Edimax Router BR-6424n User Manual
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81 It’s recommends to select this band to maximize compatibility. ESSID This is the name of broadband router. You can type any alphanumerical characters here, maximum 32 characters. ESSID is used to identify your own broadband router from others when there are other broadband 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 Number Please select a channel from the dropdown list of ‘Channel Number’, available channel numbers are 1 to 13. You can choose any channel number you want to use, and almost all wireless clients can locate the channel you’re using automatically without any problem. However, it’s still useful to remember the channel number you use, some wireless client supports manual channel number select, and this would help in certain scenario when there is some radio communication problem. Associated Clients Click ‘Show Active Clients’ button to show the list of all connected wireless clients. You can click ‘Refresh’ in new window to get latest list again, or click ‘Close’ to close the window. Please note that if you have pop-up blocker installed, you may have to disable it or tell your pop-up blocker to allow the popup window, or you will not be able to see the wireless client list window. Advanced Settings When you click ”Advanced Settings”, you will get a windows as follows. Please do not change the default settings, if you do not understand the meaning of the setting.
82 Where you can setup Channel Width in ” Auto 20/40MHz ” to get good wireless signal. 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: TIPS: You can try to change channel number to another one if you think the data transfer rate is too slow, or keep having problem while transferring the file over wireless network. There could be some other broadband routers using the same channel, which will disturb the radio communication between wireless client and the broadband
83 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. You can click ‘Continue’ to continue on other settings without restart the broadband router, however, the changes you made will not take effect before you restart the broadband router.
84 3-4-1-2 Station-Infrastructure In Station-Infrastructure mode, you can select a wireless access point to become its wireless client, and also acts as wireless access point to serve other wireless clients. If you have the access privilege of other wireless access point nearby, and you wish to use that access point to access Internet, you can use this connection type: Note : You will not get this mode, when you enable WISP. Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name Description Band Please select the radio band from one of following options (must be the same with the wireless access point you wish to connect): 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
85 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. It’s recommends to select this band to maximize compatibility. ESSID This is the name of broadband router. You can type any alphanumerical characters here, maximum 32 characters. ESSID is used to identify your own broadband router from others when there are other broadband 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. Site Survey Click ‘Select Site Survey’ and a popup window will appear. All reachable wireless access points will be shown in the window. Select the wireless access point you wish to connect from the list, and click ‘Done’. If the wireless access point you wish to connect is not listed, you can click ‘Refresh’ to rescan. If you still can’t find the wireless access point you wish to connect, please move the broadband router to the place nearer to the access point you wish to connect. WLAN MAC Some wireless access points will only allow clients with certain MAC address to establish connection. In this case, you can input the MAC address that will be accepted by the wireless access point you wish to connect here. You can also click ‘Clone
86 MAC’ button to use the MAC address of your computer (the one you used to connect to the web management interface currently). Auto MAC Clone If you wish to use the MAC address of wired LAN interface of this broadband router, select ‘Enable’, or select ‘Disable’ to not to use the MAC address of the wired LAN interface of this broadband router. 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. You can click ‘Continue’ to continue on other settings without restart the broadband router, however, the changes you made will not take effect before you restart the broadband router.
87 3-4-1-3 AP Bridge-Point to Point In this mode, you can use this broadband router as a wireless network bridge and let all computers connected to the LAN ports of both wireless access points to communicate with each other. This mode supports only one wireless access point peer. Please note that when you select this mode, this broadband router will act as wireless bridge only, and will not accept other wireless clients. Also, you can connect to the wireless access point with the same functionality only. If you wish to connect to the wireless access points made by other manufacturer, please select ‘AP Bridge-WDS’ mode if the wireless access point you wish to connect supports WDS. Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name Description Band Please select the radio band from one of following options (must be the same with the wireless access point you wish to connect): 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
88 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. It’s recommends to select this band to maximize compatibility. Channel Number Select the channel number you wish to use; both access points must use the same channel. MAC address 1 Input the MAC address of another wireless access point (the one you wish to connect). Set Security Click ‘Set Security’ button to set security functions of this wireless connection to improve security. Please refer to chapter 3-2-1-7 for detailed instructions. 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:
89 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. You can click ‘Continue’ to continue on other settings without restart the broadband router, however, the changes you made will not take effect before you restart the broadband router.
90 3-4-1-4 AP Bridge-Point to Multi-Point In this mode, you can use this broadband router as a wireless network bridge and let all computers connected to the LAN ports of all wireless access points to communicate with each other. This mode supports up to four wireless access point peers. Please note that when you select this mode, this broadband router will act as wireless bridge only, and will not accept other wireless clients. Also, you can connect to the wireless access point with the same functionality only. If you wish to connect to the wireless access points made by other manufacturer, please select ‘AP Bridge-WDS’ mode if the wireless access point you wish to connect supports WDS. Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name Description Band Please select the radio band from one of following options (must be the same with the wireless access point you wish to connect): 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