ASUSTeK Computer WL500W MIMO WIRELESS ROUTER User Manual USERS MANUAL 3 OF 6

ASUSTeK Computer Inc MIMO WIRELESS ROUTER USERS MANUAL 3 OF 6

USERS MANUAL 3 OF 6

WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual132) Setting up wireless encryption WL-500W provides a set of encryption and authentication methods to meet the different demands of home, SOHO, and enterprise users. Before setting up encryption and authentication for WL-500W, contact your network administrator for advice.Click Wireless -> Interface to open the conguration page.EncryptionThe encryption modes supported by WL-500W are: WEP (64bits), WEP (128bits), TKIP, AES, and TKIP+AES.WEP stands for Wired Equivalent Privacy, it uses 64bits or 128bits static keys to encrypt the data for wireless transmission. To setup WEP keys, set WEP Encryption to WEP-64bits or WEP-128bits, then manually type in four sets WEP Keys (10 hexadecimal digits for 64-bit key or 26 hexadecimal digits for 128-bit key). You can also let the system generate the keys by entering a Passphrase. TKIP stands for Temporal Key Integrity Protocol. TKIP dynamically generates unique keys to encrypt every data packet in a wireless session.AES stands for Advanced Encryption Standard. This solution offers stronger protection and increases the complexity of wireless encryption.TKIP+AES is used when both WPA and WPA2 clients co-exist in the wireless network.Note: For 802.11n performance, select 40MHz bandwidth. Channel option will depend on the bandwidth that you select.
WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual142. Select Yes to enable virtual server. For example, if host 192.168.1.100 is the FTP server that the user will access, it means all packets from Internet with destination port as 21 are to be directed to the host. Set Well-known Application to FTP. Port range to 21, Local IP to the host IP, Local Port to 21, Protocol to TCP.3. Click Finish.4. Click Save & Restart to restart the wireless router and activate the settings.AuthenticationThe authentication methods supported by WL-500W include: Open, shared key, WPA-PSK, WPA, and Radius with 80.211x.Open: This option disables authentication protection for wireless network. Under Open mode, any IEEE802.11b/g client can connect to your wireless network.Shared: This mode uses the WEP keys currently in use for authentication.WPA/WPA2 and WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK: WPA stands for WiFi-Protected Access. WPA provides two security modes: WPA for enterprise network, and WPA-PSK for home and SOHO users. For enterprise network, WPA uses the already existing RADIUS server for authentication; for home and SOHO user, it provides Pre-Shared Key (PSK) for user identication. The Pre-Shared Key consists of 8 to 64 characters.Radius with 802.1X: Similar with WPA, this solution also uses RADIUS server for authentication. The difference lays on the encryption methods: WPA adopts TKIP or AES encryption methods, while Radius with 802.1X does not provide encryption.When authentication and encryption are set, click Finish to save the settings and restart the wireless router.3) Setting up virtual server in your LANVirtual server is a Network Address Translation (NAT) function which turns a computer within a LAN into a server by allowing data packets of certain service, such as HTTP, from Internet. 1. Click Virtual Server in NAT Setting folder to open the NAT conguration page.
WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual151. Click Virtual DMZ in the NAT Setting menu.2. Enter the IP address of the host and click Finish.3. Click Save & Restart to restart the wireless router and activate the settings.5) Setting up DDNSDNS enables host who uses static IP address to associate with a domain name; for dynamic IP users, they can also associate with a domain name via dynamic DNS (DDNS). DDNS requires registering and account-creating at DDNS service providers' website. The DDNS server updates your IP address information once you are assigned to a new IP address. Thus, the Internet user can always access your network. 1. Click Miscellaneous from IP Cong folder.2. Select Yes to enable the DDNS service. If you do not have a DDNS account, click Free Trial to register for a trial account.4) Setting up virtual DMZ in your LANTo expose an internal host to the Internet and make all services provided by this host available to outside users, enable Virtual DMZ function to open all ports of the host. This function is useful when the host plays multiple roles such as HTTP server and FTP server. However, in doing this, your network becomes less secure.
WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual163. After clicking Free Trial, you are directed to the homepage of www.DynDNS.org, where you can register and apply for DDNS service. Read the policy and select "I have read...".4. Enter your user name, e-mail address, password, then click Create Account.5. A message prompts out informing that your account has been created. An E-mail is sent to your mailbox. Open your mailbox and read the mail.6. You can nd the activation letter in your E-mail box. Click the hyperlink.7. The link directs you to a login page. Click login.8. Enter the user name and password then click Login.
WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual179. After logging in, you can see this welcome message.10. Select Services tab.11. Click Add Dynamic DNS Host .12. Enter the host name then click Add Host.13. You can see this message when your hostname is successfully created.
WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual1814. Fill the account information into the DDNS setting elds of your wireless router. 15. Click Finish.16. Click Save & Restart to restart the wireless router and activate the settings.17. Verify whether DDNS is working. Click Start menu and select Run. Type cmd and click OK to open the CLI console.18. T y p e ping account.dyndns.org (your DDNS domain name). If you can see the reply like what is shown in the right picture, DDNS is working correctly.
WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual196) Setting up Bandwidth ManagementBandwidth Management provides a mechanism to set up download and upload bandwidth based on IP address and port range. You can define the minimum bandwidth and the maximum bandwidth for host within your LAN, and thus control the trafc of you network. To set up upload bandwidth management, you need to set up the virtual server to allow the incoming packets of the specied services.1. Click Basic Cong page in Bandwidth Management folder.2. S e l e c t Y e s to enable Bandwidth Management function.3. Download bandwidthIf you want to limit the download bandwidth of a host within a speed range (for example, between 100 to 200kbps), you need to ll in the host IP address, and the speeds (maximum: 200kbps; minimum: 100kbps). When the minimum speed is dened, the host can transmit data at the minimum speed regardless of the trafc conditions.a. To apply on all host an FTP download speed policy, leave the IP address field blank, input "20" in the Port eld and dene the speeds, then click Add.b. To s e t u p W e b access download policy, input "80" in the Port eld, dene the speeds and click Add.c. To s e t u p d o w n l o a d bandwidth policy of a certain service for a host, input the host IP address and the port number of the service, dene the speeds and click Add.
WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual20d. To set up the download bandwidth policy for all hosts in your LAN, leave the IP addresses and the port elds blank; and dene the speeds (the speeds are higher than download policies). Click Add to add the rule.4. Upload stream If you want to set up the upload trafc control policy (for example, to limit the upload bandwidth of port 2100 of 192.168.1.2 between 10 to 80kbps), you need to rst set up the NAT policy to allow incoming packets. a. S e l e c t Y e s t o e n a b l e Virtual Server function. In the Virtual Server List eld, ll the port, and the IP address into the elds and press Add.b. Press Apply button.c. Return to the Upload Policy List in Bandwidth Management setting page. d. Set the Port as "2100", Max (kbps) as "80", Min.(kbps) as "10", then click Add.e. When the settings are complete, press Finish.f. Click Save & Restart to restart the wireless router and activate the settings.

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