Wireless Router

WL-700gE

Quick Start Guide

(For 802.11g and 802.11b wireless network)

ASUS Wireless Router

Contents

1 Introduction.....1

1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 System requirement.... 1 Package content.... 1 Rear panel.... 1 Front panel.... 2 Installing ASUS utility for WL-700gE... 3 Setting up the wireless router using EZSetup... 3 Connecting WL-700gE from a wirless client... 6 USB auto copy function.... 7 Wireless data sharing.... 7 Using Download Master.... 9 Sharing your photos on your Website... 11 Setting up the Message Board.... 13 Setting up DDNS..... 15

2 Software features....3

2.10 Setting up shared printer.... 18
3 Troubleshooting....Appendix....20
4.1 4.2 User notes..... 20 ASUS warranty policy.... 21

About this guide

This quick start guide contains the information you need for installing and conguring the wireless router.
How this guide is organized Chapter 1: Product introduction
This chapter describes the features of WL-700gE Wireless Router

Chapter 2: Software

This chapter tells how to setup the basic functions and features of WL-700gE.
Chapter 3: Troubleshooting
This chapter provides solutions to possible problems you may encounter during setting up and using WL-700gE.
Conventions in this guide
To make sure that you perform certain tasks properly, take note of the following symbols used throughout this manual. Warning: Information to prevent injury to yourself when trying to complete a task. Caution: Information to prevent damage to the components when trying to complete a task. Note: Tips and additional information to help you complete a task.
Where to nd more information
Refer to the following sources for additional information and for product and software updates.

1. ASUS website

The ASUS website provides updated information on ASUS hardware and software products. Refer to the ASUS contact information.
2. Optional documentation
Your product package may include optional documentation, such as warranty yers, that may have been added by your dealer. These documents are not part of the standard package.

Introduction

System requirement
To use the WL-700gE Wireless Router, you must have: An ADSL or Cable modem and an account for these service; A computer with an Ethernet adapter pre-installed for connecting the local area network (LAN); A wireless client with a pre-installed 802.11b/g wireless adapter, such as PDA or notebook computer; Your computer and the wireless client must have installed TCP/IP protocol component and a Web browser.

Package content

Check your wireless router package for the following items: WL-700gE Wireless Router x 1 White antenna (2dbi) x 1 Power cable x 1 RJ-45 Ethernet cable (straight-through) x 1 Support CD (with full version user manual) x 1 Router stand x 1 Quick start guide x 1

Rear panel

Cover lock

AC IN USB 2.0

Antenna

LAN 1-4

EZSetup
Push the RESET button for 10 seconds to restore the factory default.
This button is for using EZSetup setting wizard. ASUS Wireless Router 1

Front panel

READY IDE

WAN AIR

USB 2.0

PWR COPY

PWR (Hard disk power indicator/ power switch)
OFF Hard disk unmounted or no power ON Hard disk mounted *Push this button and wair for 10 seconds to shut down the hard disk. This button is for copying the data in your USB storage to the hard disk of WL-700gE.

COPY READY

OFF ON Flashing slowly Flashing quickly OFF ON Flashing No power The system is powered on and in ready state USB storage inserted to the USB2.0 port Copying data from USB storage No power An Ethernet device is connected to the port Transmitting data via wired LAN No power Wireless LAN ready Transmitting data via wireless LAN No power Connected to ADSL or Cable modem Communicating with WAN

LAN (Local Area Network) 1-4

AIR (Wireless LAN)

OFF ON Flashing OFF ON Flashing

WAN (Wide Area Network)

USB2.0
For connecting USB storage, such as USB hard disk and USB ash.

Software features

Installing ASUS utility for WL-700gE
2. Insert the support CD into the optical drive of your computer to run the utility installation program. Select your language and click Install ASUS Wireless Router Utilities to install. Follow the instructions to complete the utility installation.
1. Connect your WL-700gE wireless router to your ADSL or Cable modem. Refer to the illustration below to wire your network devices.

ADSL Modem

WL-700gE Wireless Router
Setting up the wireless router using EZSetup
2. Launch the EZSetup utility by clicking Start -> ASUS Utility -> WL-700gE Wireless Router -> EZSetup Wizard.
Before start, prepare an Ethernet and wireless enabled computer with ASUS utility pre-installed.
1. Press the EZSetup button on the rear panel of the wireless router until the READY LED indicator is ashing.

