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5.8.2

Routes List

The section shows the current routing table entries. Certain

required routes are predefined and cannot be changed.

Routes that you add can be changed by clicking the

Edit

icon or can be deleted by clicking the

Delete

icon. When

Routes List section you click the

Edit

icon, the item is

highlighted, and the

Routes List

section is activated for

editing. Click the

Enable

check box at the left to directly acti-

vate or de-activate the entry.

The router must reboot before new settings will take effect.

You will be prompted to

Reboot the Device

or

Continue

. If

you need to make additional settings changes, click

Continue

. If you are finished with all configuration settings,

click the

Reboot the Device

button.

5.8.3

Existing Routes

Shows the routes that are in place already, some of which will be dynamically generated by the system and labeled “System” th

e Creator field).

Those created by the user will be labeled “User” in the Creator fiel

d. To overwrite these values, simply click on the field of information you wish to

change and re-enter the route information with the desired value changed.

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5.9 Special Applications (Application Rules)

An application rule is used to open single or multiple ports on your router

when the router senses data sent to the Internet on a "trigger" port or port

range. An application rule applies to all computers on your internal

network.

You can enable or disable Application Level Gateways (ALG‟s). Some

protocols and applications require special handling of the IP payload to

make them work with network address translation. Each ALG provides

special handling for a specific protocol or application. ALG‟s for the

following common applications are enabled by default, but can be turned

off.

Example: You need to configure your router to allow a software application

running on any computer on your network to connect to a web-based

server or another user on the Internet.

5.9.1

Add Application Rule

Enable.

(Default: No special applications rules). Opens single or multiple

ports on the router when the router senses data sent to the Internet on a

“trigger” port or port range.

Special Applications

rules apply to all

computers on the network.

Name.

Enter a name for the Special Application Rule, for example

Game App

, which will help you identify the rule in the future. Alternatively, you

can select from a drop down menu of common

applications

, and the remaining configuration values will be filled in accordingly.

Trigger Port.

Enter the outgoing port range used by your application (for example

6500-6700

).

Trigger Traffic Type.

Select the outbound protocol used by your application (for example

Both

).

Firewall Ports.

Enter the port range that you want to open up to Internet traffic. (for example

6000-6200

).

Firewall Traffic Type.

Select the protocol used by the Internet traffic coming back into the router through the opened port range (for example

Both

).

Schedule.

Select a schedule for when this rule is in effect. If you do not see the schedule you need in the list of schedules, go to the

Tools →

Schedules

sub-menu and create a new schedule.

Save/Update.

Record the changes you have made.

Clear.

Re-initialize this area of the screen, discarding any changes you have made.

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With the above example application rule enabled, the router will open up a range of ports from 6000-6200 for incoming traffic from the Internet,

whenever any computer on the internal network opens up an application that sends data to the Internet using a port in the range of 6500-6700.

When you‟re done editing the settings, you must click the

Save Settings

button at the top of the page to make the changes effective and

permanent.

5.9.2

Applications Rules

The section shows the current routing table entries. Certain required

routes are predefined and cannot be changed. Routes that you add

can be changed by clicking the

Edit

icon or can be deleted by

clicking the

Delete

icon. When you click the

Edit

icon, the item is

highlighted, and the

Application Rules

section is activated for

editing. Click the

Enable

check box at the left to directly activate or

de-activate the entry.

After you‟ve completed all modifications or deletions, you must click

the Save Settings

button at the top of the page to save your changes. The

router must reboot before new settings will take effect. You will be prompted to

Reboot the Device

or

Continue

. If you need to make additional

settings changes, click

Continue

. If you are finished with all configuration settings, click the

Reboot the Device

button.

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5.10 Traffic Shaping

Use the Traffic Shaping sub-

menu to configure CradlePoint‟s Traffic Shaping

Technology, which allows control of the amount of traffic sent and received

across the WAN port(s). The Traffic Shaping feature helps improve your network

performance by prioritizing applications.

5.10.1

Traffic Shaping Setup

Enable Traffic Shaping.

When this option is enabled, the router restricts the

flow of outbound traffic so as not to exceed the WAN uplink bandwidth.

Automatic Classification.

This option is enabled by default so that your router

will automatically determine which programs should have network priority. For

best performance, use the

Automatic Classification

option to automatically set

the priority for your applications.

Dynamic Fragmentation.

This option should be enabled when you have a slow

Internet uplink. It helps to reduce the impact that large low priority network

packets can have on more urgent ones by breaking the large packets into

several smaller packets.

Automatic Uplink Speed.

When enabled, this option causes the router to au-

tomatically measure the useful uplink and downlink bandwidth each time the

WAN interface is re-established (after a reboot, for example).

Measured Uplink Speed.

This is the uplink speed measured when the WAN

interface was last re-established. The value may be lower than that reported by

your ISP as it does not include all of the network protocol overheads associated

with your ISP‟s network. Typically, this figure will be betwee

n 87% and 91% of

the stated uplink speed for xDSL connections and around 5 Kbps lower for cable

network connections.

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Manual Uplink Speed/Manual Downlink Speed.

If Automatic Uplink

Speed is disabled, these options allow you to set the uplink/downlink

speeds manually.

Uplink speed

is the speed at which data can be

transferred from the router to your ISP.

Downlink speed

is the speed

at which data can be transferred from your ISP to the router. These are

determined by your ISP. ISP‟s often spec

ify speed as a downlink/uplink

pair; for example, 1.5 Mbps/284 Kbps. In this case, for the uplink speed

you would enter

1.5 Mbps

(or choose

1024 Kbps

from the drop down

menu [the speed chosen has to be equal to or below your connection‟s

rated speed]) and for the uplink speed you would enter

284 Kbps

(or

choose

284 Kbps

from the drop down menu [the speed chosen has to

be equal to or below your connection‟s rated speed]).

Alternatively you can test your uplink speed with a service such as

www.dslreports.com

. NOTE: not matter how a site, such as DSL reports, because they do not consider as many network protocol overheads,

will generally note speeds slightly lower than the

Measured Uplink Speed

or the ISP rated speed.

Connection Type.

By default, the router automatically determines whether the underlying connection is an xDSL/Frame-relay network or some

other connection type (such as cable modem or Ethernet), and it displays the result as

Detected xDSL or Frame Relay Network

. If you have an

unusual network connection in which you are actually connected via xDSL but for which you configure either

Static

or

DHCP

in the WAN settings,

setting this option to

xDSL

or

Other Frame Relay Network

ensures that the router will recognize that it needs to shape traffic slightly differently in

order to give the best performance. Choosing

xDSL

or

Other Frame Relay Network

causes the measured uplink speed to be reported slightly

lower than before on such connections, but gives much better results.

Detected xDSL or Other Frame Relay Network.

When

Connection Type

is set to

Auto-detect

, the automatically detected connection type is

displayed here.

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