Sapido BRC76n User Manual

Sapido BRC76n User Manual

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300M Value Cloud Wireless Router
BRC76n
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  • Page 1 Wireless Router 300M Value Cloud Wireless Router BRC76n Networking User Manual v1.0.0...
  • Page 2: Fcc Caution

    FCC Caution FCC Part 15.19 Caution: 1. This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation 2.
  • Page 3: Ce Statement Of Conformity

    CE Statement of Conformity Our product has been tested in typical configuration by Ecom Sertech Corp and was found to comply with the essential requirement of “Council Directive on the Approximation of the Laws of the Member States relating to Electromagnetic Compatibility” (89/336/EEC; 92/31/EEC;...
  • Page 4 Chapter 1 Introduction...
  • Page 5: Product Appearance

    Product Appearance LED Indicator Status Description: Function Color Status Description Power x 1 Power indicator Green Power is being applied to this product Wireless x 1 Wireless activity Green Wireless is connected Blinking Wireless Tx/Rx activity 30ms Blinking Reset is in progress 120ms WPS x 1 WPS status...
  • Page 6: Chapter 2 System And Network Setup

    To begin with BRC76N , you must have the following minimum system requirements. If your system can’t correspond to the following requirements, you might get some unknown troubles on your system.
  • Page 7: Network Setup

    Network setup After the network connection is built, the next step is setup the router with proper network parameters, so it can work properly in your network environment. Before you connect to the wireless router and start configuration procedures, your computer must be able to get an IP address from the wireless router automatically (use dynamic IP address).
  • Page 8: Windows Xp

    2.3.2 Windows XP Click “Start” button (it should be located at lower-left corner of your computer), then click control panel. Double-click Network and Internet Connections icon, click Network Connections, then double-click Local Area Connection, Local Area Connection Status window will appear, and then click “Properties”. Select “Obtain an IP address automatically”...
  • Page 9: Windows Vista / Windows 7

    2.3.3 Windows Vista / Windows 7 Click “Start” button (it should be located at lower-left corner of your computer), then click control panel. Click View Network Status and Tasks, and then click Manage Network Connections. Right-click Local Area Network, then select “Properties”. Local Area Connection Properties window will appear, select “Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP / IPv4)”, and then click “Properties”.
  • Page 10: Router Ip Address Lookup

    Router IP Address Lookup After the IP address setup was completed, please clicks “start” → “run” at the bottom-lower corner of your desktop: Input “cmd”, and then click “OK”.
  • Page 11: Log Into Web Gui

    IP address of the wireless router in address bar, and the following message should be shown. Please click “admin” to login the BRC76N . Enter the User name and Password in to the blank and then Click Login. The default values...
  • Page 12: Chapter 3 Internet Connection

    Users can set or change user name and password used for accessing the web management interface in this section. Input User Name and New Password, then input Confirm Password again. Chapter 3 Internet Connection This Chapter describes how to setup BRC76N to the internet. The BRC76N is delivered with the following factory default parameters.
  • Page 13: Using As A Broadband Router

    Default IP address: 192.168.1.1 Default IP subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 Web login user name: admin Web login password: admin Using as a broadband router http://192.168.1.1 Open a Web browser, and enter (Default Gateway) into the blank. Enter the User name and Password into the blank and then click Login. The default values for User Name and Password are admin (all in lowercase letters).
  • Page 14 Logout Home button menu Click Home button icon to enter MENU as below.
  • Page 15 Office Control Control、IP Filtering、IP Binding and QoS Firmware Upgrade This function allows you upgrade the BRC76N firmware to new version. Please note do not power off the device during the upload because it may crash the system. Denial of Service...
  • Page 16 VPN Server PPTP/L2TP general setup introduction. NAT Management There are port forwarding and DMZ function Remote management This page allow you to access the GUI on WAN. Advance Setup Advance setting menu Time Zone You can maintain the system time by synchronizing with a public time server over the Internet.
  • Page 17: Internet Setup

