TD-W8960NB

300Mbps Wireless N ADSL2+ Modem Router User Guide

Chapter 4. Configuring the Router

This chapter will show each Web page's key function and the configuration way.

4.1 Login

After your successful login, you will see the six main menus on the left of the Web-based utility. On

the right, there are the corresponding explanations and instructions.

The detailed explanations for each Web page’s key function are listed below.

4.2 Device Info

Choose “

Device Info

” menu, there are six submenus under the main menu:

Summary

,

WAN

,

Statistics

,

Route

,

ARP

and

DHCP

. This Device Info section mainly introduces the elementary

information about the Router and its current settings in use. Click any of them, and you will be able

to view the corresponding information.

Choose “

Device Info

”

Æ

“

Summary

”, you will see the Summary screen (shown in Figure 4-1). The

first table indicates the information about the version including Software and Hardware. The

second table displays the current status of the TD-W8960NB connection. This information will vary

depending on the settings of the Router configured on the Advanced Setup screen.

Figure 4-1

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Note:

Click the other submenus under the main menu

Device Info

, and you will be able to view the

corresponding information about

WAN

,

Statistics

,

Route

,

ARP

and

DHCP

.

4.3 Quick Setup

Please refer to Section

3.2

Quick Installation Guide

.

4.4 Advanced Setup

Choose “

Advanced Setup

”, there are many submenus under the main menu. Among the

submenus,

Layer2 Interface

,

WAN Service

,

LAN

etc. are default menus, while

NAT

,

IP/MAC

filtering

of the

Security

,

Quality of Service

and

DNS

will appear only when you select some

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

corresponding function.

This Advanced Setup section mainly introduces how to configure the Router for adequate use.

The detailed explanations for each subsection are provided below.

)

Note:

To completely configure the WAN Interface, you need to first select the Layer2 Interface (

4.4.1

Layer2 Interface

) according to the connection ISP provides you, and then to select the type of the

connection (

4.4.2

WAN Service

) for the further configuration.

4.4.1 Layer2 Interface

Choose “

Advanced Setup

”

Æ

“

Layer2 Interface

”, and you can select WAN Service Interface

(layer2 interface) over

ATM interfaces

or

ETH interface

.

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ATM Interface:

Configure the Router to access Internet as an ADSL user. ISP provides you

VPI (Virtual Path Identifier), VCI (Virtual Channel Identifier) settings and the DSL Interface

with RJ11 connector. (Figure 2-1)

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ETH Interface:

Configure the Router to access Internet as an Ethernet user. ISP provides

you Broadband Internet Service and the Ethernet Interface with RJ45 connector.

4.4.1.1 ATM interface

Choose “

Advanced Setup

”

Æ

“

Layer2 Interface

Æ

ATM interface

”, you can Configure ATM

interfaces on the screen below.

Figure 4-2

¾

Remove

: Select the check box in the table on the screen above and then click the

Remove

button, the corresponding interface will be deleted in the table.

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Note:

If the interface is used by the configuration of the

4.4.2

WAN Service

, you need to remove the

corresponding WAN Service entry first before you can remove it here.

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Add

: Click the button, and you can add a new interface in the next screen.

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Figure 4-3

¾

VPI

/

VCI

: the VPI and VCI values provided by your ISP. Do not change them unless it was

required by your ISP.

¾

DSL Link Type

: Select a DSL Link Type which is provided by your ISP. The options include

EoA

(it

is for PPPoE, IPoE, and Bridge),

PPPoA

(PPP over ATM) and

IPoA

(IP over ATM).

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Encapsulation Mode

: The mode of the data processing over the Link Type you have

selected. Uses the default setting, if you are not sure.

¾

Service Category

: Select the type of the service assigned by your ISP in the drop-down list.

The default type is

UBR Without PCR

.

¾

Connection Mode

: Select the connection mode for

EoA

option of DSL Link Type. The

options include Default mode for single service over one connection, VLAN MUX Mode for

multiple Vlan service over one connection, and MSC Mode for Multiple Service over one

connection.

¾

Enable Quality of Service

: If you want to adopt

QoS

(Quality of Service) for the connection,

please select check box.

)

Note:

Enabling packet level QoS for PVC improves performance for selected classes of applications.

While QoS consumes system resources; therefore the number of PVC(s) will be reduced. Besides

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this, it cannot be set for the connection type of CBR and Real-time VBR. If you select the QoS

service, the Quality of Service menu will be added to the Web-based Utility, the detailed

configuration will be described in

4.4.8 Quality of Service

.

4.4.1.2 ETH interface

Choose “

Advanced Setup

”

Æ

“

Layer2 Interface

Æ

ETH Interface

”, you can configure ETH WAN

interfaces on the screen below.

Figure 4-4

)

Note:

To make sure the ETH port available, you should first choose “

Advanced Setup

”

Æ

“

LAN Ports

” to

enable the Virtual LAN Ports feature.

¾

Add:

Click the

Add

button, and you can add a new interface in the next screen.

Figure 4-5

¾

ETH port

: Select an ETH port to configure as the WAN port.

¾

Select Connection Mode

: Choose a connection mode for the port.

Click

Apply/Save

to save your settings and then you will see the screen similar to Figure 4-6.

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