OvisLink Corp. 5F., NO.6, Lane 130, Min-Chuan Rd., Hsin-Tien City, Taipei County, Taiwan Declare that the product 802.11n Wireless Router WN-5000R is in conformity with In accordance with 89/336 EEC-EMC Directive and 1999/5 EC-R & TTE Directive Clause Description Electromagnetic compatibility and Radio spectrum Matters (ERM);...
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Further, this company reserves the right to revise this publication and to make changes from time to time in the contents thereof without obligation to notify any person of such revision or changes. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
2-5-5 Setup procedure for ‘L2TP’: .................41 2-5-6 Setup procedure for ‘Telstra Big Pond’:..............42 2-5-7 Setup procedure for ‘DNS’: ..................43 2-5-8 Setup procedure for ‘DDNS’: ................44 2-6 Wired LAN Configuration ....................45 2-6-1 LAN IP section:.......................46 2-6-2 DHCP Server:......................47 WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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3-3-3 DoS Attack Prevention ..................86 3-3-3-1 DoS - Advanced Settings ................88 3-3-4 Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) ..................89 3-4 System Status ........................91 3-4-1 System information and firmware version............91 3-4-2 Internet Connection Status ...................91 3-4-3 Device Status......................92 3-4-4 System Log ......................92 WN-5000R User’s Manual...
Easy to use Web-based GUI for network configuration and management purposes • Remote management function allows configuration and upgrades from a remote computer (over the Internet) • Auto MDI / MDI-X function for all wired Ethernet ports. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
Computer or network devices with wired or wireless network interface card. Web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or above, Netscape Navigator 4.7 or above, Opera web browser, or Safari web browser). An available AC power socket (100 – 240V, 50/60Hz) WN-5000R User’s Manual...
WAN port is not connected LNK/ACT Flashing WAN activity (transferring data) LAN port is running at 100Mbps 10/100M LAN port is running at 10Mbps LAN port is connected LAN port is not connected LNK/ACT Flashing LAN activity (transferring data) WN-5000R User’s Manual...
WPS function. Press this button and hold for 20 seconds to clear all settings, and press this button for less than 20 seconds to start WPS function. 1 - 4 Local Area Network (LAN) ports 1 to 4 Wide Area Network (WAN / Internet) port WN-5000R User’s Manual...
/ network device connected to the respective port of the router is powered on and correctly connected. If PWD LED is not on, or any LED you expected is not on, please recheck the cabling, or jump to ‘4-2 Troubleshooting’ for possible reasons and solution. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
2-2-1 Windows 95/98/Me IP address setup: 1. Click ‘Start’ button (it should be located at lower-left corner of your computer), then click control panel. Double-click Network icon, and Network window will appear. Select ‘TCP/IP’, then click ‘Properties’. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
1. Click ‘Start’ button (it should be located at lower-left corner of your computer), then click control panel. Double-click Network and Dial-up Connections icon, double click Local Area Connection, and Local Area Connection Properties window will appear. Select ‘Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)’, then click ‘Properties’ WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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2. Select ‘Obtain an IP address automatically’ and ‘Obtain DNS server address automatically’, then click ‘OK’. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
1. Click ‘Start’ button (it should be located at lower-left corner of your computer), then click control panel. Double-click Network and Internet Connections icon, click Network Connections, then double-click Local Area Connection, Local Area Connection Status window will appear, and then click ‘Properties’ WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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2. Select ‘Obtain an IP address automatically’ and ‘Obtain DNS server address automatically’, then click ‘OK’. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
1. Click ‘Start’ button (it should be located at lower-left corner of your computer), then click control panel. Click View Network Status and Tasks, then click Manage Network Connections..Right-click Local Area Netwrok, then select ‘Properties’. Local Area Connection Properties window will appear, select ‘Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP / IPv4), and then click ‘Properties’ WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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2. Select ‘Obtain an IP address automatically’ and ‘Obtain DNS server address automatically’, then click ‘OK’. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
Input ‘cmd’, then click ‘OK’ Input ‘ipconfig’, then press ‘Enter’ key. Please check the IP address followed by ‘Default Gateway’ (In this example, the IP address of router is 192.168.2.1, please note that this value may be different.) WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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The following message should be shown: Please input user name and password in the field respectively, default user name is ‘admin’, and default password is ‘1234’, then press ‘OK’ button, and you can see the web management interface of this router: WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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Status, and Tools. You can find the shortcut which leads to these setting categories at the upper-right corner of every page, and you can jump to another category directly by clicking the link, and don’t have to go back to the first page. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
Set Time Please press button, a drop-down list Zone (1): will be shown, and you can choose a time zone of the location you live. Time Server Input the IP address / host name of time server WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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- Please go to section 2-3-2 PPPoE xDSL - Please go to section 2-3-3 PPTP xDSL - Please go to section 2-3-4 L2TP xDSL - Please go to section 2-3-5 Telstra Big Pond - Please go to section 2-3-6 WN-5000R User’s Manual...
