Mega 100WR Manual

Mega 100WR Manual

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  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Ports and Buttons (See 3.2.2) ............10 Mega 100WR Overview..............11 3.2.1 Front Panel Indicators..............11 3.2.2 Back Panel ..................12 Chapter 4 - Setting Up the Telkom Mega 100WR............13 Logging into your Mega 100WR ...........13 4.1.1. First login..................14 4.1.2. Subsequent logins................17 Quick Start..................18 LAN / DHCP Configuration............19...
  • Page 3 Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual 4.5.9 SNTP ....................30 4.5.10 SNMP .....................31 4.5.11 IP QoS ....................32 4.5.12 IGMP Multicast ................33 4.5.13 Dynamic DNS Client..............34 4.5.14 DNS Proxy..................35 4.5.15 Port Forwarding................35 4.5.16 MAC Filtering (Bridge Filters) ............37 4.5.17 Access Control................37 4.5.18 Static Routing .................38 4.5.19 Dynamic Routing................40...
  • Page 4: List Of Ilustrations

    Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual List of Ilustrations Figure Page Figure 2-1 : Router System Configuration Diagram..............9 Figure 3-1 : Front Panel Indicators ..................11 Figure 3-2 : Back Panel Indicators..................12 Figure 4-1 : Login Screen ....................13 Figure 4-2 : Setup Page ......................14 Figure 4-3 : Internet Login Acount Setting ................14...
  • Page 5 Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Figure 4-23 : SNTP ......................31 Figure 4-24 : SNMP Management ..................32 Figure 4-25 : IP QoS ......................33 Figure 4-26 : IGMP Multicast....................34 Figure 4-27 : Dynamic DNS Client..................34 Figure 4-28 : DNS Proxy .....................35 Figure 4-29 : Port Forwarding....................36...
  • Page 6 Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Figure 4-51 : Remote Log Settings ..................51 Figure 4-52 : Network Statistics...................52 Figure 4-53 : DHCP Clients ....................52 Figure 4-54 : Modem Status....................53 Figure 4-55 : Product Information ..................53 Figure 4-56 : Help Screen ....................54...
  • Page 7: Declaration Of Conformity

    Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Declaration Of Conformity Marking equipment with the above symbol indicates compliance with the Essential Requirements of the R&TTE Directive of the European Union (1999/5/EC). This equipment meets the following conformance standards: EN300 328, EN301 489-17, EN60950 Radio Frequency Interference Warnings &...
  • Page 8 Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Safety Summary Messages WARNING HIGH VOLTAGE is used in the equipment. Make sure equipment is properly grounded BEFORE opening. Failure to observe safety precautions may result in electric shock to user. CAUTION Check voltages before connecting equipment to power supplies. Wrong voltages applied may result in damage to equipment.
  • Page 9: Chapter 1 - About This Manual

    This manual is designed and developed for the operators and users who are required to operate and perform first-level maintenance of the Mega 100WR Router. It assumes the reader of this manual has basic knowledge and experience in operating similar modem configuration and computer systems equipment.
  • Page 10: Chapter 2 - Router Description

    Just click on the game you are playing on-line and the rest is done for you. The Mega 100WR Router is fully compatible with all PCs: As long as the PC supports an Ethernet interface and is running a TCP/IP protocol stack, your PC can have high-speed WAN access.
  • Page 11: Chapter 3 - Your Router At A Glance

    Reset and Restore to Factory Defaults: The “restore to factory defaults” feature will set the Mega 100WR Router to its factory default configuration. You may need to return your router to its factory defaults if the configuration is changed and you lose the ability to interface with the router via the web interface, or following a software upgrade.
  • Page 12: Mega 100Wr Overview

    Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Mega 100WR Overview 3.2.1 Front Panel Indicators Figure 3-1 shows the front panel indicators of the Mega 100WR router. Figure 3-1 : Front Panel Indicators LED Name Status & Meaning 1. Power Lights up when power is supplied to the ADSL Router.
  • Page 13: Back Panel

    Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual 3.2.2 Back Panel Figure 3-2 shows the back panel indicators of the Mega 100WR router. Figure 3-2 : Back Panel Indicators Label Description 1. DSL Connects to your ADSL enabled telephone line. 2. USB Connects to your PC’s USB port, if required.
  • Page 14: Chapter 4 - Setting Up The Telkom Mega 100Wr

    Chapter 4 - Setting Up the Telkom Mega 100WR This section will guide you through your Mega 100WR router’s configuration. The Mega 100WR router is shipped with the PPP configuration that is required to connect to Telkom ISP’s network. NOTE: The quickest way to configure your Mega 100WR when using a running one of the Windows operating systems (OS), is described in the printed Quick Start Guide (for other OSs’, use the Easy Start Guide on...
  • Page 15: 4.1.1. First Login

    Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual 4.1.1. First Login Upon entering the default IP address (10.0.0.2), if the user is logging for the first time (and has not been setup using the setup utility), the user will be shown the “Setup” page as shown in Figure 4-2.
  • Page 16: Figure 4-4: Wireless Lan Configuration

    Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual • It’s a good idea to change your SSID – this is the name of your Wi-Fi port. Figure 4-4: Wireless LAN Configuration 15 of 54 Page...
  • Page 17: Figure 4-5 :System Password

    Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual • This setup process forces you to change the default Admin password for better security Figure 4-5 :System Password • You should print out the summery page and keep it for future reference Figure 4-6: Summery...
  • Page 18: 4.1.2. Subsequent Logins

    Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual • If you complete this process, and the router is unable to connect to the Internet, and you are unable to solve the problem, then it is a good idea perform a “Default Reset” on the router, and rather use the Setup Utility on the supplied CD to set your unit up.
  • Page 19: Quick Start

    Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Figure 4-8: Basic Home Quick Start If you wish to change your current configuration, click on the ‘Quick Start’ link. Figure 4-9 will appear. Your login information can be altered here is required. 18 of 54...
  • Page 20: Lan / Dhcp Configuration

    Figure 4-9 : Quick Start Page LAN / DHCP Configuration On one side of your Mega 100WR Router, are your Local Area Network (LAN) connections. This is where you plug in your local computers to the ADSL Router. The physical connection to the LAN side of your router is by means of the Wi-Fi, USB and Ethernet ports.
  • Page 21: Figure 4-10 : Lan / Dhcp Configuration

    Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Note: If you change the start or end values, make sure the values are still within the same subnet as the gateways IP address. In other words, if the gateways IP address is 10.0.0.2 (default) and you change the DHCP start/end IP addresses to be 192.128.1.2/192.128.1.100, you will not be...
  • Page 22: Diagnostic Test

    Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Diagnostic Test Figure 4-11 : Diagnostics Test Screen Diagnostic Test is used for investigating whether the ADSL Router is properly connected to the WAN Network. See Figure 4-11. This test may take a few seconds to complete. To perform the test, select your connection from the list and press the Test button.
  • Page 23: Ping Test

    WAN and the LAN sides are complete and you have the proper protocols configured, you should be able to surf the Internet. By default when you select ping test, the Mega 100WR will ping 3 times. The router shown in Figure 4-13 passes a Ping test; this basically means that the TCP/IP protocol is configured correctly.
  • Page 24: Figure 4-14: Modem Test

    Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Figure 4-14: Modem Test 23 of 54 Page...
  • Page 25: Advanced

    This WAN connection configuration is different for each ISP. Your Mega 100WR is set by default to connect to the Telkom ISP and should work as it is (once you have entered username and password information). Should you wish to use this router to connect to any other ISP, you may need to change the relevant configurational data.
  • Page 26: New Connection

    New Connection A new connection is a virtual connection. Under normal conditions, you will require only one virtual connection. Your Mega 100WR Router, can however, support up to 8 different (unique) virtual connections. If you have multiple different virtual connections, you may need to utilize the static and dynamic routing capabilities of the modem to pass data correctly.
  • Page 27: Quickstart

    Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Figure 4-17: ADSL Modulation (Modem Setup) 4.5.4 Quickstart PPPoE is also known as RFC 2516. It is a method of encapsulating PPP packets over Ethernet. PPP or Point-to-Point protocol is a method of establishing a network connection/session between network hosts.
  • Page 28: Lan Configuration

