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WEP

WLAN Service:

Default setting is set to Enable. If you do not have any wireless, select

Disable.

ESSID:

The ESSID is the unique name of a wireless access point (AP) used to

distinguish one from another. For security propose, change to a unique ID name which is

already built into the router wireless interface. It is case sensitive and must not exceed 32

characters. Make sure your wireless clients have exactly the ESSID as the device in order to

connect to your network.

Hide ESSID:

This function enables the router to become invisible on the network. Thus,

any clients using the wireless setting to search for available or specific router on the network

will not be able to discover the router whose Hide ESSID function is set to enabled. The

default setting is disabled.

Regulation Domain:

There are seven Regulation Domains for you to choose from,

including North America (N.America), Europe, France, etc. The Channel ID will be different

based on this setting.

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Channel ID:

Select the wireless connection channel ID that you would like to use.

Note: Wireless performance may degrade if the selected channel ID is already being

occupied

Security Mode:

You can disable or enable with WPA or WEP to protect wireless network.

The default mode of wireless security is

Disable

.

RADIUS / 802.1x:

You can disable or enable the RADIUS service.

WEP Authentication:

To prevent an unauthorized wireless station from accessing the

data transmitted over the network, the router offers a secure data encryption, known as

WEP. There are 3 options to select from:

Open System, Shared key

or

both

.

Default Used WEP Key:

Select the encryption key ID; please refer to

Key (1~4)

below.

Passphrase:

This is used to generate WEP keys automatically based upon the input

string and a pre-defined algorithm in WEP64 or WEP128.

Key (1-4):

Enter the key to encrypt wireless data. To allow encrypted data transmission,

the WEP Encryption Key values on all wireless stations must be the same as the router.

There are four keys for your selection. The input format can be either HEX style or ASCII

format, 10 and 26 HEX codes or 5 and 13 ASCII codes are required for WEP64 and

WEP128 respectively.

If you want to enable the RADIUS function, check

Enable

and then do the following settings.

RADIUS Server IP Address:

The IP address of RADIUS authentication server.

RADIUS Server Port:

The port number of RADIUS authentication server here. Default

value is 1812.

RADIUS Shared Secret:

The password of RADIUS authentication server.

Click Apply to confirm the settings.

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Chapter 5

Advanced Configuration

Once you have logged on to your BiPAC 7300W Router via your web browser, you can begin

to set it up according to your requirements. On the configuration homepage, the left

navigation pane links you directly to the setup pages, which include:

Basic

(Switch to Basic Configuration Mode)

Status

(ADSL Status, ARP Table, DHCP Table, System Log, Firewall Log, UPnP Portmap)

Quick Start

Configuration

(LAN, WAN, System, Firewall, QoS, Virtual Server, Wake on LAN, Time

Schedule and Advanced)

The following sections provide an overview of the settings available for configuring your

router.

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5.1 Status

Device Information

Host Name:

Provide a name for the router for identification purposes. Host Name lets

you change the router name.

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System Up-Time:

Records system up-time.

Current time:

Set the current time. See the Time Zone section for more information.

Hardware Version:

Device version.

Software Version:

Firmware version.

MAC Address:

The LAN MAC address.

WAN

Port:

Name of the WAN connection.

Protocol VPI/VCI:

Virtual Path Identifier and Virtual Channel Identifier

Operation:

Current available operation.

Connection:

The current connection status.

IP Address:

WAN port IP address.

Net mask:

WAN port IP subnet mask.

Gateway:

The IP address of the default gateway.

Primary DNS

: The IP address of the primary DNS server.

Physical Port Status

Port Status:

User can look up to see if they are connected to Ethernet, ADSL, EWAN or

Wireless.