Edimax Router BR-6574n User Manual

							 
 
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 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. 
  
						

							2-4-6 Using Telstra Big Pond as broadband connection type 
 
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 IP address of login server 
here. 
 
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.  
						

							Chapter III: General Setup 
 
This broadband router provides a ‘Quick Setup’ menu, and you can setup 
basic parameters of this broadband router. 
 
Please follow the following instructions to use ‘Quick Setup’ menu: 
 
1. Click ‘General Setup’ after logged in. 
 
  
						

							2. Five submenus will appear: 
 
 
System - Basic system settings (please go to chapter 3-1) 
 
WAN - Setup WAN port manually (please go to chapter 3-2) 
 
LAN - Setup LAN port manually (please go to chapter 3-3) 
 
Wireless - Setup wireless interface manually (please go to chapter 3-4) 
 
Advance Settings - Setup advanced settings of this broadband router 
(Please go to chapter 3-5) 
  
						

							3-1 System 
 
You can setup basic system settings of this broadband router in ‘System’ 
menu: 
 
 
 
Please select the setting item you wish to set, then click ‘Apply’ button to 
proceed. You can also click ‘Previous’ button to back to ‘System’ menu. 
 
3-1-1 Time Zone 
 
You can change the time zone settings of this broadband router. It’s 
important to have correct date and time setting if you need to read system 
log and use build-in firewall functions. 
 
 
  
						

							The descriptions of every setting item are listed as follow: 
 
Item Name Description 
Time Zone  Please select a time zone of the country or 
region of your residence here. If you can’t find 
the country / region of your residence here, 
please select a city / region which time zone is 
the same with the country / region of your 
residence. 
Time Server Address  This load-balance router supports NTP 
(Network Time Protocol). NTP server will 
provide correct time for this router to setup the 
date and time of the router automatically. 
Please input the host name or IP address of 
NTP server here. If you don’t know the host 
name or IP address of time server, please ask 
network administrator or use ‘pool.ntp.org’ as 
time server. 
Daylight Savings  If the country / region of your residence use 
daylight saving time, please check ‘Enable 
Function’ box, and select the beginning and 
ending date of daylight time saving. 
 
  
						

							3-1-2 Password Settings 
 
You can change the web login password of this broadband router. If you 
keep using the default password ‘1234’, other people may access the 
configuration interface without your permission. Please change the 
password as soon as possible. 
 
 
 
The descriptions of every setting item are listed as follow: 
 
Item Name Description 
Current Password Please input current password here. 
New Password  Please input new password here. 
Confirmed Password  Please input new password here again for 
confirmation. 
 
After you inputted current and new password, click ‘Apply’ to save 
changes, or you can click ‘Cancel’ to keep current password untouched.   
 
  
						

							3-1-3 Remote Management 
 
If you need to manage this broadband router outside of your LAN (i.e. 
from Internet), you can use this function to assign a remote IP address 
which is permitted to connect to this broadband router’s web management 
interface from Internet. 
 
If it’s not required for you to manage this broadband router from Internet, 
you can disable this function to improve security. 
 
 
 
The descriptions of every setting item are listed as follow: 
 
Item Name Description 
Host address 
Input the IP address of the remote host you 
wish to initiate a management access. 
Port 
You can define the port number this router 
should expect an incoming connection request. 
If you’re providing a web service (default port 
number is 80), you should try to use other port 
number. You can use the default port setting 
‘8080’, or something like ‘32245’ or ‘1429’. 
(Any integer between 1 and 65534) 
Enabled 
Check this box to enable remote management 
function. When this box is unchecked, no one 
can access this broadband router’s 
management interface from Internet.