D-Link DIR-685 Router Manual PDF (Setup & Configuration Guide)

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BT Download Manager

Enable BT:

Share Path:

The DIR-685 features a built-in BitTorrent Manager that allows you to download and upload torrent ﬁles.

Tick the checkbox to enable the

DIR-685 BitTorrent Manager.

Speciﬁes the folder that will be used

for Downloading and Uploading

Torrents. Click the

Browse

button

to browse to the required folder on

one of the hard drives connected

to the DIR-685.

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Enter a new password for the Administrator account. The

administrator can make changes to router settings.

Tick the checkbox to display the graphical authentication

window on the login screen. Enabling this option adds

an extra level of security as it requires users to type the

password that appears in the graphical authentication

window on the login screen, in addition to their user name

and password.

Remote Management allows the DIR-685 to be conﬁgured

from the Internet using a web browser. A username and

password is still required to access the Web-Management

interface. By default only a member of your network can

browse the built-in web pages to perform Administrator tasks.

This feature enables you to perform Administrator tasks from the remote (Internet) host.

If Remote Management is enabled, you can type an IP address in this ﬁeld to restrict remote access to the speciﬁed IP

address. Leave this ﬁeld blank if you want to allow remote access from any computer on the Internet.

The port number used to access the DIR-685 from the Internet.

Example: http://x.x.x.x:8080 where x.x.x.x is the Internet IP address of the DIR-685 and 8080 is the port used for the Web

Management interface.

Administrator

Password:

Enable Graphical

Authentication:

Enable Remote

Management:

IP Permitted to

Access:

Port:

Admin

This page will allow you to change the Administrator and User passwords. You can also enable Remote Management.

There are two accounts that can access the management interface through the web browser. The accounts are admin

and user. Admin has read/write access while user has read-only access. User can view settings but cannot make any

changes. Only the admin account has the ability to change both admin and user account passwords.

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Time

Select the Time Zone from the drop-down

menu.

To select Daylight Saving time manually, select

enabled or disabled, and enter a start date and

an end date for daylight saving time.

Click this button to synchronize the DIR-685’s

clock with the time set on your computer.

NTP is short for Network Time Protocol. NTP

synchronizes computer clock times in a network

of computers. Tick this box to use one of the

D-Link NTP server’s.

Use the drop-down menu to select one of the

D-Link Internet time servers.

To manually input the time, enter the values

in these ﬁelds for the Year, Month, Day, Hour,

Minute, and Second

Time Zone:

Enable Daylight

Saving:

Sync. your

computer’s time

settings:

Automatically

synchronize with

D-Link’s Internet

time server:

NTP Server Used:

Set the Time and

Date Manually:

The Time Conﬁguration option allows you to conﬁgure, update, and maintain the correct time on the internal system

clock. From this section you can set the time zone that you are in and set the Time Server. Daylight Saving can also

be conﬁgured to automatically adjust the time when needed.

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Log Settings

The Broadband Router keeps a running log of events and activities occurring on the Router. You may send these logs

to a SysLog server on your network.

Save Log File:

Log Types:

Click the

Save

button to save the log results to

your hard drive.

Select the type of information displayed in the

router log.

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Email Settings

The E-mail feature can be used to send the system log ﬁles, router alert messages, and ﬁrmware update notiﬁcation

to your e-mail address.

Enable Email

Notiﬁcation:

From Email

Address:

To Email Address:

Email Subject:

SMTP Server

Address:

SMTP Server

Port:

Enable

Authentication:

Account Name:

Password:

Send Mail Now:

When this option is enabled, router activity logs

are e-mailed to a designated e-mail address.

This e-mail address will appear as the sender

when you receive a log ﬁle or ﬁrmware upgrade

notiﬁcation via e-mail.

Enter the e-mail address where you want the

e-mail sent.

Enter a Subject for the e-mail messages that will

be sent from the DIR-685.

Enter the SMTP server address for sending

e-mail.

Enter the Port Number used by your SMTP

Server.

Tick this box if your SMTP server requires

authentication.

If ticking the

Enable Authentication

checkbox, enter the account used to authenticate with the SMTP server.

Enter the password associated with the account used to authenticate with the SMTP Server. Re-type the password associated

with the account in the

Verify Password

ﬁeld.

Click this button to send a test e-mail from the DIR-685 to the e-mail address speciﬁed in the

To Email Address

ﬁeld.

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