‘Clone Mac address’ button to fill the MAC address field with the MAC address of your computer. After you finish with all settings, please click ‘OK’ (3) button; if you want to go back to previous menu, click ‘Back’. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
NOTE: You can choose this Internet connection method if your service provider assigns a fixed IP address (also know as static address) to you, and not using DHCP or PPPoE protocol. Please contact your service provider for further information. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
(detailed explanation listed below). Idle Time Out (6): Please input idle time out, (detailed explanation listed below). When you finish with all settings, please click ‘OK’ (7); if you want to go back to previous menu, click ‘Back’. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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Setting item ‘BEZEQ-ISRAEL’ is only required to check if you’re using the service provided by BEZEQ network in Israel. When you finish with all settings, please click ‘OK (8); if you want to go back to previous menu, click ‘Back’. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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. 2-3-6 Setup procedure for ‘L2TP’: Here are descriptions of every setup items: WN-5000R User’s Manual...
When you finish with all settings, please click ‘OK (7); if you want to go back to previous menu, click ‘Back’. 2-3-7 Setup procedure for ‘Telstra Big Pond’: This setting only works when you’re using Telstra big pond’s network service in Australia. You need to input: User Name (1): Please input the user name assigned by Telstra. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
IP address or host name of time server. If you want to enable daylight savings setting, please check ‘Enable Function’ box, and set the duration of daylight setting. When you finish, click ‘Apply’. You’ll see the following message displayed on web browser: WN-5000R User’s Manual...
Please click ‘System’ menu on the left of web management interface, then click ‘Password Settings’, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser: Here are descriptions of every setup items: Current Please input current password here. Password (1): WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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It means the content in ‘Current Password’ field is wrong, please click ‘OK’ to go back to previous menu, and try to input current password again. If the current and new passwords are correctly entered, after you click ‘Apply’, you’ll be prompted to input your new password: WN-5000R User’s Manual...
Please either ask your service provider to give you a static IP address, or use dynamic IP to host name mapping services like DDNS. Please refer to chapter 2-5-8 ‘DDNS client’ for details. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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‘80’, you have to assign the port number in the address bar of web browser manually. For example, if the IP address of this router is 1.2.3.4, and the port number you set is 8888, you have to input following address in the address bar of web browser: http://1.2.3.4:8888 WN-5000R User’s Manual...
- Please go to section 2-5-3 PPTP - Please go to section 2-5-4 L2TP - Please go to section 2-5-5 Telstra Big Pond - Please go to section 2-5-6 - Please go to section 2-5-7 DDNS - Please go to section 2-5-8 WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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, WN-5000R User’s Manual...
Service by your service provider. Provider (1): Subnet Mask (2): Please input subnet mask assigned by your service provider Service Provider Please input the IP address of DNS Gateway Address (3): server provided by your service provider. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
Connection Please select the connection type of Internet Type (5): connection you wish to use (detailed explanation listed below). Idle Time Out (6): Please input idle time out, (detailed explanation listed below). WN-5000R User’s Manual...
