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  • Page 1 11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide...
  • Page 2 All the photos and product specifications mentioned in this manual are for references only. Upgrades of software and hardware may occur, and if there are changes, Tenda is not responsible for notifying in advance. If you would like to know more about our product information, please visit our website at...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide Contents CHAPTER 1 PRODUCT INTRODUCTION ....... 1 1.1 P ........ 1 ACKAGE ONTENTS 1.2 LED I ....1 NDICATORS AND ESCRIPTION CHAPTER 2 PRODUCT INSTALLATION ......4 CHAPTER 3 HOW TO CONFIGURE TO ACCESS THE INTERNET ................
  • Page 4 11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide 5.3 W ......32 IRELESS CCESS ONTROL 5.4 C ......33 ONNECTION TATUS CHAPTER 6 DHCP SERVER ..........34 6.1 DHCP S ........ 34 ERVER 6.2 DHCP C ......34 LIENT CHAPTER 7 VIRTUAL SERVER ........36 7.1 P ......
  • Page 5 11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide 10.9 L ........53 OG OUT APPENDIX 1 GLOSSARY ........... 55 APPENDIX 2 PRODUCT FEATURES ....... 56 APPENDIX 3 FAQ ..............57 APPENDIX 4 CLEAR WIRELESS CONFIGURATION 59 APPENDIX 5 REGULATORY INFORMATION ....62...

  • Page 6: Chapter 1 Product Introduction

     One Power Adapter  One Software CD If any of the listed items are missing or damaged, please contact the Tenda reseller for immediate replacement. 1.2 LED Indicators and Port Description Panel and LED indicators show: LED indicator description on the front panel...
  • Page 7 11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide Back panel port show (take W316R as an example)
  • Page 8 11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide Back panel port description...

  • Page 9: Chapter 2 Product Installation

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide Chapter 2 Product Installation In this user guide, we take W316R as an example to explain the installation steps. The installation steps of other products are similar to this one. Please use only the included power adapter to power your router. (NOTE: Use of an unmatched power adapter could cause damage to this product).
  • Page 10 11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide 4. Insert the included software CD into the CD drive of your computer. After the software automatically initiates, double click the “Setup” icon and follow the instructions to complete the installation. You can also enter the router’s Web-based Utility to complete the configuration.

  • Page 11: Chapter 3 How To Configure To Access The Internet

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide Chapter 3 How to configure to access the Internet 3.1 How to Set the Network Configurations Network Configurations under windows XP 1. Right click “My Network Places” on your computer desktop and select “Properties”. Right click “Local Area Connection”...
  • Page 12 11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide 4. Select “Obtain an IP address automatically” and “Obtain DNS server address automatically”. Click “OK” to save the configurations. Or select “Use the following IP address” and enter the IP address, Subnet mask, Default gateway as follows: ...
  • Page 13 11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide Otherwise, you can enter 192.168.0.1. Click “OK” to save the configurations. Network Configurations under windows 7 1. Click the network icon on the lower right corner of your computer desktop, and then click” Open Network and Sharing Center”. 2.
  • Page 14 11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide 3. Right click “Local Area Connection” and select “Properties”. 4. Double click” Internet Protocol Version 4(TCP/IPv4)". 5. Select “Obtain an IP address automatically” and “Obtain DNS server address...
  • Page 15 11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide automatically”. Click “OK” to save the configurations. Or select “Use the following IP address” and enter the IP address, Subnet mask, Default gateway as follows:  IP Address: 192.168.0.XXX: (XXX is a number from 2~254) ...

  • Page 16: Log In To The Router

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide 3.2 Log in to the Router To access the Router’s Web-based Utility, launch a web browser such as Internet Explorer Firefox enter http://192.168.0.1. Press “Enter”. 2. The system will automatically choose the corresponding web language in accordance with the Browser’s language.

  • Page 17: Access

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide 3.3 Fast Internet Access Two kinds of fast access methods are provided on the router’s web-based utility: ADSL dial-up and DHCP. If you select ADSL dial-up, you only need to enter the access account and access password as well as the wireless password, and then click “Ok”...

  • Page 18: Fast Encryption

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide 3.4 Fast Encryption The router provides two encryption setting screens, one is simple and easy, the other is advanced (For advanced setting, please refer to chapter 5.2). Simple and easy screen: Log on to the router’s web-based utility and you may set encryption for the router. The default adopts WPA-PSK mode and AES Algorithm.

