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2.2 Procedure for Hardware Installation
2.
Decide where to place your Wireless Broadband Router
You can place your Wireless Broadband Router on a desk or other flat surface, or you can mount it on a wall.
For optimal performance, place your Wireless Broadband Router in the center of your office (or your home) in a
location that is away from any potential source of interference, such as a metal wall or microwave oven. This
location must be close to power and network connection.
2.
Setup LAN connection
a.
Wired LAN connection: connects
an Ethernet cable from your computer
’
s Ethernet port to one of the LAN
ports of this product.
b.
Wireless LAN connection: locate this product at a proper position to gain the best transmit performance
Figure 2-3 Setup of LAN and WAN connections for this product.
3.
Setup WAN connection
Prepare an Ethernet cable for connecting this product to your cable/xDSL modem or Ethernet backbone. Figure
2-3 illustrates the WAN connection.
4.
Power on
Connecting the power cord to power inlet and turning the power switch on, this product will automatically enter
the self-test phase. When it is in the self-test phase, the indicators M1 will be lighted ON for about 10 seconds,
and then M1 will be flashed 3 times to indicate that the self-test operation has finished. Finally, the M1 will be
continuously flashed once per second to indicate that this product is in normal operation.
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To use this product correctly, you have to properly configure the network settings of your computers and install the
attached setup program into your MS Windows platform (Windows 95/98/NT/2000).
3.1 Make Correct Network Settings of Your Computer
The default IP address of this product is 192.168.1.254, and the default subnet mask is 255.255.255.0. These
addresses can be changed on your need, but the default values are used in this manual. If the TCP/IP environment of
your computer has not yet been configured, you can refer to
Appendix A
to configure it. For example,
1.
configure IP as 192.168.1.1, subnet mask as 255.255.255.0 and gateway as 192.168.1.254, or more easier,
2.
configure your computers to load TCP/IP setting automatically, that is, via DHCP server of this product.
After installing the TCP/IP communication protocol, you can use the
ping
command to check if your computer has
successfully connected to this product. The following example shows the ping procedure for Windows 95 platforms.
First, execute the
ping
command
If the following messages appear:
Pinging 192.168.1.254 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.254: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=64
a communication link between your computer and this product has been successfully established. Otherwise, if you
get the following messages,
Pinging 192.168.1.254 with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
There must be something wrong in your installation procedure. You have to check the following items in sequence:
1.
Is the Ethernet cable correctly connected between this product and your computer?
Tip
: The LAN LED of this product and the link LED of network card on your computer must be lighted.
2.
Is the TCP/IP environment of your computers properly configured?
Tip
: If the IP address of this product is 192.168.1.254, the IP address of your computer must be 192.168.1.X
and default gateway must be 192.168.1.254.
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This product provides Web based configuration scheme, that is, configuring by your Web browser, such as Netscape
Communicator or Internet Explorer. This approach can be adopted in any MS Windows, Macintosh or UNIX based
platforms.
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4.1 Start-up and Log in
Activate your browser, and
disable the proxy
or
add the IP address of this product into the exceptions
. Then,
type this product
’
s IP address in the Location (for Netscape) or Address (for IE) field and press ENTER. For
example:
.
After the connection is established, you will see the web user interface of this product. To log in as an administrator,
enter the system password (the factory setting is
”
admin
”
) in the
Password
field and click on the
OK
button. If
the password is correct, the web appearance will be changed into administrator configure mode. As listed in its main
menu, there are several options for system administration.
4.2 Wizard
Setup Wizard will guide you through a basic configuration procedure step by step.Press
”
Next >
”
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Setup Wizard - Select WAN Type
: For detail settings, please refer to
4.3.1 IP Setting.
4.3 Setup

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