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Please follow the following instructions to set wired LAN parameters: 
 
Please click ‘LAN’ menu on the left of web management interface, there are 
three setup groups here: ‘LAN IP’, ‘DHCP Server’, and ‘Static DHCP Leases 
Table’. Here are setup instructions for each of them: 
 
2-6-1 LAN IP section: 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
IP address :      Please input the IP address of this router. 
 
Subnet Mask :    Please input subnet mask for this network. 
 
802.1d         If you wish to activate 802.1d spanning tree 
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’.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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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2-6-2 DHCP Server: 
 
 
 
These settings are only available when ‘DHCP Server’ in ‘LAN IP’ section is 
‘Enabled’, and here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Lease Time :    Please choose a lease time (the duration that every 
computer can keep a specific IP address) of every IP 
address assigned by this router from dropdown menu. 
 
Start IP :      Please input the start IP address of the IP range. 
 
End IP :        Please input the end IP address of the IP range. 
 
Domain Name :    If you wish, you can also optionally 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: 192.168.1.1 
End IP: 192.168.1.200 
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. 
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2-6-3 Static DHCP Leases Table: 
This function allows you to assign a static IP address to a specific 
computer forever, so you don’t have to set the IP address for a computer, 
and still enjoy the benefit of using DHCP server. Maximum 16 static IP 
addresses can be assigned here. 
 
(If you set ‘Lease Time’ to ‘forever’ in ‘DHCP Server’ section, you can 
also assign an IP address to a specific computer permanently, however, 
you will not be able to assign a certain IP address to a specific computer, 
since IP addresses will be assigned in random order by this way).   
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Enable Static      Check this box to enable this function, 
DHCP Leases :   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. 
 
If you want to remove all characters you just entered, click ‘Clear’. 
 
After you clicked ‘Add’, the MAC address and IP address mapping will be 
added to ‘Static DHCP Leases Table’ section. 
 
  
						

							 
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If you want to delete a specific item, please check the ‘Select’ box of a 
MAC address and IP address mapping , then click ‘Delete Selected’ 
button ; if you want to delete all mappings, click ‘Delete All’ . If you want 
to deselect all mappings, click ‘Reset . 
 
After you finish all LAN settings, please click ‘Apply’ button on the bottom 
of this page. After you click ‘Apply’, the following message will be 
displayed on your web browser: 
 
 
 
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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2-7 Wireless LAN Configuration 
 
If your computer, PDA, game console, or other network devices which is 
equipped with wireless network interface, you can you can use the 
wireless function of this router to let them connect to Internet and share 
resources with other computers with wired-LAN connection. You can also 
use the built-in security functions to protect your network from being 
intruded by malicious intruders. 
 
Please follow the following instructions to set wireless parameters: 
 
Please click ‘Wireless’ menu on the left of web management interface, and 
the following message will be displayed on your web browser. You must 
enable wireless function of this router, or the wireless interface of this router 
will not function. Please select ‘Enable’ , then click ‘Apply’    button.   
 
If you’re coming here because you want to disable wireless function, 
please select ‘Disable’ , then click ‘Apply’    button. 
 
 
 
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 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). 
 
2-7-1 Basic Wireless Settings 
 
Please click ‘Wireless’ menu on the left of web management interface, then 
click ‘Basic Settings’, and the following message will be displayed on your 
web browser: 
 
 
 
This wireless router can be work in 4 modes:   
 
a. AP: Standard wireless AP (access point). 
 
b. AP Bridge-Point to Point: Connect this router with another wireless router, 
to expand the scope of network.   
 
c. AP Bridge-Point to Multi-Point: Connect this router with up to four other 1 
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wireless routers, to expand the scope of network. 
 
d. AP Bridge-WDS: Connect this router with up to four WDS-capable 
wireless routers, to expand the scope of network. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Please select a proper operation mode you want to use from ‘Mode’ 
dropdown menu , and continue on other operation mode specific settings: 
 
AP        - Please go to section 2-7-1-1 
AP Bridge-Point to Point     - Please go to section 2-7-1-2 
AP Bridge-Point to Multi Point  - Please go to section 2-7-1-3 
AP Bridge-WDS         - Please go to section 2-7-1-4 
 
2-7-1-1 Setup procedure for ‘AP’: 
 
Please select the radio band you want to use from ‘Band’ dropdown menu , 
and the following message will be displayed: 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Band :    Please select the radio band from one of following 
options: 
 
 
NOTE: For ‘AP Bridge-Point to Point’ and ‘AP Bridge-Point to 
Multi-Point’ mode, wireless router is operated in wireless bridge 
dedicated mode – wireless router is only used to expand the scope of 
network, and no wireless clients will be accepted. If you want to use 
your wireless router to expand the scope of network, and also accept 
wireless clients, please select ‘AP Bridge-WDS’ mode.  
						

							 
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ESSID :    This is the name of wireless router. You can type any 
alphanumerical characters here, maximum 32 
characters. ESSID is used to identify your own wireless 
router from others when there are other wireless 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. 
 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 108**Mbps). 
 
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 11Mbps). 
						

							 
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2-7-1-2 Setup procedure for ‘AP Bridge-Point to Point: 
 
In this mode, you can connect your wireless router with another, to combine 
two access points and expand the scope of wireless network, and all clients 
(wired only – AP will not accept wireless clients in this mode) of two 
wireless routers will think they’re on the same physical network. This 
function is very convenient when you need to connect two networks between 
two buildings. Here are instructions about how to connect two wireless 
routers together: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Band    Select the band you want to use, two wireless routers 
must use the same setting. 
 
NOTE: If you don’t special reason to limit the type of allowed wireless 
client, it’s recommended to choose ‘2.4 GHz (B+G+N) to maximize 
wireless client compatibility. 
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 
wireless routeres using the same channel, which will disturb the radio 
communication between wireless client and the wireless router. 
NOTE: Two wireless routers must use the same mode, band, channel 
number, and security setting!  
						

							 
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Channel  Select the channel you want to use, two wireless 
Number    routers must use the same setting. 
 
MAC 
address    Input the MAC address of another wireless router. 
 
Set    Click to set security settings for this connection 
Security    (Please go to section ‘2-7-3 Wireless Security’   
for detailed instructions). 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2-7-1-3 Setup procedure for ‘AP Bridge-Point to Multi-Point’: 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Band    Select the band you want to use, two wireless routers 
must use the same setting. 
 
Channel  Select the channel you want to use, two wireless 
Number    routers must use the same setting. 
 
MAC address    Input the MAC address of other wireless routers. 
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