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Configuring E-Mail Alert and Web Access Log Notifications

In order to receive logs and alerts by E-mail, you must provide your E-mail information in the E-

Mail menu, shown below:

•

Turn E-mail Notification On

—Check this box if you wish to receive e-mail logs and alerts

from the router.

•

Your Outgoing Mail Server

—Enter the name of your outgoing (SMTP) mail server (such as

mail.myISP.com). You may be able to find this information in the configuration menu of your

e-mail program. If you leave this box blank, log and alert messages will not be sent via e-mail.

Figure 3-6

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•

Send To This E-mail Address

—Enter the e-mail address to which logs and alerts are sent.

This e-mail address will also be used as the From address. If you leave this box blank, log and

alert messages will not be sent via e-mail.

You can specify that logs are automatically sent to the specified e-mail address with these options:

•

Send alert immediately—

Check this box if you would like immediate notification of

attempted access to a blocked site.

•

Send logs according to this schedule—

Use this option to specify how often to send the logs:

Hourly, Daily, Weekly, or When Full.

–

Day for sending log

Specifies which day of the week to send the log. Relevant when the log is sent weekly or

daily.

–

Time for sending log

Specifies the time of day to send the log. Relevant when the log is sent daily or weekly.

If the Weekly, Daily or Hourly option is selected and the log fills up before the specified

period, the log is automatically e-mailed to the specified e-mail address. After the log is sent,

the log is cleared from the router’s memory. If the router cannot e-mail the log file, the log

buffer may fill up. In this case, the router overwrites the log and discards its contents.

The RangeMax NEXT Wireless Router uses the Network Time Protocol (NTP) to obtain the

current time and date from one of several Network Time Servers on the Internet. In order to

localize the time for your log entries, you must specify your Time Zone:

•

Time Zone

—Select your local time zone. This setting will be used for the blocking schedule

and for time-stamping log entries.

•

Daylight Savings Time

—Check this box if your time zone is currently under daylight savings

time.

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Chapter 4

Maintenance

This chapter describes how to use the maintenance features of your RangeMax NEXT Wireless

Router Gigabit Edition Model WNR854T. These features can be found by clicking on the

Maintenance heading in the Main Menu of the browser interface.

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How to Manually Configure Your Internet Connection

You can manually configure your router using the Basic Settings menu, shown below.

You can manually configure the router using the Basic Settings menu shown in

Figure 4-1

using

these steps:

1.

Connect to the wireless router by typing

http://www.routerlogin.net

in the address field of your

browser, then click

Enter

.

Figure 4-1

ISP

Does

Not

Require Login

ISP

Does

Require Login

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2.

For security reasons, the wireless router has its own user name and password. When prompted,

enter

admin

for the router user name and

password

for the router password, both in lower

case letters.

3.

Click

Basic Settings

on the Setup menu.

4.

If your Internet connection does not require a login, click

No

at the top of the Basic Settings

menu and fill in the settings according to the instructions below. If your Internet connection

does require a login, click

Yes

, and skip to step 5.

a.

Enter your Account Name (may also be called Host Name) and Domain Name.

These parameters may be necessary to access your ISP’s services such as mail or news

servers.

b.

Internet IP Address:

If your ISP has assigned you a permanent, fixed (static) IP address for your computer,

select

Use Static IP Address

. Enter the IP address that your ISP assigned. Also enter the

net mask and the Gateway IP address. The Gateway is the ISP’s router to which your

router will connect.

c.

Domain Name Server (DNS) Address:

If you know that your ISP does not automatically transmit DNS addresses to the router

during login, select

Use These DNS Servers

and enter the IP address of your ISP’s

Primary DNS Server. If a Secondary DNS Server address is available, enter it also.

d.

Router’s MAC Address:

This section determines the Ethernet MAC address that will the router will use on the

Internet port. Some ISPs will register the Ethernet MAC address of the network interface

card in your computer when your account is first opened. They will then only accept

traffic from the MAC address of that computer. This feature allows your router to

masquerade as that computer by “cloning” its MAC address.

To change the MAC address, select

Use Computer MAC Address

. The router will then

capture and use the MAC address of the computer that you are now using. You must be

using the one computer that is allowed by the ISP. Or, select

Use this MAC address

and

type it in here.

e.

Click

Apply

to save your settings.

Note:

If you enter an address here, restart the computers on your network so that

these settings take effect.