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Set    Click to set security settings for this connection 
Security    (Please go to section ‘2-7-3 Wireless Security’   
for detailed instructions). 
 
 
2-7-1-4 Setup procedure for ‘AP Bridge – WDS’ 
 
In this mode, you can expand the scope of network by combining up to four 
other access points together, and every access point can still accept wireless 
clients.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
 
Band    Select the band you want to use, two wireless routers 
must use the same setting. 
 
ESSID    Input the ESSID of your wireless router, it can be the 
same with other wireless routers for the convenience of 
roaming, or different with other wireless routers so you 
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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 other wireless routers. 
1 to 4 (5 - 8)   
 
Set    Click to set security settings for this connection 
Security    (Please go to section ‘2-7-3 Wireless Security’   
for detailed instructions). 
 
 
After you finish the wireless setting, please click ‘Apply’ button, 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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2-7-2 Advanced Wireless  Settings 
 
This router provides some advanced control of wireless parameters, if you 
want to configure these settings, please click ‘Wireless’ menu on the left of 
web management interface, then click ‘Advanced Settings’, and the 
following message will be displayed on your web browser: 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
 
Fragment  Set the Fragment threshold of wireless radio.     
Threshold: Do not modify default value if you don’t know what it 
is, default value is 2346. 
 
RTS Threshold:    Set the RTS threshold of wireless radio. Do not modify 
default value if you don’t know what it is, default 
value is 2347. 
 
Beacon Interval:    Set the beacon interval of wireless radio. Do not 
modify default value if you don’t know what it is, 
default value is 100. 
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DTIM Period:    Set the DTIM period of wireless radio. Do not modify 
default value if you don’t know what it is, default 
value is 3. 
 
Data Rate:    Set the wireless data transfer rate to a certain value. 
Since most of wireless devices will negotiate with each 
other and pick a proper data transfer rate automatically, 
it’s not necessary to change this value unless you 
know what will happen after modification. 
 
N Data Rate:      Same as above, but only for 802.11n clients. 
 
Channel Width:    Set channel width of wireless radio. Do not modify 
default value if you don’t know what it is, default 
setting is ‘Auto 20/40 MHz’. 
 
Preamble Type:    Set the type of preamble of wireless radio, Do not 
modify default value if you don’t know what it is, 
default setting is ‘Short Preamble’. 
 
Broadcast ESSID:    Decide if the wireless router will broadcast its own 
ESSID or not. You can hide the ESSID of your wireless 
router (set the option to ‘Disable’), so only people those 
who know the ESSID of your wireless router can get 
connected. 
 
CTS Protect:    Enabling this setting will reduce the chance of radio 
signal collisions between 802.11b and 802.11g wireless 
access points. It’s recommended to set this option to 
‘Auto’ or ‘Always’. However, if you set to ‘None’, your 
wireless router should be able to work fine, too. 
 
Tx Power:    You can set the output power of wireless radio. Unless 
you’re using this wireless router in a really big space, 
you may not have to set output power to 100%. This 
will enhance security (malicious / unknown users in 
distance will not be able to reach your wireless router). 
  
						

							 
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Turbo Mode:    Enhance the data transfer rate of LAN (up to 35Mbps, 
only for 11g), default value is ‘Enable’, it’s 
recommended to set this option to ‘Enable’. 
 
WMM:    The short of Wi-Fi MultiMedia, it will enhance the data 
transfer performance of multimedia contents when 
they’re being transferred over wireless network. If you 
don’t know what it is / not sure if you need it, it’s safe 
to set this option to ‘Enable’, however, default value is 
‘Disable’. 
 
 
After you finish these wireless settings, please click ‘Apply’ button, button, 
and 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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2-7-3 Wireless Security 
 
It’s very important to set wireless security settings properly! If you don’t, 
hackers and malicious users can reach your network and valuable data 
without your consent and this will cause serious security problem. 
 
