Premiertek Powerlink AP2402 manual

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    AP2402 User Manual Premiertek 150Mbps Wireless-N Broadband Router V 1.0 . 8.1 1[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual Certification FCC CE FCC Statement This equipm ent has been te sted and found to c omply with the limits for a Class B digital devi ce, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC rules. The se limits are designed to pr ovid e reasonable pr otection against harmful interfere nce in a residential installation. Th [...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual Packa ge Contents Th e f oll owing items should b e found in y our pack age : 150Mbps W ireless-N B ro ad band Ro ute r Power adapter Q uic k Ins tallatio n Guide CD-Rom Ethernet cable Make sure that the package contains above items. If any of the above items is m issing or dama ged , ple as e co n t[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual Contents CONTENTS ...................................................................................................................... ...................... 3  1.  INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................. [...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual 4.4.  N ETWORK .............................................................................................................................. 34  4.4.1.  W AN............................................................................................................................ .. 34 [...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual 4.12.3.  Passwor d ...................................................................................................................... 57  4.12.4.  WOL ........................................................................................................................... .. 57  4.1[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual 1. Introduction 1.1. Product Overview The 150Mbps W ireless-N Broadband Router is dedicated to Small Of fice/Home Office (SOHO) W ireless network solution. It is 4 in 1 network device, which combines wireless access point, firewall, 4-port Switch and the NA T -Router . It provides up to 150Mbps data [...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual 1.3. Supporting Standard and Protocol ¾ IEEE 802.11b/g/n ¾ IEEE 802.11e ¾ IEEE 802.11h ¾ IEEE 802.11k ¾ IEEE 802.11i ¾ IEEE 802.3 10Base-T ¾ IEEE 802.3u 100Base-TX 1.4. W orking Environment T emperature ¾ 0° to 40° C (operating) ¾ -40° to 70° C (storage) Humidity ¾ 10% to 90 % non-conde[...]

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    150 M bps Wir ele ss-N Br oadband Rout er User Manual 2. Hardwar e Installation 2.1. System Requirement Mini mum Requirements: Broadband (DS L/Cable) m odem and s ervice w ith Ethernet por t 802.1 1n b/g/n wireless adapter or Ethernet adapter and cable for each computer Internet Exp l orer® 5.0, Fi re fox® 2.0 o r Safari® 1.4 or highe r 2.2. Pan[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual Off LAN Connection abnormal Rear panel Figure 2-2 Description Function PWR Connect to Power adapter , please don’ t use the unknown power adapter , otherwise your device may be damaged. LAN Connect with computer NIC or Ethernet device W AN Internet access Reset Restore settings 2.3. Restore to fact[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual ¾ Figure 2-3 ¾ Attach one end of an Ethernet cable to your computer ’ s Ethernet p ort, and the other end to one of the LAN ports of your router . ¾ Connect another Ethernet cable from your Cable/DSL modem to the W AN port of your router . ¾ Connect the single DC output connector of the power a[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual 3. Login Y ou can manage the 150Mbps W ireless-N Broadba nd Router through the W eb browser-based configuration utility . T o configure the device vi a W eb browser , at least one properly configured computer