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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 function enabled. 
 
To change password, please follow the following instructions: 
 
Please click ‘System’ menu on the left of web management interface, then 
click ‘Password Settings’, and the following message will be displayed on 
your web browser: 
 
 
NOTE: You can refer to the instructions given in last chapter: ‘Using 
Quick Setup’, for detailed descriptions on time zone settings.  
						

							 
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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 password again when you see above message. 
 
If you see the following message: 
 
 
 
It means the content in ‘Current Password’ field is wrong, please click ‘OK’ 
to go back to previous menu, and try to input current password again.   
  
						

							 
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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 
router from a specific IP address by enabling the ‘Remote Management’ 
Function. 
 
To do so, please follow the following instructions: 
 
Please click ‘System’ menu on the left of web management interface, then 
click ‘Remote Management’, and the following message will be displayed on 
your web browser: 
  
						

							 
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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 settings, click ‘Apply’, and you’ll see the following 
message displayed on web browser: 
 
 
 
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.  
						

							 
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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 a static IP 
address, or use dynamic IP to host name mapping services like 
DDNS. Please refer to chapter 2-5-8 ‘DDNS client’ for details. 
NOTE: Default port number the web browser will use is ‘80’. If the 
‘Port’ setting in this page is not ‘80’, you have to assign the port 
number in the address bar of web browser manually. For example, if 
the IP address of this router is 1.2.3.4, and the port number you set is 
8888, you have to input following address in the address bar of web 
browser: 
 
http://1.2.3.4:8888  
						

							 
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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 Internet connection method depend on the type of connection 
you’re using. You can either click the connection method on the left    or 
right . If you select the connection method on the right, please click ‘More 
Configuration’ button after a method is selected. 
 
 
 
Dynamic IP      - Please go to section 2-5-1 
Static IP       - Please go to section 2-5-2 
PPPoE        - Please go to section 2-5-3 
PPTP        - Please go to section 2-5-4 
L2TP        - Please go to section 2-5-5 
Telstra Big Pond   - Please go to section 2-5-6 
DNS        - Please go to section 2-5-7 
DDNS        - Please go to section 2-5-8 
  
						

							 
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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 address’ 
button to fill the MAC address field with the MAC 
address of your computer,  
 
After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ ; if you want to 
remove and value you entered, please click ‘Cancel’. 
 
After you click ‘Apply’, the following message will be displayed on your 
web browser: 
  
						

							 
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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 
following message will be displayed on your web browser: 
 
  
						

							 
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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.