    Click Internet Setup icon to enter WAN setup as below. The Internet Setup is depended on the service that you contract with the provider. The BRC76N provides five selections for the Internet Mode type, PPPoE, DHCP, Static IP , PPTP and L2TP and WiFi ISP.
  • Page 18 3.3.1 PPPoE Item Description User Name Input your user name provided by your ISP. If you don’t know, please check with your ISP. Password Input the password provided by your ISP. Wireless AP Turn on/off wireless SSID Service Set identifier, users can define to any or keep as default. Encryption Select wireless encryption type form the drop-down list.
  • Page 19 Item Description MAC type Select "Universal” or “Specific" Universal:clone controller PC mac address as BRC76n WAN mac address Specific:use BRC76n itself mac address Wireless AP Turn on/off wireless SSID Service Set identifier, users can define to any or keep as default.
  • Page 20 3.3.3 Static IP Item Description IP Address Enter the IP address which is provided by your ISP. Subnet Mask Please enter the Subnet Mask address Gateway Input ISP Default Gateway Address. Input DNS information which is provided by your ISP Wireless AP Turn on/off wireless SSID...
  • Page 21 Item Description Address Mode Select "Dynamic" or "Static" IP Address Input your IP address or domain name Gateway Input ISP Default Gateway Address. Server IP Address Input your server IP address provided by your ISP. If you don’t know, please check with your ISP. User Name Input PPTP account provided by your ISP.
  • Page 22 dictionar Wireless AP Turn on/off wireless SSID Service Set identifier, users can define to any or keep as default. Encryption Select wireless encryption type form the drop-down list. 3.3.5 L2TP Item Description Address Mode Select "Dynamic" or "Static" IP Address Input your IP address or domain name Gateway Input ISP Default Gateway Address.
  • Page 23 Service Set identifier, users can define to any or keep as default. Encryption Select wireless encryption type form the drop-down list. 3.3.6 WiFi ISP BRC76n WAN get IP address from other wireless AP and LAN/Wireless LAN client get IP from BRC76n. Item Description Survey...
  • Page 24 If a router is already set at the house, and you want to make the wireless LAN communication. This mode does not support WAN、 DHCP、 NAT、 DDNS、 QoS、 Firewall、 Static/Dynamic route、 VPN Server features. Item Description Wireless AP Turn on/off wireless SSID Service Set identifier, users can define to any or keep as default.
  • Page 26: Chapter 4 Gui Function Setup

    Chapter 4 GUI Function Setup Status You could check WAN, LAN, Client network in status. WAN Configuration...
  • Page 27 LAN Configuration...
  • Page 28: Parental Control

    Client Configuration Allow or block client to access internet Parental Control Control Parental provide URL Filtering and MAC Filter Schedule for setup 4.2.1 URL Filtering URL Filtering is used to restrict users to access specific websites in internet...
  • Page 29: Mac Filter Schedule

    Item Description Enable URL Filtering Please select Enable MAC Filtering to filter MAC addresses URL Address Please enter the MAC address that needs to be filtered. Apply Click on Apply to save the setting data. Current Filter Table It will display all ports that are filtering now. Delete Selected &...
  • Page 30 Item Description Enable MAC Filtering Please select Enable MAC Filtering to filter MAC addresses.
  • Page 31: Wireless Schedule

    4.2.3 Wireless Schedule Wireless available schedule, this page allows you setup the wireless schedule rule. Please do not forget to configure systeim before enable this feature Office Control Office control provide Multiple AP、Wireless Access Control、IP Filtering、IP Binding、QoS...
  • Page 32 4.3.1 Multiple AP The BRC76n can register up to 4 SSIDs (wireless LAN group). It can be used as if there are multiple wireless LAN access points with one product. Item Description Enable Enable or disable the service. SSID Enter the SSID Data Rate Select the data transmission rate.
  • Page 33: Wireless Access Control

    4.3.2 Wireless Access Control Access Control allows user to block or allow wireless clients to access this router. Users can select the access control mode, then add a new MAC address with a simple comment and click on “Apply Change” to save the new addition. To delete a MAC address, select its corresponding checkbox under the Select column and click on “Delete Selected”...
  • Page 34 Current Filter Table It will display all ports that are filtering now. Delete Selected & Delete Click Delete Selected will delete the selected item. Click Delete All will delete all items in this table. 4.3.4 IP Binding This function allows you reserve IP addresses, and assign the same IP address to the network device with the specified MAC address any time it requests an IP address.
  • Page 35 etc. Item Description Enable QoS Check “Enable QoS” to enable QoS function for the WAN port. You also can uncheck “Enable QoS” to disable QoS function for the WAN port. Manual Uplink Speed Set the uplink speed by manual to assign the download or upload bandwidth by the unit of Kbps.
  • Page 36: Firmware Upgrade

