DIR-632

Multifunction Wireless Router Supporting WiMAX,

3G GSM/CDMA with Built-in 8-port Switch

User Manual

Installation and Connection

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

the administrator password specified by default.

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

Enter a new password in the

Password

and

Confirmation

fields (you may use digits, Latin

letters (uppercase and/or lowercase), and characters available on the keyboard), then click the

Save

link.

!

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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Web-based Interface Structure

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

Figure 18. The quick settings 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.

Figure 19. Changing the language of the web-based interface.

After selecting the language, the notification on unsaved changes will be displayed. Click the

Save

icon (

) to save the current language of the web-based interface as the default language.

The quick settings 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.).

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On the quick settings page you can run a needed Wizard, quickly get to some pages of the web-

based interface, search for a specific page, or switch to the advanced settings section.

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 (for the detailed description of the page, see the

Firmware Upgrade

section, page 186).

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.

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 (for the detailed description of the page, see the

LAN

section, page 125).

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 (for the detailed

description of the page, see the

Basic Settings

section, page 129).

To configure connection to the Internet, click the

Click'n'Connect

link in the

Net

section (for the

detailed description of the Wizard, see the

Click'n'Connect

section, page 38).

To configure the router's wireless network, click the

Wireless network settings wizard

link in

the

Wi-Fi

section (for the detailed description of the Wizard, see the

Wireless Network Settings

Wizard

section, page 82).

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

Virtual

server settings wizard

link in the

Firewall

section (for the detailed description of the Wizard,

see the

Virtual Server Settings Wizard

section, page 88).

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

IPTV settings wizard

link in the

IP-

tv

section (for the detailed description of the Wizard, see the

IPTV Settings Wizard

section, page

90).

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

Advanced

settings

link in the bottom right corner of the page.

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Figure 20. The advanced settings page.

The pages of the

Status

section display data on the current state of the router (for the description of

the pages, see the

Status

section, page 91).

The pages of the

Net

section are designed for configuring basic parameters of the LAN interface of

the router and creating a connection to the Internet (for the description of the pages, see the

Net

section, page 95).

The pages of the

Wi-Fi

section are designed for specifying all needed settings of the router's

wireless network (for the description of the pages, see the

Wi-Fi

section, page 128).

Also you can

enable or disable the device's WLAN directly from the advanced settings page. To enable the

WLAN, select the

On

position (

) of the

Enable/Disable Wi-Fi

switch. To disable the

WLAN, select the

Off

position (

) of the

Enable/Disable Wi-Fi

switch.

The pages of the

Advanced

section are designed for configuring additional parameters of the

router (for the description of the pages, see the

Advanced

section, page 146).

The pages of the

Firewall

section are designed for configuring the firewall of the router (for the

description of the pages, see the

Firewall

section, page 159).

The pages of the

USB modem

section are designed to operate the connected 3G USB modem (for

the description of the pages, see the

USB Modem

section, page 168).

The

WiMAX

section provides data on the connected WiMAX USB modem (for the description of

the page, see the

WiMAX

section, page 171).

The pages of the

USB storage

section are designed to operate the connected USB storage (for the

description of the pages, see the

USB Storage

section, page 173).

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The pages of the

Control

section are designed for creating restrictions on access to the Internet (for

the description of the page, see the

Control

section, page 177).

The pages of the

System

section provide functions for managing the internal system of the router

(for the description of the pages, see the

System

section, page 180).

Also you can find a specific page via search. To do this, enter the name of the page, wholly or

partly, in the search bar in the top part of the web-based interface page, and then select a needed

link in the search results.

Figure 21. The page displaying the search results.

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