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[. . . ] NRM42 User's Manual English version INDEX Chapter 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1. 1 Introducing the ADSL2+ Router. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1. 2 Features of the ADSL2+ Router. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Chapter 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2. 1 Important note for using the ADSL2+ Router . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2. 2 Package Contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2. 3 The Front LEDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2. 4 The Rear Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2. 5 Cabling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Chapter 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3. 1 Before Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3. 2 Factory Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 3. 3 LAN and WAN Port Addresses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 3. 4 Information from your ISP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] The DNS servers are passed to the DHCP clients along with the IP address and the subnet mask. The DNS servers are passed to the DHCP clients along with the IP address and the subnet mask. 29 4. 2. 3 for Wireless ADSL2+ Modem/router model only. This section introduces the wireless LAN and some basic configurations. Wireless LANs can be as simple as two computers with wireless LAN cards communicating in a peer-to-peer network or as complex as a number of computers with wireless LAN cards communicating through access points which bridge network traffic to the wired LAN. Wireless LAN Access Point: Default setting is set to Activated. If you do not have any wireless, both 802. 11g and 802. 11b, device in your network, select De-actived. SSID: The SSID is the unique name of a wireless access point (AP) to be distinguished from another. For security propose, change the value Default to a unique ID name to the AP 30 which is already built-in to the router's wireless interface. Make sure your wireless clients have exactly the SSID as the device, in order to get connected to your network. Broadcast SSID: Select Yes to hide the SSID in so a station cannot obtain the SSID through passive scanning. Select No to make the SSID visible so a station can obtain the SSID through passive scanning. Channel ID: The range of radio frequencies used by IEEE 802. 11b/g wireless devices is called a channel. Authentication Type: To prevent unauthorized wireless stations from accessing data transmitted over the network, the router offers highly secure data encryption, known as WEP or WPA. If you require high security for transmissions, there are two alternatives to select from: 64-bit WEP and 128-bit WEP. You can disable or enable with WPA or WEP for protecting wireless network. The default type of wireless is disabled and to allow all wireless computers to communicate with the access points without any data encryption Advanced Setting Beacon interval: The Beacon Interval value indicates the frequency interval of the beacon. A beacon is a packet broadcast by the Router to synchronize the wireless network. RTS/CTS Threshold: The RTS (Request To Send) threshold (number of bytes) for enabling RTS/CTS handshake. Data with its frame size larger than this value will perform the RTS/CTS handshake. Entering a value above the maximum MSDU (MAC service data unit) size will turn off the RTS/CTS handshake. Setting this attribute to zero turns on the RTS/CTS handshake Enter a value between 1500 and 2347. . Fragmentation Threshold: The threshold (number of bytes) for the fragmentation boundary for directed messages. DMIT: This value, between 1 and 255, indicates the interval of the Delivery Traffic Indication Message (DTIM). If you do not know or have both 11g and 11b devices in your network, then keep the default in mixed mode. [. . . ] You can trace historical information with this function. 55 4. 6. 3 Statistics Read-only information here includes port status and packet specific statistics. Also provided are "Transmit Statistics" and "Receive Statistics". Ethernet Interface: This field displays the type of port Transmit Frames: This field displays the number of frames transmitted in the last second. Transmit Multicast Frames: This field displays the number of multicast frames transmitted in the last second. [. . . ]