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Chapter 5: Setting Up and Configuring the Broadband Router
Overview
Broadband Router
• Website Hit Rate. This feature allows you to view the frequency at which each of your network’s users are
viewing their ten most favorite websites. You can also block these sites, if you wish.
• Application Usage. This feature allows you to view which applications, according to user, are taking up the
most bandwidth on your network and block those sites if you wish.
• Performance Optimization. This feature allows you to list the network applications most often used on your
network, according to user, and set the priority at which it is run.
• Block List. This feature allows you to find out which websites or applications are blocked for each of your
users, and unblock them if you wish.
Advanced Setup Tab
• DMZ Host. The DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) Host feature allows one local user to be exposed to the Internet, not
protected by the Router’s firewall, to use a special-purpose service such as Internet gaming or video
conferencing.
• Forwarding. Port forwarding can be used to set up public services on your network. You may use this
function to establish a Web server or FTP server via an IP Gateway.
• UPnP. UPnP forwarding can be used to set up public services on your network.
• DDNS. DDNS (Dynamic DNS) service allows you to assign a fixed domain name to a dynamic Internet IP
address. This allows you to host your own Web, FTP or other type of TCP/IP server in your LAN.
• Advanced Routing. The Router's dynamic routing feature can be used to automatically adjust to physical
changes in the network's layout. The static routing feature allows multiple routers to operate on one network.
• VPN Pass Through. This tab allows you to enable or disable IPSec Pass Through, PPTP Pass Through, and
L2TP Pass Through.
• Remote Management. This allows you to manage the Router through a remote location over the Internet.
• System Management. This screen includes tools to help troubleshoot network problems, reset the Router to
factory default settings, upgrade the Router’s firmware, and store and retrieve configuration files.
Log Tab
• System Log. The System Log displays Syslog, E-mail and Log Settings.
• System Statistics. This tab displays the system statistics.
DDNS: allows the hosting of a website, FTP server,
or e-mail server with a fixed domain name (e.g.,
www.xyz.com) and a dynamic IP address.
DMZ: removes the Router's firewall protection from
one PC, allowing it to be "seen" from the Internet.
domain: a specific name for a
network of computers.
gateway: device that interconnects networks with
different, incompatible communications protocols.
IPSec (Internet Protocol Security): a VPN protocol used
to implement secure exchange of packets at the IP layer.
PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol): a VPN
protocol that allows the Point to Point Protocol (PPP) to
be tunneled through an IP network. This protocol is
also used as a type of broadband connection in Europe.
upgrade: to replace existing software
or firmware with a newer version.