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ASUS Wireless Router
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ADSL Modem
WL-700gE Wireless Router
WAN
2
Software features
2.1
Installing ASUS utility for WL-700gE
2.
Insert the support CD into the optical drive of your computer
to run the utility installation program. Select your language
and click
Install ASUS Wireless Router Utilities
to install.
Follow the instructions to complete the utility installation.
2.2
Setting up the wireless router using EZSetup
Before start, prepare an Ethernet and wireless enabled computer with ASUS utility pre-installed.
EZSETUP
1. Connect your WL-700gE wireless router to your ADSL or
Cable modem. Refer to the illustration below to wire your
network devices.
1.
Press the EZSetup button on the rear panel of the wireless
router until the READY LED indicator is flashing.
If you use wireless connection for EZSetup and find
the connection is not stable, use wired connetion
instead EZSetup.
2.
Launch the EZSetup utility by clicking
Start -> ASUS Utility
-> WL-700gE Wireless Router -> EZSetup Wizard
.
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3.
Click the
EZSetup
button in the utility to search for WL-700gE
Wireless Router. This action takes several seconds.
4. A window prompts out asking for the encryption mode you
want to use. If you want to use WPA, select
Yes
; to use WEP,
select
No
.
5. If it is the first time you set up the wireless router, the
screen below appears. You can manually setup the SSID
and network key for the wireless router or accept the
automatically generated values. Click
Next
to continue.
If you have configured the wireless router before, the screen
below appears. You can choose to modify the SSID and
network key or preserve the previous settings. Click
Next
to continue.
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6. To connect your Internet Service Provider (ISP), select
Config ISP settings
. Click
Next
to set up ISP information.
7.
Select the connection type of your ISP service and click
Next
to fill in the ISP information.
According to the requirements of ISPs, you may need to input information such as IP address, username, and
password. Refer to your ISP for detailed setup information.
8.
This page is for setting up network mass storage. Specify a
drive letter for the hard disk in WL-700gE and check
Create
shortcut on desktop
, then click
Next
.
9. Wait for several seconds to complete the setup, and you
can see the screen below. Click
Print/Save wireless LAN
settings
for future reference. Click
Finish
to quit EZSetup.
Save and print network information is highly recommended for future wireless connection setup.
When configuration is complete, a
700gE share folder
icon appears on desktop.
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2.3
Connecting WL-700gE from a wirless client
You can connect to WL-700gE from a wireless-enabled computer. Make sure the wireless card driver is correctly
installed and the card functions normally.
1. Click
Control panel
->
Network connection
, right-click the
wireless icon ->
Property
->
Wireless Network
tab. Select
WL-700gE and click
Connect
button.
2.
If you have setup WEP encryption for your wireless router,
you need to fill the WEP keys into the
Network Key
field for
connecting the router. Click
OK
to continue.
3.
For authentication setup, select
Authentication
tab. If you have
a RADIUS server in your network for authentication, check
Enable IEEE80.211X authentication to this network
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2.4
USB auto copy function
Follow the steps below to copy files from your USB storage to the hard disk in WL-700gE. The files are saved under
the
USBCopy
directory.
2. Wait for several seconds until the
READY
LED indicator
flashes slowly. Press the
COPY
button on the front panel and
the LED flashes quickly. This means WL-700gE is copying
data from your USB storage. When the LED stops flashing
and stays ON, it means data duplication is complete.
1.
Plug the USB storage to the USB2.0 port of WL-700gE.
2.5
Wireless data sharing
This sections describes how to share the files in WL-700gE hard disk to your LAN users.
1.
Connect a computer to WL-700gE and open the Web browser. Input
192.168.1.1
(the default IP address of WL-700gE) in the
address box and press Enter..
2.
Login to the WL-700gE Web configuration interface. Login
Name:
admin
; Password:
admin
(default).
3. Click
Configuration
to enter Web configuration page.
Step 4 and 5 are for first configuration. Skip step 4 and 5 if you have configured the wireless router via EZSetup.