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 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. 
  
						

							3-1-5 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 
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: 
  
						

							 
 
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. 
  
						

							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 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.  
						

							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 for deciding an IP address to be used 
with this broadband router 
 
Before all computers using wired Ethernet connection (i.e. those 
computers connect to this router’s LAN port 1 to 4 by Ethernet cable) or 
wireless connection can communicate with each other and access internet, 
they must have a valid IP address. 
 
There are two ways to assign IP addresses to computers: static IP address 
(set the IP address for every computer manually), and dynamic IP address 
(IP address of computers will be assigned by router automatically. It’s 
recommended for most of computers to use dynamic IP address, it will 
save a lot of time on setting IP addresses for every computer, especially 
when there are a lot of computers in your network; for servers and 
network devices which will provide services to other computer and users 
that come from Internet, static IP address should be used, so other 
computes can locate the server. 
 
This broadband router has a built-in DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration 
Protocol) server, and can help you to assign IP addresses to your client 
computers. Almost  all network computers / devices manufactured after 
year 1995 are compatible with DHCP, and you can let this broadband 
router to assign the IP address to client computers / devices for you.  
						

							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), and pick a number between 0 
and 254 for field ‘c’. 
 
2.  In most cases, you should use ‘255.255.255.0’ as subnet mask, 
which allows up to 253 clients (this also meets router’s 
capability of working with up to 253 clients). 
 
3.  For all servers and network devices which will provide 
services to other people (like Internet service, print service, 
and file service), they should use static IP address. Give each 
of them a unique number between 1 and 253, and maintain a 
list, so everyone can locate those servers easily. 
 
4.  For computers which are not dedicated to provide specific 
service to others, they should use dynamic IP address. 
 
If you don’t really understand the descriptions listed above, don’t 
worry! We will provide recommended setup values below.  
						

							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 want to activate DHCP server function 
of this router, select ‘Enabled’, or set it to 
‘Disabled’. 
Lease Time  Please select the lease time for every DHCP 
leases here. You can select the time period from 
the dropdown list, and the DHCP client will be 
forced to obtain a new IP address from this 
broadband router after this period of time.   
You can select ‘Forever’ if you’re using this 
broadband router with only few computers 
(less than 30 computers) 
 
Recommended Value if you don’t know what to fill: 
IP Address:  192.168.1.254 
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 
802.1d Spanning Tree: Disabled 
DHCP Server: Enabled  
						

							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’, if you have less than 20 computers) 
Start IP: 192.168.1.1 
End IP: 192.168.1.200 
Domain Name: (leave it blank) 
NOTE:  
 
1. The number of the last field (mentioned ‘d’ field) of ‘End IP’ must be 
greater than ‘Start IP’, and can not the same with router’s IP address. 
2. The former three fields of IP address of ‘Start IP’, ‘End IP’, and ‘IP 
Address of ‘LAN IP’ section (mentioned ‘a’, ‘b’, and ‘c’ field) should be 
the same. 
3. These settings will affect wireless clients, too.