Edimax Router BR-6574n User Manual

Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes in this page, or you can click 
‘Cancel’ to discard all settings in this page. After you click ‘Apply’ button, 
you’ll see the following message: 
 
 
 
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.  

3-2 WAN 
 
You can setup WAN (Wide Area Network, i.e. Internet) connections of 
this broadband router in ‘WAN’ menu: 
 
 
 
Please select the WAN connection type you wish to use, then click 
‘Apply’ to continue. You can also click ‘Previous’ to back to previous 
page. 
 
If you’re not sure which connection type you should use, please call your 
ISP’s service hotline and ask for help. You’ll not be able to connect to 
Internet with wrong connection type. 

3-2-1 Dynamic IP 
 
Dynamic IP means your ISP will assign an IP address to you 
automatically by ‘DHCP’ (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol). 
Dynamic IP is often used by cable modem Internet connection. 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Item Name Description 
Host Name Please input the 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 
here, if your service provider...

If you wish to select another connection type as broadband connection 
type, click ‘Back’; or you can click ‘OK’ to finish with quick setup. 
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. 
  

3-1-2 Static IP 
 
Some ISP will give you a fixed IP address, and ask you to use this IP 
address to establish Internet connection. In this case, you have to select 
this connection type to establish connection with your ISP. 
 
Please note that if your ISP is assigning a fixed IP address to you by 
DHCP or PPPoE, do not select this connection type. Please contact your 
ISP’s service hotline to make sure you really need to use static IP as 
connection type. 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup...

 
 
 
 
If you wish to select another connection type as broadband connection 
type, click ‘Back’; or you can click ‘OK’ to finish with quick setup. 
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 must use the addresses...

3-1-3 PPPoE 
 
If your ISP requires you to establish Internet connection by PPPoE 
(Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet), you can use this connection type 
to establish Internet connection. 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Item Name Description 
User Name Please input user name assigned by your 
Internet service provider here. 
Password Please input the password assigned by your 
Internet service provider here. 
Service Name Please give a name to this Internet service, this 
is...

Internet when there’s a connect attempt,   
 
Manual - only connects to Internet when 
‘Connect’ button on this page is pressed, and 
disconnects when ‘Disconnect button is 
pressed. 
Idle Time Out Please specify the time to shutdown internet 
connect after no internet activity is detected in 
minute(s). This option is only available when 
connection type is ‘Connect on Demand’. 
TTL  Time-to-live (TTL) is a value in an Internet 
Protocol packet that tells a network router 
whether or not the packet has...

3-1-4 PPTP 
 
If your ISP requires you to use PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) 
to establish connection, you can select this connection type to establish 
Internet connection. 
 
PPTP requires two kinds of setting: WAN interface setting (setup IP 
address) and PPTP setting (PPTP user name and password). Here we start 
from WAN interface setting first: 
 
 
 
Select the type of how you obtain IP address from your service provider 
here. You can choose ‘Obtain an IP address automatically’ (equal to...

Now please go to PPTP settings section: 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Item Name Description 
User ID  Please input user ID (user name) assigned by 
your Internet service provider here. 
Password  Please input the password assigned by your 
Internet service provider here. 
PPTP Gateway  Please input the IP address of PPTP gateway 
assigned by your Internet service provider 
here. 
Connection ID Please input the connection ID here, this is 
optional and you can leave it blank. 
MTU...