Edimax Router BR-6424n User Manual
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31 If you’re not sure, please contact your Internet service provider. A wrong Internet connection type will cause connection problem, and you will not be able to connect to internet. If you want to go back to previous step, please press ‘Back’ button on the bottom of this page. 3. NOTE: Some service providers use ‘DHCP’ (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) to assign IP address to you. In this case, you can choose ‘Cable Modem’ as Internet connection type, even you’re using another connection type, like xDSL. Also, some cable modem uses PPPoE, so you can choose ‘PPPoE xDSL’ for such cable modem connection, even you’re using a cable modem.
32 2-4-1 Using ‘Dynamic IP’ as broadband connection type If your Internet service provider uses cable modem to provide Internet service to you, you can select this connection type. You can also select this connection type if your ISP tells you that they will assign you the IP address by ’DHCP’ (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol). Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name Description Host Name Please input the host name of your computer, this is optional, and only required if your service provider asks you to do so. MAC address Please input MAC address of your computer here, if your service provider only permits computer with certain MAC address to access internet. If you’re using the computer which used to connect to Internet via cable modem, you can simply press ‘Clone Mac address’ button to fill the MAC address field with the MAC address of your computer. TTL Time-to-live (TTL) is a value in an Internet Protocol packet that tells a network router whether or not the packet has been in the network too long and should be discarded.
33 If you wish to select another connection type as broadband connection type, click ‘Back’; or you can click ‘OK’ to finish with quick setup. You’ll see the following messages: Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes you made and restart the broadband router, this requires about 30 seconds and the broadband router will stop responding (this is normal and is not malfunction). You can reconnect to this broadband router and continue on other settings later.
34 2-4-2 Using ‘Fixed-IP xDSL’ as broadband connection type If your ISP requires you to set a fixed IP address to establish connection, you can use this connection type to input the IP address information assigned by your ISP. Please note that not only xDSL connections (like ADSL, HDSL, VDSL) can use this connection type, you can select this connection type for all connections that requires you to input a fixed IP address. Also, if your ISP is assigning a fixed IP address to you by DHCP or PPPoE, do not select this connection type. Please contact your ISP’s service hotline to make sure you really need to use static IP as connection type. Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name Description IP address assigned by your by your service provider Please input IP address assigned by your service provider. Subnet Mask Please input subnet mask assigned by your service provider. DNS address Please input the IP address of DNS server provided by your service provider. Service Provider Gateway Address Please input the IP address of DNS server provided by your service provider. TTL Time-to-live (TTL) is a value in an Internet Protocol packet that tells a network router whether or not the packet has been in the network too long and should be discarded.
35 If you wish to select another connection type as broadband connection type, click ‘Back’; or you can click ‘OK’ to finish with quick setup. You’ll see the following messages: Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes you made and restart the broadband router, this requires about 30 seconds and the broadband router will stop responding (this is normal and is not malfunction). You can reconnect to this broadband router and continue on other settings later. You must use the addresses provided by your Internet service provider, wrong setting value will cause connection problem.
36 2-4-3 Using ‘PPPoE xDSL’ as broadband connection type If your ISP requires you to establish Internet connection by PPPoE (Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet), you can use this connection type to establish Internet connection. Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name Description User Name Please input user name assigned by your Internet service provider here. Password Please input the password assigned by your Internet service provider here. Service Name Please give a name to this Internet service, this is optional. MTU Please input the MTU value of your network connection here. If you don’t know, you can use default value. Connection Type Please select the connection type of Internet connection you wish to use. There are 3 options: ‘Continuous’ - keep internet connection alive, do not disconnect. ’Connect on Demand’ - only connects to
37 Internet when there’s a connect attempt, Manual - only connects to Internet when ‘Connect’ button on this page is pressed, and disconnects when ‘Disconnect button is pressed. Idle Time Out Please specify the time to shutdown internet connect after no internet activity is detected in minute(s). This option is only available when connection type is ‘Connect on Demand’. TTL Time-to-live (TTL) is a value in an Internet Protocol packet that tells a network router whether or not the packet has been in the network too long and should be discarded. If you wish to select another connection type as broadband connection type, click ‘Back’; or you can click ‘OK’ to finish with quick setup. You’ll see the following messages: Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes you made and restart the broadband router, this requires about 30 seconds and the broadband router will stop responding (this is normal and is not malfunction). You can reconnect to this broadband router and continue on other settings later.
38 2-4-4 Using ‘PPTP xDSL’ as broadband connection type If your ISP requires you to use PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) to establish connection, you can select this connection type to establish Internet connection. PPTP xDSL requires two kinds of setting: WAN interface setting (setup IP address) and PPTP setting (PPTP user name and password). Here we start from WAN interface setting first: Select the type of how you obtain IP address from your service provider here. You can choose ‘Obtain an IP address automatically’ (equal to DHCP, please refer to ‘Cable Modem’ section above), or ‘Use the following IP address’ (i.e. static IP address). WAN interface settings must be correctly set, or the Internet connection will fail even those settings of PPTP settings are correct. Please contact your Internet service provider if you don’t know what you should fill in these fields.
39 Now please go to PPTP settings section: Here are descriptions of every setup items: Item Name Description User ID Please input user ID (user name) assigned by your Internet service provider here. Password Please input the password assigned by your Internet service provider here. PPTP Gateway Please input the IP address of PPTP gateway assigned by your Internet service provider here. Connection ID Please input the connection ID here, this is optional and you can leave it blank. MTU Please input the MTU value of your network connection here. If you don’t know, you can use default value. BEZEQ-ISRAEL Check ‘Enable’ box if you’re using BEZEQ network service in Israel. Do not check this box if you’re using other Internet service provider. Connection Type Please select the connection type of Internet connection you wish to use. There are 3 options:
40 ‘Continuous’ - keep internet connection alive, do not disconnect. ’Connect on Demand’ - only connects to Internet when there’s a connect attempt, Manual - only connects to Internet when ‘Connect’ button on this page is pressed, and disconnects when ‘Disconnect button is pressed. Idle Time Out Please specify the time to shutdown internet connect after no internet activity is detected in minute(s). This option is only available when connection type is ‘Connect on Demand’. If you wish to select another connection type as broadband connection type, click ‘Back’; or you can click ‘OK’ to finish with quick setup. You’ll see the following messages: Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes you made and restart the broadband router, this requires about 30 seconds and the broadband router will stop responding (this is normal and is not malfunction). You can reconnect to this broadband router and continue on other settings later.