    Firmware Upgrade This function can upgrade the firmware of the router. There are two methods for user upgrade firmware: Auto upgrade and Manual upgrade. Caution: To prevent that firmware upgrading is interrupted by other wireless signals and causes failure. We recommend users to use wired connection during upgrading. Note: The firmware upgrade will not remove your previous settings.
  • Page 37 It provide 2 kind of Denial of Service: Home and Enterprise Home:  Item Description Home Home Check “ ” to enable DoS function for prevention. You also can No Prevention check “ ” to disable DoS function.  Enterprise:...
  • Page 38 Item Description Enterprise Enterprise Check “ ” to enable DoS function for prevention. You also No Prevention can check “ ” to disable DoS function. VPN Server The VPN Server function providing PPTP/L2TP mode are designed to allow users to an external network device / computer and office local area network to establish a secure network connection.
  • Page 39 encryption. Item Description Check this option, will start the VPN Server feature. Enable Setting Provide PPTP or L2TP access connection type. Connection Type Input the IP address of VPN server VPN Server IP It is the IP range of assigned to the VPN Client Remote IP range It is provided three types of authentication protocol Authentication Protocol...
  • Page 40: Nat Management

    NAT Management This section contains configurations for the BRC76N ’s advanced functions such as: virtual server, and DMZ to provide your network under a security environment. 4.7.1 Virtual Server The Virtual Server feature allows users to create Virtual Servers by re-directing a particular range of service port numbers (from the WAN port) to a particular LAN IP address.
  • Page 41 Public Port Range Enter the port number, for example 80-80. Private Port Range Enter the port number, for example 20-22. Current Port Forwarding It will display all port forwarding regulation you made. Table Delete Selected & Delete Click Delete Selected will delete the selected item. Click Delete All will delete all items in this table.
  • Page 42: Remote Management

    Item Description Enable DMZ It will enable the DMZ service if you select it. DMZ Host IP Address Please enter the specific IP address for DMZ host. Remote Management This page allows you to access the GUI on WAN. Item Description HTTP Connection Port Users can access GUI by this port,default is 80...
  • Page 43: Factory Default

    Item Description Time Zone Select Please select the time zone. 4.10 Factory Default You could reset the current configuration to factory default. 4.11 Reboot This function is used to reboot...
  • Page 44 4.12 Logout This page is used to logout...
  • Page 45: Chapter 5 Advance Setup

    Chapter 5 Advance Setup Internet Mode 5.1.1 Internet Setup Please refer Internet Setup 5.1.2 Please refer 5.1.3 WiFi AP Please refer WiFi AP 5.1.4 WiFi ISP Please refer WiFi ISP IP Config 5.2.1 5.2.1.1 PPPoE...
  • Page 46 Item Description User Name Input your user name provided by your ISP. If you don’t know, please check with your ISP. Password Input the password provided by your ISP. Service Name Input the service name provided by your ISP. Connection Type Three types for select: Continues, Connect on Demand, and Manual.
  • Page 47 the MAC address registered to the provider to "Clone MAC Address" Save & Apply Click on Save to save the setting date, the Apply button for execute current configuration. 5.2.1.2 DHCP Item Description Host Name You can keep the default as the host name, or input a specific name if required by your ISP.
  • Page 48 5.2.1.3 Static IP Item Description IP Address Enter the IP address which is provided by your ISP. Subnet Mask Please enter the Subnet Mask address Gateway Input ISP Default Gateway Address, . MTU Size Maximum Transmission Unit. Usually provide by computer operation systems (OS).
  • Page 49 Item Description Server IP Address Input your server IP address provided by your ISP. If you don’t know, please check with your ISP. User Name Input PPTP account provided by your ISP. Password Input the password provided by your ISP. MTU Size Maximum Transmission Unit.
  • Page 50 dictionar Select Attain DNS Automatically. Or select Set DNS Manually, if you want to specify the DNS, and enter the DNS provided by your ISP in DNS 1 2 3. Clone Mac Address Some ISPs require MAC address registration. In this case, enter the MAC address registered to the provider to "Clone MAC Address"...
  • Page 51 MTU Size Maximum Transmission Unit. Usually provide by computer operation systems (OS). Advanced users can set it manually. Select Attain DNS Automatically. Or select Set DNS Manually, if you want to specify the DNS, and enter the DNS provided by your ISP in DNS 1 2 3.
  • Page 52 Gateway Input ISP Default Gateway Address. If you don’t know, please check with your ISP. DHCP Enable or disable DHCP services. The DHCP server will automatically allocate an unused IP address from the IP address pool to the requesting computer if enabled. DHCP Client Range Define the DHCP client range and then the DHCP server will assign an IP to the requesting computer from this range.
  • Page 53: Ipv6 Config

