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Chapter 1

Introduction

1.1 An Overview of the WebShare 243WM

Broadband Sharing and IP sharing

The Wireless MIMO ADSL2+ Router

supports 4 x 10/100 Mbps auto-negotiating Fast

Ethernet ports for connection to your PC or LAN and downstream (with built-in ADSL2+

modem) rate up to 24Mbps. Power by NAT technology, dozens of network users can surf on

the Internet and share the ADSL connection simultaneously by using one ISP account and

one single IP address.

Wireless MIMO

With integrated IEEE802.11g Wireless Access Point (up to 54Mbps), the device offers quick

and easy access among wired network and

wireless network. The Wireless

Router also

supports WPA/WPA2 security, it increases the level of data protection and access control for

Wireless LAN. MIMO (Range-Overdrive ™ technology) and 3* Reverse-SMA 5 dBi Antennas

provide extended coverage and low throughput fluctuations.

Last but not least Packet-

Overdrive™

technology offers an high throughput for HD Video Streaming.

Security: Firewall (SPI, DoS) & VLAN

This product also serves as an Internet firewall, protecting your network from being accessed

by outside users. Not only provide the natural firewall function (Network Address Translation,

NAT), it also provides rich firewall features to secure user's network. The VLANs allow to

segment the traffic of net and, in this way, they improve management and performance of

entire network.

Quality of Service and

IP Throttling

QoS gives you full control over which types of outgoing data traffic should be given priority by

the router, ensuring important data like gaming packets move through the router at lightning

speed, even under heavy load. Using IP Throttling, bandwidth limits can be enforced on any

system within your LAN, or even on a particular application.

Easy Configuration and Management

Support web based GUI and Telnet for configuration and management. Also supports remote

management

(Web and telnet) capability for remote user to configure and manage this

product. It incorporates besides a client Dynamic DNS.

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1.2 Package Contents

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WebShare 243WM Wireless ADSL2+

Router

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Vera (Multilanguage Interactive Tutorial)

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One CD-Rom containing the online manual

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One Quick Start Guide

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3* 5 dBi Antenna (R-SMA)

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One RJ-11 ADSL/telephone cable

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One CAT-5 LAN cable

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One AC-DC power adapter (12VDC, 1A)

If any of the above items are missing, please contact your reseller.

1.3 WebShare 243WM Features

ADSL Router2+ provides the following features:

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ADSL Multi-Mode Standard:

Supports downstream transmission rates of up to

8Mbps, the router is capable of up to 12/24 Mbps with ADSL2/2+,

and upstream

transmission rates of up to 1024Kbps.

It also supports rate management that allows

ADSL subscribers to select an Internet access speed suiting their needs and budgets.

It is compliant with Multi-Mode standard (ANSI T1.413, Issue 2; G.dmt (G.992.1);

G.lite (G992.2); G.hs(G994.1); G.dmt.bis(ITU G.992.3); Gdmt.bisplus(ITU G.992.5)].

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Fast Ethernet Switch:

A 4-port 10/100Mbps fast Ethernet switch is supported in the

LAN site and automatic switching between MDI and MDI-X for 10Base-T and

100Base-TX ports is supported. An Ethernet straight or cross-over cable can be used

directly, this fast Ethernet switch will detect it automatically.

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Wireless Ethernet 802.11g:

With built-in 802.11g access point for extending the

communication media to WLAN while providing the WEP and WPA/WPA2 for securing

your wireless networks.

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MIMO:

MIMO (Range-Overdrive ™ technology) and 3* Reverse-SMA 5 dBi Antennas

provide extended coverage and low throughput fluctuations.

Last but not least

Packet-Overdrive™

technology offers an high throughput for HD Video Streaming.

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Multi-Protocol to Establish A Connection:

Supports PPPoA (RFC 2364 - PPP over

ATM Adaptation Layer 5), RFC 1483 encapsulation over ATM (bridged or routed),

PPP over Ethernet (RFC 2516), and IPoA (RFC1577) to establish a connection with

the ISP. The product also supports VC-based and LLC-based multiplexing.

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Quick Installation Wizard:

Supports a WEB GUI page to install this device quickly.

With this wizard, an end user can enter the information easily which they from the ISP,

then surf the Internet immediately.

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Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) and UPnP NAT Traversal:

This protocol is used to

enable simple and robust connectivity among stand-alone devices and PCs from

many different vendors. It makes network simple and affordable for users. UPnP

architecture leverages TCP/IP and the Web to enable seamless proximity networking

in addition to control and data transfer among networked devices.

