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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 - Suggestions for deciding an IP address to be used with 
this broadband router 
 
Before all computers using wired Ethernet connection (i.e. those 
computers connect to this router’s LAN port 1 to 4 by Ethernet cable) or 
wireless connection can communicate with each other and access internet, 
they must have a valid IP address. 
 
There are two ways to assign IP addresses to computers: static IP address 
(set the IP address for every computer manually), and dynamic IP address 
(IP address of computers will be assigned by router automatically. It’s 
recommended for most of computers to use dynamic IP address, it will 
save a lot of time on setting IP addresses for every computer, especially 
when there are a lot of computers in your network; for servers and 
network devices which will provide services to other computer and users 
that come from Internet, static IP address should be used, so other 
computes can locate the server. 
 
This broadband router has a built-in DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration 
Protocol) server, and can help you to assign IP addresses to your client 
computers. Almost  all network computers / devices manufactured after 
year 1995 are compatible with DHCP, and you can let this broadband 
router to assign the IP address to client computers / devices for you.  
						

							 
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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 254), and pick a number between 0 
and 254 for field ‘c’. 
 
2.  In most cases, you should use ‘255.255.255.0’ as subnet mask, 
which allows up to 253 clients (this also meets router’s 
capability of working with up to 253 clients). 
 
3.  For all servers and network devices which will provide 
services to other people (like Internet service, print service, 
and file service), they should use static IP address. Give each 
of them a unique number between 1 and 253, and maintain a 
list, so everyone can locate those servers easily. 
 
4.  For computers which are not dedicated to provide specific 
service to others, they should use dynamic IP address. 
 
If you don’t really understand the descriptions listed above, don’t 
worry! We will provide recommended setup values below.  
						

							 
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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 
function, select ‘Enabled’ for setup item 
‘802.1d Spanning Tree’, or set it to ‘Disabled’. 
DHCP Server If you want to activate DHCP server function 
of this router, select ‘Enabled’, or set it to 
‘Disabled’. 
Lease Time  Please select the lease time for every DHCP 
leases here. You can select the time period from 
the dropdown list, and the DHCP client will be 
forced to obtain a new IP address from this 
broadband router after this period of time.   
You can select ‘Forever’ if you’re using this 
broadband router with only few computers 
(less than 30 computers) 
 
Recommended Value if you don’t know what to fill: 
IP Address:  192.168.1.254 
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 
802.1d Spanning Tree: Disabled 
DHCP Server: Enabled  
						

							 
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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 ‘Forever’, if you have less than 20 computers) 
Start IP: 192.168.2.2 
End IP: 192.168.2.200 
Domain Name: (leave it blank) 
NOTE:  
 
1. The number of the last field (mentioned ‘d’ field) of ‘End IP’ must be 
greater than ‘Start IP’, and can not the same with router’s IP address. 
2. The former three fields of IP address of ‘Start IP’, ‘End IP’, and ‘IP 
Address of ‘LAN IP’ section (mentioned ‘a’, ‘b’, and ‘c’ field) should be 
the same. 
3. These settings will affect wireless clients, too.  
						

							 
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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 address of the computer or 
network device (total 12 characters, with 
character from 0 to 9, and from a to f, like 
‘001122aabbcc’). 
IP address Input the IP address you want to assign to 
this computer or network device. 
Add After you inputted MAC address and IP 
address pair, click this button to add the pair 
to static DHCP leases table. 
Clear  Click this button to remove texts in MAC 
address and IP address field. 
  
						

							 
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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 in this page, or you can click ‘Cancel’ 
to discard changes. After you click ‘Apply’ button, you’ll see the 
following messages: 
 
 
 
Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes you 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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3-4 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 
router, to expand the scope of network.   
 
d. AP Bridge-Point to Multi-Point: Connect this router with up to four 
other broadband routers, to expand the scope of network. 
 
e. AP Bridge-WDS: Connect this router with up to four WDS-capable 
broadband routers, to expand the scope of network. 
 
f. Universal Repeater: This broadband router will repeat other wireless 
access point’s signal to extend its wireless signal coverage, and also acts 
as a wireless access point to serve other wireless clients. 
 
Note : When you enable WISP connection mode, you will not get “b. 
Station-Infrastructure” and “f. Universal Repeater “ mode here .  
						

							 
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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, only allows 
802.11b and 802.11g wireless network client to 
connect this router (maximum transfer rate 
11Mbps for 802.11b clients, and maximum 
54Mbps for 802.11g clients). 
 
2.4 GHz (G): 2.4GHz band, only allows 
802.11g wireless network client to connect this 
router (maximum transfer rate 54Mbps). 
 
2.4 GHz (B+G+N): 2.4GHz Band, Allows 
802.11b, 802.11g, and 802.11N wireless clients.