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4.

Genie Advanced Home

Specifying custom settings

This chapter explains the features available from the Genie Advanced Home screen, shown in

the following figure:

This screen is also

displayed through the

Administration menu.

This chapter contains the following sections:

•

Setup Wizard

•

WPS Wizard

•

Setup Menu

•

WAN Setup

•

LAN Setup

•

Quality of Service (QoS) Setup

Some screens you access from the Advanced Home screen are described in separate chapters:

•

USB Storage

. See

Chapter 5, USB Storage

•

Security

. See

Chapter 6, Security

•

Administration

. See

Chapter 7, Administration

.

•

Advanced Setup

. See

Chapter 8, Advanced Settings

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Setup Wizard

The NETGEAR Genie installation process is launched the first time you set up the router.

After setting up the router the first time, if you want to perform this task again, you can run

Setup Wizard from the Advanced tab of the Genie.

1.

Select

Setup Wizard

to display the following screen:

2.

Select either

Yes

or

No, I want to configure the router myself

. If you select No, you are

taken to the Internet Setup screen (see

Internet Setup

on page 22).

3.

If you selected Yes, click

Next

. The following screen displays:

The Setup Wizard searches your Internet connection for servers and protocols to

determine your ISP configuration. The following screen displays:

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WPS Wizard

The WPS Wizard helps you add a WPS-capable client device (a wireless device or

computer) to your network. On the client device you need to either press its WPS button or

locate its WPS PIN.

To use the WPS Wizard:

1.

Select

Advanced > WPS Wizard

.

2.

Click

Next

. The following screen lets you select the method for adding the WPS client (a

wireless device or computer).

You can use either the push button or PIN method.

3.

Select either

Push Button

or

PIN Number

.

•

To use the push button method, either click the

WPS

button on this screen, or press

the

WPS

button located on the side of the router. Within 2 minutes, go to the wireless

client and press its

WPS

button to join the network without entering a password.

•

To use the PIN method, select the

PIN Number

radio button, enter the client security

PIN, and click

Next

.

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Within 2 minutes, go to the client device and use its WPS software to join the network

without entering a password.

The router attempts to add the WPS-capable device. The WPS LED

on the front of

the router blinks green. When the router establishes a WPS connection, the LED is solid

green, and the router WPS screen displays a confirmation message.

4.

Repeat Step 2 and Step 3 to add another WPS client to your network.

Setup Menu

Slect

Advanced > Setup

to display the Setup menu. The following selections are available:

•

Internet Setup

. This is a shortcut to the same Internet Setup screen that you can access

from the dashboard on the Basic Home screen. See

Internet Setup

on page 22.

•

Wireless Setup

. This is a shortcut to the same Wireless Settings screen that you can

access from the dashboard on the Basic Home screen. See

Basic Wireless Settings

on

page 26.

•

Guest Network

. This is a shotcut to the same Guest Network screen that you can access

from the dashboard on the Basic Home screen. See

Guest Networks

on page 29.

•

WAN Setup

. Internet (WAN) setup. See

WAN Setup

on page 35.

•

LAN Setup

. Local area network (LAN) setup. See

LAN Setup

on page 38.

•

QoS Setup

.Quality of Service (QoS) setup. See

Quality of Service (QoS) Setup

on

page 41.

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WAN Setup

The WAN Setup screen lets you configure a DMZ (demilitarized zone) server, change the

Maximum Transmit Unit (MTU) size, and enable the router to respond to a ping on the WAN

(Internet) port. Select

Advanced > Setup > WAN Setup

to view the following screen:

•

Disable Port Scan and DoS Protection

. DoS protection protects your LAN against

denial of service attacks such as Syn flood, Smurf Attack, Ping of Death, Teardrop Attack,

UDP Flood, ARP Attack, Spoofing ICMP, Null Scan, and many others. This should be

disabled only in special circumstances.

•

Default DMZ Server

. This feature is sometimes helpful when you are playing online

games and/or videoconferencing. Be careful when using this feature because it makes

the firewall security less effective. See the following section,

Default DMZ Server

, for

more details.

•

Respond to Ping on Internet Port

. If you want the router to respond to a ping from the

Internet, select this check box. Use this only as a diagnostic tool because it allows your

router to be discovered. Do not select this check box unless you have a specific reason.

•

Disable IGMP Proxying

. IGMP proxying allows a computer on the local area network

(LAN) to receive the multicast traffic it is interested in from the Internet. You can select

this check box to disable the feature if you do not need it.

•

MTU Size (in bytes)

. The normal MTU (Maximum Transmit Unit) value for most Ethernet

networks is 1500 bytes, or 1492 bytes for PPPoE connections. For some ISPs you might

need to reduce the MTU. This is rarely required, and should not be done unless you are

sure it is necessary for your ISP connection. See

Change the MTU Size

on page 36.

•

NAT Filtering

. Network Address Translation (NAT) determines how the router processes

inbound traffic. Secured NAT provides a secured firewall to protect the computers on the

LAN from attacks from the Internet, but might prevent some Internet games,

point-to-point applications, or multimedia applications from functioning. Open NAT

provides a much less secured firewall, but allows almost all Internet applications to

function.