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Enter the IP address assigned by your ISP.

Enter the Subnet Mask assigned by your ISP.

Enter the Gateway assigned by your ISP.

The DNS server information will be supplied by your ISP (Internet Service Provider.)

Maximum Transmission Unit - you may need to change the MTU for optimal

performance with your specific ISP. 1500 is the default MTU.

The default MAC Address is set to the Internet port’s physical interface MAC

address on the Broadband Router. It is not recommended that you change the

default MAC address unless required by your ISP. You can use the

Clone.Your.PC’s.

MAC.Address

button to replace the Internet port’s MAC address with the MAC

address of your Ethernet card.

IP Address:

Subnet Mask:

Default Gateway:

DNS Servers:

MTU:

MAC Address:

Static (assigned by ISP)

Select Static IP Address if all the Internet port’s IP information is provided to you by your ISP. You will need to enter in the IP address, subnet mask,

gateway address, and DNS address(es) provided to you by your ISP. Each IP address entered in the fields must be in the appropriate IP form, which

are four octets separated by a dot (x.x.x.x). The Router will not accept the IP address if it is not in this format.

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Check the box to enable the wireless function. If you do not want to use wireless,

uncheck the box to disable all the wireless functions.

The schedule of time when the wireless settings rules 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.

Service Set Identifier (SSID) is the name of your wireless network. Create a name

using up to 32 characters. The SSID is case-sensitive.

The

Auto.Channel.Scan

setting can be selected to allow the DIR-657 to choose the

channel with the least amount of interference.

Indicates the channel setting for the DIR-657. By default the channel is set to 6. The

Channel can be changed to fit the channel setting for an existing wireless network

or to customize the wireless network. If you enable

Auto.Channel.Scan

, this option

will be greyed out.

Select one of the following:

802±11g.Only

- Select if all of your wireless clients are 802.11g.

802±11n.Only

- Select only if all of your wireless clients are 802.11n.

Mixed.802±11n.and.802±11g

- Select if you are using a mix of 802.11n and 11g

wireless clients.

Select the Channel Width:

Auto.20/40

- This is the default setting. Select if you are using

both 802.11n and non-802.11n wireless devices.

20MHz

- Select if you are not using any 802.11n wireless clients.

40MHz

- Select if using only 802.11n wireless clients.

Select the transmit rate. It is strongly suggested to select

Best.(Auto)

for best

performance.

Select

Invisible

if you do not want the SSID of your wireless network to be

broadcasted by the DIR-657. If Invisible is selected, the SSID of the DIR-657 will

not be seen by Site Survey utilities so your wireless clients will have to know the

SSID of your DIR-657

Enable Wireless:

Enable Auto Channel

Scan:

Wireless Settings

Wireless Network

Name:

Wireless Channel:

802.11 Mode:

Channel Width:

Transmission Rate:

Visibility Status:

Schedule:

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This section will allow you to change the local network settings of the router and to configure the DHCP settings.

Network Settings

Enter the IP address of the router. The default IP address is

192.168.0.1.

If you change the IP address, once you click

Apply

, you will need

to enter the new IP address in your browser to get back into the

configuration utility.

Enter the Subnet Mask. The default subnet mask is 255.255.255.0.

Enter the Domain name (Optional).

Uncheck the box to transfer the DNS server information from your

ISP to your computers. If checked, your computers will use the

router for a DNS server.

IP Address:

Subnet Mask:

Local Domain:

Enable DNS Relay:

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DHCP Server Settings

DHCP stands for Dynamic Host Control Protocol. The DIR-657 has a built-in DHCP server. The DHCP Server will automatically assign an IP address

to the computers on the LAN/private network. Be sure to set your computers to be DHCP clients by setting their TCP/IP settings to “Obtain an IP

Address Automatically.” When you turn your computers on, they will automatically load the proper TCP/IP settings provided by the DIR-657. The

DHCP Server will automatically allocate an unused IP address from the IP address pool to the requesting computer. You must specify the starting

and ending address of the IP address pool.

Check this box to enable the DHCP server on your router. Uncheck

to disable this function.

Enter the starting and ending IP addresses for the DHCP server’s

IP assignment.

Note:

If you statically (manually) assign IP addresses to your

computers or devices, make sure the IP addresses are outside of this

range or you may have an IP conflict.

The length of time for the IP address lease. Enter the Lease time

in minutes.

Enable this feature to broadcast your networks DHCP server to

LAN/WLAN clients.

NetBIOS allows LAN hosts to discover all other computers within

the network, enable this feature to allow the DHCP Server to offer

NetBIOS configuration settings.

Enable this feature to allow WINS information to be learned from

the WAN side, disable to allow manual configuration.

This feature allows the configuration of a NetBIOS ‘domain’ name under which network hosts operates. This setting has no effect if the ‘Learn NetBIOS information

from WAN’ is activated.”

Select the different type of NetBIOS node:

Broadcast.only

,

Point-to-Point

,

Mixed-mode

, and

Hybrid

.

Enter your Primary (and Secondary) WINS IP address(es).

Enable DHCP

Server:

DHCP IP Address

Range:

DHCP Lease Time:

Always Broadcast:

NetBIOS

Announcement:

Learn NetBIOS

from WAN:

NetBIOS Scope:

NetBIOS Mode

Type:

Primary/Secondary

WINS IP Address:

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DHCP Reservation

If you want a computer or device to always have the same IP address assigned, you can create a DHCP reservation. The router will assign the IP

address only to that computer or device.

Note:

This IP address must be within the DHCP IP Address Range.

Check this box to enable the reservation.

Enter the computer name or select from the drop-down menu

and click

<<

.

Enter the IP address you want to assign to the computer or

device. This IP Address must be within the DHCP IP Address

Range.

Enter the MAC address of the computer or device.

If you want to assign an IP address to the computer you are

currently on, click this button to populate the fields.

Click

Save

to save your entry. You must click

Save.Settings

at

the top to activate your reservations.

In this section you can see what LAN devices are currently leasing

IP addresses.

Click

Revoke

to cancel the lease for a specific LAN device and free

an entry in the lease table. Do this only if the device no longer

needs the leased IP address, because, for example, it has been

removed from the network.

Note:

The Revoke option will not disconnect a PC with a current

network session from the network; you would need to use MAC

Address Filter to do that. Revoke will only free up a DHCP Address for the very next requester. If the previous owner is still available, those two devices may both receive

an IP Address Conflict error, or the second device may still not receive an IP Address; in that case, you may still need to extend the “DHCP IP Address Range” to address

the issue, it is located in the DHCP Server section.

The Reserve option converts this dynamic IP allocation into a DHCP Reservation and adds the corresponding entry to the DHCP Reservations List.

Enable:

Computer Name:

IP Address:

MAC Address:

Copy Your PC’s

MAC Address:

Save:

Number of

Dynamic DHCP

Clients:

Revoke:

Reserve: