Edimax Router BR-6424n User Manual

 
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made and restart the broadband router, this requires about 30 seconds and 
the broadband router will stop responding (this is normal and is not 
malfunction). You can reconnect to this broadband router and continue on 
other settings later. 
 
 
 
 
  

 
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3-3 LAN (Wired) 
 
You can setup Wired LAN (Local Area Network) connections of this 
broadband router in ‘LAN’ menu. This broadband router has 4 LAN ports 
and they’ll all use the same LAN IP address settings. Please also note that 
both wired and wireless LAN uses the same LAN IP address settings, too. 
 
LAN settings split into 3 sections: LAN IP, DHCP Server, and Static 
DHCP leases. Please refer to corresponding sections below for detailed 
setup instructions. 
 
3-3-1 Start 
Before you start -...

 
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Suggestions on IP address numbering plan: 
 
  If you have no idea on how to define an IP address plan for your 
network, here are some suggestions.   
 
1.  A valid IP address has 4 fields: a.b.c.d, for most of home and 
company users, it’s suggested to use 192.168.c.d, where c is 
an integer between 0 and 254, and d is an integer between 1 
and 254. This router is capable to work with up to 253 clients, 
so you can set ‘d’ field of IP address of router as 1 or 254 (or 
any number between 1 and...

 
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3-3-2 LAN IP 
 
If you enable “DHCP Server” , the router can assign IP address to PC 
which connect with the router. You can use this setting to assign an IP 
address to the LAN interface of this broadband router. 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
Item Name Description 
IP address Please input the IP address of this broadband 
router’s LAN interface. 
Subnet Mask Please input subnet mask for this network. 
802.1d Spanning Tree  If you wish to activate 802.1d spanning tree 
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3-3-3 DHCP Server 
 
You can use this setting to decide the range of IP address leases.   
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Item Name Description 
Start IP  Please input the start IP address of the IP 
leases range. 
End IP  Please input the end IP address of the IP leases 
range. 
Domain Name If you wish, you can also input the domain 
name for your network. This is optional. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Recommended Value if you don’t know what to fill: 
 
Lease Time: Two Weeks (or...

 
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3-3-4 Static DHCP Leases 
 
If you wish to assign a fixed IP address to certain computers / devices by 
DHCP, you can use this function to establish a MAC-to-IP address table 
here, so you can assign a specific IP address to a specific computer / 
network device by its MAC address.   
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Item Name Description 
Enable Static 
DHCP Leases Check this box to enable this function, 
otherwise uncheck it to disable this function. 
MAC Address Input the MAC...

 
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All MAC-to-IP address entries will be listed in this page, and this 
broadband router supports up 16 static DHCP leases: 
 
 
 
To delete one or more entries listed here, please check the box of the 
mapping entry (under ‘Select’), and click ‘Delete Selected’ button.   
 
If you wish to delete all mapping entries, click ‘Delete All’ button. To 
deselect all checked boxes, click ‘Reset’ button. 
 
When you finished with the settings in this page, you can click ‘Apply’ 
button to save changes you made...

 
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3-4 Wireless 
 
You can setup Wireless LAN connection parameters of this broadband 
router in ‘Wireless’ menu: 
 
 
 
Please select one setting in this menu, then click ‘Apply’ to proceed. If 
you wish to go back to previous page, click ‘Previous’.  

 
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3-4-1 Basic Settings 
 
You can set basic settings of wireless LAN here.   
 
 
 
Please select the working mode of this broadband router from ‘Mode’ 
dropdown list first:   
 
a. AP: Standard wireless AP (access point). 
 
b. Station-Infrastructure: This broadband router acts as both wireless 
communication client and server - connects to another wireless access 
point as client, and serves other wireless clients as server. 
 
c. AP Bridge-Point to Point: Connect this router with another broadband...

 
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3-4-1-1 AP  mode 
 
In AP mode, the following settings will appear: 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Item Name Description 
Band  Please select the radio band from one of 
following options: 
 
2.4 GHz (B): 2.4GHz band, only allows 
802.11b wireless network client to connect this 
router (maximum transfer rate 11Mbps). 
 
2.4 GHz (N): 2.4GHz band, only allows 
802.11n wireless network client to connect this 
router (maximum transfer rate 300Mbps). 
 
2.4 GHz (B+G): 2.4GHz band,...