    4.5.5 LAN Configuration You can change the Mega 100WR Router’s IP address by clicking LAN, and then LAN Configuration. Select the options from LAN group 1 and click Configure. Your router’s default IP address and subnet mask are 10.0.0.2/255.255.255.0; this subnet mask will allow the ADSL Router to support 254 users.
  • Page 29: Lan Clients

    Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Figure 4-19: LAN Configuration 4.5.6 LAN Clients To add a LAN client, select LAN clients option under LAN. If DHCP was enabled in the configuration, all DHCP clients are automatically assigned with IP address. If a fixed IP address server is on the LAN and you want this server to be visible via the WAN, you must add its IP address.
  • Page 30: Ethernet Switch Configuration

    4.5.8 Application (UPnP) UPnP, NAT and Firewall Traversal allow traffic to pass-thru the Mega 100WR for applications using the UPnP protocol. This feature requires one active DSL connection. In presence of multiple DSL connections, select the one over, which the incoming traffic will be present, for example the default Internet connection.
  • Page 31: Sntp

    Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Figure 4-22 : UPnP 4.5.9 SNTP SNTP (Simple Network Timing Protocol) is a protocol used to synchronize the system time to the public SNTP servers. When the SNTP feature is enabled, your router will start querying for the time clock information from the primary SNTP server.
  • Page 32: Snmp

    Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual 9. Day Light - Check/uncheck this option to enable/disable day light saving. See Fig 4-23. Figure 4-23 : SNTP 4.5.10 SNMP SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a troubleshooting and management protocol, which uses the UDP protocol on port 161 to communicate between clients and servers.
  • Page 33: Ip Qos

    Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Figure 4-24: SNMP Management 4.5.11 IP QoS When QoS is enabled, the designated machine, application or person would have precedence over peers when competing for bandwidth. The IP QoS Setup page allows you to configure QoS for a connection, view previously configured QoS rules, add a new rule, or delete an existing rule.
  • Page 34: Igmp Multicast

    Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Figure 4-25 : IP QoS 4.5.12 IGMP Multicast Traditionally, IP packets are transmitted in one of either two ways - Unicast (1 sender to 1 recipient) or Broadcast (1 sender to everybody on the network). Multicast delivers IP packets to just a group of hosts on the network.
  • Page 35: Dynamic Dns Client

    Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Figure 4-26: IGMP Multicast 4.5.13 Dynamic DNS Client Dynamic DNS allows the user to register with a Dynamic DNS Provider as listed. The dynamic DNS will be linked with the WAN IP of the router even after the ISP updates the WAN IP to another IP address.
  • Page 36: Dns Proxy

    Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual 4.5.14 DNS Proxy This feature allows the user to select the (Domain Name Server) DNS Server priority as well as enter the IP addresses for Primary DNS and Secondary DNS. See Figure 4-28. Figure 4-28 : DNS Proxy 4.5.15...
  • Page 37: Figure 4-29 : Port Forwarding

    Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual For example, if you want to host a Netmeeting session, from the Home screen, click advanced select Application, select Port Forwarding. First select the IP address for your Netmeeting server. Next select the Audio/Video category and add Netmeeting to the applied rules box.
  • Page 38: Mac Filtering (Bridge Filters)

    Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual 4.5.16 MAC Filtering (Bridge Filters) The bridge filtering mechanism provides a way for the users to define rules to allow/deny frames through the bridge based on source MAC address, destination MAC address and/or frame type. When bridge filtering is enabled, each frame is examined against each defined filter rules sequentially.
  • Page 39: Static Routing

    4.5.18 Static Routing If the Mega 100WR router is connected to more than one network, you may need to set up a static route between them. A static route is a pre-defined pathway that network information must travel to reach a specific host or network. You can use static routing to allow different IP domain users to access the Internet through the Mega 100WR.
  • Page 40: Figure 4-32 : Static Routing

    , with a firewall or some other interconnecting device at 10.0.0.10, and wish to have both local networks access the internet through your Mega 100W, you would set as follows : new IP address = 192.168.1.0 mask = 255.255.255.0 and Gateway = 10.0.0.10 I.e.: if anybody on the 10.0.0.0 network is looking for any device on the 192.168.1.0...
  • Page 41: Dynamic Routing

