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The user name is
admin
.The default password is
password
.The user name and password are case-sensitive.
The BASIC Home page displays.
4.
Select
ADVANCED > Security > E-mail
.
5.
Select the
Turn E-mail Notification On
check box.
6.
In the
Your Outgoing Mail Server
field, enter the name of your ISP outgoing (SMTP) mail server (such as
mail.myISP.com).
You might be able to find this information in the configuration window of your email program. If you leave this
field blank, log and alert messages are not sent.
7.
In the
Send to This E-mail Address
field, type the email address to which logs and alerts are to be sent.
This email address is also used for the From address. If this field is blank, log and alert messages are not sent.
8.
If your outgoing email server requires authentication, select the
My Mail Server requires authentication
check
box, and do the following:
a.
In the
User Name
field, type the user name for the outgoing email server.
b.
In the
Password
field, type the password for the outgoing email server.
9.
To send alerts when someone attempts to visit a blocked site, select the
Send Alerts Immediately
check box.
Email alerts are sent immediately when someone attempts to visit a blocked site.
10.
To send logs based on a schedule, specify these settings:
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a.
From
Send logs according to this schedule
menu, select the schedule type.
b.
From the
Day
menu, select the day.
c.
From the
Time
menu, select the time, and select the
am
or
pm
radio button.
11.
Click the
Apply
button.
Your settings are saved.
Logs are sent automatically according to the schedule that you set. If the log fills before the specified time, it is
sent. After the log is sent, it is cleared from the router memory. If the router cannot email the log and the log
buffer fills, the router overwrites the log.
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5
Tri-Band WiFi Connections
This chapter explains how the router manages WiFi connections for its WiFi bands and how you can control the relevant
router settings.
The chapter contains the following sections:
•
Tri-Band WiFi
on page 59
•
Smart Connect
on page 62
•
Beamforming
on page 64
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Tri-Band WiFi
Tri-band WiFi delivers 3.2 Gbps combined WiFi speeds through three dedicated WiFi bands—a 2.4 GHz band plus
two 5 GHz bands. This additional 5 GHz WiFi band allows you to double the WiFi bandwidth for dual-band devices.
Figure 6. Tri-band WiFi doubles the available bandwidth for dual-band devices
Smart Connect intelligently selects the best WiFi band for each dual-band device to optimize connection speed and
performance based on that device’s speed and performance capabilities. This additional WiFi bandwidth combined
with the intelligence to segregate traffic based on WiFi speed and load balancing provides the best performance for
multiple WiFi devices in your home.
How Tri-Band WiFi Improves Speed and Performance
Tri-band WiFi increases the available WiFi bandwidth for your network to reduce network congestion.
Typically, a dual-band WiFi router shares bandwidth among all connected devices that are downloading data at the
same time. So if you are watching a Netflix movie on your Internet-enabled large-screen TV while your kids are
watching a YouTube video on a smartphone, the router shares the bandwidth across these two devices. This is
particularly unfair for the faster 802.11ac devices or three-stream (3x3) 802.11n devices because their speeds are
reduced to the speed of the slowest device in the network. Even one slow device can bring down the entire network
speed.
In this simplified example, the 5 GHz band is capable of a maximum speed of 1733 Mbps, but the actual speed
could be limited by the device capability. For example, an Apple MacBook Pro with support for three streams is
capable of the maximum 1300 Mbps, but the Tri-Band WiFi Connections iPhone 5S with support for only single-stream
802.11n can achieve a maximum WiFi speed of only 150 Mbps. As more devices connect and begin downloading,
the bandwidth is shared among them as well.
The following example of shared bandwidth shows a dual-band router in which the GHz WiFi band is capable of a
fast 640 Mbps speed. If only one computer or device connects, the router can allocate a speed of up to 640 Mbps
to that connection, assuming that the device is capable of that speed. When more devices connect to the 5 GHz
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band, they must share the bandwidth. If four devices connect, then the router divides its 640 Mbps capacity by 5,
as shown in the following figure.
Figure 7. Dual-band WiFi network with one 5 GHz WiFi band
That means that in the network shown, a computer with a 1,300 Mbps capacity provides an effective WiFi connection
speed of 160 Mbps (13005 ), and other devices would also see their WiFi speeds divided by 5.
Tri-band WiFi adds a second 5 GHz WiFi band to the network. This increases the available WiFi bandwidth, which
can be compared to widening the road. In addition to widening the road, using two 5 GHz bands means that the
router has dedicated 5 GHz bands. That’s like tri-band WiFi connections using two lanes in the wider road instead
of one. The router automatically uses Smart Connect to allocate the fastest devices to the fast lane.
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