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N600 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit ADSL2+ Modem Router User Guide
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4.9.5 Wireless Advanced
Choose menu “
Wireless 5GHz
”
Æ
”
Wireless Advanced
”, you can configure the advanced settings
of your wireless network.
Figure 4-47
¾
Transmit Power:
Here you can specify the transmit power of modem router. You can select
High, Middle or Low which you would like. High is the default setting and is recommended.
¾
Beacon Interval:
Enter a value between 25-1000 milliseconds for Beacon Interval here. The
beacons are the packets sent by the modem router to synchronize a wireless network.
Beacon Interval value determines the time interval of the beacons. The default value is 100.
¾
RTS Threshold:
Here you can specify the RTS (Request to Send) Threshold. If the packet is
larger than the specified RTS Threshold size, the modem router will send RTS frames to a
particular receiving station and negotiate the sending of a data frame. The default value is
2346.
¾
DTIM Interval:
This value determines the interval of the Delivery Traffic Indication Message
(DTIM). A DTIM field is a countdown field informing clients of the next window for listening to
broadcast and multicast messages. When the modem router has buffered broadcast or
multicast messages for associated clients, it sends the next DTIM with a DTIM Interval value.
You can specify the value between 1-255 Beacon Intervals. The default value is 1, which
indicates the DTIM Interval is the same as Beacon Interval.
¾
Enable Short GI:
This function is recommended for it will increase the data capacity by
reducing the guard interval time
.
¾
Enabled Client isolation:
This function can isolate wireless stations on your network from
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each other. Wireless devices will be able to communicate with the modem router but not with
each other. To use this function, check this box. Client isolation is disabled by default.
¾
Enable WMM: WMM
function can guarantee the packets with high-priority messages being
transmitted preferentially. It is strongly recommended.
)
Note:
If you are not familiar with the setting items in this page, it's strongly recommended to keep the
provided default values; otherwise it may result in lower wireless network performance.
4.9.6 Wireless Status
Choose menu “
Wireless 5GHz
”
Æ
”
Wireless Status
”, you can see the MAC Address, Current
Status, Received Packets and Sent Packets for each connected wireless station.
Figure 4-48
¾
MAC Address:
The connected wireless station's MAC address
¾
Current Status:
The connected wireless station's running status, one of
STA-AUTH/
STA-ASSOC/ STA-JOINED/ WPA/ WPA-PSK/ WPA2/ WPA2-PSK/ AP-UP/ AP-DOWN/ Disconnected
¾
Received Packets:
Packets received by the station
¾
Sent Packets:
Packets sent by the station
You cannot change any of the values on this page. To update this page and to show the current
connected wireless stations, click on the
Refresh
button.
4.10 USB Settings
There are six submenus under the USB Settings menu,
USB Mass
Storage
,
User Accounts
,
Storage Sharing
,
FTP Server
,
Media Server
and
Print Server
. Click any of them, and you will be
able to configure the corresponding function.
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4.10.1 USB Mass Storage
Choose menu “
USB Settings
→
”
USB Mass
Storage
”, you can configure a USB disk drive
attached to the modem router and view volume and share properties such as share name,
capacity, status, and action, etc on this page as shown below.
Figure 4-49
¾
Volume:
The volume name of the USB drive the users have access to.
¾
File System:
The system of the USB drive.
¾
Capacity:
The storage capacity of the USB driver.
¾
Status:
Indicates the shared or non-shared status of the volume.
Online
means volume can
be shared, while
Offline
means volume can not be shared. If
Deactivate
in Action
field is
enabled,
Disabled
will be displayed in the Status field, which means volume can not be
shared.
¾
Action:
When the volume is shared, you can click the
Deactivate
to stop sharing the volume;
when volume is non-shared, you can click the
Enable
button to share the volume.
Click
Disconenct
to safely remove the USB storage device that is connected to USB port.
)
Note:
Before removing the USB storage device, you should click “Disconnect” to make sure that all your
data have been saved completely. Removing device directly may cause your USB storage device
crashed.
4.10.2 User Accounts
You can specify the user name and password for Storage Sharing and FTP Server users on this
page. Storage Sharing users can access the folders by entering the following URL into the
address field of your browser or Windows Explorer, such as. \\192.168.1.1. FTP Server users can
log into the FTP Server via FTP Client.
There are five users here, which provide means to control the access to the USB mass storage by
Storage Sharing or FTP. The Super User has the right to read and write to Storage Sharing and
FTP Server.
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Figure 4-50
To add a new user account, please follow the steps below:
1.
Choose the index from the drop-down list of
Choose Index
.
2.
Self-define a
New
User Name
.
3.
Enter the password in the
New
Password
field.
4.
Re-enter the password in the
Confirm Password
field.
5.
Click the
Set
button,
and then a new entry will be added in the table.
6.
Click the
Apply
button to apply your settings.
Click the
Refresh
button to refresh this page immediately.
4.10.3 Storage Sharing
Choose menu “
USB Settings
”
→
”
Storage Sharing
”, you can configure a USB disk drive
attached to the modem router and view volume and share properties on this page as shown
below.
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Figure 4-51
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Server Status:
Indicates the Storage Sharing's current status.
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Anonymous access to all the volumes:
This function is enabled by default, so users can
access all activated volumes of Storage Sharing without accounts. If you want to add a
shared folder which does not allow anonymous login, uncheck the box to disable this
function. And
Folder Table
will be displayed
as shown below.
¾
Share Name:
This folder's display name.
¾
Directory:
The real full path of the specified folder.
¾
User Access:
The authorization of the user is displayed. * users mean Super Users who
have the full-access permission to all activated volumes and share folders. Grey users mean
the users who have no right to use this function. Others are common users.
¾
Status:
The status of the entry is enabled or disabled.
¾
Edit:
Click
Edit
in the table, and then you can modify the entry.
To add a new folder, follow the instructions below.
1.
Click
Add New Folder
in Figure 4-51.

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