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If you are going to configure more parameters, the LOGIN IN window will prompt for a

username and password. The default username and password are admin and admin.. If you have

set a password, enter that and click

“OK”

to continue.

At the configuration homepage, the left navigation pane where bookmarks are provided links

you directly to the desired setup page, including

Status

(status and PPTP status),

Quick Start

,

Configuration

(LAN, WAN, System, VPN, Virtual Server, Advanced) and

Save Config to

FLASH

functions. Besides, it provides user interface in multi-languages.

Click on the desired item to expand the page in the main navigation pane.

3.4.1 STATUS

In this screen as the above figure, it contains many items including device H/W and S/W

information, LAN, WAN, Port status and all defined interfaces. Gives you a quick view to know

the TW-EA1000’s current status. When you click the Status -> PPTP status, the status of PPTP

connection will be shown.

3.4.2

Quick Start

If you use this device to access the Internet through the ISP, this web page is enough for you to

configure this router and access the Internet without a problem. Please check Chapter 3.3, then

enter the proper values into this web page, click the APPLY button and then Save Config to

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FLASH in the left panel. After the router reboot, you may check the Status web page to check

whether the router is connected to the ISP or not. In most cases, you can access the Internet

immediately, if you do not use a Wireless LAN client card. If not please refer to the sections

below for more information.

3.4.3 Configuration

When you click this item, you get following sub-items to configure the Router.

LAN, WAN, System, VPN, Virtual Server and Advanced

These functions are described below in the following sections.

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3.4.3.1 LAN

There are three items under the LAN section, Ethernet, Wireless and DHCP Server. When you

click

Ethernet

, you will get the following picture as below.

It supports two Ethernet IP addresses in the LAN. With this function, the Router can support two

different LAN subnets to access the Internet at the same time. Usually, there is only one subnet

in LAN, there is no need to configure a Secondary IP address. The 192.168.0.254 is the default

IP address for this Router. The Advanced Options will allow you to configure the routing

protocol version1 or version 2 in receiving and sending direction.

When you click

Wireless

, you will get the following figure.

ESSID:

Enter the unique ID given to the Access Point (AP), which is built in the wireless

broadband firewall gateway. To connect to this device, your wireless clients must have the same

ESSID as the device.

Reguration_Domain:

There are five Reguration_Domain for you to choose, including

N.America

,

Europe

,

France

, and

Spain

.

The Channel ID will be different based on this

setting.

Channel ID:

Select the ID of channel you would like to use.

Default Tx Key:

Select the encryption key ID, please refer to

Key (0-3)

below.

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Passphrase:

This is used to generate WEP keys automatically by input string and

pre-defined algorithm in WEP64 or WEP128. You can input same string in both AP

and Client card to generate same WEP keys. Please note you do not have to key in

Key (0-3)

as

below when

Passphrase

is enabled.

WEP Encryption:

To prevent unauthorized wireless stations from accessing data transmitted

over the network, the wireless broadband firewall gateway offers highly secure data encryption,

known as WEP. If you require high security in transmission, there are two alternatives to select

from, WEP 40 and WEP 128.

Key (0-3):

Enter the key to encrypt wireless data. To allow encrypted data transmission, the

WEP Encryption Key values on all wireless stations must be the same as the device. There are

four keys for your selection. The input format is in HEX style, 5 and 13 HEX codes are required

for WEP64 and WEP128 respectively, the separator is “-“. Take WEP64 case for example, 11-

22-33-44-55 is a valid key, 1122334455 is invalid instead.

Hide_SSID:

When enabled, the Wireless AP is invisible from the site-surveying by Wireless

clients. The wireless clients still can associate with this Wireless AP if entered with the same

ESSID value.

Reset:

Reset the Wireless AP function.

When you click

DHCP Server

, you will get the following figure. You can disable or enable the

Server or enable the DHCP relay functions.

If you check

Disabled

and click

Next,

then click

Apply.

The DHCP server function is disabled.

Each PC in the LAN should assign a fixed IP address and set the PC’s gateway to the Router.

If you check

DHCP Server

and click

Next

, you can configure parameters of the DHCP server

including the IP pool (starting IP address and ending IP address), leased time for each assigned

IP address, DNS IP address, Gateway IP address. Those messages are sent to the DHCP client

when it requests an IP address from the DHCP server. Click

Apply

to enable this function. If

you check “Use Router as a DNS Server”, the Router will find the IP address automatically from

the outside network and forward it back to the requesting PC in the LAN.

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If you check

DHCP Relay Agent

and click

Next

, you will have to enter the IP address of the

DHCP server which will assign an IP address back to the DHCP client in the LAN. Click

Apply

to enable this function.

DHCP Server

~

Disable:

Check to disable the TW-EA1000 from distributing IP Addresses to the local

network.

If you check this selection, remember to specify a static IP address, subnet Mask, and DNS

setting for each of your local computers. Be careful NOT to assign the same IP address to

different computers.

~

Enable:

Check to enable the TW-EA1000 to distribute IP Addresses, subnet mask and DNS

setting to computers. Hence, the following fields will be activated.

Starting IP Address:

Enter the starting address of this local IP network address pool. The pool

is a piece of continuous IP address segment. The default value is

192.168.0.100

.

Number of DHCP users:

Enter the maximum number of computers that you want the DHCP

server to assign IP addresses to. The default value is

100

.

With this case, the DHCP pool is from 192.168.0.100 to 192.168.0.199. Therefore, the local

computer will randomly pick at an IP address within this range.