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Cable/DSL Router
Shares high-speed Internet access
Built-in 4-port switch and firewall
For Home and Small Office

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  • Page 1: User Guide

    User Guide Cable/DSL Router Shares high-speed Internet access Built-in 4-port switch and firewall For Home and Small Office...
  • Page 2 FCC STATEMENT This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Package contents......................1 Chapter 1: About this Guide ................... 2 1.1 Purposes ......................2 1.2 Conventions ...................... 2 1.3 Overview of this User Guide................2 Chapter 2: Introduction ....................3 2.1 Overview of the Router..................3 2.2 Features ......................3 2.3 Panel Layout .....................
  • Page 4 5.9.1 Firmware ....................34 5.9.2 Factory Defaults ..................35 5.9.3 Reboot....................35 5.9.4 Password ....................36 5.9.5 Log ......................36 Appendix A: FAQ ......................38 Appendix B: Configuring the PCs ................. 42 Appendix C: Specifications ................... 47 Appendix D: Glossary....................48...

  • Page 5: Package Contents

    One Resource CD for Cable/DSL Router, including: • This Guide • Other Helpful Information Note: If any of the listed contents are damaged or missing, please contact the retailer from whom you purchased the Cable/DSL Router for assistance. - 1 -...

  • Page 6: Chapter 1: About This Guide

    Cable/DSL Router User Guide Chapter 1: About this Guide Thank you for choosing the Cable/DSL Router. This router provides dedicated solutions for Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) networks. With your network all connected, your local network can share Internet access, files and fun for multiple PCs through one ISP account.

  • Page 7: Chapter 2: Introduction

    Chapter 2: Introduction 2.1 Overview of the Router The Cable/DSL Router integrates a 4-port switch, firewall, and NAT-router. Its design is dedicated to Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) network solutions. The Cable/DSL Router will allow you to connect your network better than ever, sharing Internet Access, files and fun, easily and securely.

  • Page 8: The Rear Panel

    WAN RJ45 port for connecting the router to a cable, DSL modem or Ethernet Four LAN 10/100Mbps RJ45 ports for connecting the router to the local PCs AC power socket: only use the power adapter supplied with the Cable/DSL Router, use of a different adapter may result in product damage.

  • Page 9: Chapter 3: Connecting The Router

    Cable/DSL Router User Guide Chapter 3: Connecting the Router 3.1 System Requirements Broadband Internet Access Service (DSL/Cable/Ethernet) One DSL/Cable modem that has an RJ45 connector (It’s not necessary if you connect the router to Ethernet) Each PC on the LAN needs a working Ethernet Adapter and an Ethernet cable with...
  • Page 10 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 3-1 Hardware Installation of the Cable/DSL Router - 6 -...

  • Page 11: Chapter 4: Quick Installation Guide

    4.1 TCP/IP configuration The default IP address of the Cable/DSL Router is 192.168.1.1, and the default Subnet Mask is 255.255.255.0. These values can be seen from the LAN, and can be changed as your desire.

  • Page 12: Quick Installation Guide

    Cable/DSL Router User Guide your PC and the router has been established. Figure 4-2 Failed result of Ping command If the result displayed is similar to what shown in figure 4-2, it means that your PC has not connected to the router. If so, refer to the following steps for a solution.
  • Page 13 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-4 Login Windows Note: If the above screen does not prompt, it means that your web-browser has been set to a proxy. Go to Tools menu>Internet Options>Connections>LAN Settings, in the screen that appears, cancel the Using Proxy checkbox, and click OK to finish it.
  • Page 14 Cable/DSL Router User Guide If you choose "PPPoE", you will see this page shown in figure 4-7: Figure 4-7 Quick Setup - PPPoE User Name and Password - Enter the User Name and Password provided by your ISP. These fields are case sensitive. If you have difficulty with this process, please contact your ISP.
  • Page 15 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 4-9 Quick Setup - Finish After finishing all configurations of basic network parameters, please click Finish button to exit this Quick Setup. - 11 -...

  • Page 16: Chapter 5: Configuring The Router

    Cable/DSL Router User Guide Chapter 5: Configuring the Router This chapter describes each web page's key functions. 5.1 login After your successful login, you can configure and manage the router. There are nine main menus on the left of the web-based utility. Submenus will be available after you click one of the main menus.

  • Page 17: Quick Setup

    Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 5-1 Router Status 5.3 Quick Setup Please refer to Section 4.2: "Quick Installation Guide." 5.4 Network Figure 5-2 the Network menu There are three submenus under the Network menu (shown in figure 5-2): LAN, WAN and MAC Clone.

