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6) Setting up Bandwidth Management

Bandwidth Management provides a mechanism that controls the traffic of you

network. To set up bandwidth management:

1. Click

Basic Config

page in Bandwidth Management folder. In this page you can see

four buttons including

Gaming Blaster

,

Internet Application

,

500W FTP Server

, and

VOIP/Video Streaming

. In this page, you can click each item to set its priority higher.

After you click each item, the letters on the button turns yellow (see figures below) and

the green bar behind it automatically grows longer, indicating its bandwith status is the

first priority. Click

Finish

and

Apply

to complete the configuration. The following figures

shows different bandwith priority settings:

Gaming Blaster

Internet Application

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500W FTP Server

After you applying the

500W FTP Server

settings, a screen appears asking you to

do further configuration:

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2. You can also configure the bandwith manually by clicking "

User Specify Services

". Input

the

IP adress

,

destination port

and choose the

priority status from

the drop-down list.

VOIP/Video Streaming

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ASUS WL-500W Wireless Router provides two USB2.0 ports for connecting the

USB storage, the USB camera, and the USB printer. Thus, you can monitor the

working environment, share data and printer with both wired and wireless users in

your network. Furthermore, WL-500W provides a download utility -- the Download

Master -- to facilit ate and share the download files.

Warning:

Before unplugging the USB storage disk from WL-500W, you must eject

the disk in

Status & Log -> External USB Disk

page to prevent data corruption.

Note:

Before applying change and rebooting WL-500W, make sure all USB applications

are disabled, it would take more than 20 seconds for WL-500W to reboot.

1) Sharing USB storage

To use this feature, you need to plug a USB hard disk to the USB2.0 port on the rear

panel of WL-500W. Make sure the hard disk is formatted and partitioned properly.

Note:

FAT32 has a 2GB file size limitation and do not support files above that size. If

you want to use files of above 2GB, you must format the disk to EXT2 file system.

Creating user account

To share the data in the USB storage, you need to create

user accounts first.

2. Input

User Name

and

Password

for the accounts.

Click

Add

to add the

account to the list.

3. To delete an account,

select the account from

the list and click

Del

.

4. Click

Apply

to apply the

changes and restart the

wireless router.

Creating share folder and access right

You can create a new share folder or share an existing

folder in your hard disk.

1. Click

USB Application -> User List

in the left side

menu to open the configuration page.

1. Click

USB Application -> Share Nodes

in the left

side menu to open the configuration page.

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2. Click

Add

to add a share

folder.

3. Select the folder you want to share

from Folder Manager and click

Ok

.

To create a share folder, input the

folder name in

Add Folder

field

and press

Add

.

4. Define the access right for

the share folder by appoint

User Name

and

Access

Right

. Click

Add

to add

the access right rule. When

finished, click

Apply

to

save the configuration.

6. Click

Finish

.

5. Set Network Neighbourhood

Mode to

Apply rules in

shared node list

, Work

Group to

WORKGROUP

to

enable all computers within

WORKGROUP to access

WL-500W USB storage.

7. Click

Save & Restart

to

restart the wireless router

and activate the settings.

8. Open

My Network Place

from a computer connected

to WL-500W. Click

view

work group computers

,

you can see WL-500W in

the

Workgroup

category.

All files on the USB storage

are ready for sharing.