User manual ZYXEL P-334WT

[. . . ] P-334WT 802. 11g Wireless Broadband Router with Firewall Quick Start Guide September 2004 Version 3. 60 P-334WT 1 Introducing the Prestige The Prestige is a broadband sharing gateway with a built-in wireless LAN access point and four-port 10/100 Mbps switch that makes it easy for people to set up a small home/office network and share Internet access via a broadband (cable/DSL) modem. Key features of the Prestige include media bandwidth management, an embedded 802. 11g wireless LAN security, One-Touch Intelligent Security Technology, firewall, VPN, content filtering, NAT and UPnP. See your User's Guide for more details on all Prestige features. You should have an Internet account already set up and have been given most of the following information. [. . . ] Click the BM SETUP to begin a series of screens to help you configure media bandwidth management on your Prestige. Click a link under MAIN MENU in the navigation panel to configure that Prestige feature. 10 P-334WT Click MAINTENANCE in the navigation panel to see Prestige performance statistics, upload firmware and back up, restore or upload a configuration file. Click LOGOUT when you have finished a Prestige management session. The Prestige automatically logs you out if it is left idle for five minutes; press ENTER to display the Login screen again and then log back in. This idle timeout timer is one of the many Prestige features that you may edit using the web configurator. WIZARD BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT WIZARD Navigation panel LOGOUT 4. 2 Internet Access Using the Wizard The wizard consists of a series of screens to help you configure your Prestige for wireless stations to access your wired LAN. Use the following buttons to navigate the Wizard: Back Next Click Back to return to the previous screen. Click Next to continue to the next screen. No configuration changes will be saved to the Prestige until you click Finish. 1. Click Wizard Setup in the main menu to display the first wizard screen. 11 P-334WT System Name is a unique name to identify the Prestige in an Ethernet network. The Domain Name entry is what is propagated to the DHCP clients on the LAN. If you leave this blank, the domain name obtained by DHCP from the ISP is used. Click Next to continue. 2. Use the second wizard screen to set up the wireless LAN. Name(SSID) is a unique name to identify the Prestige in the wireless LAN. The range of radio frequencies used by IEEE 802. 11b/g wireless devices is called a channel. Select a channel ID that is not already in use by a neighboring device. Click None, Basic(WEP) or Extend(WPA-PSK) from the drop-down list box as the level of wireless security. Choose None to have no wireless LAN security configured. If you do not enable any wireless security on your Prestige, your network is accessible to any wireless networking device that is within range. Choose Basic(WEP) security if you want to configure WEP Encryption parameters. Choose Extend(WPA-PSK) security to configure a Pre-Shared Key. Choose this option only if your wireless clients support WPA-PSK. The third screen varies depending on which security level you select. The wireless stations and Prestige must use the same SSID, channel ID and WPAPSK (if WPA-PSK is enabled), WEP encryption key (if WEP is enabled) for wireless communication. 3. Choose Basic(WEP) security in the previous screen to setup WEP Encryption parameters. 12 P-334WT WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) encrypts data frames before transmitting over the wireless network. The higher the WEP Encryption, the higher the security but the slower the throughput. Use Passphrase to automatically generate a key or manually enter a key in one of the Key 1~ 4 fields. Select 64-bit, 128-bit or 256-bit from the WEP Encryption drop-down list. Select one of the Key radio buttons to use as the WEP key. [. . . ] You have finished configuration of Media Bandwidth Management using the Internet Access Wizard. You may now continue configuring your device. Click any menu link in the navigation panel to access its configuration screen. Click MAINTENANCE to see your system information, statistics, perform firmware and configuration file maintenance. Click LOGOUT to exit the web configurator. [. . . ]