  • Page 18: Wan

    Cable/DSL Router User Guide MAC Address - The physical address of the router, as seen from the LAN. The value can't be changed. IP Address - Enter the IP address of your router in dotted-decimal notation (factory default: 192.168.1.1). Subnet Mask - An address code that determines the size of the network. Normally use 255.255.255.0 as the subnet mask.
  • Page 19 Cable/DSL Router User Guide This page displays the WAN IP parameters assigned dynamically by your ISP, including IP address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway, etc. Click the Renew button to renew the IP parameters from your ISP. Click the Release button to release the IP parameters.
  • Page 20 Cable/DSL Router User Guide MTU Size - The normal MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) value for most Ethernet networks is 1500 Bytes. For some ISPs you may need to modify the MTU. But this is rarely required, and should not be done unless you are sure it is necessary for your ISP connection.
  • Page 21 Cable/DSL Router User Guide that you wish to have the Internet connecting last unless a new link is requested. Caution: Sometimes the connection cannot be disconnected although you specify a time to Max Idle Time. This is because there may still be active applications in the background, which may cause fee accounted by your ISP.

  • Page 22: Mac Clone

    Cable/DSL Router User Guide 5.4.3 MAC Clone You can configure the MAC address of the WAN port on this page, figure 5-8: Figure 5-8 MAC Address Clone Some ISPs require that you register the MAC address of your adapter, which is connected to your cable, DSL modem or Ethernet during installation.

  • Page 23: Dhcp Clients List

    Cable/DSL Router User Guide which provides the TCP/IP configuration for all the PCs that are connected to the router on the LAN. The DHCP Server can be configured on the page (shown in figure 5-10): Figure 5-10 DHCP Settings DHCP Server - Enable or Disable the DHCP server. If you disable the Server, you must have another DHCP server within your network or else you must manually configure the computer.

  • Page 24: Address Reservation

    Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 5-11 DHCP Clients List Index - The index of the DHCP Client Client Name - The name of the DHCP client MAC Address - The MAC address of the DHCP client Assigned IP - The IP address that the router has allocated to the DHCP client.

  • Page 25: Forwarding

    Cable/DSL Router User Guide To Reserve IP addresses: Enter the MAC address (The format for the MAC address is XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX.) and IP address in dotted-decimal notation of the computer you wish to add. Click the Save button when finished. To modify A Reserved IP address: Select the reserved address entry as you desire, and modify it.
  • Page 26 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 5-14 Virtual Servers Service Port - The numbers of External Ports. You can type a service port or a range of service ports (the format is XXX – YYY, XXX is Start port, YYY is End port).

  • Page 27: Port Triggering

    Cable/DSL Router User Guide To delete a service entry: Clear the entry's all information except for the Protocol pull-down list. Click the Save button. To delete all service entries: 1. Click the Clear All button. 2. Click the Save button Note: If you set the virtual server of the service port as 80, you must set the web management port on Security –>...
  • Page 28 Cable/DSL Router User Guide responds to the outgoing request. A response using one of these ports will be forwarded to the PC that triggered this rule. You can input at most 5 groups of ports (or port section). Every group of ports must be apart with ",". For example, 2000-2038, 2050-2051, 2085, 3010-3030.

  • Page 29: Dmz

    Cable/DSL Router User Guide 5.6.3 DMZ The DMZ host feature allows one local host to be exposed to the Internet for a special-purpose service such as Internet gaming or videoconferencing. DMZ host forwards all the ports at the same time. Any PC whose port is being forwarded must have its DHCP client function disabled and should have a new static IP address assigned to it because its IP address may change when using the DHCP function.

  • Page 30: Security

    Cable/DSL Router User Guide Protocol - Which type of protocol is opened. • Internal Port - Internal port, which the router opened for local host. • IP Address - The UPnP device that is currently accessing the router. • Status - Either Enabled or Disabled, “Enabled” means that port is still active, •...

  • Page 31: Ip Address Filtering

    Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 5-19 Firewall Settings Enable Firewall - The general firewall switch is on or off. Enable IP Address Filtering - Set IP Address Filtering is enabled or disabled. There are two default filtering rules of IP Address Filtering, either Allow or Reny passing through the router.
  • Page 32 Cable/DSL Router User Guide To disable the IP Address Filtering feature, keep the default setting, Disabled. To set up an IP Address Filtering entry, click Enable Firewall and Enable IP Address Filtering on the Firewall page, and click the Add New… button. The page " Add or Modify an IP Address Filtering entry "...

  • Page 33: Domain Filtering

    Cable/DSL Router User Guide the ID number in the first box you want to move and another ID number in the second box you want to move to, and then click the Move button to change the entry’s order. Click the Next button to go to the next page and click the Previous button to return to the previous page.

  • Page 34: Mac Filtering

    Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 5-23 Add or Modify a Domain Filtering entry To add or modify a Domain Filtering entry, follow these instructions: Domain Name - Type the domain or key word as desired in the field. A blank in the...
  • Page 35 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 5-24 MAC Address Filtering Before setting up MAC Filtering entries, you must ensure that Enable Firewall and Enable MAC Filtering have been selected on the Firewall page. To Add a MAC Address filtering entry, click the Add New… button. The page " Add or Modify a MAC Address Filtering entry"...

