password Fill in the password of DDNS you registered. DDNS Fill in the domain name that you registered.
  • Page 42 4.3.5.2 Qos Item Description Input uplink Maximum upload speed Uplink Speed Input downlink Maximum upload speed Downlink Speed Local IP Address Fill in the local IP address Fill limit upload bandwidth Uplink Bandwidth Downlink Fill limit bandwidth downlink Bandwidth...

  • Page 43: Upload Firmware

    4.3.5.3 Upload Firmware Item Description Location Click the Browse button to select the new firmware image file on PC. And click the Apply button to upgrade firmware.

  • Page 44: Settings Management

    4.3.5.4 Settings Management Item Description Export Button Click Export button to export the current configuration to your PC. Settings file Click Browse button to select the configuration file from your PC, then click location Import button to update the configuration. Load Default Click the Load Default button to reset the configuration parameter to factory Button...

  • Page 45: Status

    4.3.6.5 Status This page shows the current status and some basic settings of the device, includes system info, Internet Configurations and Local Network.

  • Page 46: System Log

    4.3.6.6 System Log This page is used to view system logs Item Description Refresh Click the Refresh button to refresh the log shown on the screen. Clear Click the Clear button to clear the log display screen.

  • Page 47: Configuration Examples

    4.4 Configuration Examples 4.4.1 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 WLAN Broadband Router implementation by the following configuration.
  • Page 48 1. Configure the Operation Mode Configuration Open “Operation Mode Configuration ” page, select Gateway. Press “Apply” button to confirm the configuration setting.
  • Page 49 2. Configure the WAN interface: Open “Wide Area Network (WAN) Settings” page, select PPPoE then enter the User Name “user123” and Password “password123”, the password is encrypted to display on the screen. Press “Apply” button to confirm the configuration setting.
  • Page 50 3. Configure the WLAN interface: Open “Basic Wireless Settings” page, enter the SSID ”Edimax”, Channel Number ”AutoSelect”. Press “Apply” button to confirm the configuration setting.
  • Page 51 4. Configure the LAN interface: Open “Local Area Network (LAN) settings” page, enter the IP Address “192.168.2.1”, Subnet Mask “255.255.255.0”. Enable DHCP Server, DHCP client range “192.168.2.100” to “192.168.2.200”, default Gateway “192.168.2.1” . Press “Apply” button to confirm the configuration setting...

  • Page 52: Example Two - Fixed Ip On The Wan

    WAN configuration : Fixed IP IP Address 10.10.10.10 Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway 10.10.10.1 Primary DNS Address 168.95.1.1 LAN configuration: IP Address 192.168.2.1 Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.2.100 – 192.168.2.200 DHCP Client Range WLAN configuration: SSID Edimax Channel Number AutoSelect...
  • Page 53 1. Configure the WAN interface: Open “Wide Area Network (WAN) Settings” page, select STATIC(fixed IP) then enter IP Address “10.10.10.10”, subnet mask “255.255.255.0”, Default gateway “10.10.10.1”. Press “Apply” button to confirm the configuration setting.
  • Page 54 2. Configure the LAN interface: Open “Local Area Network (LAN) settings” page, enter the IP Address “192.168.2.1”, Subnet Mask “255.255.255.0”. Enable DHCP Server, DHCP client range “192.168.2.100” to “192.168.2.200”, default Gateway “192.168.1.254” . Press “Apply” button to confirm the configuration setting...
  • Page 55 3. Configure the WLAN interface: Open “Basic Wireless Settings” page, enter the SSID ” Edimax”, Channel Number ”AutoSelect”. Press “Apply” button to confirm the configuration setting.
  • Page 56 IP Address Subnet Mask Default Gateway Primary DNS Address LAN configuration: IP Address 192.168.2.1 Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.2.100 –192.168.2.200 DHCP Client Range WLAN configuration: SSID Edimax Channel Number WISP configuration: SSID TestAP Channel Number Channel 6 Wireless Encryption DHCP server 192.168.11.100~192.168.11.200...
  • Page 57 1. Configure the Operation Mode: Open “Operation Mode Configuration” page, select WISP, then click “Apply” button to confirm the configuration setting and reboot the WLAN Broadband Router. After reboot, the wireless LAN will become to WAN interface.
  • Page 58 2. Site Survey: Open “Site Survey” page under Wireless Settings, and select the AP “TestAP”. Press “Next” button to connect with the AP.
  • Page 59 3. Wireless encryption setting: If the AP has encryption setting, it will pop out a window for you filling the encryption setting. Please fill up the encryption code and click “Apply” button to connect with the AP.
  • Page 60 4. Station Link Status: After connection with AP, you can open “Access Point Status” page under Administration to check Link Status.