Please contact your Internet service provider if you don’t know what you should fill in these fields. Now please go to PPTP settings section: Here are descriptions of every setup items: User ID (1): Please input user ID (user name) assigned by your Internet service provider here. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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Setting item ‘BEZEQ-ISRAEL’ is only required to check if you’re using the service provided by BEZEQ network in Israel. When you finish with all settings, please click ‘OK (8); if you want to go back to previous menu, click ‘Back’. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
Please input the idle time out of Internet connection Out (6): you wish to use, and refer to last section for detailed descriptions. When you finish with all settings, please click ‘OK (7); if you want to go back to previous menu, click ‘Back’. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
Check this box to choose login server by yourself. server manually (3): Login Server (4): Please input the IP address of login server here. When you finish with all settings, click ‘OK (5); if you want to go back to previous menu, click ‘Back’. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
NOTE: Only IP address can be entered here; DO NOT use the hostname of DNS server! (i.e. only numeric characters and dots are accepted) 10.20.30.40……………………………………………………………… Correct dns.serviceprovider.com…………………………………………... Incorrect WN-5000R User’s Manual...
Select your DDNS service provider here. Domain Name (3): Input the domain name you’ve obtained from DDNS service provider. Account / Input account or email of DDNS registration. E-Mail (4): Password / Key (5): Input DDNS service password or key. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
4. For computers which are not dedicated to provide specific service to others, they should use dynamic IP address. If you don’t really understand the descriptions listed above, don’t worry! We will provide recommended setup values below. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
If you want to activate DHCP server function of this router, select ‘Enabled’, or set it to ‘Disabled’. Recommended Value if you don’t know what to fill: IP Address: 192.168.1.254 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 802.1d Spanning Tree: Disabled DHCP Server: Enabled WN-5000R User’s Manual...
2. The former three fields of IP address of ‘Start IP’, ‘End IP’, and ‘IP Address of ‘LAN IP’ section (mentioned ‘a’, ‘b’, and ‘c’ field) should be the same. 3. These settings will affect wireless clients, too. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
After you clicked ‘Add’, the MAC address and IP address mapping will be added to ‘Static DHCP Leases Table’ section. If you want to delete a specific item, please check the ‘Select’ box of a MAC address and IP address WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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(1), then click ‘Delete Selected’ button (2); if you want to delete all mappings, click ‘Delete All’ (3). If you want to deselect all mappings, click ‘Reset (4). WN-5000R User’s Manual...
(Please wait for about 50 seconds while router is rebooting). 2-7-1 Basic Wireless Settings Please click ‘Wireless’ menu on the left of web management interface, then click ‘Basic Settings’, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser: WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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- Please go to section 2-7-1-1 AP Bridge-Point to Point - Please go to section 2-7-1-2 AP Bridge-Point to Multi Point - Please go to section 2-7-1-3 AP Bridge-WDS - Please go to section 2-7-1-4 WN-5000R User’s Manual...
‘default’, it’s recommended to change default ESSID value to the one which is meaningful to you, like myhome, office_room1, etc. Channel Number (4): Please select a channel from the dropdown list of ‘Channel Number’, available channel WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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: WN-5000R User’s Manual...
NOTE: If you didn’t see popup window, please check the web browser or antivirus program, some of them will block popup window. 2-7-1-3 Setup procedure for ‘AP Bridge-Point to Multi-Point’: Here are descriptions of every setup items: WN-5000R User’s Manual...
In this mode, you can expand the scope of network by combining up to 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, two wireless routers must use the same setting. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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: WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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Enabling this setting will reduce the chance of radio signal collisions between 802.11b and 802.11g 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. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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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’. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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: WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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Please input the IP address of radius IP address (11): server here RADIUS Server Please input the port number of radius Port (12): server here. RADIUS Server Please input the port number of radius Password (13): password here. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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 Select the type of pre-shared key, you WN-5000R User’s Manual...