  • Page 19: Chapter 4 Advanced Settings

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide Chapter 4 Advanced Settings 4.1 System Status System status screen allows you to view the router’s WAN port status and system status.  Connection status: It displays the router’s WAN connection status. Disconnected: It indicates the router’s WAN port hasn’t been connected with the network cable.

  • Page 20: Ettings

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide  WAN MAC address：It displays the Router’s WAN MAC Address.  System time：It displays the system’s updated time  Connected client ：It displays the number of the connected computers(normally it displays the number of clients whose IP addresses obtained via DHCP server) ...
  • Page 21 11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide  AC Name: The service name, enter it if necessary，otherwise, leave it blank.  Connect Automatically: Connect automatically to the Internet after rebooting the system or connection failure.  Connect on Demand: Re-establish your connection to the Internet after the specific time (Max Idle Time).
  • Page 22 11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide inquire your local ISP.  DNS server: Enter the necessary DNS server provided by your ISP.  Alternate DNS server: Enter the second DNS address if your ISP provides, which is optional. Dynamic IP (Via DHCP) If your connection mode is Dynamic IP, it means every time you access the Internet, you will get a different IP.
  • Page 23 11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide connection.  Username/Password: Used to validate identity when connecting to the PPTP server.  Address mode: Set the router’s IP address mode, you can select either “Dynamic” or “Static”. If your ISP doesn’t provide the IP address, please select “Dynamic”.

  • Page 24: Ettings

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide  IP address: Please enter the IP address provided by your ISP, inquire your local ISP if you are not clear.  Subnet mask: Please enter the subnet mask provided by your ISP ,generally its 255.255.255.0 ...

  • Page 25: Edium Type

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide  DNS setting: Select to enable the DNS server.  Primary DNS address: Enter the necessary address provided by your ISP.  Alternate DNS address: Enter the second DNS address if your ISP provides, which is optional.

  • Page 26: Andwidth Ontrol

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide or you want to use it to amplify wireless signals. SSID: SSID (Service Set Identifier) is the identity of the wireless device. You can only access to the ISP’ network by entering the correct SSID, namely the SSID of the ISP’s wireless device.
  • Page 27 11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide  Enable Bandwidth Control: To enable or disable the internal IP bandwidth control. The default is disabled.  IP Address: The IP address range of the hosts whose traffic has been controlled. It can be a single IP address or IP address range. ...
  • Page 28 11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide 1. Enter 192.168.0.100 in the IP address field 2. Select upload in the Upload/Download field. 3. Enter 10-15 in the bandwidth range field 4. Select “Enable” 5. Click “Add to list” 6. Click “Ok” to finish the upload rule settings. And then add a download rule as shown in the picture below.

  • Page 29: Traffic Statistics

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide the picture below. The setting method is the same as Example 1. 4.7 Traffic Statistics Traffic statistics is used to display the bandwidth that LAN PC used.
  • Page 30 11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide Enable Traffic statistics: It is used to calculate the traffic used by the LAN computers. You can enable it to calculate the traffic for you. Usually, disable it to improve the router’s data packet processing ability, and the default is disabled. When this function is enabled, the webpage will refresh automatically every five minutes, meanwhile, each computer’s traffic value will refresh automatically.

  • Page 31: Chapter 5 Wlan Settings

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide Chapter 5 WLAN Settings 5.1 Wireless Basic Settings  Enable wireless function: Select to enable the Router’s wireless features; deselect to disable it and all functions related with wireless are disabled.  Wireless working mode: This router provides two kinds of working modes: Wireless Access Point(AP) and Network Bridge (WDS) Wireless Access Point (AP) ...
  • Page 32 11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide  Channel: The currently used channel by the router. Select an effective channel (from 1 to 13\Auto) of the wireless network.  WMM Capable: Enable it to enhance the transfer performance of the wirelessly transferred multimedia data (such as video or online playing).We recommend enabling this option if you are not familiar with WMM.
  • Page 33 11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide  AP MAC address: Input the MAC address of another (opposing) wireless router you want to connect. Example: This example is to bridge two W316R routers. 1. If you know the connecting router’s MAC address, please enter it into the AP MAC address field and click “Ok”.
  • Page 34 11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide 2. You can also search for the wireless router’s signal by scanning. a) Click “Open scan” and click the scanned signal and click the ”Ok” button on the dialog box and the corresponding wireless MAC address will be added to the AP MAC address field automatically.

