Netgear R8500 Nighthawk X8 Tri Band Ac5300 Wifi Router User Manual

							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 46 and Block
Services From the Internet on page 47.
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 56
•Smart Connect on page 59
•Beamforming on page 60
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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
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.
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							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.
Figure 8. A tri-band network includes two dedicated 5 GHz bands
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							In this tri-band network, the first 5 GHz band provides a speed of 200 Mbps, and the second 5 GHz band provides
a speed of 1300 Mbps.
The slower and faster devices are separated in different WiFi connections to ensure that you get the best speed on
each device. So in the previous figure, all three mobile devices are on one 5 GHz band with a combined maximum
speed of 200 Mbps, and the other 5 GHz WiFi band is used for the faster 802.11ac devices with a combined maximum
speed of 1300 Mbps. Effectively both slower and faster devices can run faster and the overall network speed increases
by more than two times, from 640 Mbps to 1500 Mbps.
Load Balancing
The router uses load balancing to distribute WiFi connections among all three WiFi bands, to ensure that both the
WiFi bands are utilized. Load balancing prevents overloading a single 5 GHz band and ensures that both the WiFi
bands are utilized and device connections are spread across the two bands.
For example, if three mobile devices are connected to one 5 GHz band, the fourth device is automatically connected
to the other 5 GHz band.
Figure 9. Load balancing
Slower devices like printers, older computers, or IP cameras connect to the 2.4 GHz band.The presence of two 5
GH bands prevents overloading when many devices use WiFi at the same time.
Benefits of Tri-Band WiFi
The tri-band WiFi network outperforms the dual-band network in several ways:
•More bandwidth is available.
Even with more devices connected to the network, because the connections are spread across two different
bands, each device gets a larger share of the available WiFi bandwidth.
•Smart Connect directs WiFi traffic to the appropriate lane.
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							With Smart Connect, older devices do not slow down faster devices.
•The router uses load balancing to avoid network congestion in each WiFi band.
With load balancing, you don’t need to share your WiFi connection with as many devices.
Smart Connect
Smart Connect balances your 5 GHz WiFi connections into two different radio bands: the 5 GHz radio 1 band and
the 5 GHz radio 2 band.The router uses Smart Connect to choose the best radio band for your device to give you
the best WiFi performance.
iTunes Server lets you play music with your Windows or Mac iTunes app from a storage device that is connected
to the router.You can also use the Apple Remote app from an iPhone or iPad to play music on any AirPlay devices,
such as Apple TV or AirPlay-supported receivers.
Figure 10. Smart Connect
For Smart Connect to work, both 5 GHz radio bands must use the same WiFi network name (SSID) and network
key (password).That means that when you connect to the router with WiFi, you see only one 5 GHz SSID that
connects to both 5 GHz radio bands.
If you enable Smart Connect and the SSID and passwords for both 5 GHz radio bands do
not match, the WiFi settings for 5 GHz radio 1 overwrite the WiFi settings for 5 GHz radio 2.
Note
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							Enable or Disable Smart Connect
To enable or disable Smart Connect:
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 Wireless.
The Wireless Setup page displays.
5.Select or clear the the Smart Connect – One Wireless Network Name (SSID) for both 5 GHz radios check
box.
Selecting this check box turns on Smart Connect and clearing this check box turns off Smart Connect.
6.Click the Apply button.
Your settings are saved.
Beamforming
Beamforming means that your router actively tracks clients and directs Wifi to the client, rather than just blasting it
out in all directions.This means better WiFi range and performance for your WiFi devices.
The router uses explicit and implicit beamforming to improve WiFi performance. Explicit beamforming requires the
client to support beamforming.Typically, 802.11ac clients support beamforming. Implicit beamforming means that
the router can support beamforming even with clients that do not support beamforming.This router supports implicit
beamforming for both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz clients, which means that it provides beamforming benefits of better range
and performance for all WiFi devices, even older 802.11a/b/g/n devices, not just the latest WiFi clients.
Enable or Disable Implicit Beamforming
Implicit beamforming means that the router can use information from client devices that support beamforming to
improve the WiFi signal.
To enable or disable implicit beamforming:
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.
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