Edimax Router BR-6574n User Manual

							 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Item Name Description 
WPA Unicast Cipher 
Suite  Please select a type of WPA cipher suite. 
Available options are: WPA (TKIP), WPA2 
(AES), and WPA2 Mixed. You can select one of 
them, but you have to make sure your wireless 
client support the cipher you selected. 
RADIUS Server IP 
address Input the IP address of RADIUS authentication 
server here. 
RADIUS Server Port Input the port number of RADIUS 
authentication server here. Most of RADIUS 
server will use port number 1812 and you can 
keep using default value. 
RADIUS Server 
Password Input the password of RADIUS authentication 
server here. 
 
Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes, or click ‘Reset’ to clear the texts in 
all fields. If you click ‘Apply’, the following messages will appear: 
 
 
 
You can click ‘Continue’ to back to previous page and continue setting, or 
click ‘Apply’ to restart the broadband router so the changes will take 
effect.  
						

							3-4-3 MAC Address Filtering 
 
This function will help you to prevent unauthorized users from 
connecting to your wireless router; only those wireless devices who have 
the MAC address you assigned here can gain access to your wireless 
router. You can use this function with other security measures described 
in previous section, to create a safer wireless environment. Up to 20 
MAC addresses can be assigned.   
 
 
 
To enable MAC address filtering, please check ‘Enable Wireless Access 
Control’ box in this page, the descriptions of other setting items are listed 
as follow: 
 
Item Name Description 
MAC address  Input the MAC address you wish to add to the 
MAC address to the table. 
Comment  You can input any text here as the comment of 
this MAC address, like ‘ROOM 2A Computer’ 
or anything. You can input up to 16 
alphanumerical characters here. This is 
optional and you can leave it blank, however, 
it’s recommended to use this field to write a 
comment for every MAC addresses as a 
memory aid. 
Add  Click ‘Add’ button to add the MAC address and 
associated comment to the MAC address 
filtering table. 
Clear  Click ‘Clear’ to remove the value you inputted 
in MAC address and comment field. 
  
						

							All MAC address entries will be listed in this page: 
  
 
 
To delete one or more entries listed here, please check the box of the 
mapping entry (under ‘Select’), and click ‘Delete Selected’ button.   
 
If you wish to delete all mapping entries, click ‘Delete All’ button. To 
deselect all checked boxes, click ‘Reset’ button. 
 
When you finished with the settings in this page, you can click ‘Apply’ 
button to save changes you made in this page, or you can click ‘Cancel’ 
to discard changes. After you click ‘Apply’ button, 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.  
						

							3-4-4 WPS 
 
WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) provides a convenient way to establish the 
connection between this broadband router and wireless clients. Any 
WPS-compatible wireless clients can establish secure connection with 
this broadband router with simple push-button type configuration or 
PinCode type configuration. 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Item Name Description 
Enable WPS  Check this box to enable WPS function, 
uncheck it to disable WPS. 
WPS Status  If the wireless security (encryption) function of 
this wireless router is properly set, you’ll see 
‘Configured’ message here. If wireless security 
function has not been set, you’ll see 
‘unConfigured’. 
Self PIN code  This is the WPS PIN code of this wireless 
router. This code is useful when you need to 
build wireless connection by WPS with other 
WPS-enabled wireless devices. 
SSID  The SSID of this wireless router will be  
						

							displayed here. 
Authentication Mode  The wireless security authentication mode of 
this wireless router will be displayed here. 
Passphrase Key  The WPA passphrase will be displayed as 
asterisk here. 
Config Mode  Select the WPS configuration role of this 
broadband router.   
 
Registrar: This broadband router will act as 
WPS registrar and wait for wireless clients to 
send WPS configuration request. 
 
Enrollee: This broadband router will act as 
WPS enrollee and send WPS configuration 
request to other WPS registrar. 
Configure via Push 
Button Click ‘Start PBC’ to start Push-Button type 
WPS configuration (PBC). Please push the 
WPS push-button on other WPS-compatible 
network devices to begin WPS configuration. 
 
You can also push the ‘WPS / Reset’ button 
located at the back of this broadband router to 
start PBC without using web configuration 
interface. 
Configure via Client 
PinCode Please input the PinCode displayed at the 
configuration software of WPS-enabled 
wireless client, and click ‘Start PIN’ to 
establish connection with the wireless client. 
  
						

							3-5 Advance  Settings* 
 
This router provides various network functionalities like QoS and NAT, 
and you can configure these functions in ‘Advanced Settings’ menu. 
 
 
 
Please select the function you wish to set, then click ‘Apply’ button. If 
you wish to go back to previous page, click ‘Previous’ button.  
						

							3-5-1 QoS 
 
Quality of service provides an efficient way for computers on the network 
to share the internet bandwidth with a promised quality of internet service. 
Without QoS, all computers and devices on the network will compete 
with each other to get internet bandwidth, and some applications which 
require guaranteed bandwidth (like video streaming and network 
telephone) will be affected, therefore an unpleasing result will occur, like 
the interruption of video / audio transfer.   
 
With this function, you can limit the maximum bandwidth or give a 
guaranteed bandwidth for a specific computer, to avoid said unpleasing 
result from happening. 
 
3-5-1-1 Basic QoS Settings 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Item Name Description 
Enable QoS  Check this box to enable QoS function, 
uncheck it to disable QoS. 
Total Download 
Bandwidth You can set the limit of total download 
bandwidth in kbits. To disable download 
bandwidth limitation, input ‘0’ here. 
Total Upload 
Bandwidth You can set the limit of total upload bandwidth 
in kbits. To disable upload bandwidth 
limitation, input ‘0’ here. 
Add  Click ‘add’ button to add a new QoS rule 
(detailed instructions will be given below).  
						

							Edit  If you want to modify the content of a specific 
rule, please check the ‘select’ box of the rule 
you want to edit, then click ‘Edit’ button. Only 
one rule should be selected a time! If you 
didn’t select a rule before clicking ‘Edit’ 
button, you’ll be prompted to add a new rule. 
Delete Selected  You can delete selected rules by clicking this 
button. You can select one or more rules to 
delete by check the ‘select’ the box of the 
rule(s) you want to delete a time. If the QoS 
table is empty, this button will be grayed out 
and can not be clicked. 
Delete All  By clicking this button, you can delete all rules 
currently listed in the QoS table. If the QoS 
table is empty, this button will be grayed out 
and can not be clicked. 
Move Up  Move selected item up. 
Move Down  Move selected item down. 
Reset  If you want to erase all values you just entered. 
Click ‘Reset’ 
 
When you finished with the settings in this page, you can click ‘Apply’ 
button to save changes you made in this page, or you can click ‘Cancel’ 
to discard changes. After you click ‘Apply’ button, 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.  
						

							3-5-1-2 Add a new QoS entry 
 
After you click ‘Add’ button in QoS menu, a new setting page will 
appear: 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Item Name Description 
Rule Name  Please give a name to this QoS rule (up to 15 
alphanumerical characters). 
Bandwidth  Set the bandwidth limitation of this QoS rule. 
You have to select the data direction of this rule 
(Upload of Download), and the speed of 
bandwidth limitation in Kbps, then select the 
type of QoS: ‘guarantee’ (guaranteed usable 
bandwidth for this rule) or ‘max’ (set the 
maximum bandwidth for the application 
allowed by this rule). 
Local IP Address  Specify the local (source) IP address that will 
be affected by this rule. Please input the 
starting IP address in the left field, and input 
the end IP address in the right field to define a 
range of IP addresses, or just input the IP 
address in the left field to define a single IP 
address. 
Local Port Range  Please input the range of local (source) port  
						

							number that will be affected by this rule. If you 
want to apply this rule on port 80 to 90, please 
input ’80-90’; if you want to apply this rule on 
a single port, just input the port number, like 
‘80’ 
Remote IP Address  Specify the remote (destination) IP address that 
will be affected by this rule. Please input the 
starting IP address in the left field, and input 
the end IP address in the right field to define a 
range of IP addresses, or just input the IP 
address in the left field to define a single IP 
address. 
Remote Port Range  Please input the range of remote (destination) 
port number that will be affected by this rule. If 
you want to apply this rule on port 80 to 90, 
please input ’80-90’; if you want to apply this 
rule on a single port, just input the port 
number, like ‘80’.
 If the remote (destination) IP 
address and /or port number is universal, just 
leave it blank. 
Traffic Type  Please select the traffic type of this rule, 
available options are None, SMTP, HTTP, 
POP3, and FTP. You can select a specific 
traffic type for this rule, if you want to make 
this rule as a IP address based rule (apply the 
limitation on all traffics from / to the specified 
IP address / port number), select ‘None’. 
Protocol  Please select the protocol type of this rule, 
available options are TCP and UDP. If you 
don’t know what protocol your application 
uses, please try ‘TCP’ first, and switch to 
‘UDP’ if this rule doesn’t seems to work. 
 
Please click ‘save’ button to save settings, and the rule you just set will 
appear in current QoS table; if you did anything wrong, you’ll get an 
error message when you click ‘Save’ button, please correct your input by 
the instructions given by the error message. If you want to erase all values 
you just entered, click ‘Reset’.