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C T S   P r o t e c t (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. 
 
T x   P o w e r ( 1 1 ):  You can set the output power of w i r eless radio. 
U n l e s s   y o u’re using this wireless router in a really 
big space, you may not have to set output power to 
100%. This will enhance security (m alicious / 
unknown users in distance will not be able to 
r e a c h   y o u r   w i r e l e s s   r o u t e r ) . 
 
W M M (12):  The short of Wi-Fi MultiMedia, it will enhance the 
data transfer performance of multimedia contents 
when they’re   b e i n g   t r a n s f e r re d   o v e r   w i re l e s s  
network. If you don’t know what it is / not sure if 
you need it, it’s safe to set this option to ‘E n a b l e’, 
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: 
 
 
 
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). 
 
 
  
						

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2-7-3 Wireless Security 
 
It’s very im portant 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 som eone reads the data you 
transfer over network without your c o n s e n t . 
 
2-7-3-2   W E P  - Wired Equivalent Privacy 
 
When you select this mode, the wireless router will use WEP encryption, 
and the following setup menu will be shown on your web browser: 
 
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Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Key Length (2):  T h e r e   a r e   t w o  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 
y o u   s e l e c t  ’64-bit’ as key length, and ‘H e x’ 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 
y o u   s e l e c t  ‘A S C I I’ 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. 
 
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 b e f o re   a c c e s s i n g   t h e   w i re l e s s   L A N .  
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 
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RADIUS Server   Please input the IP address of radius  
IP address (11):   server here 
 
RADIUS Server   Please input the port number of radius 
Port (12):    server here. 
 
RADIUS Server   Please input the port number of radius 
Password (13):   password here. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
After you finish WEP setting, please click ‘Apply’ button (10) and the 
following message will be displayed on your web browser: 
 
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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; j u s t 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 w o r t h to 
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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   W i-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: 
 
W PA 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 
t h e   c i p h e r   y o u   s e l e c t e d . 
P r e-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). 
P r e-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 W PA   R A D I U S : 
 
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 
t h e   c i p h e r   y o u   s e l e c t e d . 
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 IP address of your 
IP address (3):   Radius authentication server here. 
 
RADIUS Server   Please input the port number of your 
Port (4):  Radius authentication s e r v e r   h e re .  Default setting is 
1812. 
 
RADIUS Server   Please input the password of your Radius 
Password (5):  authentication 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 W i r e less 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 
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web browser: 
 
 
 
All allowed MAC addresses will be displayed in ‘MAC Address Filtering 
T a b l e’ (1). Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Delete Selected (2):  If you want to delete a specific MAC address entry, 
check the ‘select’ box of the MAC address you want 
to delete, then click ‘Delete Selected’ button. (You 
can select more than one MAC addresses). 
 
Delete All (3):  If you want to delete all MAC addresses listed here, 
p l e a s e   c l i c k  ‘Delete All’ button. 
 
Enable    To enforce MAC address filtering, 
Access Control (4) :   you have to check ‘Enable Wireless Access Control’. 
When this item is unchecked, wireless router will 
not enforce MAC address filtering of wireless 
clients. 
 
MAC Address (5):  Input the MAC address of your wireless devices here, 
dash ( - ) or colon ( : ) are not required. (i.e. If the 
MAC address label of your wireless device indicates 
‘aa-bb-c c-dd-e e-f f’ or ‘aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff’, just input 
‘aabbc c d d e e ff ’. 
 
 
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Comment (6):   You can input any text here as the comment of this  
  MAC address, like ‘ROOM 2A Computer’ or   
  anything. You can input up to 16 alphanumerical  
ch a r a c t e r s   h e re .  This is optional and you can leave  
it blank, however, it’s recommended to use this field  
to write a comment for every MAC addresses as a  
memory aid. 
 
Add (7):  Click ‘Add’ button to add the MAC address and 
associated comment to the MAC address filtering 
table. 
 
C l e a r   (8):  Click ‘C l ear’ to remove the value you inputted in 
MAC address and comment field. 
 
After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ (9) 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). 
 
If you want to reset all settings in this page back to previously-saved 
value, please click ‘Cancel’ button. 
  
						

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2-7-5   W i-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) 
 
W i-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) is the simplest way to build connection 
between wireless network clients and this wireless router. You don’t have 
to select encryption mode and input a long encryption passphrase every 
t i m e when you need to setup a wireless client, you only have to press a 
button on wireless client and this wireless router, and the WPS will do the 
rest for you. 
 
This wireless router supports two types of WPS: Push-Button 
C onfiguration (PBC), and PIN code. If you want to use PBC, you have to 
push a specific button on the wireless client to start WPS mode, and 
switch this wireless router to WPS mode too. You can push Reset/WPS 
button of this wireless router, or click ‘Start PBC’ button in the web 
configuration interface to do this; if you want to use PIN code, you have 
to know the PIN code of wireless client and switch it to WPS mode, then 
provide the PIN code of the wireless client you wish to connect to this 
wireless router. The detailed instructions are listed follow: 
 
Please click ‘Wireless’ menu on the left of web management interface, 
then click ‘W P S’, and the following message will be displayed on your 
web browser: 
 
 
 
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