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4.6.4

Wireless Advanced

Choose menu “

Wireless

→

Wireless Advanced

”, and then you can configure the advanced

settings of your wireless network.

Figure 4-24 Wireless Advanced



Transmit Power -

Here you can specify the transmit power of router. You can select

High, Middle or Low which you would like. High is the default setting and is

recommended.



Beacon Interval -

Enter a value between 20-1000 milliseconds for Beacon Interval here.

The beacons are the packets sent by the router to synchronize a wireless network.

Beacon Interval value determines the time interval of the beacons. The default value is

100.



RTS Threshold -

Here you can specify the RTS (Request to Send) Threshold. If the

packet is larger than the specified RTS Threshold size, the router will send RTS frames

to a particular receiving station and negotiate the sending of a data frame. The default

value is 2346.



Fragmentation Threshold -

This value is the maximum size determining whether

packets will be fragmented. Setting the Fragmentation Threshold too low may result in

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poor network performance since excessive packets. 2346 is the default setting and is

recommended.



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 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.



Enable WMM - WMM

function can guarantee the packets with high- priority messages

being transmitted preferentially. It is strongly recommended enabled.



Enable Short GI -

This function is recommended for it will increase the data capacity by

reducing the guard interval time

.



Enabled AP Isolation -

This function can isolate wireless stations on your network from

each other. Wireless devices will be able to communicate with the router but not with

each other. To use this function, check this box. AP Isolation is disabled by default.



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.

4.6.5

Wireless Statistics

Choose menu “

Wireless

→

Wireless Statistics

”, and then you can see the MAC Address, Current

Status, Received Packets and Sent Packets for each connected wireless station.

Figure 4-25 The router attached wireless stations



MAC Address -

The connected wireless station's MAC address



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



Received Packets

-

Packets received by the station

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

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.

If the numbers of connected wireless stations go beyond one page, click the

Next

button to go to

the next page and click the

Previous

button to return to the previous page.



Note:

This page will be refreshed automatically every 5 seconds.

4.7 DHCP

Figure 4-26

The DHCP menu

There are three submenus under the DHCP menu (shown in

Figure 4-26

):

DHCP Settings

,

DHCP

Clients List

and

Address Reservation.

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

corresponding function.

4.7.1

DHCP Settings

Choose menu “

DHCP

→

DHCP Settings

”, and then you can configure the DHCP Server on the

page (shown in

Figure 4-27

).The router is set up by default as a DHCP (Dynamic Host

Configuration Protocol) server, which provides the TCP/IP configuration for all the PC(s) that are

connected to the router on the LAN.

Figure 4-27 DHCP Settings

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

DHCP Server - Enable

or

Disable

the DHCP server. If you disable the Server, you must

have another DHCP server within your network or else you must configure the computer

manually.



Start IP Address -

Specify an IP address for the DHCP Server to start with when assigning

IP addresses. 192.168.0.100 is the default start address.



End IP Address -

Specify an IP address for the DHCP Server to end with when assigning IP

addresses. 192.168.0.199 is the default end address.



Address Lease Time -

The

Address Lease Time

is the amount of time a network user will

be allowed connection to the router with their current dynamic IP Address. Enter the amount

of time in minutes and the user will be "leased" this dynamic IP Address. After the time is up,

the user will be automatically assigned a new dynamic IP address. The range of the time is 1

~ 2880 minutes. The default value is 120 minutes.



Default Gateway -

(Optional.) Suggest to input the IP address of the Ethernet port of the

router, default value is 192.168.0.1



Default Domain -

(Optional.) Input the domain name of your network.



Primary DNS -

(Optional.) Input the DNS IP address provided by your ISP. Or consult your

ISP.



Secondary DNS -

(Optional.) Input the IP address of another DNS server if your ISP

provides two DNS servers.



Note:

To use the DHCP server function of the router, you must configure all computers on the LAN as

"Obtain an IP Address automatically" mode.

4.7.2

DHCP Clients List

Choose menu “

DHCP

→

DHCP Clients List

”, and then you can view the information about the

clients attached to the router in the next screen (shown in

Figure 4-28)

.

Figure 4-28

DHCP Clients List



ID -

The index of the DHCP Client.



Client Name

-

The name of the DHCP client.



MAC Address

-

The MAC address of the DHCP client.

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

Assigned IP

-

The IP address that the router has allocated to the DHCP client.



Lease Time

-

The time of the DHCP client leased. After the dynamic IP address has expired,

a new dynamic IP address will be automatically assigned to the user.

You cannot change any of the values on this page. To update this page and to show the current

attached devices, click the

Refresh

button.

4.7.3

Address Reservation

Choose menu “

DHCP

→

Address Reservation

”, and then you can view and add a reserved

address for clients via the next screen (shown in

Figure 4-29

). When you specify a reserved IP

address for a PC on the LAN, that PC will always receive the same IP address each time when it

accesses the DHCP server. Reserved IP addresses should be assigned to the servers that

require permanent IP settings.

Figure 4-29

Address Reservation



MAC Address -

The MAC address of the PC for which you want to reserve IP address.



Reserved IP Address -

The IP address of the router reserved.



Status

-

The status of this entry, either

Enabled

or

Disabled

.

To Reserve IP addresses:

1.

Click the

Add New …

button. (Pop-up

Figure 4-30

)

2.

Enter the MAC address (in XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX format) and IP address of the computer

you wish to add in dotted-decimal notation.

3.

Click the

Save

button when finished.

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