  • Page 36: Remote Management

    Cable/DSL Router User Guide previous page. Fox example: If you want to block the PCs with MAC addresses 00-0A-EB-00-07-BE and 00-0A-EB-00-07-5F to access the Internet, first, enable the Firewall and MAC Address Filtering on the Firewall page, then, you should specify the Default MAC Address Filtering Rule "Deny these PCs with effective rules to access the Internet"...

  • Page 37: Ping

    Cable/DSL Router User Guide 5.7.6 Ping Figure 5-27 Ping from WAN Ignore Ping Packet from WAN Port - Enable or Disable ignore ping packet from WAN port. If enabled, the ping packet from the Internet can not access the router.

  • Page 38: System Tools

    Cable/DSL Router User Guide To modify an existing entry: Modify the entry’s Destination IP Address, Subnet Mask and Gateway. Click the Save button. To delete an existing entry: Select the entry as you desire and make all of its fields blank.

  • Page 39: Factory Defaults

    Cable/DSL Router User Guide To upgrade the router's firmware, follow these instructions: Download a more recent firmware upgrade file from the website Run a TFTP Server on a PC on your LAN, and take the file in the TFTP server’s path.

  • Page 40: Password

    Cable/DSL Router User Guide Click the Reboot button to reboot the router. Some settings of the router will take effect only after rebooting, which include: • Change LAN IP Address. (System will reboot automatically) • MAC Clone (system will reboot automatically) •...
  • Page 41 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure 5-34 System Log The router can keep logs of all traffic. You can query the logs to find what happened to the router. Click the Refresh button to refresh the logs. Click the Clear Log button to clear all the logs.

  • Page 42: Appendix A: Faq

    Cable/DSL Router User Guide Appendix A: FAQ How do I configure the router to access Internet by ADSL users? First, configure the ADSL modem configured in RFC1483 bridge model. Connect the Ethernet cable from your ADSL modem to the WAN port on the router.
  • Page 43 Cable/DSL Router User Guide your browser, and then click "MAC Clone" submenu link. On the "MAC Clone" page, if your PC’s MAC address is a proper MAC address, click the "Clone MAC Address" button and your PC’s MAC address will fill in the "WAN MAC Address"...
  • Page 44 Cable/DSL Router User Guide “Enable” radio and type your IP address into the “DMZ Host IP Address” field, using 192.168.1.169 as an example, remember to click the "Save” button. Figure A-5 DMZ I want to build a WEB Server on the LAN, what should I do?
  • Page 45 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure A-7 Virtual Server - 41 -...

  • Page 46: Appendix B: Configuring The Pcs

    Cable/DSL Router User Guide Appendix B: Configuring the PCs In this section, we’ll introduce how to install and configure the TCP/IP correctly in Windows 95/98. First make sure your Ethernet Adapter is working, refer to the adapter’s manual if needed.
  • Page 47 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure B-3 Configuration tab Click on Properties. The following TCP/IP Properties window will display and the IP Address tab is open on this window by default. Now you have two ways to configure the TCP/IP protocol below: •...
  • Page 48 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure B-5 Gateway tab Chose Disable DNS on the DNS configuration tab, as shown in the following figure: Figure B-6 DNS Configuration tab • Setting IP address manually Select Specify an IP address on IP Address tab, as shown in the following figure.
  • Page 49 Cable/DSL Router User Guide Figure B-7 IP Address tab Type the router’s LAN IP address (the default IP is 192.168.1.1) into the New gateway field on the Gateway tab, and click on the Add button, as shown in the figure:...
  • Page 50 Cable/DSL Router User Guide click Add button. Shown below: Figure B-9 DNS Configuration tab Now, all the configurations are finished, it will take effect after reboot. - 46 -...

  • Page 51: Appendix C: Specifications

    Cable/DSL Router User Guide Appendix C: Specifications General Standards IEEE 802.3, 802.3u Protocols TCP/IP, PPPoE, DHCP, ICMP, NAT Ports One 10/100M Auto-Negotiation WAN RJ45 port. Four 10/100M Auto-Negotiation LAN RJ45 ports supporting Auto MDI/MDIX Cabling Type 10BASE-T: UTP category 3, 4, 5 cable (maximum 100m) EIA/TIA-568 100Ω...

  • Page 52: Appendix D: Glossary

    Cable/DSL Router User Guide Appendix D: Glossary DDNS (Dynamic Domain Name System) - The capability of assigning a fixed host and domain name to a dynamic Internet IP address. DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) - A protocol that automatically configure the TCP/IP parameters for the all the PCs that are connected to a DHCP server.

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