Edimax Router BR-6574n User Manual

							2-4-1 Using ‘Cable Modem’ as broadband connection type 
 
If your Internet service provider uses cable modem to provide Internet 
service to you, you can select this connection type. You can also select 
this connection type if your ISP tells you that they will assign you the IP 
address by ’DHCP’ (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol). 
 
 
 
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 only permits 
computer with certain MAC address to access 
internet. If you’re using the computer which 
used to connect to Internet via cable modem, 
you can simply press ‘Clone Mac address’ 
button to fill the MAC address field with the 
MAC address of your computer. 
TTL  Time-to-live (TTL) is a value in an Internet 
Protocol packet that tells a network router 
whether or not the packet has been in the 
network too long and should be discarded. 
  
						

							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. 
 
  
						

							2-4-2 Using ‘Fixed-IP xDSL’ as broadband connection type 
 
If your ISP requires you to set a fixed IP address to establish connection, 
you can use this connection type to input the IP address information 
assigned by your ISP.   
 
Please note that not only xDSL connections (like ADSL, HDSL, VDSL) 
can use this connection type, you can select this connection type for all 
connections that requires you to input a fixed IP address. Also, 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 items: 
 
Item Name Description 
IP address assigned by 
your by your service 
provider Please input IP address assigned by your 
service provider. 
Subnet Mask  Please input subnet mask assigned by your 
service provider. 
DNS address  Please input the IP address of DNS server 
provided by your service provider. 
Service Provider 
Gateway Address Please input the IP address of DNS server 
provided by your service provider. 
TTL  Time-to-live (TTL) is a value in an Internet 
Protocol packet that tells a network router 
whether or not the packet has been in the 
network too long and should be discarded.  
						

							 
 
 
 
 
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 provided by your Internet service 
provider, wrong setting value will cause connection problem.    
						

							2-4-3 Using ‘PPPoE xDSL’ as broadband connection type 
 
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 optional. 
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 connection type of Internet 
connection you wish to use. There are 3 
options:  
 
‘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’. 
TTL  Time-to-live (TTL) is a value in an Internet 
Protocol packet that tells a network router 
whether or not the packet has been in the 
network too long and should be discarded. 
 
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. 
  
						

							2-4-4 Using ‘PPTP xDSL’ as broadband connection type 
 
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 xDSL 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 
DHCP, please refer to ‘Cable Modem’ section above), or ‘Use the 
following IP address’ (i.e. static IP address).   
 
WAN interface settings must be correctly set, or the Internet connection 
will fail even those settings of PPTP settings are correct. Please contact 
your Internet service provider if you don’t know what you should fill in 
these fields. 
  
						

							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  Please input the MTU value of your network 
connection here. If you don’t know, you can use 
default value. 
BEZEQ-ISRAEL  Check ‘Enable’ box if you’re using BEZEQ 
network service in Israel. Do not check this 
box if you’re using other Internet service 
provider. 
Connection Type Please select the connection type of Internet 
connection you wish to use. There are 3 
options:  
  
						

							‘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 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. 
  
						

							2-4-5 Using L2TP xDSL as broadband connection type 
 
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 
provider here. You can choose ‘Obtain an IP address automatically’ (equal 
to DHCP, please refer to ‘Cable Modem’ section above), or ‘Use the 
following IP address’ (equal to static IP address, please refer to ‘PPPoE 
xDSL’ section above).   
 
WAN interface settings must be correctly set, or the Internet connection 
will fail even those settings of PPTP settings are correct. Please contact 
your Internet service provider if you don’t know what you should fill in 
these fields. 
 
Now please go to PPTP settings section: