Getnet Router GR-724W User Manual

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2-7-1-3 Setup procedure for ‘AP Bridge-Point to Point’: 
 
In this mode, you can connect your wireless router with another, to 
combine two access points and expand the scope of wireless network, and 
all clients (wired only – AP will not accept wireless clients in this mode) 
of two wireless routers will think they’re on the same physical network. 
This function is very convenient when you need to connect two networks 
between two buildings. Here are instructions about how to connect two 
wireless routers together: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Band (2):  Select the band you want to use, two wireless 
routers must use the same setting. 
 
Channel  Select the channel you want to use, two wireless 
Number (3):  routers must use the same setting. 
 
MAC 
address 1(4):  Input the MAC address of another wireless router. 
 
Set    Click to setting security for this connection 
Security (5):  (Please go to section ‘2-7-3 Wireless Security’   
for detailed instructions). 
 
NOTE: Two wireless routers must use the same mode, band, channel 
number, and security setting! 
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2-7-1-4 Setup procedure for ‘AP Bridge-Point to Multi-Point’: 
 
In this mode, you can connect your wireless router with at least four 
wireless routers to expand the scope of wireless network, and all clients 
(wired only – AP will not accept wireless clients in this mode) of the 
wireless routers will think they’re on the same physical network. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Band (2):  Select the band you want to use, all the wireless 
routers must use the same setting. 
 
Channel  Select the channel you want to use, all the wireless 
Number (3):  routers must use the same setting. 
 
MAC address    Input the MAC address of other wireless routers. 
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Set    Click to set security settings for this connection 
Security (8):  (Please go to section ‘2-7-3 Wireless Security’   
for detailed instructions). 
 
 
2-7-1-5 Setup procedure for ‘AP Bridge – WDS’ 
 
In this mode, you can expand the scope of network by combining up to 1 
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four other access points together, and every access point can still accept 
wireless clients. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
Band (2):  Select the band you want to use, all the wireless 
routers must use the same setting. 
 
SSID (3):  Input the SSID of your wireless router, the setting 
should be the same with other wireless routers for 
the convenience of roaming. 
 
Channel  Select the channel you want to use, all the wireless 
Number (4):  routers must use the same setting. 
 
Associated Clients (5):Click ‘Show List’ button, then an “Active Wireless 
Client Table” will pop up. You can see the status of 
all active wireless stations that are connecting to the 
access point. 
 
MAC address    Input the MAC address of other wireless routers. 1 
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NOTE: For WDS mode, the output signal nature is the same as that of 
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1 to 4 (6 - 9):   
 
Set Security    Click to set security settings for this connection 
(10):  (Please go to section ‘2-7-3 Wireless Security’ for 
detailed instructions). 
 
 
2-7-1-6 Setup procedure for ‘Universal Repeater’ 
 
In this mode, the router can act as a wireless repeater; it can be Station 
and AP at the same time. It can use Station function to connect to a Root 
AP and use AP function to service all wireless stations within its 
coverage.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Band (2):  Select the band you want to use, all the wireless 
routers must use the same setting. 
 
SSID (3):  This is the name of wireless router. You can type any 
alphanumerical characters here, maximum 32 
characters. SSID is used to identify your own 
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NOTE: For Repeater Mode, this router will demodulate the received 
signal, checking if this signal is noise for the operating network then 
have the signal modulated and amplified again. The output power of 
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wireless router from others when there are other 
wireless routers in the same area. Default SSID is 
‘default’, it’s recommended to change default ESSID 
value to the one which is meaningful to you, like 
myhome, office_room1, etc. 
 
Channel  Select the channel you want to use, all the wireless 
Number (4):  clients must use the same setting. 
 
Associated Clients (5): Click ‘Show List button, then an “Active Wireless 
Client Table” will pop up. You can see the status of 
all active wireless stations that are connecting to the 
access point. 
 
Root AP SSID (6):  In ‘Universal Repeater’ mode, this device can act as 
a station to connect to a Root AP. You should assign 
the SSID of the Root AP here or click ‘Select Site 
Survey’ button to choose a Root AP. 
 
Site Survey (7):  Click ‘Select Site Survey’ button, then a “Wireless 
Site Survey Table” will pop up. It will list all 
available access points near by. You can select one 
access point in the table and the router will join 
wireless LAN through this access point. 
 
After you finish the wireless setting, please click ‘Apply’ button, after 
you click ‘Apply’, the following message will be displayed on your web 
browser: 
 
 
 
Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on 
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effect (Please wait for about 30 seconds while router is rebooting). 
 