To set wireless security settings, Please click ‘Wireless’ menu on the left of 
web management interface, then click ‘Security Settings’, then follow the 
following instructions to set wireless security settings: 
 
Please select an encryption method from ‘Encryption’ dropdown menu, there 
are four options: 
 
2-7-3-1 Disable wireless security 
 
When you select this mode, data encryption is disabled, and every wireless 
device in proximity will be able to connect your wireless router if no other 
security measure is enabled (like MAC address access control - see section 
2-7-4, or disable ESSID broadcast).   
 
Only use this option when you really want to allow everyone to use your 
wireless router, and you don’t care if there’s someone reads the data you 
transfer over network without your consent. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
						

							 
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2-7-3-2 WEP - Wired Equivalent Privacy 
 
When you select this mode, the wireless router will use WEP encryption, and 
the following setup menu will be shown on your web browser: 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Key Length :    There are two types of WEP key length: 64-bit and 
128-bit. Using ‘128-bit’ is safer than ’64-bit’, but will 
reduce some data transfer performance. 
 
Key Format :    There are two types of key format: ASCII and Hex. 
When you select a key format, the number of characters 
of key will be displayed. For example, if you 
select ’64-bit’ as key length, and ‘Hex’ as key format, 
you’ll see the message at the right of ‘Key Format’ is 
‘Hex (10 characters), which means the length of WEP 
key is 10 characters. 
 
Default Tx Key :    You can set up to four sets of WEP key, and you can 
decide which key is being used by default here. If you 
don’t know which one you should use, select ‘Key 1’. 
 
Encryption Key     Input WEP key characters here, the number of 
1 to 4 (5-8):    characters must be the same as the number displayed at 
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characters (0-9, a-z, and A-Z) if you select ‘ASCII’ key 
format, and if you select ‘Hex’ as key format, you can 
use characters 0-9, a-f, and A-F. You must enter at least 
one encryption key here, and if you entered multiple 
WEP keys, they should not be same with each other. 
 
Enable 802.1x      Check this box and another sub-menu will appear: 
Authentication :   
 
RADIUS Server      Please input the IP address of radius   
IP address :      server here 
 
RADIUS Server      Please input the port number of radius 
Port :    server here. 
RADIUS Server      Please input the port number of radius 
 
Password :      password here. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
After you finish WEP setting, please click ‘Apply’ button    and the following 
TIPS: Some examples of WEP key   
(Don’t use those examples; use the one of your own!): 
 
ASCII (5 characters): pilot    phone    23561    2Hyux    #@xmL 
ASCII (13 characters): digitalFAMILY  82Jh26xHy3m&n 
Hex (10 characters): 287d2aa732   1152dabc85 
Hex (26 characters): 9284bcda8427c9e036f7abcd84 
 
To improve security level, do not use those words which can be found 
in a dictionary or too easy to remember! (‘pilot’ and ‘phone’ listed 
above are bad examples; just intended to show you how a WEP key 
look like). Wireless clients will remember the WEP key, so you only 
have to input the WEP key on wireless client once, and it’s worth to 
use complicated WEP key to improve security level.
  
						

							 
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message will be displayed on your web browser: 
 
 
 
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). 
 
 
2-7-3-3 Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA): 
 
When you select this mode, the wireless router will use WPA encryption, and 
the following setup menu will be shown on your web browser: 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
WPA Unicast      Please select a type of WPA cipher suite. 
Cipher Suite :  Available options are: WPA (TKIP), WPA2 (AES), and 
WPA2 Mixed. You can select one of them, but you have 
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selected. 
 
Pre-shared       Select the type of pre-shared key, you 
Key Format :    can select Passphrase (8 or more alphanumerical 
characters, up to 63), or Hex (64 characters of 0-9, and 
a-f). 
 
Pre-shared       Please input the WPA passphrase here. 
Key :   It’s not recommended to use a word that can be found 
in a dictionary due to security reason. 
 
After you finish WPA Pre-shared key setting, please click ‘Apply’ button   
and the following message will be displayed on your web browser: 
 
 
 
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). 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
NOTE: Some wireless clients (especially those manufactured before 
year 2003) only support WEP or WPA (TKIA) cipher. A driver upgrade 
would be needed for those clients to use WPA and WPA2 encryption.