Edimax Router BR-6574n User Manual

‘Continuous’ - keep internet connection alive, 
do not disconnect.   
 
’Connect on Demand’ - only connects to 
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’. 
 
If you wish...

3-1-5 L2TP 
 
If your ISP requires you to use L2TP (Layer-2 Tunneling Protocol) to 
establish connection, you can select this connection type to establish 
Internet connection. L2TP is another popular connection method for 
xDSL and other Internet connection types, and all required setting items 
are the same with PPTP connection. 
 
Like PPTP, there are two kinds of required setting, we’ll start from ‘WAN 
Interface Settings’: 
 
 
 
Please select the type of how you obtain IP address from your service...

 
 
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. 
L2TP Gateway Please input the IP address of PPTP gateway 
assigned by your Internet service provider 
here. 
MTU Please input the MTU value of your network 
connection here. If you don’t know, you can use 
default value. 
Connection Type Please select the...

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’. 
 
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...

3-1-6 Telstra Big Pond 
 
This connection type only works for Telstra big pond network service in 
Australia. DO NOT select this connection type if you’re not using Telstra 
big pond network service. 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Item Name Description 
User Name Please input the user name assigned by Telstra.
Password Please input the password assigned by Telstra. 
User device login 
server manually Check this box to choose login server by 
yourself. 
Login Server Please input the...

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.  

3-3 LAN (Wired) 
 
You can setup Wired LAN (Local Area Network) connections of this 
broadband router in ‘LAN’ menu. This broadband router has 4 LAN ports 
and they’ll all use the same LAN IP address settings. Please also note that 
both wired and wireless LAN uses the same LAN IP address settings, too. 
 
LAN settings split into 3 sections: LAN IP, DHCP Server, and Static 
DHCP leases. Please refer to corresponding sections below for detailed 
setup instructions. 
 
3-3-1 Before you start - Suggestions...

Suggestions on IP address numbering plan: 
 
  If you have no idea on how to define an IP address plan for your 
network, here are some suggestions.   
 
1.  A valid IP address has 4 fields: a.b.c.d, for most of home and 
company users, it’s suggested to use 192.168.c.d, where c is 
an integer between 0 and 254, and d is an integer between 1 
and 254. This router is capable to work with up to 253 clients, 
so you can set ‘d’ field of IP address of router as 1 or 254 (or 
any number between 1 and 254),...

3-3-2 LAN IP 
 
You can use this setting to assign an IP address to the LAN interface of 
this broadband router. 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
Item Name Description 
IP address Please input the IP address of this broadband 
router’s LAN interface. 
Subnet Mask Please input subnet mask for this network. 
802.1d Spanning Tree  If you wish to activate 802.1d spanning tree 
function, select ‘Enabled’ for setup item 
‘802.1d Spanning Tree’, or set it to ‘Disabled’. 
DHCP Server If you...

3-3-3 DHCP Server 
 
You can use this setting to decide the range of IP address leases.   
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Item Name Description 
Start IP  Please input the start IP address of the IP 
leases range. 
End IP  Please input the end IP address of the IP leases 
range. 
Domain Name If you wish, you can also 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’,...