Canyon Router CNP-WF514N1 User Manual

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2-7-1-6 Setup procedure for ‘Universal Repeater’ 
 
In this mode, the router can act as a wireless repeater; it can be Station and AP at 
the same time. It can use Station function to connect to a Root AP and use AP 
function to service all wireless stations within its coverage.   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Band (2):  Select the band you want to use, all the wireless routers 
must use the same setting. 
 
SSID (3):  This is the name of wireless router. You can type any 
alphanumerical characters here, maximum 32 characters. 
SSID is used to identify your own wireless router from 
others when there are other wireless routers in the same 
area. Default SSID is ‘default’, it’s recommended to change 
default ESSID value to the one which is meaningful to you, 
like myhome, office_room1, etc. 
 
Channel  Select the channel you want to use, all the wireless 
Number (4):  clients must use the same setting. 
 
Associated Clients (5): Click ‘Show Active Clients’ button, then an “Active Wireless 
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NOTE: For Repeater Mode, this router will demodulate the received 
signal, checking if this signal is noise for the operating network then 
have the signal modulated and amplified again. The output power of 
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Client Table” will pop up. You can see the status of all active 
wireless stations that are connecting to the access point. 
 
Root AP SSID (6):  In ‘Universal Repeater’ mode, this device can act as a 
station to connect to a Root AP. You should assign the SSID 
of the Root AP here or click ‘Select Site Survey’ button to 
choose a Root AP. 
 
Site Survey (7):  Click ‘Select Site Survey’ button, then a “Wireless Site 
Survey Table” will pop up. It will list all available access 
points near by. You can select one access point in the table 
and the router will join wireless LAN through this access 
point. 
 
After you finish the wireless setting, please click ‘Apply’ button, after you click 
‘Apply’, the following message will be displayed on your web browser: 
 
 
 
Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on router setup, 
or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for 
about 30 seconds while router is rebooting). 
 
2-7-2 Advanced Wireless Settings 
 
This router provides some advanced control of wireless parameters, if you want to 
configure these settings, please click ‘Wireless’ menu on the left of web 
management interface, then click ‘Advanced Settings’, and the following message 
will be displayed on your web browser: 
  
						

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Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Fragment  Set the Fragment threshold of wireless radio.     
Threshold (1): Do not modify default value if you don’t know what it 
is, default value is 2346. 
 
RTS Threshold (2):    Set the RTS threshold of wireless radio. Do not modify 
default value if you don’t know what it is, default 
value is 2347. 
 
Beacon Interval (3):  Set the beacon interval of wireless radio. Do not modify 
default value if you don’t know what it is, default 
value is 100. 
 
DTIM Period (4):    Set the DTIM period of wireless radio. Do not modify 
default value if you don’t know what it is, default 
value is 3. 
 
Data Rate (5):    Set the wireless data transfer rate to a certain value. Since 
most of wireless devices will negotiate with each other and 
pick a proper data transfer rate automatically, it’s not 
necessary to change this value unless you know 
what will happen after modification. 
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N Data Rate (6):    Same as above, but only for 802.11n clients. 
 
Channel Width (7):    Set channel width of wireless radio. Do not modify 
default value if you don’t know what it is, default 
setting is ‘Auto 20/40 MHz’. 
 
Preamble Type (8):    Set the type of preamble, do not modify default value if 
you don’t know what it is, default setting is ‘Short 
Preamble’. 
 
Broadcast ESSID (9):    Decide if the wireless router will broadcast its own ESSID or 
not. You can hide the ESSID of your wireless router (set the 
option to ‘Disable’), so only people those who know the 
ESSID of your wireless router can get connected. 
 
CTS Protect (10):    Enabling this setting will reduce the chance of radio signal 
collisions between 802.11b and 802.11g/n wireless access 
points. It’s recommended to set this option to ‘Auto’ or 
‘Always’. However, if you set to ‘None’, your wireless router 
should be able to work fine, too. 
 
Tx Power (11):    You can set the output power of wireless radio. Unless 
you’re using this wireless router in a really big space, you 
may not have to set output power to 100%. This will 
enhance security (malicious / unknown users in 
distance will not be able to reach your wireless 
router). 
 
WMM (12):    The short of Wi-Fi MultiMedia, it will enhance the data 
transfer performance of multimedia contents when they’re 
being transferred over wireless network. If you don’t 
know what it is / not sure if you need it, it’s safe to 
set this option to ‘Enable’, however, default value is 
‘Disable’. 
 
After you finish these wireless settings, please click ‘Apply’ button, button, and the 
following message will be displayed on your web browser:  
						

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Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on router setup, 
or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect (Please wait for 
about 30 seconds while router is rebooting). 
 
2-7-3 Wireless Security 
 
It’s very important to set wireless security settings properly! If you don’t, 
hackers and malicious users can reach your network and valuable data without your 
consent and this will cause serious security problem. 
To set wireless security settings, Please click ‘Wireless’ menu on the left of web 
management interface, then click ‘Security Settings’, then follow the following 
instructions to set wireless security settings: 
Please select an encryption method from ‘Encryption’ dropdown menu, there are 
four options: 
 
2-7-3-1 Disable wireless security 
 
When you select this mode, data encryption is disabled, and every wireless device in 
proximity will be able to connect your wireless router if no other security measure is 
enabled (like MAC address access control - see section 2-7-4, or disable ESSID 
broadcast).  
 
Only use this option when you really want to allow everyone to use your 
wireless router, and you don’t care if there’s someone reads the data you 
transfer over network without your consent. 
 