    WAN is changed, and the information will be updated to DDNS service provider automatically. Service Provider Choose correct Service Provider from drop-down list, here including DynDNS, TZO, ChangeIP, Eurodns, OVH, NO-IP, ODS, Regfish BRC76N embedded in User Name/Email User name is used as an identity to login Dynamic-DNS service. Password/Key Password is applied to login Dynamic-DNS service.
  • Page 54 Item Description SLAAC、DHCPv6、IP。Please check ISP to get correct type Origin Type PPPoE、IP WAN Link Type PPPoE Use IPv4 PPPoE account and password to do IPv6 connect Child Prefix Address Check ISP to get this data Static IP Check ISP to get IP address and default gateway IP address Router Name Router domain DNSv6...
  • Page 55 Wireless 5.4.1 Basic Settings This page is used to configure the parameters for wireless LAN clients who may connect to your Access Point. Here you may change wireless encryption settings as well as wireless network parameters...
  • Page 56 Item Description Disable Wireless Turn off the wireless service. Band Select the frequency. It has 6 options: 2.4 GHz (B/G/N/B+G/G+N/B+G+N). Mode Select the mode. It has 3 modes to select: (AP, Client, WDS, AP+WDS). Multiple AP: Please check Section 4.1.2.1. * In Wi-Fi AP mode only support Client mode.
  • Page 57: Advanced Settings

    While linking the upper level device in wireless way, you can set SSID to give the bottom layer user search. BRC76n can register up to 4 SSIDs (wireless LAN group). It Multiple AP can be used as if there are multiple wireless LAN access points with one product.
  • Page 58 is 2346. RTS Threshold This value should remain at its default setting of 2347. The range is 0~2347. Should you encounter inconsistent data flow, only minor modifications are recommended. If a network packet is smaller than the present RTS threshold size, the RTS/CTS mechanism will not be enabled.
  • Page 59 Here users define the security type and level of the wireless network. Selecting different methods provides different levels of security. Please note that using any encryption may cause a significant degradation of data throughput on the wireless link. There are five Encryption types supported: “None”, “WEP”, “WPA”, ”WPA2”, and “WPA-Mixed”. Enabling WEP can protect your data from eavesdroppers.
  • Page 60: Access Control

    Access Point in a minute without any hassle. SAPIDO BRC76N could support both Self- PIN or PBC modes, or use the WPS button (at real panel) to easy enable the WPS function.
  • Page 61 Fill in the PIN number from the wireless card in Client PIN Number field, and then click “Start PIN”. (3). Click PIN from Adapter Utility to complete the WPS process with the wireless router. (4). Wireless dongle should connect to BRC76n Start PBC: (1). Press the BRC76n WPS button and wait for WPS LED blinking...
  • Page 62 (2). Press the dongle WPS button (3). Wireless dongle should connect to BRC76n 5.4.6 When selected in the Basic Settings page and enabled here, Wireless Distribution System (WDS) enables the router to be used as a wireless bridge. Two Wireless-N Routers in bridge mode can communicate with each other through their wireless interfaces.
  • Page 63 Please check the MAC address Enable WDS function from the page – “WDS Setting”, and then fill in the MAC address of Router_B. Click Apply Changes to save the setting data.
  • Page 64 Select encryption for security Router_B mac address The WDS AP List will show the WDS device MAC address. Router_B: Setup Router_B WDS.
  • Page 65 Select encryption for security Router_A mac address Router_B LAN PC will get IP address from Router_A. If you failed the WDS setting, please check you setting with refer to the list below. Router_A Router_B Wireless Mode AP+WDS LAN IP Address Set the same segment as the Set the same segment as the router B(Note 1)
  • Page 66 5.4.7 Schedule Please refer Wireless Schedule Please refer NAT Management VPN Server Please refer VPN server Firewall 5.7.1 Please refer 5.5.2 QoS...
  • Page 67 Item Description Enable QoS Check “Enable QoS” to enable QoS function for the WAN port. You also can uncheck “Enable QoS” to disable QoS function for the WAN port. Automatic uplink speed Check the Automatic uplink speed. Manual Uplink speed Input uplink bandwidth manually Automatic downlink Check the Automatic downlink speed.
  • Page 68: Port Filtering

    Mode Select Guaranteed minimum bandwidth or Restricted maximum bandwidth Uplink Bandwidth Key in the bandwidth. Downlink Bandwidth Key in the bandwidth. 5.5.3 Port Filtering When enabled packets are denied access to Internet/filtered based on their port address. Item Description Enable Port Filtering Select Enable Port Filtering to filter ports.
  • Page 69 IP: 192.168.1.x Port: 80-80 5.5.4 IP Filtering Please refer IP Filtering 5.5.5 Mac Filter Schedule Please refer Mac Filter Schedule 5.5.6 URL Filtering Please refer URL Filtering 5.5.7 IP Binding Please refer IP Binding 5.5.8 VLAN...
  • Page 70: Forwarding Rule

