EDIMAX BR-6504n Router Manual PDF (Setup & Configuration Guide)

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2-7-3-4 WPA RADIUS:

If you have a RADIUS server, this router can work with it and provide safer

wireless authentication.

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

WPA Unicast

Please select a type of WPA cipher suite.

Cipher Suite:

Available options are: WPA (TKIP), WPA2 (AES), and

WPA2 Mixed. You can select one of them, but you have

to make sure your wireless client support the cipher you

selected.

RADIUS Server

Please input the IP address of your

IP address :

Radius authentication server here.

RADIUS Server

Please input the port number of your

Port :

Radius authentication server here.

Default setting is

1812.

RADIUS Server

Please input the password of your Radius

Password :

authentication server here.

After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’

button, and the

following message will be displayed on your web browser:

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Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on other

setup procedures, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will

take effect (Please wait for about 50 seconds while router is rebooting).

2-7-4 Wireless Access Control

This function will help you to prevent unauthorized users from connecting to

your wireless router; only those wireless devices who have the MAC address

you assigned here can gain access to your wireless router. You can use this

function with other security measures described in previous section, to create

a safer wireless environment.

Up to 20 MAC addresses can be assigned by using this function. Please click

‘Wireless’ menu on the left of web management interface, then click ‘Access

Control’, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

All allowed MAC addresses will be displayed in ‘MAC Address Filtering

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Table’ , and Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Delete Selected :

If you want to delete a specific MAC address entry,

check the ‘select’ box of the MAC address you want to

delete, then click ‘Delete Selected’ button. (You can

select more than one MAC addresses).

Delete All :

If you want to delete all MAC addresses listed here,

please click ‘Delete All’ button.

Reset :

You can also click ‘Reset’ button to unselect all MAC

addresses.

Enable Wireless

To enforce MAC address filtering,

Access Control :

you have to check ‘Enable Wireless Access Control’.

When this item is unchecked, wireless router will not

enforce MAC address filtering of wireless clients.

MAC Address :

Input the MAC address of your wireless devices here,

dash ( - ) or colon ( : ) are not required. (i.e. If the MAC

address label of your wireless device indicates

‘aa-bb-cc-dd-ee-ff’ or ‘aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff’, just input

‘aabbccddeeff’.

Comment :

You can input any text here as the comment of this

MAC address, like ‘ROOM 2A Computer’ or

anything. You can input up to 16 alphanumerical

characters here. This is optional and you can leave

it blank, however, it’s recommended to use this field

to write a comment for every MAC addresses as a

memory aid.

Add :

Click ‘Add’ button to add the MAC address and

associated comment to the MAC address filtering table.

Clear :

Click ‘Clear’ to remove the value you inputted in MAC

address and comment field.

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After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’

button, and the

following message will be displayed on your web browser:

Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on other

setup procedures, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will

take effect (Please wait for about 50 seconds while router is rebooting).

If you want to reset all settings in this page back to previously-saved value,

please click ‘Cancel’ button.

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2-7-5 Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS)

Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) is the simplest way to build connection

between wireless network clients and this wireless router. You don’t have to

select encryption mode and input a long encryption passphrase every time

when you need to setup a wireless client, you only have to press a button on

wireless client and this wireless router, and the WPS will do the rest for you.

This wireless router supports two types of WPS: Push-Button Configuration

(PBC), and PIN code. If you want to use PBC, you have to push a specific

button on the wireless client to start WPS mode, and switch this wireless

router to WPS mode too. You can push Reset/WPS button of this wireless

router, or click ‘Start PBC’ button in the web configuration interface to do

this; if you want to use PIN code, you have to know the PIN code of wireless

client and switch it to WPS mode, then provide the PIN code of the wireless

client you wish to connect to this wireless router. The detailed instructions

are listed follow:

Please click ‘Wireless’ menu on the left of web management interface, then

click ‘WPS’, and the following message will be displayed on your web

browser:

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Enable WPS

Check this box to enable WPS function, uncheck it

to disable WPS.

Wi-Fi Protected

WPS-related system information will be displayed

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