BUFFALO 09101577-0 Air Station (High Power Wireless Router) User Manual WHR HP G54 Manual indd

BUFFALO INC. Air Station (High Power Wireless Router) WHR HP G54 Manual indd

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Wireless Encryption
This page is available from Home by selecting
Wireless Encryption. Here, you can manually
select the type of wireless encryption you’d
like to use. Your AirStation supports three
different encryption schemes; choose the best
one that all your clients support.
Virtually all wireless clients support WEP. It’s
a lot better than nothing.
TKIP is much more secure than WEP, but
slower.
AES is even more secure than TKIP, and the
fastest of all. Highly recommended if all of
your wireless clients support it.
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This page is available from Home by
selecting Wireless channel. With Auto
Channel selected, your AirStation will
choose the best channel available.
Current channel will show the channel
that your AirStation is currently using.
You may also select any channel from
1-11 manually. Channels 1, 6, and
11 are non-overlapping. If multiple
channels are in use in an area, select
a different channel for your AirStation,
as far away from the other channels
being used as possible.
Wireless Channel
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This page is available from Home
by selecting Firmware update. Use
Browse to select your fi rmware
update fi le, and then click on Apply.
Firmware update may take several
minutes to complete. Don’t power
down your AirStation until the diag
LED has gone out.
Firmware Update
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Internet Connection (Multisession Reset)
From Home, selecting the Internet
Connection Wizard (Multisession Reset)
tab will begin the Internet Connection
Wizard.
The Internet Connection Wizard will
only function correctly in simple
networks, where your cable or DSL
modem is plugged directly into your
AirStation’s WAN port. If you have
a complicated existing network that
you’re adding the AirStation to, see
page 56.
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Advanced Settings
Advanced Settings lets you confi gure
every element of your AirStation. Get
to Advanced Settings from Home
by clicking the Advanced Tab. You
may return to Home by clicking on
the yellow > Home link in the top left
corner.
Click Help in the top right corner for
more information about any of the
pages in Advanced Settings.
To begin, click on WAN Confi g. The
fi rst page in WAN Confi g, WAN Port,
will open.
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WAN Confi g (WAN Port)
Here, you may choose how the AirStation
acquires an IP address. Normally, the
internet connection wizard will set this for
you if you have a cablemodem or DSL. If
you’re not sure what to choose, perform
Easy Setup.
To setup PPPoE manually, click on click
here and turn to page 27.
Also on this page, under Advanced Setup,
you may manually set the Default Gateway,
DNS server, WAN MAC address, WAN
format, and WEB port number.
Click Apply when fi nished.
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PPPoE
Many DSL connections require a PPPoE
Connection in order to log in to an internet
connection. Normally, the Easy Detection
Wizard will help you confi gure that, but
you may manually confi gure one here.
Consult your ISP for more information
on correctly confi guring your PPPoE
connection.
To add a new PPPoE connection, click Edit
Connection List. To choose your preferred
connection, click on Edit Preferred
Connection List.
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LAN Confi g (LAN Port)
Default for the LAN side IP address is
192.168.11.1. To add the AirStation to an
existing LAN, specify a unique IPaddress, not
used elsewhere in the network.
The default Subnet Mask is 255.255.255.0.
To connect AirStation to an existing LAN,
specify the Subnet Mask that the LAN uses.
If there’s more than one DHCP server on
a network, disable all but one of them.
To have DHCP assign addresses from a
specifi c range, enter a begining address by
Assigned IP Address and give the number
of addresses to assign in the Addresses box. To exclude specifi c addresses from being
assigned by DHCP, specify them in the Excluded IP Address box. Multiple IP addresses
may be specifi ed by seperating them with a comma, e.g. 192.168.11.7,192.168.11.9. You
can also specify an IP address range by start and end address connected by a dash, e.g.
192.168.11.15-192.168.11.21. The ‘,’ and ‘-’ can be used at the same time, e.g. 192.1
68.11.7,192.168.11.9,192.168.11.15-192.168.11.21, up to a total string length of 128
characters.
Click the Help link in the top right corner for more information.
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Advanced DHCP Settings
This page offers the same DHCP settings as
the previous one, and in addition, offers you
the chance to change the Lease Period, De-
fault Gateway, DNS servers, WINS server, and
Domain Name. Click Apply when you have
the settings the way you want them.
To manually assign an IP address, click
Manual Assignment.
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To manually link a LAN address to a MAC
address, enter them under Add Client Infor-
mation and click Add.
Current DHCP Client Information shows
all LAN addresses currently assigned by
AirStation’s DHCP. You may confi gure a
specifi c client to always recieve the same
IP address by clicking Manual Assignment
to the right of its MAC Address. Clicking
Delete returns a manually assigned client
to normal DHCP operation. Edit allows
you to manually adjust a linked IP Address
and Mac Address in the Client Information
window above.
DHCP Server (Manual Assignment of IP Address)

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