Netgear Wndr3400v3 N600 Wireless Dual Band Router User Manual

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Guest Network (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz)
Name (SSID
). The 11N wireless network name (SSID) used by the router. The default names 
are NETGEAR-Guest and NETGEAR-5G-Guest.
Wireless AP . Indicates whether the radio feature of the router is enabled. If this \
feature is not 
enabled, the Wireless LEDs on the front panel are of
 f.
Broadcast Name . Indicates whether the router is broadcasting its SSID.
Wireless Isolation. Select this check box only if you...

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Select 
Advanced > Administration > Logs. The Logs screen displays.
The log screen shows the following information:
• Date and time. 
 The date and time the log entry was recorded.
• Source IP address. 
 The IP address of the initiating device for this log entry.
• T
arget address. The name or IP address of the website or news group visited or to which \
access was attempted.
• Action. Whether the access was blocked or allowed.
To refresh the...

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Back Up Settings
To back up the router’s configuration settings:
1. 
Select  Advanced > 
 Administration > Back Up Settings to display the following 
screen:
2.  Click  Back Up  to save a copy of the current settings.
3.  Choose a location to store the .cfg file that is on a computer on your n\
etwork.
Restore Configuration Settings
To restore configuration settings that you backed up:
1. Enter the full path to the file on your network, or...

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Erase sets the user name to admin, the password to password, and the LAN\
 IP address to 
192.168.1.1, and enables the router’s DHCP.
Set Password
This feature allows you to change the default password that is used to l\
og in to the router with 
the user name admin. 
This is not the same as changing the password for wireless access. The label on the bottom  of your router shows your unique wireless network name (SSID) and pass\
word for...

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2.  Select two security questions and provide answers to them.
3. Click Apply to save your changes.
When you use your browser to access the router, the login window displays. If password 
recovery is enabled, when you click Cancel, the password recovery process starts. You can 
then enter the saved answers to the security questions to recover the password.   

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8.   Advanced Settings
Fine-tuning your network
This chapter describes the advanced features of your router. This information is for users with a 
solid understanding of networking concepts who want to set up the router for unique situations 
such as remote access from the Internet by IP or domain name. 
This chapter includes the following sections:
•Advanced Wireless Settings 
•Port Forwarding and Port Triggering 
•Set Up Port Forwarding to Local Servers 
•Set Up Port Triggering 
•Dynamic DNS...

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Advanced Wireless Settings
Select 
Advanced > Advanced Setup > Wireless Settings to display the following screen:
Scroll to view 
more settings
The following settings are available in this screen for the 2.4 GHz and \
5 GHz bands:
Enable Wireless Router Radio . 
 You can completely turn off the wireless portion of the 
wireless router by clearing this check box. Select this check box again \
to enable the wireless 
portion of the router....

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AP Mode. You can make the WNDR3400v3 function as an access point.
Wireless Card Access List. Click the Set Up Access List button to display the Wireless 
Card Access List screen. On this screen, you can restrict access to your network to specific 
devices based on their MAC address. 
Port Forwarding and Port Triggering
By default, the router blocks inbound traffic from the Internet to your computers except replies 
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•The source address is replaced with your router’s public IP address. This is 
necessary because your computer uses a private IP address that is not globally 
unique and cannot be used on the Internet.
•The source port number is changed to a number chosen by the router, such as 
33333. This is necessary because two computers could independently be using the 
same session number.
Your router then sends this request message through the...

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also sends an “identify” message to your computer on port 113. Using port triggering, you can 
tell the router, “When you initiate a session with destination port 6667, you have to also allow 
incoming traffic on port 113 to reach the originating computer.” Using steps similar to the 
preceding example, the following sequence shows the effects of the port triggering rule you 
have defined:
1. You open an IRC client program to start a chat...