Radius authentication server here. RADIUS Server Please input the port number of your Port (4): Radius authentication server here. Default setting is 1812. RADIUS Server Please input the password of your Radius Password (5): authentication server here. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
‘Enable Wireless Access Control’. When this item is unchecked, wireless router will not enforce MAC address filtering of wireless clients. MAC Address (6): Input the MAC address of your wireless devices here, dash ( - ) or colon ( : ) are not WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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Add (8): Click ‘Add’ button to add the MAC address and associated comment to the MAC address filtering table. Clear (9): Click ‘Clear’ to remove the value you inputted in MAC address and comment field. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
Here are descriptions of every setup items: Enable WPS (1) Check this box to enable WPS function, uncheck it to disable WPS. Wi-Fi Protected WPS-related system information will be displayed Setup Information here: WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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Please input the PIN code of the wireless client you via client wish to connect, and click ‘Start PIN’ button. PinCode (4) The ‘WLAN’ led on the wireless router will be steady on when this wireless router is waiting for incoming WPS request. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
5. Use ‘Access Control’ function described in section 2-7-4, so those people who are not in your list will not be able to connect to your network. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
Here are descriptions of every settings: Enable QoS (1): Check this box to enable QoS function, unselect this box if you don’t want to enforce QoS bandwidth limitations. Total Download You can set the limit of total download WN-5000R User’s Manual...
You can lower the priority of the QoS rule you selected by clicking this button. Reset (11): If you want to erase all values you just entered. Click ‘Reset’. 3-1-2 Add a new QoS rule After you click ‘Add’ button in QoS menu, the following message will appear: WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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IP address in the right field to define a range of IP addresses, or just input the IP address in the left field to define a single IP address. Remote Port Please input the range of remote (destination) WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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QoS table; if you did anything wrong, you’ll get an error message when you click ‘Save’ button, please correct your input by the instructions given by the error message. If you want to erase all values you just entered. Click ‘Reset’ WN-5000R User’s Manual...
To enable NAT function, please select ‘Enable’ for ‘Enable or disable NAT module function’ (1); to disable, please select ‘Disable’. After you made the selection, please click ‘Apply’ button (3), then Please press Apply. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
If you only want to redirect a single port number, just fill the port number in the left field. Comment (5): Please input any text to describe this mapping, up to 16 alphanumerical characters. Add (6): Add the mapping to port forwarding table. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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If there’s no existing mapping, this button will be grayed out. Delete All (10): Delete all mappings existed in virtual server table. Reset (11): Unselect all mappings. After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ (12) button, then please press Apply. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
Please select the port number of Internet IP address which will be redirected to the port number of local IP address defined above. Comment (6): Please input any text to describe this mapping, up to 16 alphanumerical characters. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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If there’s no existing mapping, this button will be grayed out. Delete All (11): Delete all mappings existed in virtual server table. Reset (12): Unselect all mappings. After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ (13) button, then Please press Apply. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
With these supports, those applications which required special support will be able to work with NAT architecture. Please click ‘NAT’ menu on the left of web management interface, then click ‘ALG Settings’, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser: WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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There are many applications listed here. Please check the box of the special support for applications you need, and then click ‘Apply’ button. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
Please click ‘Firewall’ menu on the left of web management interface, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser: Please select ‘Enable’ or ‘Disable’ to enable or disable firewall function of this router, the click ‘Apply’ button. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
( - ) or colon ( : ) are not required. (i.e. If the MAC address label of your wireless device indicates ‘aa-bb-cc-dd-ee-ff’ or ‘aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff’, just input ‘aabbccddeeff’ Comment (3): You can input any text here as the comment of this MAC address, like ‘ROOM 2A WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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‘select’ box of the IP address you want to delete, then click ‘Delete Selected’ button. (You can select more than one IP addresses). Delete All (14): If you want to delete all IP addresses listed here, please click ‘Delete All’ button. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ (15) button, then Please press Apply. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
Here are descriptions of every setup items: Client PC Please input any text to describe this IP Description (a): address, up to 16 alphanumerical characters. Client PC IP Please input the starting IP address in the left WN-5000R User’s Manual...
