DIR-620

Multifunction Wireless Router Supporting WiMAX,

3G GSM/CDMA with Built-in Switch

User Manual

Installation and Connection

6.

In the opened window, in the list of available wireless networks, select the wireless network

DIR-620

and click the

Connect

button.

Figure 14. The list of available networks.

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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Connecting to Web-based Interface

When you have configured your computer, you can access the web-based interface and configure

needed parameters (create a WAN connection, change the parameters of the wireless network,

specify the settings of the firewall, etc.).

1.

Start a web browser (see the

Before You Begin

section, page 13).

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.

Figure 15. Connecting to the web-based interface of the DIR-620 device.

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.

Figure 16. The login page.

!

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.

Right after the first access to the web-based interface you are forwarded to the page for changing

the administrator password specified by default.

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Figure 17. The page for changing the default administrator password.

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.

After successful registration the router's quick settings page opens.

Figure 18. The quick settings page.

To configure connection to the Internet, click the

Connect to internet

button. After clicking the

button, the Internet Setup Wizard opens (see the

Internet Setup Wizard

section, page 33).

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To configure access from the Internet to a web server located in your LAN, click the

Host site

button. After clicking the button, the Site Setup Wizard opens (see the

Site Setup Wizard

section,

page 58).

To configure the router's wireless network, click the

Configure Wi-Fi

button. After clicking the

button, the Wi-Fi Setup Wizard opens (see the

Wi-Fi Setup Wizard

section, page 59).

To configure the router to use an IPTV set-top box, click the

Configure IPTV

button. After

clicking the button, the IPTV Setup Wizard opens (see the

IPTV Setup Wizard

section, page 65).

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.

To configure all parameters of the router independently without the Wizards, click the

Configure

manually

button.

After clicking the button the system statistics page opens. The page displays general information on

the router and its software (the version and the date of the firmware, the IP address of the device,

the name of the WLAN, etc.).

Figure 19. The system statistics page.

From the system statistics page you can proceed to the page for upgrading the router's firmware,

contact the technical support group, and proceed to the settings of the local interface or the device's

WLAN.

To upgrade the firmware of the router, left-click the current firmware version (the right column of

the

Firmware version

line). After clicking the line, the

System / Firmware upgrade

page

opens (see the

Firmware Upgrade

section, page 151).

To contact the technical support group (to send an e-mail), left-click the support e-mail address (the

right column of the

Support

line). After clicking the line, the e-mail client window for sending a

new letter to the specified address opens.

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To edit the router's local interface parameters, left-click the IP or MAC address of the local interface

(the right column of the

LAN IP

line or

LAN MAC

line correspondingly). After clicking the line,

the page for editing the LAN interface opens (see the

LAN

section, page 93).

To configure the router's WLAN parameters, left-click the SSID of the WLAN (the right column of

the

SSID

line). After clicking the line, the

Wi-Fi / Basic settings

page opens (see the

Basic

Settings

section, page 96).

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.

Figure 20. Changing the language of the web-based interface.

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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