TD-W8901G

54Mbps Wireless ADSL2+ Modem Router User Guide

Chapter 4. Software Configuration

This User Guide recommends using the “Quick Installation Guide” for first-time installation. For

advanced users, if you want to know more about this device and make use of its functions

adequately, maybe you will get help from this chapter to configure the advanced settings through

the Web-based Utility.

After your successful login, you can configure and manage the device. There are main menus on

the top of the Web-based Utility; submenus will be available after you click one of the main menus.

On the center of the Web-based Utility, there are the detailed configurations or status information.

To apply any settings you have altered on the page, please click the

SAVE

button.

4.1

Status

Choose “

Status

”, you can see the next submenus:

Device Info

,

System Log

and

Statistics

.

Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the corresponding function.

Figure 4-1

Click any of them, and you will be able to view the corresponding information.

4.1.1 Device Info

Choose “

Status

→

Device Info

” menu, and you will be able to view the device information,

including LAN, WAN and ADSL. The information will vary depending on the settings of the Router

configured on the Interface Setup screen.

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Figure 4-2

)

Note:

Click the other submenus

System Log

or

Statistics

in Figure 4-2, and you will be able to view the

system log and traffic statistics about the Router.

4.1.2 System Log

Choose “

Status

→

System Log

” menu, and you will be able to query the logs of the Router.

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Figure 4-3

The Router can keep logs of all traffic. You can query the logs to find what happened to the

Router.

Click the

CLEAR LOG

button to clear the logs.

Click the

SAVE LOG

button to save the logs.

4.1.3 Statistics

Choose “

Status

→

Statistics

” menu, and you will be able to view the network traffic over Ethernet,

ADSL and WLAN.

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Figure 4-4

¾

Interface:

You can select

Ethernet

,

ADSL

and

WLAN

to view the corresponding network

traffic over different ports.

¾

Select

Ethernet

, and you

will

see the statistics table as below.

Statistics Table:

Transmit Frames

The frames transmitted over the Ethernet port.

Transmit Multicast Frames

The multicast frames transmitted over the Ethernet

port.

Transmit total Bytes

The total bytes transmitted over the Ethernet port.

Transmit Collision

The collision occurred over the Ethernet port when

data is being transmitted.

Transmit

Statistics

Transmit Error Frames

The error frames over the Ethernet port when data is

being transmitted.

Receive Frames

The frames received over the Ethernet port.

Receive Multicast Frames

The multicast frames received over the Ethernet port.

Receive total Bytes

The total bytes received over the Ethernet port.

Receive CRC Errors

The CRC errors occurred over the Ethernet port when

data is being received.

Receive

Statistics

Receive Under-size Frames

The Under-size frames received over the Ethernet

port.

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¾

Select

ADSL

, and you

will

see the statistics table as below.

Statistics Table:

Transmit total PDUs

The total PDUs transmitted over the ADSL port.

Transmit

Statistics

Transmit total Error Counts

The total errors occurred over the ADSL port when data

is being transmitted.

Receive total PDUs

The total PDUs transmitted over the ADSL port.

Receive

Statistics

Receive total Error Counts

The total errors occurred over the ADSL port when data

is being received.

¾

Select

WLAN

, and you

will

see the statistics table as below.

Statistics Table:

Tx Frames Count

The frames transmitted over the WLAN when wireless data is

being transmitted.

Tx Errors Count

The errors occurred over the WLAN when wireless data is being

transmitted.

Transmit

Statistics

Tx Drops Count

The drops occurred over the WLAN when wireless data is being

transmitted.

Rx Frames Count

The frames received over the WLAN when wireless data is being

transmitted.

Rx Errors Count

The terrors occurred over the WLAN when wireless data is being

received.

Receive

Statistics

Rx Drops Count

The drops occurred over the WLAN when wireless data is being

received.

Click the

REFRESH

button to refresh immediately.

4.2

Quick Start

Please refer to

" 3.2

Login"

.

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