This function is useful for parents and company managers. Please follow the following instructions to set URL blocking parameters: Please click ‘Firewall’ menu on the left of web management interface, then click ‘URL Blocking’, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser: WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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If you want to delete all URL/Keyword listed here, please click ‘Delete All’ button. Reset (8): You can also click ‘Reset’ button to unselect all URL/Keywords. After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ (9) button, then Please press Apply. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
Port Scan (3): Some malicious intruder will try to use a ‘port scanner’ to know how many ports of your Internet IP address are open, and they can collect a lot of valuable WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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Click this button and you can set advanced Settings (5): settings of the DoS prevention method listed above, please see section 3-3-3-1 ‘DoS – Advanced Settings’ below. After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ (6) button, then Please press Apply. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
Sync Flood (d): Like Ping of Death, you can set the threshold of when this DoS prevention mechanism will be activated. After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ (e) button, then please press the Apply. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
Click ‘Add’ button to add the public IP address and associated private IP address to the DMZ table. Reset (5): Click ‘Clear’ to remove the value you inputted in Public IP address and Client PC IP address field. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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If you want to delete all DMZ entries listed here, please click ‘Delete All’ button. Reset (9): You can also click ‘Reset’ button to unselect all DMZ entries. After you finish with all settings, please click ‘Apply’ (10) button, then please press apply. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
3-4-2 Internet Connection Status You can use this function to know the status of current Internet connection. Please click ‘Internet Connection’ menu on the left of web management interface, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser: WN-5000R User’s Manual...
Please click ‘Device Status’ menu on the left of web management interface, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser: This information will vary depending on the device status. 3-4-4 System Log All important system events are logged. You can use this function to check the event log of your router. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
All information about network and system security is kept here, and you can use this function to check the security event log of your router. Please click ‘Security Log’ menu on the left of web management interface, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser: WN-5000R User’s Manual...
You can use this function to check the statistics of wireless, LAN, and WAN interface of this router. Please click ‘Statistics’ menu on the left of web management interface, and the following message will be displayed on your web browser: WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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You can click ‘Refresh’ button to display latest information. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
After the configuration is uploaded, the router’s configuration will be replaced by the file you just uploaded. Restore to Click this button to remove all settings Factory Default (3): you made, and restore the configuration of this router back to factory default settings. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
Please click ‘Next’, and the following message will be displayed: Click ‘Browse’ button first, you’ll be prompted to provide the filename of firmware upgrade file. Please download the latest firmware file from our website, and use it to upgrade your router. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
Reset the comm. device provided by your Internet service provider too. Try to use IP address instead of hostname. If you can use IP address to communicate with a remote server, but can’t use hostname, please WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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(make sure it’s safe before you’re doing this!), and call your dealer of purchase for help. The date and time of all a. Adjust the internal clock of router. event logs are wrong WN-5000R User’s Manual...
When both are represented side by side in their binary forms, all bits in the IP address that correspond to 1’s in the network mask become part of the IP network address, and the remaining bits correspond to the host ID. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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Port: Network Clients (LAN PC) uses port numbers to distinguish one network application/protocol over another. Below is a list of common applications and protocol/port numbers: Application Protocol Port Number Telnet SMTP POP3 H.323 1720 SNMP SNMP Trap HTTP WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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Web-based management Graphical User Interface (GUI): Many devices support a graphical user interface that is based on the web browser. This means the user can use the familiar Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer to Control/configure or monitor the device being managed. WN-5000R User’s Manual...
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