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Network Address Translation (NAT):

Allows multi-users to access outside resource

such as Internet simultaneously with one IP address/one Internet access account.

Besides, many application layer gateway (ALG) are supported such as web browser,

ICQ, FTP, Telnet, E-mail, News, Net2phone, Ping, NetMeeting and others.

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Firewall:

Supports SOHO firewall with NAT technology. Automatically detects and

blocks the Denial of Service (DoS) attack. The URL-blocking, packet filtering are also

supported. The hacker’s attack will be recorded associated with timestamp in the

security logging area. More firewall features will be added continually, please visit our

web site to download latest firmware.

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VLAN:

A VLAN is a group of end-stations that are not constrained by their physical

location and can communicate as if a common broadcast domain, a LAN. The primary

utility of using VLAN is to reduce latency and need for routers, using faster switching

instead. Other VLAN utility includes:

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Security, Security is increased with the reduction of opportunity in

eavesdropping on a broadcast network because data will be switched to

only those confidential users within the VLAN.

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Cost Reduction, VLANs can be used to create multiple broadcast domains,

thus eliminating the need of expensive routers.

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Port-based (or port-group) VLAN is the common method of implementing a

VLAN, and is the one supplied in the Switch.

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QoS:

QoS gives you full control over which types of outgoing data traffic should be

given priority by the Router, ensuring important data like gaming packets move

through the Router at lightning speed, even under heavy load. The QoS features are

configurable by source IP address, destination IP address, protocol, and port. You can

throttle the speed at which different types of outgoing data pass through the router, to

ensure P2P users don’t saturate upload bandwidth, or office browsing doesn’t bring

client web serving to a halt. In addition, or alternatively, you can simply change the

priority of different types of upload data and let the router sort out the actual speeds.

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Domain Name System (DNS) relay:

provides an easy way to map the domain name

(a friendly name for users such as www.yahoo.com

) and IP address. When a local

machine sets its DNS server with this router’s IP address, then every DNS conversion

requests packet from the PC to this router will be forwarded to the real DNS in the

outside network. After the router gets the reply, then forwards it back to the PC.

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Dynamic Domain Name System (DDNS):

The Dynamic DNS service allows you to

alias a dynamic IP address to a static hostname. This dynamic IP address is the WAN

IP address. For example, to use the service, you must first apply an account from this

free Web server http://www.dyndns.org/

. There are more than 5 DDNS servers

supported.

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PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE):

Provide embedded PPPoE client function to establish a

connection.

Users can get greater access speed without changing the operation

concept, sharing the same ISP account and paying for one access account. No

PPPoE client software is required for the local computer. The Always ON, Dial On

Demand and auto disconnection (Idle Timer) functions are provided too.

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Virtual Server:

Users can specify some services to be visible from outside users. The

router can detect incoming service request and forward it to the specific local

computer to handle it. For example, users can assign a PC in a LAN acting as a WEB

server inside and expose it to the outside network. Outside users can browse an

inside web server directly while it is protected by NAT. A

DMZ

host setting is also

provided to a local computer exposed to the outside network, Internet

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Rich Packet Filtering:

Not only filters the packet based on IP address, but also based

on Port numbers. It also provides a higher-level security control.

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Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP) client and server:

In the WAN site, the

DHCP client can get an IP address from the Internet Server Provider (ISP)

automatically. In the LAN site, the DHCP server can allocate up to 253 client IP

addresses and distribute them including IP address, subnet mask as well as DNS IP

address to local computers. It provides an easy way to manage the local IP network.

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Static and RIP1/2 Routing:

Supports an easy static table or RIP1/2 routing protocol

to support routing capability.

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SNTP:

An easy way to get the network real time information from an SNTP server.

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SNMP:

SNMP is an application layer protocol that is used for managing networks

(V1,V2 and V3)

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Web based GUI:

supports web based GUI for configuration and management. It is

user-friendly with an on-line help, providing necessary information and assist user

timing. It also supports remote management capability for remote users to configure

and manage this product.

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Firmware Upgradeable:

the device can be upgraded to the latest firmware through

the WEB based GUI.

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Rich management interfaces:

Supports flexible management interfaces with local

console port, LAN port, and WAN port. Users can use terminal application through

console port to configure and manage the device, or Telnet, WEB GUI, and SNMP

through LAN or WAN ports to configure and manage a device.