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1.4

Good Habits for Managing the NBG6817

Do the following things regularly to make the NBG6817 more secure and to manage the NBG6817

more effectively.

•

Change the password. Use a password that’s not easy to guess and that consists of different

types of characters, such as numbers and letters.

•

Write down the password and put it in a safe place.

•

Back up the configuration (and make sure you know how to restore it). Restoring an earlier

working configuration may be useful if the device becomes unstable or even crashes. If you

forget your password, you will have to reset the NBG6817 to its factory default settings. If you

backed up an earlier configuration file, you would not have to totally re-configure the NBG6817.

You could simply restore your last configuration.

1.5

Resetting the NBG6817

If you forget your password or IP address, or you cannot access the Web Configurator, you will need

to use the

RESET

button at the back of the NBG6817 to reload the factory-default configuration

file. This means that you will lose all configurations that you had previously saved, the password

will be reset to “1234” and the IP address will be reset to “192.168.1.1”.

1.5.1

How to Use the RESET Button

1

Make sure the power LED is on.

2

Press the

RESET

button for one to four seconds to restart/reboot the NBG6817.

3

Press the

RESET

button for longer than five seconds to set the NBG6817 back to its factory-default

configurations.

1.6

The WPS Button

Your NBG6817 supports Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS), which is an easy way to set up a secure

wireless network. WPS is an industry standard specification, defined by the Wi-Fi Alliance.

WPS allows you to quickly set up a wireless network with strong security, without having to

configure security settings manually. Each WPS connection works between two devices. Both

devices must support WPS (check each device’s documentation to make sure).

Depending on the devices you have, you can either press a button (on the device itself, or in its

configuration utility) or enter a PIN (a unique Personal Identification Number that allows one device

to authenticate the other) in each of the two devices. When WPS is activated on a device, it has two

minutes to find another device that also has WPS activated. Then, the two devices connect and set

up a secure network by themselves.

You can use the WPS button on the rear panel of the NBG6817 to activate WPS in order to quickly

set up a wireless network with strong security.

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1

Make sure the power LED is on (not blinking).

2

Press the WPS

button for more than three seconds and release it. Press the WPS button on another

WPS-enabled device within range of the NBG6817.

Note: You must activate WPS in the NBG6817 and in another wireless device within two

minutes of each other.

For more information on using WPS, see

Section 8.2 on page 49

.

1.7

LEDs

Figure 1

Front Panel

The following table describes the front panel LEDs.

Table 1

Front Panel LEDs

LED

COLOR

STATUS

DESCRIPTION

Power/System

White

On

The NBG6817 is receiving power and functioning properly.

Blinking

The NBG6817 is in the process of starting up, default restoring,

or My ZyXEL Cloud Server online registration pairing.

Off

The NBG6817 is not receiving power.

Internet

White

On

The NBG6817 has an IP connection but no traffic.

Your device has a WAN IP address (either static or assigned by a

DHCP server), PPP negotiation was successfully completed (if

used) and the connection is up.

Blinking

The NBG6817 is sending or receiving IP traffic.

Off

The NBG6817 does not have an IP connection.

2.4G WLAN/WPS

5G WLAN/WPS

Power

Internet

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Figure 2

Rear Panel

5G WLAN/WPS

White

On

The NBG6817 is ready and the 5GHz wireless LAN is on, but is

not sending/receiving data through the wireless LAN.

Blinking

The NBG6817 is sending/receiving data through the wireless

LAN.

Off

The wireless LAN is not ready or has failed.

Amber

On

WPS is enabled. The NBG6817 is in the process of firmware

upgrading, configuration restoring, or resetting.

Blinking

The NBG6817 is negotiating a WPS connection with a wireless

client.

Off

WPS is disabled.

2.4G WLAN/WPS

White

On

The NBG6817 is ready and the 2.4GHz wireless LAN is on, but is

not sending/receiving data through the wireless LAN.

Blinking

The NBG6817 is sending/receiving data through the wireless

LAN.

Off

The wireless LAN is not ready or has failed.

Amber

On

WPS is enabled. The NBG6817 is in the process of firmware

upgrading, configuration restoring, or resetting.

Blinking

The NBG6817 is negotiating a WPS connection with a wireless

client.

Off

WPS is disabled.

Table 1

Front Panel LEDs (continued)

LED

COLOR

STATUS

DESCRIPTION

LAN 1-4

WAN

WPS

RESET

WiFi

POWER

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2

Introducing the Web Configurator

2.1

Overview

This chapter describes how to access the NBG6817 Web Configurator and provides an overview of

its screens.

The Web Configurator is an HTML-based management interface that allows easy setup and

management of the NBG6817 via Internet browser. Use a browser that supports HTML5, such as

Internet Explorer 9.0 and later versions, Mozilla Firefox 21 and later versions, Safari 6.0 and later

versions or Google Chrome 26.0 and later versions. The recommended screen resolution is 1024 by

768 pixels.

In order to use the Web Configurator you need to allow:

•

Web browser pop-up windows from your device. Web pop-up blocking is enabled by default in

Windows 7.

•

JavaScript (enabled by default).

•

Java permissions (enabled by default).

Refer to the Troubleshooting chapter (

Chapter 16 on page 161

) to see how to make sure these

functions are allowed in Internet Explorer.

2.2

Accessing the Web Configurator

1

Make sure your NBG6817 hardware is properly connected and prepare your computer or computer

network to connect to the NBG6817 (refer to the Quick Start Guide).

2

Launch your web browser.

3

The NBG6817 is in router mode by default. Type "http://192.168.1.1 or http://myrouter" as the

website address. If the NBG6817 obtains a WAN IP address or a DNS server IP address in the same

subnet as the LAN IP address 192.168.1.1, the default LAN IP address will be changed to 10.0.0.1

automatically. See

Auto-IP Change on page 73

for more information.

If the NBG6817 is in access point, the IP address is 192.168.1.2. See

Chapter 4 on page 27

for

more information about the modes of the NBG6817.

Your computer must be in the same subnet in order to access this website address.