Netgear N 600 Manual
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Administration71 N600 Wireless Dual Band Router WNDR3400v2 Guest Network (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz) Name (SSID). The 11N wireless network name (SSID) used by the router. The default names are NETGEAR-Guest and NETGEAR-5G-Guest. Wireless AP . Indicate s whether the radio feature of the router is enabled. If this feature is not enabled, the Wireless LEDs on the front panel are off. Broadcast Name. Indicates whethe r the router is broadcasting its SSID. Wireless Isolation . Select this check box only if you want to prevent wireless connections to the router. Allow guest to access My Local Network . If selected, any user who connects to this SSID can access local networks associated with the router. View Logs of Web Access or Attempted Web Access g The log is a detailed record of the websites you accessed or attempted to access. Up to 256 entries are stored in the log. Log entries appear only when keyword blocking is enabled a nd no log entries are made for the trusted user.
Administration72 N600 Wireless Dual Band Router WNDR3400v2 Select Advanced > Administration > Logs . The Logs screen displays. The log screen shows the following information: • Date and time. The date and time the log entry was recorded. • Source IP . Th e IP address of the initiating device for this log entry. • T arget address. The name or IP address of the website or news group visited or to which access was attempted. • Action . Wheth er the access was blocked or allowed. To refresh the log screen, click the Re fresh button. To clear the log entries, click the Cle ar Log button. To email the log immediately, click the Send Log button. Manage the Configuration File The configuration settings of the N600 Wirele ss Dual Band Router are stored within the router in a configuration file. You can back up (sav e) this file to your computer, restore it, or reset it to the factory default settings.
Administration73 N600 Wireless Dual Band Router WNDR3400v2 Backup Settings To back up the router’s configuration settings: 1. Select Adv anced > Administration > BackUp Settings to display the following screen: 2. Click Back Up to save a copy of the current settings. 3. Choo se a location to store the .cfg file that is on a computer on your network. Restore Configuration Settings To restore configuration settings that you backed up: 1. Ent er the full path to the file on your network or click the Browse button to find the file. 2. When you have located the .cfg file, click the Restore button to upload the file to the router. Upon completion, the router reboots. WARNING! Do not interrupt the reboot process. Erase Under some circumstances (for example, if you move the router to a different network or if you have forgotten the password), you might want to erase the configuration and restore the factory default settings. You can either use the Restore Factory Settings button on the back of the router (see Factory Settings on p age 11 0 ), or you can click the Erase bu tton in this screen. Erase sets the user name to admin, the password to password, and the LAN IP address to 192.168.1.1, and enables the router’ s DHCP.
Administration74 N600 Wireless Dual Band Router WNDR3400v2 Set Password This feature allows you to change the default password that is used to log in to the router with the user name admin. This is not the same as changing the password for wireless access. The label on the bottom of your rou ter shows your unique wireless network name (SSID) and password for wireless access (see Label on page 14). To set the password for the user name admin: 1. Select Advance d > Administration > Set Password to display the following screen: 2. Type the old password and type the new password twice in the fields on this screen. 3. If you want to be able to recover the password, select the Enable Password Recovery check box. 4. Click Apply so that your changes take effect. Password Recovery NETGEAR recommends that you enable password recovery if you change the password for the router’s user name of admin. Then you have an easy way to recover the password if it is forgotten. This recovery process is supported in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome browsers, but not in the Safari browser. To set up password recovery: 1. Select the Enab le Password Recovery check box. 2. Sele ct two security questions and provide answers to them. 3. Click Apply to save your changes.
Administration 75 N600 Wireless Dual Band Router WNDR3400v2 When you use your browser to access the router, the login window displays. If password recovery is enabled, when you click Cancel, the password recovery process starts. You can then enter the saved answers to the security questions to recover the password.
