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4.

genie Advanced Home

Specifying custom settings

This chapter explains the features available from the genie Advanced Home screen, shown in

the following figure:

This screen is

also displayed

through the

Administration

menu.

This chapter contains the following sections:

•

Setup Wizard

•

WPS Wizard

•

Setup Menu

•

WAN Setup

•

LAN Setup

•

Quality of Service (QoS) Setup

Some selections on the Advanced Home screen are described in separate chapters:

•

Security

. See

Chapter 5, Security

.

•

Administration

. See

Chapter 6, Administration

.

•

Advanced Setup

. See

Chapter 7, Advanced Settings

.

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Setup Wizard

The NETGEAR genie installation process launches the first time you set up the router. After

you set up the router the first time, you can use the Setup Wizard again.



To use the setup wizard again:

1.

Log in to the router and select the

Advanced

tab.

2.

Select

Setup Wizard

.

The following screen displays.

3.

Select the

Yes

radio button and click the

Next

button.

If you select No, you are taken to the Internet Setup screen (see

Internet Setup

on

page

20).

The following screen displays:

The Setup Wizard searches your Internet connection for servers and protocols to

determine your ISP configuration. The following screen displays:

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WPS Wizard

The WPS Wizard helps you add a WPS-capable client device (a wireless device or

computer) to your network. On the client device, either press its WPS button or locate its

WPS PIN.



To use the WPS Wizard:

1.

Select

Advanced > WPS Wizard

.

2.

Click

Next

.

The following screen lets you select the method for adding the WPS client (a wireless

device or computer).

3.

Select either

Push Button

or

PIN Number

, as follows:

•

To use the push button method, either click the

WPS

button on this screen, or press

the

WPS

button on the side of the router. Within 2 minutes, go to the wireless client

and press its

WPS

button to join the network without entering a password.

•

To use the PIN method, select the

PIN Number

radio button, enter the client security

PIN, and click

Next

.

Within 2 minutes, go to the client device and use its WPS software to join the network

without entering a password.

The router attempts to add the WPS-capable device. The WPS LED

on the front of

the router blinks green. When the router establishes a WPS connection, the LED is solid

green, and the router WPS screen displays a confirmation message.

4.

(Optional) Repeat Step 2 and Step 3 to add another WPS client to your network.

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Setup Menu

Select

Advanced > Setup

to display the Setup menu. The following selections are available:

•

Internet Setup

. Go to the same Internet Setup screen that you can access from the

dashboard on the Basic Home screen. See

Internet Setup

on page

20.

•

Wireless Setup

. Go to the same Wireless Settings screen that you can access from the

dashboard on the Basic Home screen. See

Basic Wireless Settings

on page

25.

•

Guest Network

. This selection is a shortcut to the same Guest Network screen that you

can access from the dashboard on the Basic Home screen. See

Guest Networks

on

page

28.

•

WAN Setup

. Internet (WAN) setup. See

WAN Setup

on page

34.

•

LAN Setup

. Local area network (LAN) setup. See

LAN Setup

on page

37.

•

QoS Setup

. Quality of Service (QoS) setup. See

Quality of Service (QoS) Setup

on

page

41.

WAN Setup

The WAN Setup screen lets you configure a DMZ (demilitarized zone) server, change the

Maximum Transmit Unit (MTU) size, and enable the router to respond to a ping on the WAN

(Internet) port. Select

Advanced > Setup > WAN Setup

to view the following screen:

You can configure the following settings:

•

Disable Port Scan and DoS Protection

. DoS protection protects your LAN against

denial of service attacks such as Syn flood, Smurf Attack, Ping of Death, Teardrop Attack,

UDP Flood, ARP Attack, Spoofing ICMP, Null Scan, and many others. Use this setting

only in special circumstances.

•

Default DMZ Server

. This feature is sometimes helpful when you are playing online

games or videoconferencing. Be careful when using this feature because it makes the

firewall security less effective. See the following section,

Default DMZ Server

, for more

details.

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•

Respond to Ping on Internet Port

. If you want the router to respond to a ping from the

Internet, select this check box. Use this setting only as a diagnostic tool because it allows

your router to be discovered. Do not select this check box unless you have a specific

reason.

•

Disable IGMP Proxying

. IGMP proxying allows a computer on the local area network

(LAN) to receive the multicast traffic it is interested in from the Internet. If you do not need

this feature, you can select this check box to disable it.

•

MTU Size (in bytes)

. The normal MTU (Maximum Transmit Unit) value for most Ethernet

networks is 1500 bytes, or 1492 bytes for PPPoE connections. For some ISPs, you might

need to reduce the MTU. Reducing the MTU is rarely required, and should not be done

unless you are sure that it is necessary for your ISP connection. See

Change the MTU

Size

on page

36.

•

NAT Filtering

. Network Address Translation (NAT) determines how the router processes

inbound traffic. Secured NAT provides a secured firewall to protect the computers on the

LAN from attacks from the Internet, but might prevent some Internet games,

point-to-point applications, or multimedia applications from functioning. Open NAT

provides a much less secured firewall, but it allows almost all Internet applications to

function.

Default DMZ Server

The default DMZ server feature is helpful when you are using some online games and

videoconferencing applications that are incompatible with Network Address Translation

(NAT). The router is programmed to recognize some of these applications and to work

correctly with them, but other applications might not function well. In some cases, one local

computer can run the application correctly if that computer’s IP address is entered as the

default DMZ server.

WARNING!

DMZ servers pose a security risk. A computer designated as the

default DMZ server loses much of the protection of the firewall

and is exposed to exploits from the Internet. If compromised, the

DMZ server computer can be used to attack other computers on

your network.

The router usually detects and discards incoming traffic from the Internet that is not a

response to one of your local computers or a service that you have configured in the Port

Forwarding/Port Triggering screen. Instead of discarding this traffic, you can have the router

forward the traffic to one computer on your network. This computer is called the default DMZ

server.