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This graph shows a concise history of the amount of connections that the router maintained.

Blue graph indicates UDP connections, green TCP

and red other types (ICMP, etc…). Other values indicate each

respective graphs average and peak connection amounts over 3 minutes.

On the same page you can also analyze a detailed list of all active connections that the router maintains. Each entry

consist of a type of network (“IPV4”), protocol (TCP, UDP, ICMP

), the source address (an IPv4 address + the source port),

the destination address (an IPv4 address + the destination port) and how much traffic has gone through that particular

connection: it’s size in Bytes and the amount of packets.

Network

3G

Here you can configure the 3G specific settings which are used when connecting to your local 3G network.

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Alternate model:

The configuration is simple and straightforward. Here we will gloss over all the fields:

Field name

Possible values

Explanation

1.

APN

“bangapro”

Access Point Name

(APN) is a configurable network identifier used by a

mobile device when connecting to a GSM carrier.

2.

PIN Number

“5555” or any

A

personal identification number

is a secret numeric password shared

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number that falls

between 0000 and

9999

between a user and a system that can be used to authenticate the user

to the system.

3.

3G authentication

method

CHAP, PAP or none

Authentication method, that your carrier uses to authenticate new

connections. (This selection is unavailable on the alternate model)

4.

Username

“user”

Your username and password that you would use to connect to your

carriers network. These field become available when you select an

authentication method (i.e. authentication method is not “none”)

.

These fields are always enabled on the alternate model.

5.

Password

“passwd”

6.

Preferred network

GSM, UMTS or

auto.

Alternate model:

2G, 3G or none.

Your network preference. If your local mobile network supports both

GSM (2G) and UMTS (3G) you can specify to which network you wish to

connect. E.g.: if you choose GSM (2G), the router will connect to a GSM

(2G) network, so long as it is available, otherwise it will connect to a

UMTS (3G) network. If you select auto, then the router will connect to

the network that provides better connectivity.

Warning: If an invalid PIN number was entered (i.e. the entered PIN does not match the one that was used to protect

the SIM card), your SIM card will get blocked. To avoid such mishaps it is highly advised to use an unprotected SIM. If

you happen to insert

a protected SIM and the PIN number is incorrect, your card won’t get blocked immediately,

although after a couple of reboots OR configuration saves it will.

Wan

WAN configuration is, arguably, the crux of the routers configuration as it determines how the router will connect to the

internet. Here is quick rundown of how the page looks and what each field means.

Operation Mode

First and foremost a mode of connection has to be defined. Available selections:

Type

Description

1.

Wired

An Ethernet cable connected to the WAN port of the router.

2.

Wifi

The router will be able to connect to a local wireless access point and reach the internet through it.

3.

3G

The router will connect to your local mobile network for 3G access.

Common configuration

Common configuration allows you to configure your TCP/IP settings for the wan network.

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You can switch between the Static, DHCP or PPPoE protocol by selecting the protocol that you want to use and then

pressing

Switch Protocol

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General

This area is dedicated for protocol specific options.

Static:

This is the configuration setup for when you select the static protocol.

Filed name

Sample

Explanation

1.

IPv4 address

192.168.99.162

Your routers address on the WAN network

2.

IPv4 netmask

255.255.255.0

A

mask used to define how “large” the WAN network is

3.

IPv4 gateway

192.168.99.254

Address where the router will send all the outgoing traffic

4.

IPv4 broadcast

192.168.99.255

Broadcast address (autogenerated if not set). It is best to leave this

blank unless you know what you are doing.

5.

custom DNS servers

8.8.8.8

8.8.6.6

Usually the gateway has some predefined DNS servers. As such the

router, when it needs to resolve a hostname (“www.google.com”,

“www.cnn.com”, etc…) to an IP address, it will

forward all the DNS

requests to the gateway. By entering custom DNS servers the router

will take care of host name resolution. You can enter multiple DNS

servers to provide redundancy in case the one of the server fails.

DHCP:

When you select the DHCP protocol you can use it as is, because most networks will not require any additional

advanced configuration.