 
2-7-2 Advanced Wireless  Settings 
 
This router provides some advanced control of wireless parameters, if 
you want to configure these settings, please click ‘Wireless’ menu on the 
left of web management interface, then click ‘Advanced Settings’, and 
the following message will be displayed on your web browser: 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Fragment  Set the Fragment threshold of wireless radio.     
Threshold (1): Do not modify default value if you don’t know 
what it is, default value is 2346. 
 
RTS Threshold (2):    Set the RTS threshold of wireless radio. Do not 
modify default value if you don’t know what it is, 
default value is 2347. 
 
Beacon Interval (3):  Set the beacon interval of wireless radio. Do not 
modify default value if you don’t know what it is, 1 
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default value is 100. 
 
DTIM Period (4):    Set the DTIM period of wireless radio. Do not 
modify default value if you don’t know what it is, 
default value is 3. 
 
Data Rate (5):    Set the wireless data transfer rate to a certain value. 
Since most of wireless devices will negotiate with 
each other and pick a proper data transfer rate 
automatically, it’s not necessary to change this 
value unless you know what will happen after 
modification. 
 
N Data Rate (6):   Same as above, but only for 802.11n clients. 
 
Channel Width (7):    Set channel width of wireless radio. Do not modify 
default value if you don’t know what it is, default 
setting is ‘Auto 20/40 MHz’. 
 
Preamble Type (8):    Set the type of preamble, do not modify default 
value if you don’t know what it is, default setting is 
‘Short Preamble’. 
 
Broadcast ESSID (9): Decide if the wireless router will broadcast its own 
ESSID or not. You can hide the ESSID of your 
wireless router (set the option to ‘Disable’), so only 
people those who know the ESSID of your wireless 
router can get connected. 
 
CTS Protect (10):    Enabling this setting will reduce the chance of radio 
signal collisions between 802.11b and 802.11g/n 
wireless access points. It’s recommended to set this 
option to ‘Auto’ or ‘Always’. However, if you set to 
‘None’, your wireless router should be able to work 
fine, too. 
 
Tx Power (11):    You can set the output power of wireless radio. 
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big space, you may not have to set output power to 
100%. This will enhance security (malicious / 
unknown users in distance will not be able to 
reach your wireless router). 
 
WMM (12):    The short of Wi-Fi MultiMedia, it will enhance the 
data transfer performance of multimedia contents 
when they’re being transferred over wireless 
network. If you don’t know what it is / not sure if 
you need it, it’s safe to set this option to ‘Enable’, 
however, default value is ‘Disable’. 
 
After you finish these wireless settings, please click ‘Apply’ button, 
button, and the following message will be displayed on your web 
browser: 
 
 
 
Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on 
router setup, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will take 
effect (Please wait for about 30 seconds while router is rebooting). 
 
 
 
2-7-3 Wireless Security 
 
It’s very important to set wireless security settings properly! If you don’t, 
hackers and malicious users can reach your network and valuable data 
without your consent and this will cause serious security problem. 
 
To set wireless security settings, Please click ‘Wireless’ menu on the left 
of web management interface, then click ‘Security Settings’, then follow 
the following instructions to set wireless security settings:  
						

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Please select an encryption method from ‘Encryption’ dropdown menu, 
there are four options: 
 
 
2-7-3-1 Disable wireless security 
 
When you select this mode, data encryption is disabled, and every 
wireless device in proximity will be able to connect your wireless router 
if no other security measure is enabled (like MAC address access control 
- see section 2-7-4, or disable ESSID broadcast).   
 
Only use this option when you really want to allow everyone to use your 
wireless router, and you don’t care if there’s someone reads the data you 
transfer over network without your consent. 
 
2-7-3-2 WEP - Wired Equivalent Privacy 
 
When you select this mode, the wireless router will use WEP encryption, 
and the following setup menu will be shown on your web browser: 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Key Length (2):    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 (3):    There are two types of key format: ASCII and Hex. 
When you select a key format, the number of 1
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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 (4):    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     Input WEP key characters here, the number of 
1 to 4 (5-8):    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. 
 
Enable 802.1x  IEEE 802.1x is an authentication protocol. Every   
Authentication (9):    user must use a valid account to login to this 
wireless router before accessing the wireless LAN. 
The authentication is processed by a RADIUS server. 
This mode only authenticates user by IEEE 802.1x, 
but it does not encryption the data during 
communication. If there is a RADIUS server in you 
environment, please enable this function. Check this 
box and another sub-menu will appear: 
 
 
 
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