    Direction determines the direction that RIP routes will be updated. Selecting In means that the Mega 100WR will only incorporate received RIP information. Selecting Out means that the Mega 100WR will only send out RIP information. Selecting Both means that the Mega 100WR will incorporate received RIP information and send out updated RIP information.
  • Page 42: System Password

    If you forget your password, you can press and hold the reset to factory defaults button for 10 seconds (or more). The Mega 100WR will reset to its factory default configuration and all custom configurations (including ADSL user name and password) will be lost.
  • Page 43: Firmware Upgrade

    Make sure this is the correct file. Click on Update Gateway. Once the upgrade is complete the Mega 100WR will reboot. You will need to log back onto the Mega 100WR after the firmware upgrade is completed. The firmware upgrade should take about 5 minutes to complete.
  • Page 44: Wireless

    Wi-Fi. If you do not intend to use the Wi-Fi section of your Mega 100WR, it is suggested that you disable the AP. See Figure 4-38.
  • Page 45: Wireless Security

    Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual 4.6.2 Wireless Security It is important for user to enforce security in a wireless LAN environment. This is to prevent unauthorized wireless users from accessing your router. If you configured your router using the setup utility, ‘WPA’ security is enabled by default. You have the option to change to the security settings of your choice See Figure 4-39.
  • Page 46: Figure 4-41 : Wireless Security

    802.11i that utilizes the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP), which fixes the problems of WEP, which includes using dynamic keys. It is more secure than WEP, and is the recommended form of security for your MEGA 100WR. See Figure 4-42 Figure 4-42 : Wireless Security...
  • Page 47: Wireless Management

    Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual 4.6.3 Wireless Management Wireless Management consists of Access List, Associated Stations and Multiple SSID. See Figure 4-43. 4.6.3.1 Access List This feature permits you to allow or ban any wireless client from accessing the wireless router.
  • Page 48: Security

    Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Security The security feature section allows users to configure the following: • IP Filters • LAN Isolation • URL Filters Figure 4-44 : Security 4.7.1 IP Filters IP filters is identical to “Port blocking” on the Access Control page. The router will block workstations within the defined IP range and port range.
  • Page 49: Lan Isolation

    Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual 4.7.2 LAN Isolation LAN isolation allows you to disable the flow of packets between up to three user-defined LAN groups. Your LAN group can consist of any combination of the following ports WLAN, USB, and Ethernet.
  • Page 50: Url Filters

    Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual 4.7.3 URL Filters This feature allows the router to block access to certain websites by examining its URL (a text string describing a unique location on the Internet). If the URL contains a blocked keyword, then access to that website will be denied.
  • Page 51: Connection Status

    Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Figure 4-48: Status 4.8.1 Connection Status Connection Status will display all the relevant information regarding your Internet Connection. It will display the type of protocol used, the WAN IP address, the connection state and the duration connected. See Figure 4-49.
  • Page 52: System Log

    Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual 4.8.2 System Log The Mega 100WR keeps a log of various events (See Figure 4-50). You can configure the router to generate log reports to a remote host. Figure 4-50: System Log 4.8.3 Remote Log Settings This feature is for users to enable remote logging.
  • Page 53: Network Statistics

    Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual 4.8.4 Network Statistics Information regarding the Status and Statistics of your Ethernet, USB, DSL and Wireless line will be displayed, depending on which of the buttons shown in Figure 4-52 you have selected. Figure 4-52: Network Statistics 4.8.5...
  • Page 54: Modem Status

    4.8.7 Product Information This screen will show a summary of all the product information of the Mega 100 WR. , as well as the Software version of the firmware that is loaded on your Mega 100WR. This is shown in Figure 4-55...
  • Page 55: Help

    Mega 100WR ADSL2+ Router - Manual Help The Help screen takes you to the different Help Sections for Firewall, Bridge Filters, LAN Clients, LAN Group Configurations, PPP Connection, UPnP, IP QoS and RIP Help. Figure 4-56 : Help Screen 54 of 54...

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