Netgear R8300 Nighthawk X8 Ac5000 Smart Wifi Router User Manual

							6.Click the Add button.
7.To add a service that is in the Service Type menu, select the application or service.
The settings for this service automatically display in the fields.
8.To add a service or application that is not in the menu, select User Defined, and do the following:
a.If you know that the application uses either TCP or UDP, select the appropriate protocol. Otherwise, select
TCP/UDP (both).
b.Enter the starting port and ending port numbers.
If the service uses a single port number, enter that number in both fields.To find out which port numbers
the service or application uses, you can contact the publisher of the application, ask user groups or
newsgroups, or search on the Internet.
9.Select a filtering option:
•Only This IP Address. Block services for a single computer.
•IP Address Range. Block services for a range of computers with consecutive IP addresses on your network.
•All lP Addresses. Block services for all computers on your network.
10.Click the Add button.
Your settings are saved.
Delete Keywords From the Blocked List
To delete keywords from the list:
1.Launch a web browser from a computer or WiFi device that is connected to the network.
2.Enter http://www.routerlogin.net.
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							A login window opens.
3.Enter the router user name and password.
The user name is admin.The default password is admin.The user name and password are case-sensitive.
The BASIC Home page displays.
4.Select ADVANCED > Security >Block Sites.
The Block Sites page displays.
5.Do one of the following:
•To delete a single word, select it and click the Delete Keyword button.
The keyword is removed from the list.
•To delete all keywords on the list, click the Clear List button.
All keywords are removed from the list.
6.Click the Apply button.
Your settings are saved.
Avoid Blocking on a Trusted Computer
You can exempt one trusted computer from blocking.The computer you exempt must be assigned a fixed IP address.
You can use the reserved IP address feature to specify the IP address. See Manage Reserved LAN IP Addresses
on page 75.
To specify a trusted computer:
1.Launch a web browser from a computer or WiFi device that is connected to the network.
2.Enter http://www.routerlogin.net.
A login window opens.
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 page displays.
4.Select ADVANCED > Security > Block Sites.
The Block Sites page displays.
5.Scroll down and select the Allow trusted IP address to visit blocked sites check box.
6.In the Trusted IP Address field, enter the IP address of the trusted computer.
7.Click the Apply button.
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							Your settings are saved.
Manage Network Access Control Lists
You can use access control to block or allow access to your network.
To manage devices that are allowed or blocked:
1.Launch a web browser from a computer or WiFi device that is connected to the network.
2.Type http://www.routerlogin.net.
A login window opens.
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 page displays.
4.Select ADVANCED > Security > Access Control.
5.Select the Turn on Access Control radio button.
6.Click the View list of allowed devices not currently connected to the network link.
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							The list displays.
7.Select the check box for a device.
8.Use the Add button, Edit button, and Remove from the list button as needed.
9.Click the Apply button.
Your settings are saved.
Schedule When to Block Internet Sites and Services
When you schedule blocking, the same schedule is used to block sites and to block services. For information about
how to specify what you want the router to block, see Use Keywords to Block Internet Sites on page 49 and Block
Services From the Internet on page 50.
To schedule blocking:
1.Launch a web browser from a computer or WiFi device that is connected to the network.
2.Enter http://www.routerlogin.net.
A login window opens.
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 page displays.
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							4.Select ADVANCED > Security > Schedule.
5.Specify when to block keywords and services:
•Days to Block. Select the check box for each day that you want to block the keywords, or select the Every
Day check box, which automatically selects the check boxes for all days.
•Time of Day to Block. Select a start and end time in 24-hour format, or select the All Day check box for
24-hour blocking.
6.Select your time zone from the menu.
7.If you live in a region that observes daylight saving time, select the Automatically adjust for daylight savings
time check box.
8.Click the Apply button.
Your settings are saved.
Set Up Security Event Email Notifications
The router can email you its logs of router activity.The log records router activity and security events such as attempts
to access blocked sites or services.
To set up email notifications:
1.Launch a web browser from a computer or WiFi device that is connected to the network.
2.Enter http://www.routerlogin.net.
A login window opens.
3.Enter the router user name and password.
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							The user name is admin.The default password is password.The user name and password are case-sensitive.
The BASIC Home page displays.
4.Select ADVANCED > Security >E-mail.
5.Select the Turn E-mail Notification On check box.
