Edimax Router BR-6574n User Manual

							Channel Number Select the channel number you wish to use; all 
access points must use the same channel. 
Associated Clients  Click ‘Show Active Clients’ button to show 
the list of all connected wireless clients. You 
can click ‘Refresh’ in new window to get 
latest list again, or click ‘Close’ to close the 
window. 
 
Please note that if you have pop-up blocker 
installed, you may have to disable it or tell 
your pop-up blocker to allow the popup 
window, or you will not be able to see the 
wireless client list window. 
Root AP SSID  Please input the SSID of the wireless access 
point you wish to extend signal coverage. 
Site Survey  Click ‘Select Site Survey’ and a popup window 
will appear. All reachable wireless access 
points will be shown in the window. Select the 
wireless access point you wish to connect from 
the list, and click ‘Done’. If the wireless access 
point you wish to connect is not listed, you can 
click ‘Refresh’ to rescan. 
 
If you still can’t find the wireless access point 
you wish to connect, please move the 
broadband router to the place nearer to the 
access point you wish to connect. 
 
When you finished with the settings in this page, you can click ‘Apply’ 
button to save changes you made in this page, or you can click ‘Cancel’ 
to discard changes. After you click ‘Apply’ button, 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 can click ‘Continue’ to continue on other settings without restart the 
broadband router, however, the changes you made will not take effect 
before you restart the broadband router.  
						

							3-4-1-7 Set Security 
 
In certain AP working modes, you can enable encryption to improve 
security level.   
 
When you click ‘Set Security’ button, the following window will appear: 
 
 
 
Please select an encryption method from ‘Encryption’ dropdown menu, 
and corresponding setting will appear: 
 
Disabled 
 
Encryption is disabled. It’s not recommended to disable encryption 
because other people may use certain wireless scanner to copy the data 
transferred over air. 
  
						

							WEP 
 
Select WEP to enable WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) encryption: 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Item Name Description 
Key Length  There are two types of WEP key length: 64-bit 
and 128-bit. Using ‘128-bit’ is safer 
than ’64-bit’, but will reduce some data 
transfer performance. 
Key Format    There are two types of key format: ASCII and 
Hex. When you select a key format, the number 
of characters of key will be displayed. For 
example, if you select ’64-bit’ as key length, 
and ‘Hex’ as key format, you’ll see the message 
at the right of ‘Key Format’ is ‘Hex (10 
characters), which means the length of WEP 
key is 10 characters. 
Default Tx Key  You can set up to four sets of WEP key, and you 
can decide which key is being used by default 
here. If you don’t know which one you should 
use, select ‘Key 1’. 
Encryption Key 1 to 4    Input WEP key characters here, the number of 
characters must be the same as the number  
						

							displayed at ‘Key Format’ field. You can use 
any alphanumerical characters (0-9, a-z, and 
A-Z) if you select ‘ASCII’ key format, and if 
you select ‘Hex’ as key format, you can use 
characters 0-9, a-f, and A-F. You must enter at 
least one encryption key here, and if you 
entered multiple WEP keys, they should not be 
same with each other. 
 
Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes, or click ‘Reset’ to clear the texts in 
all fields. If you click ‘Apply’, the following messages will appear: 
 
 
 
You can click ‘Continue’ to back to previous page and continue setting, or 
click ‘Apply’ to restart the broadband router so the changes will take 
effect. 
 
 
WPA pre-shared key 
 
WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) is also an encryption method and is safer 
than WEP. It’s recommended to use WPA instead of WEP when you need 
to use encryption to protect your data security. 
 
  
						

							Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Item Name Description 
WPA Unicast Cipher 
Suite  Please select a type of WPA cipher suite. 
Available options are: WPA (TKIP), WPA2 
(AES), and WPA2 Mixed. You can select one of 
them, but you have to make sure your wireless 
client support the cipher you selected. 
Pre-shared Key 
Format Select the type of pre-shared key, you 
can select Passphrase (8 or more 
alphanumerical characters, up to 63), or Hex 
(64 characters of 0-9, and a-f). 
Pre-shared Key Please input the WPA passphrase here. 
It’s not recommended to use a word that can 
be found in a dictionary due to security 
reason. 
 
Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes, or click ‘Reset’ to clear the texts in 
all fields. If you click ‘Apply’, the following messages will appear: 
 
 
 
You can click ‘Continue’ to back to previous page and continue setting, or 
click ‘Apply’ to restart the broadband router so the changes will take 
effect. 
  
						

							3-4-2 Security Settings 
 
This wireless router supports two types of encryption: WEP (Wired 
Equivalent Privacy) and WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access): 
 
 
 
Please select an encryption method from ‘Encryption’ dropdown menu, 
and corresponding setting will appear: 
 
Disabled 
 
Encryption is disabled. It’s not recommended to disable encryption 
because other people may use certain wireless scanner to copy the data 
transferred over air. 
  
						

							WEP 
 
Select WEP to enable WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) encryption: 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Item Name Description 
Key Length  There are two types of WEP key length: 64-bit 
and 128-bit. Using ‘128-bit’ is safer 
than ’64-bit’, but will reduce some data 
transfer performance. 
Key Format    There are two types of key format: ASCII and 
Hex. When you select a key format, the number 
of characters of key will be displayed. For 
example, if you select ’64-bit’ as key length, 
and ‘Hex’ as key format, you’ll see the message 
at the right of ‘Key Format’ is ‘Hex (10 
characters), which means the length of WEP 
key is 10 characters. 
Default Tx Key  You can set up to four sets of WEP key, and you 
can decide which key is being used by default 
here. If you don’t know which one you should 
use, select ‘Key 1’. 
Encryption Key 1 to 4    Input WEP key characters here, the number of 
characters must be the same as the number  
						

							displayed at ‘Key Format’ field. You can use 
any alphanumerical characters (0-9, a-z, and 
A-Z) if you select ‘ASCII’ key format, and if 
you select ‘Hex’ as key format, you can use 
characters 0-9, a-f, and A-F. You must enter at 
least one encryption key here, and if you 
entered multiple WEP keys, they should not be 
same with each other. 
 
Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes, or click ‘Reset’ to clear the texts in 
all fields. If you click ‘Apply’, the following messages will appear: 
 
 
 
You can click ‘Continue’ to back to previous page and continue setting, or 
click ‘Apply’ to restart the broadband router so the changes will take 
effect. 
 
 
WPA pre-shared key 
 
WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) is also an encryption method and is safer 
than WEP. It’s recommended to use WPA instead of WEP when you need 
to use encryption to protect your data security. 
 
  
						

							Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Item Name Description 
WPA Unicast Cipher 
Suite  Please select a type of WPA cipher suite. 
Available options are: WPA (TKIP), WPA2 
(AES), and WPA2 Mixed. You can select one of 
them, but you have to make sure your wireless 
client support the cipher you selected. 
Pre-shared Key 
Format Select the type of pre-shared key, you 
can select Passphrase (8 or more 
alphanumerical characters, up to 63), or Hex 
(64 characters of 0-9, and a-f). 
Pre-shared Key Please input the WPA passphrase here. 
It’s not recommended to use a word that can 
be found in a dictionary due to security 
reason. 
 
Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes, or click ‘Reset’ to clear the texts in 
all fields. If you click ‘Apply’, the following messages will appear: 
 
 
 
You can click ‘Continue’ to back to previous page and continue setting, or 
click ‘Apply’ to restart the broadband router so the changes will take 
effect. 
 
 
WPA RADIUS 
 
If you have RADIUS authentication server on your local network, you 
can authenticate the wireless clients by RADIUS server’s user database. 
Only authenticated clients can establish wireless connection with this 
broadband router.