  • Page 61: Frequently Asked Questions (Faq)

    5. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ) 5.1 What and how to find my PC’s IP and MAC address? 5.1 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 62: How Does Wireless Networking Work

    5.4 How does wireless networking work? The 802.11 standard define two modes: infrastructure mode and ad hoc mode. In infrastructure mode, the wireless network consists of at least one access point connected to the wired network infrastructure and a set of wireless end stations. This configuration is called a Basic Service Set (BSS). An Extended Service Set (ESS) is a set of two or more BSSs forming a single sub-network.

  • Page 63: What Is Bssid

    5.5 What is BSSID? A six-byte address is that distinguish a particular a particular access point from others. Also know as just SSID. Serve as a network ID or name. 5.6 What is ESSID? The Extended Service Set ID (ESSID) is the name of the network you want to access. It is used to identify different wireless networks.

  • Page 64: What Is Wep

    5.9 What is WEP? An option of IEEE 802.11 function is that offers frame transmission privacy similar to a wired network. The Wired Equivalent Privacy generates secret shared encryption keys that both source and destination stations can use to alert frame bits to avoid disclosure to eavesdroppers. WEP relies on a secret key that is shared between a mobile station (e.g.

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

    5.11 What is RTS (Request to Send) Threshold? The RTS threshold is the packet size at which packet transmission is governed by the RTS/CTS transaction. The IEEE 802.11-1997 standard allows for short packets to be transmitted without RTS/ CTS transactions. Each station can have a different RTS threshold. RTS/CTS is used when the data packet size exceeds the defined RTS threshold.

  • Page 66: What Is Ssid Broadcast

    5.14 What is SSID Broadcast? Broadcast of SSID is done in access points by the beacon. This announces your access point (including various bits of information about it) to the wireless world around it. By disabling that feature, the SSID configured in the client must match the SSID of the access point.

  • Page 67: What Is Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (Tkip)

    5.18 What is Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP)? The Temporal Key Integrity Protocol, pronounced tee-kip, is part of the IEEE 802.11i encryption standard for wireless LANs. TKIP is the next generation of WEP, the Wired Equivalency Protocol, which is used to secure 802.11 wireless LANs. TKIP provides per-packet key mixing, a message integrity check and a re-keying mechanism, thus fixing the flaws of WEP.

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

    5.23 What is Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) Size? Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) indicates the network stack of any packet is larger than this value will be fragmented before the transmission. During the PPP negotiation, the peer of the PPP connection will indicate its MRU and will be accepted.

  • Page 69: What Is Wlan Block Relay Between Clients

    5.29 What is WLAN Block Relay between Clients? An Infrastructure Basic Service Set is a BSS with a component called an Access Point (AP). The access point provides a local relay function for the BSS. All stations in the BSS communicate with the access point and no longer communicate directly.
  • Page 70 A GI is a period of time between symbol transmission that allows reflections (from multipath) from previous data transmission to settle before transmitting a new symbol. The 802.11n draft specifies two guard intervals: 400ns (short) and 800ns (long). Support of the 400ns GI is optional for transmit and receive.

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