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Quick Installation Guide
Configuring Wi-Fi Adapter in OS Windows 7
1.
Click the 
Start
button and proceed to the 
Control Panel
window.
2.
Select the 
Network and Sharing Center 
section. (If the Control Panel 
has the category view (the 
Category
value is selected from the 
View by 
drop-down list in the top right corner of the window), choose the 
View 
network status and tasks
line under the 
Network and Internet 
section.)
3.
In the menu located on the left part of the window, select the 
Change 
adapter settings 
line.
4.
In the opened window, select the icon of the wireless network connection 
and make sure that your Wi-Fi adapter is on.
5.
To open the list of available wireless networks, select the icon of the 
wireless network connection and click the 
Connect To
button or left-
click the network icon in the notification area located on the right side of 
the taskbar.
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6.
In the opened window, in the list of available wireless networks, select the 
wireless network 
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and click the 
Connect
button.
7.
Wait for about 20-30 seconds. After the connection is established, the 
network icon will be displayed as the signal level scale.
!
If you perform initial configuration of the router via Wi-Fi connection,
note that immediately after changing the wireless default settings of the
router you will need to reconfigure the wireless connection using the
newly specified settings.
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CONFIGURING ROUTER
Connecting to Web-based Interface
1.
Start a web browser.
2.
In the address bar of the web browser, enter the IP address of the router 
(by default, the following IP address is specified: 
192.168.0.1
). Press 
the 
Enter
key.
3.
On the opened page, enter the username (login) and password for the 
administrator account (by default, the following username and password 
are specified: 
admin
, 
admin
). Then click the 
Enter
link.
!
If the error “
The page cannot be displayed
” (or “
Unable to display the
page
”/“
Could not connect to remote server
”) occurs upon connecting to
the web-based interface of the router, make sure that you have properly
connected the router to your computer.
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Right after the first access to the web-based interface you are forwarded to the 
page for changing the administrator password specified by default.
Enter the new password in the 
Password
and 
Confirmation
fields. Then 
click the 
Save
button.
!
Remember or write down the new password for the administrator
account. In case of losing the new password, you can access the settings
of the router only after restoring the factory default settings via the
hardware 
RESET
button. This procedure wipes out all settings that you
have configured for your router.
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After successful registration the router's quick settings page opens.
On the page, you can proceed to the Wizards (use the 
Connect to internet
, 
Host site
, 
Configure Wi-Fi
, and 
Configure IPTV
buttons) or switch to the 
standard web-based interface of the router by clicking the 
Configure 
manually
button. After clicking the button, the system statistics page opens. 
The page displays general information on the router and its software.
To get back to the quick settings page from any Wizard or web-based interface 
menu section, left-click the D-Link logo in the top left corner of the page.
The web-based interface of the router is multilingual. Select a needed language 
from the menu displayed when the mouse pointer is over the 
Language 
caption. You can change the language of the web-based interface in any menu 
item.
After selecting the language, the notification on unsaved changes will be 
displayed. Click the 
Save
button to save the current language of the web-
based interface as the default language.
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