    Item Description Forwarding Rule Bridge or NAT mode Add VLAN tag to packet Set VLAN ID(1~4096) Priority It indicates the frame priority level. Values are from 0 (best effort) to 7 (highest); 1 represents the lowest priority Enable or Disable CIF 5.6 System This section including Wake on LAN, Change Username/Password, Upgrade Firmware, Profiles Save, Remote Management, Time Zone, UPnP, Route Setup, VPN...
  • Page 71: Change User Name/Password

    Switch your computer ON through your LAN or the Internet . To support WOL you must have a computer with Motherboard that supports WOL, as well as a Network Controller (NIC) supporting this function. Most of the newer Motherboard (circa 2002 and On), have an On Board NIC that supports WOL.
  • Page 72 Save Configuration (1). Click Save (2). Please click “Save” to save the configuration to your computer. (3). Select the location which you want to save file, then click Save. Load configuration file (1). Tap “browse” and select configuration file then click Open...
  • Page 73 (2). Click Upload to upload configuration file to BRC76N . (3). After 60 seconds, BRC76N will reboot automatically. 5.6.7 Remote Management Please refer Remote Management 5.6.8 Time Zone Users can synchronize the local clock on the router to an available NTP server (optional).
  • Page 74 (data sharing, communications, and entertainment) and in corporate environments for simplified installation of computer components. BRC76N supports UPnP function, and can cooperate with other UPnP devices. When you activate UPnP, please click My Network Places. Users will see an Internet...
  • Page 75: Route Setup

    If you do not wish to use UPnP, you can disable it. 5.6.10 Route Setup Dynamic routing is a distance-vector routing protocol, which employs the hop count as a routing metric. RIP prevents routing loops by implementing a limit on the number of hops allowed in a path from the source to a destination.
  • Page 76: Vpn Passthough

    Disable:do not receive any RIP packet Only receive RIP1 packet Only receive RIP2 packet Item Description Enable Static Route Enable or Disable dynamic route IP Address Destination IP address Subnet Mask Destination IP subnet mask Gateway Gateway IP address for destination Metric Metric number on router’s routing table Interface...
  • Page 77 L2TP Pass-through To allow the L2TP network traffic to be forwarded to its destination without the network address translation tasks. IPV6 Pass-through Allow IPV6 packet to be forwarded to its destination without the network address translation tasks. 5.6.12 Wan Type Auto Detection...
  • Page 78: Installation

    A: The default IP address is 192.168.1.1 with subnet mask 255.255.255.0 Q: I don't know my WAN IP. A: There are two ways to know. Way 1: Check with your Internet Service Provider. Way 2: Check the setting screen of BRC76N . Click on Status & Log item to...
  • Page 79 A: Yes, the Router mode allows for customization of your public IPs and Domain. 6.8 OS Setting Why can’t my computer work online after connecting to BRC76N ? A: It’s possible that your Internet protocol (TCP/IP) was set to use the following IP address.
  • Page 80 Q: Why does BRC76N ’s setup page shut down unexpectedly? A: If one of the pages appears incompletely in BRC76N ’s setup pages, please click on Logout item on the Main Menu before shutting it down. Don’t keep it working. Then, close Internet browser and open it again for going back to the previous page.
  • Page 81 Q: BRC76N couldn’t save the setting after click on Apply button? A: BRC76N will start to run after the setting finished applying, but the setting isn’t written into memory. Here we suggest if you want to make sure the setting would be written into memory, please reboot the device via Reboot under System Management directory.
  • Page 82 A: Check the following:  Your PC is set to Infrastructure Mode. (Access Points are always in Infrastructure Mode.)  The SSID on your PC and the Wireless Access Point are the same. Remember that the SSID is case-sensitive. So, for example “Workgroup” does NOT match “workgroup”.
  • Page 83 A: The default WEP of WinXP is Authentication Open System - WEP, but the WEP of SAPIDO BRC76N is only for Shared Key - WEP, it caused both sides couldn’t communicate. Please select the WEP of WinXP from Authentication Open System to Pre-shared Key - WEP, and then the WEP wireless interface between WinXP and SAPIDO BRC76N would be communicated.
  • Page 84: Operating Systems

    Appendices 7.5 Operating Systems Microsoft:Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7. Apple:Mac OS X 10.4.7, Leopard and the following related versions. Linux:Redhat 9, Fedora 6 & 7, Ubuntu 7.04 and the following related versions. 7.6 Browsers Internet Explorer ver. 6 and 7 and the following related versions. FireFox ver.

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