must be connected to the device vi a Ethernet or wireless network. The 150Mbps W ireless-N B[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 3-1 2. Double click the icon Network and Dial-up Connections 3. Highlight the icon Local Area Connection, right click your mouse, and click Properties Figure 3-2 4. Highlight Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), and then press Properties button 12[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 3-3 5. Choose Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address auto matically , and then press OK to close the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properti es window Figure 3-4 6. Press OK to close the Local Area Co nnection Properties window 13[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 3-5 3.1.3. W indows XP Please follow the steps below to setup your computer: 1. Go to Start Æ Settings Æ Control Panel 2. Click Network and Internet Connections Figure 3-6 3. Click Network Connections 14[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 3-7 4. Highlight the icon Local Area Connection, right click your mouse, and click Properties Figure 3-8 5. Highlight Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), and then press Properties button 15[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 3-9 6. Choose Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address auto matically , and then press OK to close the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properti es window Figure 3-10 7. Press OK to close the Local Area Co nnection Properties window 16[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 3-1 1 3.1.4. W indows V ista Please follow the steps below to setup your computer: 1. Go to Start Æ Settings Æ Control Panel 2. Click Network and Sharing Center Figure 3-12 3. Click Manage Network Connections 17[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 3-13 4. Highlight the icon Local Area Connection, right click your mouse, and click Properties Figure 3-14 5. Highlight Internet Protocol V ersion 4 (TCP/IP) and then press Properties button 18[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 3-15 6. Choose Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address auto matically , and then press OK to close the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properti es window 19[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 3-16 7. Press OK to close the Local Area Co nnection Properties window 1. Figure 3-17 3.1.5. W indows 7 2. Please follow the steps blow to setup your computer: 3. Go to Start → Control Panel → Network and Internet. 4. Click Network and Sharing Center → Change adapter settings. 5. Highlig[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual 6. Figure 3-18 7. Figure 3-19 8. Choose Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically , 21[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual and then press the OK to close the window . 9. Figure 3-20 10. Press OK to close the Local Area Connection Properties window . 3.1.6. MAC OS Please follow the steps blow to setup your computer: 1. Go to Start → System preference Settings → Network. 22[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual 2. Figure 3-21 3. Click Network, Select Use DHCP at the Configuration bar , the sy stem will get the IP address automatically . Figure 3-22 23[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual Press Apply to complete this operation and close the window . 3.2. Checking Connection with the Router After configuring the TCP/IP protocol, use the ping command to verify if the computer can communicat e with the Router . T o execu te th e ping command, open the DOS window and Ping the IP address o[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Ping statistics for 192.168.1.1: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss), V erify your computer's network settings are correct and check the cable connection between the router and the computer . In order t[...]

