Edimax Router BR.6504N User Manual

 
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Press ‘Continue’ to save the settings made and back to web management 
interface; press ‘Apply’ to save the settings made and restart the router so the 
settings will take effect after it reboots. 
 
 
 
 
 
2-4-2 Change management password 
 
Default password of this router is 1234, and it’s displayed on the login 
prompt when accessed from web browser. There’s a security risk if you don’t 
change the default password, since everyone can see it. This is very 
important when you have wireless...

 
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Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
Current        Please input current password here. 
Password :   
 
New Password :    Please input new password here. 
 
Confirmed        Please input new password here again. 
Password :   
 
When you finish, click ‘Apply’; If you want to keep original password 
unchanged, click ‘Cancel’. 
 
If the password you typed in ‘New Password’  and ‘Confirmed Password’  
field are not the same, you’ll see the following message: 
 
 
 
Please retype the new...

 
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If the current and new passwords are correctly entered, after you click 
‘Apply’, you’ll be prompted to input your new password: 
 
 
 
Please use new password to enter web management interface again, and you 
should be able to login with new password. 
 
2-4-3 Remote Management 
 
This router does not allow management access from Internet, to prevent 
possible security risks (especially when you defined a weak password, or 
didn’t change default password). However, you can still management this...

 
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Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Host Address :    Input the IP address of the remote host you wish to 
initiate a management access.   
 
Port :    You can define the port number this router should 
expect an incoming request. If you’re providing a web 
service (default port number is 80), you should try to 
use other port number. You can use the default port 
setting ‘8080’, or something like ‘32245’ or ‘1429’. 
(Any integer between 1 and 65534) 
 
When you finish with all...

 
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 NOTE: When you want to manage this router from another computer 
on internet, you have to input the IP address and port number of this 
router. If your Internet service provider assigns you with a static IP 
address, it will not be a problem; but if the IP address your service 
provider assigns to you will vary every time you establish an internet 
connection, this will be a problem.   
 
Please either ask your service provider to give you...

 
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2-5 Setup Internet Connection (WAN Setup) 
 
Internet connections setup can be done by using ‘Quick Setup’ menu 
described in chapter 2-3. However, you can setup WAN connections up by 
using WAN configuration menu. You can also set advanced functions like 
DDNS (Dynamic DNS) here. 
 
To start configuration, please follow the following instructions: 
 
Please click ‘WAN’ menu on the left of web management interface, and the 
following message will be displayed on your web browser: 
 
Please select an...

 
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2-5-1 Setup procedure for ‘Dynamic IP’: 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Host Name :    Please input host name of your computer, this is 
optional, and only required if your service provider 
asks you to do so.   
 
MAC Address :    Please input MAC address of your computer, if your 
service provider only permits computer with certain 
MAC address to access internet. If you’re using the 
computer which used to connect to Internet via cable 
modem, you can simply press ‘Clone Mac...

 
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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 50 seconds while router is rebooting). 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  

 
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2-5-2 Setup procedure for ‘Static IP’: 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
IP address assigned    Please input IP address assigned 
by your Service       by your service provider. 
Provider :   
 
Subnet Mask :    Please input subnet mask assigned by your service 
provider  
 
Service Provider      Please input the IP address of DNS 
Gateway Address :    server provided by your service provider. 
 
After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’    button, and the...

 
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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 50 seconds while router is rebooting). 
 
If you want to reset all settings in this page back to previously-saved value, 
please click ‘Cancel’ button.