EZSETUP

If you use wireless connection for EZSetup and nd the connection is not stable, use wired connetion instead EZSetup.
3. Click the EZSetup button in the utility to search for WL-700gE Wireless Router. This action takes several seconds.
4. A window prompts out asking for the encryption mode you want to use. If you want to use WPA, select Yes; to use WEP, select No.
5. If it is the rst time you set up the wireless router, the screen below appears. You can manually setup the SSID and network key for the wireless router or accept the automatically generated values. Click Next to continue.
If you have congured the wireless router before, the screen below appears. You can choose to modify the SSID and network key or preserve the previous settings. Click Next to continue.
6. To connect your Internet Service Provider (ISP), select Cong ISP settings. Click Next to set up ISP information.
7. Select the connection type of your ISP service and click Next to ll in the ISP information.
According to the requirements of ISPs, you may need to input information such as IP address, username, and password. Refer to your ISP for detailed setup information.
8. This page is for setting up network mass storage. Specify a drive letter for the hard disk in WL-700gE and check Create shortcut on desktop, then click Next.
9. Wait for several seconds to complete the setup, and you can see the screen below. Click Print/Save wireless LAN settings for future reference. Click Finish to quit EZSetup.
Save and print network information is highly recommended for future wireless connection setup. When conguration is complete, a 700gE share folder icon appears on desktop.

Connecting WL-700gE from a wirless client
You can connect to WL-700gE from a wireless-enabled computer. Make sure the wireless card driver is correctly installed and the card functions normally.
1. Click Control panel -> Network connection, right-click the wireless icon -> Property -> Wireless Network tab. Select WL-700gE and click Connect button. 2. If you have setup WEP encryption for your wireless router, you need to ll the WEP keys into the Network Key eld for connecting the router. Click OK to continue.
3. For authentication setup, select Authentication tab. If you have a RADIUS server in your network for authentication, check Enable IEEE80.211X authentication to this network.

USB auto copy function

Follow the steps below to copy les from your USB storage to the hard disk in WL-700gE. The les are saved under the USBCopy directory.
1. Plug the USB storage to the USB2.0 port of WL-700gE.
2. Wait for several seconds until the READY LED indicator ashes slowly. Press the COPY button on the front panel and the LED ashes quickly. This means WL-700gE is copying data from your USB storage. When the LED stops ashing and stays ON, it means data duplication is complete.

Wireless data sharing

This sections describes how to share the les in WL-700gE hard disk to your LAN users.
1. Connect a computer to WL-700gE and open the Web browser. Input 192.168.1.1 (the default IP address of WL-700gE) in the address box and press Enter. 2. Login to the WL-700gE Web conguration interface. Login Name: admin; Password: admin (default). 3. Click Conguration to enter Web conguration page.
Step 4 and 5 are for rst conguration. Skip step 4 and 5 if you have congured the wireless router via EZSetup.
4. Click Advance Setting and select Basic. If you want to disable encryption, set Wireless Mode to Auto and WEP Encryption to None. Click Apply and skip to step 6. If you want to enable encryption, go to step 5.
5. To enable encryption protection, set Authentication method to WEP 64-bits, WEP 128-bits, or WPA. For WEP encryption, you need to input four WEP keys (10 hexadecimal digits for WEP-64bits; 26 digits for WEP-128bits). You can also let the system generate the WEP keys by inputting a Passphrase. Take down all keys and passphrase in your note.

6. Double-click the 700gE share folder short cut on your desktop to access WL-700gE share space. Copy the les you want to share into the share folder.
How to download the shared documents
1. Connect your computer to WL-700gE, open My Network place and click view workgroup computers (make sure WL-700gE and your computer are within the same workgroup, the default workgroup of WL-700gE is WORKGROUP).
The default workgroup setting of WL-700gE is Workgroup. If your computer and WL-700gE are not within the same workgroup, you cannot nd WL-700gE from your computer. Set WL-700gE within your workgroup by modifying the workgroup settings in Share Management -> Windows Setup page.
2. Double-click the WL700gE icon to enter the share folder. The les you copied from the USB storage are saved in USBCopy directory and are listed by time/date.

Using Download Master

You can use Download Master function in ASUS Utility to organize HTTP, FTP, and BT download tasks.
1. Open Download Master from Start -> All Programs -> ASUS Utility -> WL-700gE Wireless Router -> Download Master. Click File -> Connect to associate with WL-700gE.
2. HTTP download (1) Right-click the download link on the Web page and select Download using ASUS Download.
HTTP download (2) Right click the download link on the Web page and select Properties. Copy the download Address (URL).
If you select Download using ASUS Download, you can see the download task is added to the Transfer list. The blue bars indicate the progress of download tasks.
If you copy the download address, click Assign button in the utility. Paste the address into Getting File From box, select HTTP from Option, and click Download button to start.
3. FTP download Click Transfer button of the Download Master and select FTP in the Options eld. Input the FTP site address, Port number, User Name, Password. Click Download to start.
4. BT download Save the BT seed on your computer. Click Transfer button of the Download Master and select BT in the Options eld. Click Browse to locate the seed le and click Download to start.
5. Click Folder button to view the download file. Open the Complete folder to view or copy the nished les to your local hard disk. The incomplete tasks are kept in InComplete folder.
Sharing your photos on your Website
You can upload your photos to WL-700gE to share them with your friends.

