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Restricting Access to Your Router

You can use the advanced Wireless Settings screen to enable or disable the wireless router. From

the Advanced menu, select

Wireless Settings

to display the following screen:

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•

Enable Wireless Router Radio

.

You can completely turn off the wireless portion of the wireless router. For example, if you

use your notebook computer to wirelessly connect to your wireless router, and you take a

business trip, you can turn off the wireless portion of the wireless router while you are

traveling. Other members of your household who use computers connected to the wireless

router via Ethernet cables can still use the wireless router. To do this, clear the

Enable

Wireless Router Radio

check box on the Advanced Wireless Settings screen, and then click

Apply

.

The Fragmentation Threshold, CTS/RTS Threshold, and Preamble Mode options are reserved

for wireless testing and advanced configuration only. Do not change these settings.

•

Turn off wireless signal by schedule.

You can schedule times when the wireless signal is turned off.

•

WPS Settings

. For information about WPS settings, see

“Using Push 'N' Connect (WPS) to

Configure Your Wireless Network” on page 2-11

.

•

Restricting access by MAC address

. You can use a Wireless Card Access List to restrict

access. See

“Restricting Access by MAC Address” on page 3-2

.

Adding Guest Networks

Adding a guest network allows visitors at your home to use the Internet without having to know

your wireless security key.

You can add a guest network to each wireless network, 2.4 GHz b/g/n or 5 GHz a/n.

To add a guest network, do the following:

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Select

Guest Network

from the Setup menu. The Guest Network Settings screen appears

2.

Define a guest network on either or both of your wireless networks from this same screen.

Select any of the following Wireless settings:

–

Enable Guest Network

– When this check box is selected, the guest network is enabled,

and guests can connect to your network using the SSID of this profile.

–

Enable SSID Broadcast

– If selected, the Wireless Access Point broadcasts its name

(SSID) to all Wireless Stations. Stations with no SSID can adopt the correct SSID for

connections to this Access Point.

–

Allow Guest to access My Local Network

– If selected any user who connects to this

SSID can access local networks associated with the router like users in the primary SSID.

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3.

Give the wireless network a name.

The name is case-sensitive and can be up to 32 characters. The same name must be assigned to

all wireless devices in your network. NETGEAR recommends that you change the name to a

different value.

4.

Select a Security option from the list. For a description of each Security option, see Security

Options in the table

“Wireless Settings” on page 2-6

.

5.

In the same way that you defined a guest network for your 2.5MHz b/g/n wireless network,

you can also define a guest network for your 5GHz a/n wireless network.

6.

Click

Apply

to save your selections.

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Chapter 3

Protecting Your Network

This chapter describes how to use the content filtering and reporting features of the N600 Wireless

Dual Band Router WNDR3400 to protect your network. You can find these features by selecting

the items under Content Filtering in the wireless router main menu.

This chapter includes the following sections:

•

“Protecting Access to Your Wireless Router

”

•

“Restricting Access by MAC Address” on page 3-2

•

“Blocking Access to Internet Sites” on page 3-4

•

“Blocking Access to Internet Services” on page 3-5

•

“Scheduling Blocking” on page 3-8

•

“Viewing Logs of Web Access or Attempted Web Access” on page 3-8

•

“Configuring E-mail Alert and Web Access Log Notifications” on page 3-9

•

“Setting the Time” on page 3-11

Protecting Access to Your Wireless Router

For security reasons, the wireless router has its own user name and password. Also, after a period

of inactivity for a set length of time, the administrator login automatically disconnects. When

prompted, enter

admin

for the wireless router user name and

password

for the wireless router

password. You can use procedures in the following sections to change the wireless router

password and the amount of time for the administrator’s login time-out.

NETGEAR recommends that you change this password to a more secure password. The ideal

password should contain no dictionary words from any language, and should be a mixture of both

upper and lower case letters, numbers, and symbols. Your password can be up to 30 characters.

Note:

The user name and password are not the same as a user name or password you

might use to log in to your Internet connection.

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