76 8 8. Advanced Settings Fine tuning your network This chapter describes the advanced features of your router. The information is for users with a solid understanding of networking concepts who want to set the router up for unique situations such as when remote access from the Internet by IP or domain name is needed. This chapter includes the following sections: • Advanced Wireless Settings • Wireless Repeating Function (WDS) • Port Forwarding and Triggering • Set up Port Forwarding to Local Servers • Set up Port Triggering • Dynamic DNS • Static Routes • Remote Management • USB Settings • Universal Plug and Play • IPv6 • Traffic Meter
Advanced Settings77 N600 Wireless Dual Band Router WNDR3400v2 Advanced Wireless Settings Select Advanced > Advanced Setup > Wireless Settings to display the following screen: Scroll to view more settings The following settings are available in this screen: Enable Wireless Router Radio . Y ou can completely turn off the wireless portion of the wireless router by clearing this check box. Select this check box again to enable the wireless portion of the router. When the wireless radio is disabled, other members of your household can use the router by connecting their computers to the router with an Ethernet cable. Note: The Fragmentation Length, CTS/RTS Threshold, and Preamble Mode options are reserved for wireless testing and advanced configuration only. Do not change these settings. Turn off wireless signal by schedule . You can use this feature to turn off the wireless signal from your router at times when you do not need a wireless connection. For example, you could turn it off for the weekend if you leave town. WPS Settings .Y ou can add WPS devices to your network. AP Mode . Y ou can make the WNDR3400v2 function as an access point. Wireless Card Access List . Click the Set Up Ac cess List button display the Wireless Card Access List screen. On this screen, you can re strict access to your network to specific devices based on their MAC address.
Advanced Settings78 N600 Wireless Dual Band Router WNDR3400v2 Wireless Repeating Function (WDS) You can set the N600 Wireless Dual Band Rout er up to be used as a wireless access point (AP). This enables the router to act as a wireless repeater. A wireless repeater connects to another wireless router as a client where the network to which it connects becomes the ISP service. Wireless repeating is a type of Wireless Distri butio n System (WDS). A WDS allows a wireless network to be expanded through multiple access points instead of using a wired backbone to link them. The following figure shows a wireless repeating scenario. Repeater Base station access point access point Figure 4. Wireless repeating scenario Note: If you use the wireless repeating function, you need to select either WEP or None as a security option in the Wireless Setup screen. The WEP option displays only if you select the wireless mode Up to 54 Mbps in the Wireless Setup screen. Wireless Base Station . The router acts as the parent access point, bridging traffic to and from the child repeater access point, as well as handling wireless and wired local computers.
Advanced Settings79 N600 Wireless Dual Band Router WNDR3400v2 To configure this mode, you have to know the MAC addresses of the child repeater access point. Wireless Repeater . The route r sends all traffic from its local wireless or wired computers to a remote access point. To configure this mode, you have to know the MAC address of the remote parent access point. The WNDR3400v2 router is always in dual band concurrent mode, unless you turn off one ra dio. If you enable the wireless repeater in either radio band, the wireless base station, or wireless repeater cannot be enabled in the other radio band. However, if you enable the wireless base station in either radio band and use the other radio band as a wireless router or wireless base station, dual band concurrent mode is not affected. For you to set up a wireless network with WDS, the following conditions have to be met for both access points: • Both acce ss points have to use the same SSID, wireless channel, and encryption mode. • Both acce ss points have to be on the same LAN IP subnet. That is, all the access point LAN IP addresses are in the same network. • All L AN devices (wired and wireless computers) have to be configured to operate in the same LAN network address range as the access points. Wireless Repeating Function Select Advanced > Advanced Setup > Wireless Repeating to view or change wireless repeater settings for the router. Scroll to view more settings • Enable Wireless Repeating Function . Select the check box for the 2.4 GHz or 5-GHz network to use the wireless repeating function.
Advanced Settings 80 N600 Wireless Dual Band Router WNDR3400v2 • Wireless MAC of this router. This field displays the MAC address for your router for your reference. You need to enter this MAC address in the corresponding Wireless Repeating Function screen of the other access point you are using. • Wireless Repeater. If your router is the repeater, select this check box. Repeater IP Address. If your router is the repeater, enter the IP address of the other access point. Disable Wireless Client Association. If your router is the repeater, selecting this check box means that wireless clients cannot associate with it. Only LAN client associations are allowed. -If you are setting up a point-to-point bridge, select this check box. -If you want all client traffic to go through the other access point (repeater with wireless client association), leave this check box cleared. Base Station MAC Address. If your router is the repeater, enter the MAC address for the access point that is the base station. • Wireless Base Station. If your router is the base station, select this check box. Disable Wireless Client Association. If your router is the base station, selecting this check box means that wireless clients cannot associate with it. Only LAN client associations are allowed. Repeater MAC Address (1 through 4). If your router is the base station, it can act as the “parent” of up to four other access points. Enter the MAC addresses of the other access points in these fields. Set up the Base Station The wireless repeating function works only in hub and spoke mode. The units cannot be daisy-chained. You have to know the wireless settings for both units. You have to know the MAC address of the remote unit. First, set up the base station. Then set up the repeater. To set up the base station: 1. Set up both units with the same wireless settings (SSID, mode, channel, and security). The wireless security option has to be set to None or WEP.