6.In the Your Outgoing Mail Server field, enter the name of your ISP outgoing (SMTP) mail server (such as
mail.myISP.com).
You might be able to find this information in the configuration window of your email program. If you leave this
field blank, log and alert messages are not sent.
7.In the Send to This E-mail Address field, type the email address to which logs and alerts are to be sent.
This email address is also used for the From address. If this field is blank, log and alert messages are not sent.
8.If your outgoing email server requires authentication, select the My Mail Server requires authentication check
box, and do the following:
a.In the User Name field, type the user name for the outgoing email server.
b.In the Password field, type the password for the outgoing email server.
9.To send alerts when someone attempts to visit a blocked site, select the Send Alerts Immediately check box.
Email alerts are sent immediately when someone attempts to visit a blocked site.
10.To send logs based on a schedule, specify these settings:
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							a.From Send logs according to this schedule menu, select the schedule type.
b.From the Day menu, select the day.
c.From the Time menu, select the time, and select the am or pm radio button.
11.Click the Apply button.
Your settings are saved.
Logs are sent automatically according to the schedule that you set. If the log fills before the specified time, it is
sent. After the log is sent, it is cleared from the router memory. If the router cannot email the log and the log
buffer fills, the router overwrites the log.
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							5
Tri-Band WiFi Connections
This chapter explains how the router manages WiFi connections for its WiFi bands and how you can control the relevant
router settings.
The chapter contains the following sections:
•Tri-Band WiFi on page 59
•Smart Connect on page 62
•Beamforming on page 64
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							Tri-Band WiFi
Tri-band WiFi delivers combined WiFi speeds of 3.2 Gbps through three dedicated WiFi bands—a 2.4 GHz band
plus two 5 GHz bands.This additional 5 GHz WiFi band allows you to double the WiFi bandwidth for dual-band
devices.
Figure 6.Tri-band WiFi doubles the available bandwidth for dual-band devices
Smart Connect intelligently selects the best WiFi band for each dual-band device to optimize connection speed and
performance based on that device’s speed and performance capabilities.This additional WiFi bandwidth combined
with the intelligence to segregate traffic based on WiFi speed and load balancing provides the best performance for
multiple WiFi devices in your home.
How Tri-Band WiFi Improves Speed and Performance
Tri-band WiFi increases the available WiFi bandwidth for your network to reduce network congestion.
Typically, a dual-band WiFi router shares bandwidth among all connected devices that are downloading data at the
same time. So if you are watching a Netflix movie on your Internet-enabled large-screen TV while your kids are
watching a YouTube video on a smartphone, the router shares the bandwidth across these two devices.This is
particularly unfair for the faster 802.11ac devices or three-stream (3x3) 802.11n devices because their speeds are
reduced to the speed of the slowest device in the network. Even one slow device can bring down the entire network
speed.
In this simplified example, the 5 GHz band is capable of a maximum speed of 1733 Mbps, but the actual speed
could be limited by the device capability. For example, an Apple MacBook Pro with support for three streams is
capable of the maximum 1300 Mbps, but the Tri-Band WiFi Connections iPhone 5S with support for only single-stream
802.11n can achieve a maximum WiFi speed of only 150 Mbps. As more devices connect and begin downloading,
the bandwidth is shared among them as well.
The following example of shared bandwidth shows a dual-band router in which the GHz WiFi band is capable of a
fast 640 Mbps speed. If only one computer or device connects, the router can allocate a speed of up to 640 Mbps
to that connection, assuming that the device is capable of that speed.When more devices connect to the 5 GHz
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							band, they must share the bandwidth. If four devices connect, then the router divides its 640 Mbps capacity by 5,
as shown in the following figure.
Figure 7. Dual-band WiFi network with one 5 GHz WiFi band
That means that in the network shown, a computer with a 1,300 Mbps capacity provides an effective WiFi connection
speed of 160 Mbps (1300÷ 5), and other devices would also see their WiFi speeds divided by 5.
Tri-band WiFi adds a second 5 GHz WiFi band to the network.This increases the available WiFi bandwidth, which
can be compared to widening the road. In addition to widening the road, using two 5 GHz bands means that the
router has dedicated 5 GHz bands.That’s like tri-band WiFi connections using two lanes in the wider road instead
of one.The router automatically uses Smart Connect to allocate the fastest devices to the fast lane.
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