PCI BLW-54MF Router Manual PDF (Setup & Configuration Guide)

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3.2 Remote Management

BLW-54MF Wireless Router can be managed by any PC from your LAN.

If the router has connected to the Internet, the administrator can also

configure it via the Internet. Owing to the security, however, you must

have the MAC address before performing remote management.

œ

Enable Remote Management Function

Ĉ

You may choose to

Enable

or

Disable

the function of managing BLW-54MF from the remote host.

œ

HTTP/Port

Ĉ

Enter the port number of remote management host.

œ

HTTP/Remote IP Range

Ĉ

Enter an IP address or a range of IP

addresses of the remote management interface.

œ

Allow to Ping WAN port/Remote IP Range

Ĉ

You can choose if you

want to enable and reply the Ping test from the WAN side. After that,

you may set a range of IP addresses to allow to reply the Ping test.

œ

UPNP Enable

Ĉ

If your Windows Operating System supports UPnP

service, when you enable the UPnP service and the BLW-54MF Wireless

Router is connecting with the computer, the task bar will show the icon

of BLW-54MF to inform you that a new device is found and inquire you

whether if you want to set a shortcut on the desktop.

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Chapter 3 Advanced Setup & Configuration

œ

Gaming mode

Ĉ

If you are experiencing difficulties when playing

online games or even certain applications that use voice data, you may

need to enable

Gaming Mode

for these applications to work correctly.

When not playing games or not using these voice applications, it is

recommended that Gaming Mode should be disabled.

œ

PPTP/IPSec

Ĉ

Users who use remote host or VPN can choose IPSec

or PPTP for authentication. These functions can provide maximum

compatibility for your VPN server and make it work fine.

œ

IDENT

Ĉ

Auth/Ident servers

ę

which are supposed to run on the local

user's machine

ę

open port 113 and listen for incoming connections

and queries from remote machines. These querying machines provide

a local and remote "port pair" describing some other already-existing

connection between the machines. The user's "

IDENT

" server is

tasked with looking up and returning the connection's "USER ID" and

perhaps additional information, such as an E-Mail address, full name, or

whatever. You may choose to use

Stealth

or

Closed

which is not to use

this function.

œ

Cancel

Ĉ

If you do not want to configure this setting right now, click

this button to exist this page.

œ

Save

Ĉ

Click this button to save/apply the settings and restart the

system

.

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3.3 Firmware

You can upgrade the firmware of BLW-54MF via Web Browser.

First, please go to the website: http://www.planex.com.tw/download/index.

htm to download the latest firmware of BLW-54MF. Be sure that the

firmware is stored in your PC's disk and then click

ņ

Browse...

Ň

to search

for the firmware file which you just downloaded. Click

ņ

Open

Ň

to use

the firmware and click

ņ

Update

.

Ň

After the dialog box pops up and ask

you if you want to continue upgrading the firmware, you can click

ņ

OK

Ň

to start upgrading immediately. Upgrading firmware will not change any

settings, but it is recommended that you should save the settings before

upgrading the firmware.

It takes about 2~3 minutes to upgrade the firmware. When

upgrading, please do not turn off the power of BLW-54MF. After

finishing upgrading, BLW-54MF will restart automatically.

œ

Upgrade Firmware

Ĉ

Please go to the website of Planex

Communications Inc. to download the latest firmware. After that, you

may use

ņ

Browse

ĀŇ

and

ņ

Upgrade

Ň

to update firmware.

œ

Browse

ĀĈ

Click this button to search for the downloaded firmware file

in your hard disk.

œ

Upgrade

Ĉ

Click this button to start upgrading firmware.

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Chapter 3 Advanced Setup & Configuration

3.4 Restart

Click

ņ

Restart

Ň

and then click

ņ

OK

Ň

on the pop-up dialog box to

restart the system.

4. Tools

4.1 Ping Test

This function can help you send

ņ

Ping

Ň

packets to detect if the remote

host is O.K. The response messages will appear below and they can also

help to diagnose the network problems.

œ

Host Name or IP address

Ĉ

Enter the

IP address

or the

Host Name

which you want to test.

œ

Ping

Ĉ

Click this button to start performing ping test and the results will

show on this page.

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BLW-54MF

4.2 DNS Lookup

DNS is short for

Domain Name System

(or

Service

, or

Server

). It

is an Internet service that translates domain name into IP addresses.

Because domain names are alphabetic, they

Ņ

re easier to remember. The

Internet, however, is really based on IP addresses. Every time you use a

domain name, therefore, a DNS service must translate the name into the

corresponding IP address. You may enter a domain name or IP address

on this page,

DNS Lookup

function can enquire for the corresponding IP

address or domain name. For example, the domain name www.planex.net

might translate to 202.210.129.35.

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