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    150 M bps Wir ele ss-N Br oadband Rout er User Manual Figure 3-1 9 After you have logged in, the router's user interface will be displayed. The left menu shows the main options to configure the system, and the right screen is the summary information for viewing and adjusting the configuratio ns. Figure 3-2 0 6 2[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual 4. Router Setup 4.1. Status This feature provides running status inform ation and detailed information about router . 4.1.1. V ersion Show the hardware version and firmware version. Figure 4-1 4.1.2. WA N This feature provides running status information of the W AN port (the port connect to the Inter[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual ¾ Default Gateway: The IP address of Defau lt gateway you obtained after connect to the Internet, if you haven’t connected to In ternet yet, this field is 0.0.0.0. ¾ Primary DNS: The DNS server translates domai n or website names into IP address, input the most common DNS server address you used [...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual 4.1.5. Router Status This item provides current running infor mation of System. Figure 4-5 4.1.6. T raffic Statistics This item provides statistics information a bout the bits router sends and received. Figure 4-6 4.2. Quick Setup Providing you the convenient and simplest method for configure the rou[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual 4.2.2. PPPoE Figure 4-8 If your ISP provides you the PPPoE service (all ISP with DSL transaction will supply this service, such as the most popular ADSL technique ), please select this item. In the “Convenient configuration” Y ou can input your PPPoE u sername and password to access the Internet.[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual 4.2.4. W ireless Configur ation Y ou can choose “Enable” or “Disable” t o enable or disable the wireless function. The default setting is “enable”. If you chose the “Disable” stat us, the router will become a wired broadband router without wireless function, so be careful when you cho[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual 4.3. WPS Settings W i-Fi Protect Setup (WPS) function can let you create a safety network easily . Y ou can through ‘PIN Input Config (PIN)’ or ’Push Button (PBC) ’ to encrypt your network. This router also provides WPS button, you onl y need to push the WPS button in this router and the wire[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual 1. Push the WPS button in the Router until the WPS LED is flashing several times. 2. Push the WPS button in the wirel ess network card for about 3-5seconds. 3. The safe connection will be established autom atically . Method 2: 1. Input the PIN code of the adapter ’ s WPS page into the router ’ s [...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 4-17 4.4. Network 4.4.1. WA N This item provides two access types for you to configure the W AN parameters. They are wired access and wireless access. 4.4.1.1. Wired Access Figure 4-18 ¾ Internet Access T y pe: Ask for your ISP to get the correct access type. ¾ IP: The IP address you obtaine[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual fail to send Email, or fail to browse website. So if that happen, you can contact your ISP for more information and correct your router’ s MTU value. ¾ Primary DNS: The DNS server translates domai n or website names into IP address, input the most common DNS server address you used or provided by [...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual fail to send Email, or fail to browse website. So if that happen, you can contact your ISP for more information and correct your router’ s MTU value. ¾ Primary DNS: The DNS server translates domai n or website names into IP address, input the most common DNS server address you used or provided by [...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 4-22 4.4.5. IGMP Pr oxy Here you can set the IGMP Proxy ‘Enabled’ and ‘Disabled’. Figure 4-23 4.5. W ireless 4.5.1. W ir eless Settings Providing basic configuration items for wire less router users, including “wireless network status”, “SSID”, “Radio Band”, “Radio Mode?[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 4-24 ¾ W ireless net work status: Y ou can choose “enable” or “disable” to enable or disable th e “W ireless Network Status”, if what you choose is “Disable”, the AP function of wireless router will be turned off. ¾ SSID: The default is trst1. ¾ Radio band: Y ou can select t[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual “WP A2-PSK” and “WP A/WP A2-PSK” five different encryption modes. 4.5.2.1. None “None” means do not encrypt wireless data. Figure 4-25 4.5.2.2. WEP Figure 4-26 ¾ Key Length: There are two basic levels of WEP encry ption, 64 bits and 128 bits, the more bits password have, the better secur[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual 4.5.2.3. WP A-PSK Figure 4-27 ¾ Encryption type: Y ou can select the algor ithm you want to use, TKIP , AES or TKIP&AES. TKIP means “T emporal Key Inte grity Prot ocol”, which incorporates Message Integrity Code (MIC) to provide protection against hackers. AES, means “Advanced Encryption S[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 4-29 4.5.3. W ir eless MAC Filterin g Figure 4-30 ¾ MAC Filter Status: the default is disable. Y o u can filter wired users by enabling this function; thus unauthorized users can not access the network. ¾ Description: describe MAC Filter list to tell from different MAC Filter lists. ¾ Rule:[...]

