User manual COMET LABS WRM42

[. . . ] WRM42 User's Manual English version INDEX Chapter 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1. 1 Introducing the Wireless ADSL2+ modem/router . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Chapter 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2. 1 Important note for using the Wireless ADSL2+ modem/router6 2. 2 Package Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] DHCP: 28 If set to Enable, your router can assign IP addresses, an IP default gateway and DNS servers to Windows 95, Windows NT and other systems that support the DHCP client. If set to Relay, the router acts as a surrogate DHCP server and relays DHCP requests and responses between the remote server and the clients. Enter the IP address of the actual, remote DHCP server in the Remote DHCP Server field in this case. Starting IP Address: This field specifies the first of the contiguous addresses in the IP address pool. IP Pool Count: This field specifies the size or count of the IP address pool. 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 No to hide the SSID in so a station cannot obtain the SSID through passive scanning. Select Yes 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. [. . . ] 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. [. . . ]