2-7-3-2 WEP - Wired Equivalent Privacy 
 
When you select this mode, the wireless router will use WEP encryption, and the 
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Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Key  Length (2):    There are two types of WEP key length: 64-bit and 128-bit. 
Using ‘128-bit’ is safer than ’64-bit’, but will reduce some 
data transfer performance. 
 
Key Format (3):    There are two types of key format: ASCII and Hex. When 
you select a key format, the number of characters of key 
will be displayed. For example, if you select ’64-bit’ as key 
length, and ‘Hex’ as key format, you’ll see the message at 
the right of ‘Key Format’ is ‘Hex (10 characters), which 
means the length of WEP key is 10 characters. 
 
Default Tx Key (4):    You can set up to four sets of WEP key, and you can decide 
which key is being used by default here. If you don’t 
know which one you should use, select ‘Key 1’. 
 
Encryption Key      Input WEP key characters here, the number of 
1 to 4 (5-8):    characters must be the same as the number displayed at 
‘Key Format’ field. You can use any alphanumerical 
characters (0-9, a-z, and A-Z) if you select ‘ASCII’ key 
format, and if you select ‘Hex’ as key format, you can use 
characters 0-9, a-f, and A-F. You must enter at least one 
encryption key here, and if you entered multiple WEP keys, 
they should not be same with each other. 
 
 
 
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Enable 802.1x  IEEE 802.1x is an authentication protocol. Every   
Authentication  (9):      user must use a valid account to login to this wireless router 
before accessing the wireless LAN. The authentication is 
processed by a RADIUS server. This mode only 
authenticates user by IEEE 802.1x, but it does not 
encryption the data during communication. If there is a 
RADIUS server in you environment, please enable this 
function. Check this box and another sub-menu will appear: 
 
 
 
RADIUS Server    Please input the IP address of radius server here. 
IP address (11):     
 
RADIUS Server    Please input the port number of radius server here. 
Port (12):       
 
RADIUS Server    Please input the port number of radius password here. 
Password (13):     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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TIPS: Some examples of WEP key   
(Don’t use those examples; use the one of your own!): 
 
ASCII (5 characters): pilot    phone    23561    2Hyux    #@xmL 
ASCII (13 characters): digitalFAMILY  82Jh26xHy3m&n 
Hex (10 characters): 287d2aa732   1152dabc85 
Hex (26 characters): 9284bcda8427c9e036f7abcd84 
 
To improve security level, do not use those words which can be found 
in a dictionary or too easy to remember! (‘pilot’ and ‘phone’ listed 
above are bad examples; just intended to show you how a WEP key 
look like). Wireless clients will remember the WEP key, so you only 
have to input the WEP key on wireless client once, and it’s worth to 
use complicated WEP key to improve security level.
  
						

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After you finish WEP setting, please click ‘Apply’ button (10) and the following 
message will be displayed on your web browser: 
 
 
 
Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on other setup 
procedures, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect 
(Please wait for about 30 seconds while router is rebooting). 
 
2-7-3-3 Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) 
 
When you select this mode, the wireless router will use WPA encryption, and the 
following setup menu will be shown on your web browser: 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
WPA Unicast        Please select a type of WPA cipher suite. 
Cipher  Suite  (2):  Available options are: WPA (TKIP), WPA2 (AES), and WPA2 
Mixed. You can select one of them, but you have to make 
sure your wireless client support the cipher you selected. 
Pre-shared        Select the type of pre-shared key, you 
Key Format (3):    can select Passphrase (8 or more alphanumerical 
characters, up to 63), or Hex (64 characters of 0-9, and 
a-f). 
Pre-shared        Please input the WPA passphrase here. 
Key (4):    It’s not recommended to use a word that can be found in a 
dictionary due to security reason. 
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After you finish WPA Pre-shared key setting, please click ‘Apply’ button (5) and the 
following message will be displayed on your web browser: 
 
 
 
Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on other setup 
procedures, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect 
(Please wait for about 30 seconds while router is rebooting). 
 
 
 
 
 
2-7-3-4 WPA Radius 
 
If you have a RADIUS server, this router can work with it and provide safer wireless 
authentication. 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
WPA Unicast        Please select a type of WPA cipher suite. 
Cipher  Suite  (2):  Available options are: WPA (TKIP), WPA2 (AES), and WPA2 
Mixed. You can select one of them, but you have to make 
sure your wireless client support the cipher you selected. 
 
RADIUS Server      Please input the IP address of your Radius authentication 
IP address (3):      server here. 
NOTE: Some wireless clients (especially those manufactured before 
year 2003) only support WEP or WPA (TKIP) cipher. A driver upgrade 
would be needed for those clients to use WPA and WPA2 encryption. 
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RADIUS Server      Please input the port number of your Radius 
Port (4):    authentication server here. Default setting is 1812. 
 
RADIUS Server      Please input the password of your Radius authentication   
Password (5):     server here. 
 
After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ (6) button and the following 
message will be displayed on your web browser: 
 
 
 
Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on other setup 
procedures, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take effect 
(Please wait for about 30 seconds while router is rebooting). 
 
2-7-4 Wireless Access Control 
 
This function will help you to prevent unauthorized users from connecting to your 
wireless router; only those wireless devices who have the MAC address you 
assigned here can gain access to your wireless router. You can use this function with 
other security measures described in previous section, to create a safer wireless 
environment. 
 
Up to 20 MAC addresses can be assigned by using this function. Please click 
‘Wireless’ menu on the left of web management interface, then click ‘Access Control’, 
and the following message will be displayed on your web browser: 
 
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