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This will allow you to open a single port or a range of ports.

Port Forwarding

Enter a name for the rule or select an application

from the drop-down menu. Select an application

and click

<<

to populate the fields.

Enter the IP address of the computer on your

local network that you want to allow the incoming

service to. If your computer is receiving an IP

address automatically from the router (DHCP),

you computer will be listed in the “Computer

Name” drop-down menu. Select your computer

and click

<<

.

Enter the TCP and/or UDP port or ports that

you want to open. You can enter a single port

or a range of ports. Seperate ports with a

common.

Example: 24,1009,3000-4000

Select

Allow.All

(most common) or a created

Inbound filter. You may create your own inbound

filters in the

Advanced. >. Inbound. Filter

page.

The schedule of time when the Virtual Server

Rule will be enabled. The schedule may be set

to Always, which will allow the particular service

to always be enabled. You can create your own

times in the

Tools

>

Schedules

section.

Name:

IP Address:

TCP/UDP:

Inbound Filter:

Schedule:

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Enter a name for the rule. You may select a

pre-defined application from the drop-down

menu and click

<<

.

This is the port used to trigger the application. It

can be either a single port or a range of ports.

Select the protocol of the trigger port (TCP,

UDP, or Both).

This is the port number on the Internet side

that will be used to access the application. You

may define a single port or a range of ports.

You can use a comma to add multiple ports or

port ranges.

Select the protocol of the firewall port (TCP,

UDP, or Both).

The schedule of time when the Application Rule

will be enabled. The schedule may be set to

Always, which will allow the particular service

to always be enabled. You can create your own

times in the

Tools

>

Schedules

section.

Name:

Trigger:

Traffic Type:

Firewall:

Traffic Type:

Schedule:

Application Rules

Some applications require multiple connections, such as Internet gaming, video conferencing, Internet telephony and

others. These applications have difficulties working through NAT (Network Address Translation). Special Applications

makes some of these applications work with the DIR-628. If you need to run applications that require multiple connections,

specify the port normally associated with an application in the “Trigger Port” field, select the protocol type as TCP or

UDP, then enter the firewall (public) ports associated with the trigger port to open them for inbound traffic.

The DIR-628 provides some predefined applications in the table on the bottom of the web page. Select the application

you want to use and enable it.

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QoS Engine

Check to enable Traffic Shaping.

This option is enabled by default when the Traffic

Shaping option is enabled. This option will allow your

router to automatically determine the uplink speed of

your Internet connection.

This displays the detected uplink speed.

The speed at which data can be transferred from the

router to your ISP. This is determined by your ISP. ISP’s

often speed as a download/upload pair. For example,

1.5Mbits/284Kbits. Using this example, you would enter

284. Alternatively you can test your uplink speed with

a service such as www.dslreports.com.

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 Internet 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.

Enable Traffic

Shaping:

Automatic

Uplink Speed:

Measured

Uplink:

Manual

Uplink Speed:

Connection

Type:

The QoS Engine option helps improve your network gaming performance by prioritizing applications. By default the

QoS Engine settings are disabled and application priority is not classified automatically.

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When Connection Type is set to automatic, the automatically detected connection type is displayed here.

This option is disabled by default. Enable this option for better performance and experience with online games and other

interactive applications, such as VoIP.

This option is enabled by default. This will allow your router to automatically determine the network priority of running

programs.

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.

Detected xDSL:

Enable QoS

Engine:

Automatic

Classification:

Dynamic

Fragmentation:

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Network Filters

Select

Turn.MAC.Filtering.Off

,

allow.MAC.

addresses. listed. below

, or

deny. MAC.

addresses.listed.below

from the drop-down

menu.

Enter the MAC address you would like to

filter.

To find the MAC address on a computer,

please refer to the

Networking. Basics

section in this manual.

Select a DHCP client from the drop-down

menu and click

<<

to copy that MAC

Address.

Configure MAC

Filtering:

MAC Address:

DHCP Client:

Use MAC (Media Access Control) Filters to allow or deny LAN (Local Area Network) computers by their MAC addresses

from accessing the Network. You can either manually add a MAC address or select the MAC address from the list of

clients that are currently connected to the Broadband Router.