  • Page 35: Wireless Security Settings

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide NOTE: WDS feature requires both routers support this function and the SSID, channel, encryption method and password are the same as those of the connecting router. 5.2 Wireless Security Settings With the wireless security function, you can prevent others from connecting to your wireless network and using the network resources without your consent.

  • Page 36: Wpa- Psk

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide (flashing WPS LED), you can enable the wireless client to implement the WPS/PBC negotiation between them. When the WPS connection is completed, the LED indicator will be continuously lit. To add more clients, repeat the above steps.) ...

  • Page 37: Wpa2- Psk

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide  Key Renewal Interval: Set the key’s renewal period, which tells the device how often it should change the dynamic keys. 5.2.3 WPA2- PSK WPA2 (Wi-Fi Protected Access version 2) provides higher security than and WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access).

  • Page 38: Connection Status

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide  MAC address filter: “Permit” indicates to allow the clients in the list to access the wireless network, “Forbid” indicates to prevent the clients in the list from accessing the wireless network.  Configure MAC address: Input the MAC addresses of the wireless clients to implement the filter policy.

  • Page 39: Chapter 6 Dhcp Server

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide Chapter 6 DHCP Server 6.1 DHCP Server DHCP (Dynamic Host Control Protocol) is used to assign an IP address to the computers on the LAN/private network. When you enable the DHCP Server, the DHCP Server will allocate automatically an unused IP address from the IP address pool to the requesting computer in premise of activating “Obtain an IP Address Automatically”.
  • Page 40 11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide  Host name: It displays the name of the computer whose IP is allocated by the DHCP server.  IP address: Enter the IP address which needs static binding.  MAC address: Enter the MAC address of the computer you want to bind. Click “Add”...

  • Page 41: Chapter 7 Virtual Server

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide Chapter 7 Virtual Server 7.1 Port Range Forwarding  Start/End port: Enter the start/end port number which ranges the External ports used to set the server or Internet applications.  LAN IP: Enter the IP address of the PC which you want to set as the server. ...
  • Page 42 11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide server or your computer’s static IP address is 192.168.0.10, and you wish your friends can access the server through the default port 21 and adopts TCP protocol. Please follow the steps below to configure. 1.Enter 21 in both start port and end port fields, or you can also select FTP from the well-known service port and its port 21 will be added to the corresponding field automatically.

  • Page 43: Ettings

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide 7.2 DMZ Settings The DMZ Settings screen allows one local computer to be exposed to the Internet for use of a special-purpose service such as Internet gaming or videoconferencing. DMZ hosting forwards all the ports at the same time to one PC. ...
  • Page 44 11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide  Enable UPnP: Click the checkbox to enable the UPnP. NOTE: This function goes into effect under Windows XP or Windows ME ( NOTE: the system should integrate or have installed the Directx 9.0) or this function would go into effect if you have installed software that supports UPnP.

  • Page 45: Chapter 8 Security Settings

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide Chapter 8 Security Settings 8.1 Client Filter Settings You can enable client filter to control LAN computers’ access to some ports of the Internet。  Filter Mode: You can select either “Permit only” or “Forbid only”. ...

  • Page 46: Filter

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide Example 2 Permit LAN computer with the IP address of 192.168.0.145 to access websites during 8:00 to 18:00 from Sunday to Saturday. 8.2 MAC Address Filter You can limit the computer’s access to Internet by MAC Address Filter.
  • Page 47 11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide  Filter mode: You can select either “Permit only” or “Forbid only”.  Access Policy: Select one number from the drop-down list.  Remark: A simple description of the configured file. You can also leave it blank. ...

  • Page 48: Ilter Settings

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide 8.3 URL Filter Settings You can use URL filtering to forbid their access to certain websites at a specified time.  Filter Mode: You can select either “Permit only” or “Forbid only”.  Access Policy: Select one number from the drop-down list. ...
  • Page 49 11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide with the access policy to pass through the router). Example1 Forbid all computers on LAN to access baidu.com during 8:00 to 18:00 from Monday to Friday. Example2 Permit LAN computers with the IP addresses of 192.168.0.100- 192.168.0.115 to access yahoo.com.

  • Page 50: Remote Web Management

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide 8.4 Remote Web Management This section instructs how to allow the network administrator to manage the Router remotely. If you want to access the Router from outside of the local network, please click the checkbox after “Enable”. ...

