Netgear R6250 Smart Wifi Router Ac1600 User Manual

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The BASIC Home screen displays.
4.  Select  ADV
 ANCED > Advanced Setup > Dynamic DNS .
5. Select the Use a Dynamic DNS Service  check box.
6.  In the Service Provider list, select NETGEAR.
7.  Select the No radio button.
8.  In the Host Name field, type the name that you want to use for your URL.
The host name is sometimes called the domain name. Your free URL includes the host  name that you specify
 , and ends with mynetgear.com. For example, specify...

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A login screen displays.
3.  Enter the router user name and password.
The user name is  admin. 
 The default password is password . The user name and 
password are case-sensitive.
The BASIC Home screen displays.
4.  Select  ADV
 ANCED > Advanced Setup > Dynamic DNS .
5. Select the  Use a Dynamic DNS Service  check box.
6.  In the Service Provider  list, select one of the following:
• NETGEAR
• NoIP
.com
•www
.DynDNS.org
7.  Select the  Ye
 s radio button. 

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The screen adjusts and displays the Show Status, Cancel, and Apply buttons.
8. 
In the Host Name field, type the host name (sometimes called the domain name) for your\
 
account.
9.  For a www
 .NoIP or www.DynDNS account, in the  User Name field, enter the user name for 
your account.
10.  For a NETGEAR account at www
 .no-ip, in the Email field, type the email address for your 
account.
11.  In the Password (6-32 characters) field, type the password for...

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4. Select ADVANCED > Advanced Setup > Dynamic DNS.
5. Change your DDNS account settings as necessary.
6. Click the Apply button.
Your changes are saved.
Static Routes
Static routes provide more routing information to your router. Typically, you do not need to 
add static routes. You have to configure static routes only for unusual cases such as multiple 
routers or multiple IP subnets on your network.
As an example of when a static route is needed, consider...

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2. 
Click  Add.
3. In the Route Name field, type a name for this static route (for identif\
ication purposes only.) 
4.  Select the Private check box if you want to limit access to the LAN only
 . 
If Private is selected, the static route is not reported in RIP. 
5.  Select the  Active check box to make this route ef
 fective. 
6.  T
ype the IP address of the final destination. 
7. T
ype the IP subnet mask for this destination. If the destination is a sin\...

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Remote Management
The remote management feature lets you access your router over the Inter\
net to view or 
change its settings.
Note:
Be sure to change the router default login password to a secure 
password. The ideal password contains no dictionary words from any 
language and contains uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, 
and symbols. It can be up to 30 characters. See Change the 
Password on page  90.
To set up remote management:
1. Select...

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Normal web browser access uses the standard HTTP service port 80. For gr\
eater 
security, enter a custom port number for the remote web management interface. Ch\
oose 
a number from 1024 to 65535, but do not use the number of any common ser\
vice port. 
The default is 8080, which is a common alternate for HTTP.
5.  Click the  Apply button.
Your changes take effect.
6.  When you access your router from the Internet, type your router’
 s WAN IP address into...

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network traffic. Longer durations can compromise the freshness of the device status,\
 but 
can significantly reduce network traffic.
4.  T
ype the advertisement time to live in hops.
The time to live for the advertisement is measured in hops (steps) for\
 each UPnP packet sent. 
 The time to live hop count is the number of steps a broadcast packet is \
allowed to 
propagate for each UPnP advertisement before it disappears. The number of hops can 
range from...

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3. 
Click the  Apply button.
Your changes take effect.
Requirements for Entering IPv6 Addresses
IPv6 addresses are denoted by eight groups of hexadecimal quartets that \
are separated by 
colons. Any four-digit group of zeroes within an IPv6 address can be reduced to \
a single zero 
or altogether omitted.
The following errors invalidate an IPv6 address: • More than eight groups of hexadecimal quartets
• More than four hexadecimal characters in a quartet
•...

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which is also indicated by the underline (_) under the IPv6 address. I\
f no address is 
acquired, the field displays Not Available.
3.  Specify how the router assigns IPv6 addresses to the devices on your hom\
e network (the 
LAN) by selecting one of the following radio buttons:
• Use DHCP Server . 
 This method passes more information to LAN devices, but some 
IPv6 systems might not support the DHCv6 client function.
• Auto Config. 
 This is the default...