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WL-520GU/GC
Broad Range Wireless Family Router
User Manual
E3188 First Edition March 2007
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Manufacturer Contact Information ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. (Asia-Pacific) Company address: 15 Li-Te Road, Beitou, Taipei 11259 General (tel): +886-2-2894-3447 Web site address: www.asus.com.tw General (fax): +886-2-2894-7798 General email: info@asus.com.tw ASUS COMPUTER INTERNATIONAL (America) Company address: 44370 Nobel Drive, Fremont, CA 94538, USA General (fax): +1-510-608-4555 Web site address: usa.asus.com Technical support General support: +1-502-995-0883 Support (fax): +1-502-933-8713 Online
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R WL-520GU/GC Broad Range Wireless Family Router User Manual Table of Contents Specification Summary ................................................................................2 1. Package Contents ................................................................................3 2. Connecting ADSL Modem and Wireless Router ................................3 1) Cable Connection ..............................................................................3 2) Status Indicators ...............
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R WL-520GU/GC Broad Range Wireless Family Router User Manual Specification Summary Network Standard IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.3, IEEE802.3x, IEEE 802.3u, IEEE 802.1x, IEEE 802.11i, IPv4, IPv6, CSMA/CA, CSMA/CD, ICMP Operating 2.4G ~ 2.5GHz Frequency Date Rate 802.11g: 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54Mbps 802.11b: 1, 2, 5.5, 11Mbps Operational 11 for N. America, 14 Japan, 13 Europe (ETSI) Channel Port WAN x 1, LAN x 4 RJ45 for 10/100 BaseT, 1 x USB2.0 for Printer Sharing(W
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R WL-520GU/GC Broad Range Wireless Family Router User Manual 1. Package Contents • WL-520GU/GC Wireless Router x 1 • Power Adapter x 1 • Utility CD x 1 • RJ45 Cable x 1 • External Antenna x 1 • Quick Start Guide x 1 2. Connecting ADSL Modem and Wireless Router 1) Cable connection Antenna Wall Power Outlet USB 1 EZ Setup Modem LAN Reset Power WAN Power Phone Rear Panel Wall Telephone Outlet 2 Wall Power Outlet ASUS Wireless Router LAN Power 3 Wall Power Outlet Modem ASUS Wireless Router LAN Powe
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R WL-520GU/GC Broad Range Wireless Family Router User Manual 2) Status Indicators LAN PWR AIR WAN R AIR WAN LAN1 LAN2 LAN3 LAN4 WL-520GU 125M High Speed PWR (Power) Off No power On System ready Flashing-slow Firmware upgrade failed/Rescure Mode Flashing-quick EZsetup processing/Rescure Mode AIR (Wireless Network) Off No power On Wireless system ready/Radio-off Flashing Transmitting or receiving data (Through Wireless) WAN (Wide Area Network) Off No power or no physical connec
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R WL-520GU/GC Broad Range Wireless Family Router User Manual 3. Getting Started The ASUS WL-520GU/GC Wireless Router can meet various working scenarios with proper configuration. The default settings of the wireless router may need change so as to meet your individual needs. Therefore, before using the ASUS Wireless Router, check the basic settings to make sure they all work in your environment. ASUS provides a utility named EZSetup for fast wireless configuration. If you would like to use
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R WL-520GU/GC Broad Range Wireless Family Router User Manual To set up the connection with a manually assigned IP address, the address of your PC and the wireless router must be within the same subnet: • IP address: 192.168.1.xxx (xxx can be any number between 2 and 254. Make sure the IP address is not used by other device) • Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 (same as WL- 520GU/GC) • Gateway: 192.168.1.1(IP address of WL-520GU/ GC) • DNS: 192.168.1.1 (WL-520GU/GC), or assign a known DNS server in
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R WL-520GU/GC Broad Range Wireless Family Router User Manual 5) Quick Setup To start quick setup, click Next to enter the “Quick Setup” page. Follow the instructions to setup the ASUS Wireless Router. 1. Select your time zone and click Next. 2. ASUS Wireless Router supports five types of ISP services: cable, PPPoE, PPTP, static WAN IP, and Telstra BigPond (only WL-520GU supports this function). Select your connection type and click Next to continue. Cable or dynamic IP user If you ar
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R WL-520GU/GC Broad Range Wireless Family Router User Manual PPTP user If you are using PPTP services, select ADSL herk036@adsl-comfort connection that requires username, password and IP address. Fill in the username, password and IP address provided by your ISP into the fields. Click Next to continue. Static IP user If you are using ADSL or other connection type that uses static IP address, select ADSL or other connection type that uses static IP address. Input the IP address, subnet m