  • Page 51: Chapter 9 Routing Settings

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide Chapter 9 Routing Settings 9.1 Routing Table This page shows the router’s core routing table. The main duty for a router is to look for a best path for every data packet, and transfer this data packet to a destination station.
  • Page 52 11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide 1. The gateway must be at the same net segment with the router’s LAN IP. 2. If the destination IP address is one host’ address, then the subnet mask must be 255.255.255.255. 3. If the destination IP address is an IP segment, then it must match with the subnet mask.

  • Page 53: Chapter 10 System Tools

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide Chapter 10 System Tools 10.1 Time Settings This section is to configure the router’s system time. You can set it manually or obtain the GMT time from the Internet.  Time zone: Select the time zone where you are operating the Router from the drop-down list.

  • Page 54: Restore

    Domain Name tenda.3322.org After mapping the port in the virtual server, and setting account information in DDNS server, you can then access the web page by entering http://tenda.3322.org in the address field. 10.3 Backup/Restore On this screen, you can back up the router’s current settings or restore previous...
  • Page 55 11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide  Backup Setting: Click the Backup button to back up the Router’s settings and select a path to save them. Click the “Save” button to save the configuration files.  Restore Setting: Click the “Browse” button to select the backup files.

  • Page 56: Estore To Actory Efault

    After restoring to default settings, please restart the router to make the default settings effective. 10.5 Upgrade By upgrading the router’s software, you’ll get better software version and appreciated routing function. Before upgrading, download the Router’s software upgrade file from our website, www.tenda.cn.

  • Page 57: Reboot The Router

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide  Browse: Click this button to select the upgrade file.  Upgrade: Click this button to start the upgrading process. After the upgrade is completed, the router will reboot automatically. 10.6 Reboot the Router Reboot the router to make the configuration effective.

  • Page 58: Syslog

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide  Old password: Enter the old password.  New password: Enter a new password.  Confirm new password: Re-enter to confirm the new password. NOTE: The default password displays as null, users can log on the web-based utility without any authentication.
  • Page 59 11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide...

  • Page 60: Appendix 1 Glossary

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide Appendix 1 Glossary Channel: An instance of medium use for the purpose of passing protocol data units (PDUs) that may be used simultaneously, in the same volume of space, with other instances of medium use(on other channels) by other instances of the same physical layer (PHY),with an acceptably low frame error ratio(FER) due to mutual interference.

  • Page 61: Appendix 2 Product Features

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide Appendix 2 Product Features  Supports IEEE 802.11n, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.3 and IEEE 802.3u standards.  High gain omni-directional antenna, with strong signals and long transmission distance.  Wireless transmission rate up to 150Mbps or 300 Mbps Provides one 10/100Mbps auto-negotiation Ethernet WAN port to connect to the ...

  • Page 62: Appendix 3 Faq

    The instructions below may help you deal with the problems. If your problem is not in the list, please log into our website www.tenda.cn or send an E-mail to support@tenda.cn, and we will reply to you at the earliest time.
  • Page 63 11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide Sometimes happens with ADSL connection and Dynamic IP users. You may need to modify the default MTU value (1492). Please open the “WAN Setting” and modify the MTU value with the recommended value as 1450 or 1400. 5.How to share my computer’s resource with other users in Internet？...

  • Page 64: Appendix 4 Clear Wireless Configuration

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide Appendix 4 Clear Wireless Configuration Clear Wireless configuration file under windows XP 1. Right click “My Network Places” on your computer desktop and select “Properties”. 2. Right click “Wireless Network Connections” and select “Properties”. 3.
  • Page 65 11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide Clear Wireless configuration file under windows 7 1. Right click “Network” and click “Properties”. 2. Click “Manage wireless networks” on the left side of the window.
  • Page 66 11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide 3. Delete the corresponding configured file in the “Manage wireless networks”.

  • Page 67: Appendix 5 Regulatory Information

    11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide Appendix 5 Regulatory Information EU Declaration or Declaration of Conformity Hereby, SHENZHEN TENDA TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD, declares that this Wireless Broadband Router is in compliance with the essential requirements and other relevant provisions of Directive 1999/5/EC.
  • Page 68 11N Wireless Broadband Router User Guide Caution! The manufacturer is not responsible for any radio or TV interference caused by unau - thorized modifications to this equipment. Such modifications could void the user author - ity to operate the equipment.

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