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    150 M bps Wir ele ss-N Br oadband Rout er User Manual Figure 4-3 1 WDS Name: Give a descrip tion of your wireless bridge to tell apart. WDS MAC Address: If t he current working m ode is “WDS” or “AP+W DS”, then you need to configure wirele ss bridge configuration. Enter MAC address of remote acce ss point, at the same ti me the remote acces[...]

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    150 M bps Wir ele ss-N Br oadband Rout er User Manual Input WDS name (e.g.: default), input MAC a ddress of AP2 (00-22-4f-bc-af-5d), clic k add, then the record named default will appears in WDS list. Select Channel is ‘Channel 6’in wireless management-basic of AP2. AP 2: Select radio mode is WDS or AP+WDS in wireless managemen t-basic of AP2. [...]

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    150 M bps Wir ele ss-N Br oadband Rout er User Manual Select radio mode is ‘Access Point’ in wireless management-basic of AP1. Select Channel is ‘Channel 6’ in wireless management-basic of AP1. Figure 4-3 4 AP 2: Select radio mode is ‘REPEA TER’ in wireless management-basic of AP2. Select Repeater SSID is ‘Netis1’ in wireless manage[...]

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    150 M bps Wir ele ss-N Br oadband Rout er User Manual AP3: Select radio mode is ‘REPEA TER’ in wireless management-basic of AP3. Select Repeater SSID is ‘ Premiertek2 ’in wireless management-basic of AP2. Select Channel is ‘Channel 6’in wireless management-basic of AP2. The IP address of AP3 should be 192.16 8.1.x (1<x<255),but di[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual ¾ Aggregation: Y ou can accelerate the wire less transmission speed by enabling the aggregation function. The default is AMPDU + AMSDU. ¾ Fragmentation Threshold: It specifies the m aximum size of packet during the fragmentation of data to be transmitted. ¾ T rans mission Rate: T rans mit rate i[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 4-38 4.6. DHCP 4.6.1. DHCP Settings Figure 4-39 4.6.2. DHCP Clients List Display the state of assigned IP by DHCP Server . Figure 4-40 47[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual 4.6.3. Addr ess Reservation Figure 4-41 ¾ Address Reservation: reserve IP address for designed physical address host. If you want to configure a fixed IP address for some host, please input physical address and IP address, then click add. 4.7. Forwarding 4.7.1. V irtual Servers Figure 4-42 ¾ Descri[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual 4.7.2. Port T r iggering Port trigger module dynamically registers virtual server rules when any IP host generates the packet from the specified trigger protocol and port. Port trigger module use forward protocol type and port number and use the IP address of hos t that generates the trigger packet w[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 4-44 4.7.4. UPnP The UPnP function supp orts load Application’ s port forward record automatically . Select “Enable” to enable this function. Figure 4-45 4.7.5. FTP Private Port Some games, servers, and applications (suc h as BT , QQ video, Edunkey , W eb server) are no longer effect whe[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual tunnel, the router supports IPSEC pass-throug h, PPTP pass-through and L2TP pass-through. Figure 4-47 4.8.2. IP Addr ess Filtering Figure 4-48 ¾ Status: the default is disable. The rules of “Internet access control” based on source IP, port number and protocol. ¾ Description: describe IP Firewa[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual Follow the following steps to set Internet Access Control: 1. Y ou can select “enable” and click “Save” to en able “IP Firewall” function. This is only the first step; you should continue to create appropriate rules for “IP Firewall”. 2. Input description information fo r current acce[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual 2. Add MAC address you want to control in the “MAC address” field (the format is **-**-**-**-**-**), then click “Add” button, and you will see the MAC address has displayed in the MAC list. 3. There are two items supplied, “Permit wireless connection for MAC address listed (other s are Deni[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual 4.9. Static Routing Most of broadband router and wireless router ar e using NA T mode, so this feature is designed for most common network environment. Figure 4-51 ¾ Destination Network or IP Address: Specify a certain destination Network or IP address which static route forward to. ¾ Subnet Mask: [...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual 4.10. QOS Settings Figure 4-52 ¾ Status: QOS switch. ¾ Automatic Uplink Speed: Router adjusts uplink bandwidth automatically . ¾ Manual Uplink Speed (Kbps): User c onfigures uplink bandwidth manually . ¾ IP Address: Set the IP address range for restricted hos ts. ¾ Minim um bandwidth: setup upli[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 4-53 ¾ DDNS Status: Current status of DDNS server . ¾ DDNS Server Provider: For exam ple, if you want to use service of “roay .cn”, you have to first register and accounts for it. Other DDNS service providers as the same. ¾ Username, Password, Dynamic Domain Name : After register an DDN[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual Figure 4-55 4.12.3. Password The default username/password is guest/guest. T o ensure the Router ’ s securit y , it is suggested that you change the default password to one of your choice, here enter a new password and then Re-enter it again to confirm your new p assword. Click “Save” button to[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual 4.12.6. Remote Management WEB Management Status: the default is disable. Router can be accessed on the remote site using “W eb setup”. Check the “Management Port ” and enter the port number and then press “save” button to enable web management. Figure 4-59 4.12.7. Factory Defaults Click &[...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual 5. T r oubleshooting 1) I cannot access the Web-based Configuratio n Utility from the Ethernet computer used to configure the router. ¾ Check that the LAN LED is on. If the LED is not on, verify that the cable for the LAN connection is firmly connected. ¾ Check whether the com puter resides on the [...]

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    150Mbps Wir eless-N Broadband Router User Manual 60 as required by the ISP. Also ensure you have entered the correct settings provided by the ISP. ¾ For cable users, if your ISP requires a regist ered Ethernet card MAC address, make sure you have cloned the network adapter’ s MAC address to the WAN port of the router. (See the MAC Address field [...]