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R WL-520GU/GC Broad Range Wireless Family Router User Manual 4. Input four sets of WEP keys in the WEP Key fields (10 hexadecimal digits for WEP 64bits, 26 hexadecimal digits for WEP 128bits). You can also let the system generate the keys by inputting a Passphrase. Record the Passphrase and the WEP keys in your notebook, then click Finish. For example, if we select WEP 64bits encryption mode and input 11111 as the Passphrase, the WEP Keys are generated automatically. 5. Click Save&Re
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R WL-520GU/GC Broad Range Wireless Family Router User Manual 1) Select Connect to an existing wireless 2) One Touch Wizard searches and displays LAN (Station) radio button and click the available APs in the Available Next to continue. Networks list. Select WL-520GU/GC and press Next to continue. 3) Set the authentication and encryption of 4) It takes several seconds for the wireless your WLAN card the same with those at card to associate with WL-520GU/GC. WL-520GU/GC. In the previous ste
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R WL-520GU/GC Broad Range Wireless Family Router User Manual ® Configuring WLAN card with Windows WZC service ® If you use non-ASUS wireless card, you can set up the wireless connection with Windows Wireless Zero Configuration (WZC) service. 1) Double-click the wireless network icon on 2) Input the 10-digit keys you have set on the task bar to view available networks. the wireless router and click Connect. Select your wireless router and click The connection is complete within Connect. s
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R WL-520GU/GC Broad Range Wireless Family Router User Manual 4. Wireless Router Features This chapter provides setup examples of some frequentlly used router features. You can setup these features via your Web browser. 1) Choosing an Appropriate Operation Mode 1) Setting up Wireless Encryption WL-520GU/GC provides a set of encryption and authentication methods to meet the different demands of home, SOHO, and enterprise users. Before setting up encryption and authentication for WL-520GU/GC,
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R WL-520GU/GC Broad Range Wireless Family Router User Manual Encryption The encrytion modes supported by WL-520GU/GC are: WEP-64bits, WEP-128bits, WPA-Personal, WPA2-Personal, WPA-Auto-Personal(TKIP. AES. TKIP+AES), WPA-enterprise, WPA2-enterprise, WPA-Auto-Enterprise (TKIP. AES. TKIP+AES), Radius with 802.1x WEP stands for Wired Equivalent Privacy, it uses 64bits or 128bits static keys to encrypt the data for wireless transmission. To setup WEP keys, set WEP Encryption to WEP-64bits or WEP
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R WL-520GU/GC Broad Range Wireless Family Router User Manual Authentication The authentication methods supported by WL-520GU/GC include: Open, Shared key, WPA-Personal, WPA2-Personal, WPA-Auto-Personal (TKIP. AES. TKIP+AES), WPA-Enterprise, WPA2-Enterprise, WPA-Auto-Enterprise (TKIP. AES. TKIP+AES), and Radius with 802.1x. This option disables authentication protection for wireless network. Open: Shared Key: This mode uses the WEP keys currently in use for authentication. WPA-Enterprise, W
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R WL-520GU/GC Broad Range Wireless Family Router User Manual 4) Setting up Virtual DMZ in Your LAN To expose an internal host to Internet and make all services provided by this host available to outside users, enable Vitural DMZ function to open all ports of the host. This function is useful when the host plays multiple roles such as HTTP server and FTP server. However, in doing this, your network becomes less secure. Note: When the virtual DMA is enabled, the wireless/wired clients of the W
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R WL-520GU/GC Broad Range Wireless Family Router User Manual 3. After clicking Free Trial, you are directed to the homepage of www.DynDNS. org, where you can register and apply for DDNS service. Read the policy and select "I have read...". 4. Enter your user name, e-mail address, password, then click Create Account. 5. A m e s s a g e p r o m p t s out informing that your account has been created. An E-mail is sent to your mailbox. Open your mailbox and read the mail. 6. You can find
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R WL-520GU/GC Broad Range Wireless Family Router User Manual 9. After logging in, you can see this welcome message. 10. Select Services tab. 11. Click Add Dynamic DNS Host . 12. Enter the host name then click Add Host. 13. You can see this message when your hostname is successfully created. 17
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R WL-520GU/GC Broad Range Wireless Family Router User Manual 14. Fill the account information into the DDNS setting fields of your wireless router. 15. Click Finish. 16. Click Save & Restart to restart the wireless router and activate the settings. 17. Verify whether DDNS is working. Click Start menu and select Run....Type cmd and click OK to open the CLI console. 18. T y p e p i n g a c c o u n t . dyndns.org (your DDNS domain name). If you can see the reply like what is shown in th
