Hawking HWRN1A Router Manual PDF (Setup & Configuration Guide)

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MAC addresses.

Enable Wireless

To enforce MAC address filtering,

Access Control (5):

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 (6):

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 (7):

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 (8):

Click ‘Add’ button to add the MAC address and

associated comment to the MAC address filtering

table.

Clear (9):

Click ‘Clear’ to remove the value you inputted in

MAC address and comment field.

After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ (10) button and the

following message will be displayed on your web browser:

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Please click ‘Continue’ to go 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 30 seconds while router is

rebooting).

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

value, please click ‘Cancel’ button.

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’ tab at the top of web management interface, then

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

browser:

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Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Enable WPS (1)

Check this box to enable WPS function, uncheck it

to disable WPS.

Wi-Fi Protected

WPS-related system information will be displayed

Setup Information

here:

(2)

WPS Status: If the wireless security (encryption)

function of this wireless router is properly set, you’ll

see ‘Configured’ message here. If wireless security

function has not been set, you’ll see ‘Not

configured’.

Self PIN code: This is the WPS PIN code of this

wireless router. This code is useful when you need to

build wireless connection by WPS with other

WPS-enabled wireless devices.

SSID: The SSID of this wireless router will be

displayed here.

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3

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Authentication Mode: The wireless security

authentication mode of this wireless router will be

displayed here. If you don’t enable security function

of the wireless router before WPS is activated, the

router will auto set the security to WPA (AES) and

generate a set passphrase key for WPS connection.

Passphrase Key: The wireless security key of the

router will be displayed here.

Config Mode (3)

There are ‘Registrar’ and ‘Enrollee’ modes for the

WPS connection. When ‘Registrar’ is enabled, the

wireless clients will follow the router’s wireless

settings for WPS connection. When ‘Enrolle’ mode

is enabled, the router will follow the wireless

settings of wireless client for WPS connection.

Configure

Click ‘Start PBC’ to start Push-Button style WPS

via Push Button (4)

setup procedure. This wireless router will wait for

WPS requests from wireless clients for 2 minutes.

The ‘WLAN’ LED on the wireless router will be

steady on for 2 minutes when this wireless router is

waiting for incoming WPS request.

Configure

Please input the PIN code of the wireless client you

via client

wish to connect, and click ‘Start PIN’ button.

PinCode (5)

The ‘WLAN’ LED on the wireless router will be

steady on when this wireless router is waiting for

incoming WPS request.

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2-7-6

Security Tips for Wireless Network

Here are some quick tips to help you improve the security level of your

wireless network:

1.

Never use simple words (like school, apple and computer) as WEP

encryption or WPA passphrase.

2.

A complicated (combination of numbers, alphabets, and even symbols)

WEP key and WPA passphrase is much safer than simple and short

ones. Remember that the wireless client is capable of keeping the key

or passphrase for you, so you only have to input the complicated key

or passphrase once.

3.

You can hide the ESSID of this router by setting the ‘Broadcast

ESSID’ option to ‘Disable’. Your wireless router will not be found by

other people in proximity if they’re just using the AP scanning

function of their wireless client, and this can reduce the chance of

being intruded.

4.

Use ‘Access Control’ function described in section 2-7-4, so those

people who are not in your list will not be able to connect to your

network.

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