1. Click Start -> All Programs -> ASUS Utility -> WL-700gE Wireless Router -> Photo Album Exporter to open the photo upload utility. 2. Name your new album and add descriptions to the album. Click Next to continue. 3. Click Add to add photos from your local hard drive.
4. Locate the photos you want to upload and browse them in the preview window. Select the photos you want to upload and click Add.
5. The photos you have selected appear in the lower window, click the arrows to adjust the sequence of the photos. Click OK to continue.
6. Click Description to add description for individual photos. Click Next to continue.
7. The utility starts to upload the photos, this action takes several seconds.
8. Login your Web configuration interface. Login Name: admin; Password: admin (default).
9. Click Personal Webpage.
10. You can see the album is already added to you personal website. To view the photos, click the album.
11. Your friends can view these photos and leave comments to them.
Setting up the Message Board
2. Login Name: admin; Password: admin. Click Login to enter the webisite home page again.
You can create your own Blog site by setting up the Message Board to share you stories to your friend.
1. Click Login at the lower left corner.
3. Click the Message Board tab and click New topic.
4. Input the subject for discussion and click Add.
5. When nished, click Add Message to enter the subject and leave a message.
6. Input your information to the elds and write your message in the Message box. Click Submit to send out the message.
7. Your message board is ready.

Setting up DDNS

For static IP users who need to make a host or server available to Internet users, they need to have a static IP address and register a domain name for easy memory. However, dynamic IP user cannot map their address to DNS server because their IP addresses keep changing. To solve this problem, WL-700gE provides Dynamic DNS (DDNS) function. DDNS enables dynamic IP users to map the domain name to dynamic IP address by a registered account. To realize this function, you must rst register at DDNS service provider, such as DynDNS.org.
1. Enter the Web conguration page of WL-700gE and click Advanced Settings at the upper right corner. Then click IP Conig -> Miscellaneous in the left side menu. Select Yes radio button to enable DDNS client and select a DDNS server. 2. If you do not have a DDNS account, you can apply for a free trial account at DynDNS.org. Click Free Trial to open the registration page of DynDNS.org. Due to website update, the registration steps and screens here below may be different from the actual website. 3. After you click Free Trail, you are directed to registration page of DynDNS. Check the two checkboxes as shown in the picture below. 4. Scroll down and enter the Username you want to use for your account, such as account. Enter your E-mail address to receive the conrmation letter from DynDNS. Enter the Password for your account. Then press Create Account button.

5. After pressing Create Account you can see a message telling you that a conrmation letter has been sent to your e-mail address. Open your mail box to check the mail.
6. Check your mail box for the conrmation letter, open the mail and click the link to re-enter the DynDNS registration page and activate your account.

7. Click Login.

8. Input username and password to login.
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. Your hostname is successfully created.
14. Return to WL-700gE DDNS conguration page. Enable DDNS Client, set Server to WWW.DYNDNS.ORG and input your user name, password and host name to the elds. Click Apply to activate the settings.
15. To test whether DDNS functions or not, ping the domain name to see whether your host is accessible. Click Start -> Run. -> type cmd, and enter the command line interface.
16. Type ping account.dyndns.org and press Enter. If you get reply from a certain IP address, it means your host is accessible from Internet.
Setting up shared printer
You can connect a USB printer to the USB2.0 port on WL-700gE Wireless Router and share the printer within your network. Follow the steps below to setup your shared printer on your.
1. Connect a USB printer to the USB2.0 port of WL-700gE. Make sure the printer is powered ON. 2. Enter the Web conguration page of WL-700gE. Click Applications -> Printer. You can see your printer is recognized by WL-700gE. 3. Open a Web browser window and type //192.168.1.1 then press Enter. You can see the printer icon. Double click the printer icon.
4. A warning window prompts out. Click OK to continue.
5. Select the printer driver from the vendor-model list and click Next to install. If your printer is not in the list, click Have Disk to locate the driver.
6. The printer is ready for share.

Troubleshooting

2. Make sure the ASUS Wireless Router Utility is correctly installed.
1. Power ON the WL-700gE Wireless Router and make sure the LED indicators light up normally.
3. Ping WL-700gE at your computer. Click Start on the desktop and select Run., type cmd and press OK. Then type ping 192.168.1.1 and press Enter. If ping times out, it means the router could not been reached by your computer. You need to reset the the router if you do not remember the IP
4. Press the RESET button on the rear panel for more than 5 seconds.

5. Check whether you can access the Web conguration page of WL-700gE and set up features via Web interface.
6. Check whether you can congure the wireless router and access Internet via wireless.

Appendix

User notes
No part of this manual, including the products and software described in it, may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form or by any means, except documentation kept by the purchaser for backup purposes, without the express written permission of ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. (ASUS). ASUS PROVIDES THIS MANUAL AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL ASUS, ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES OR AGENTS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF BUSINESS, LOSS OF USE OR DATA, INTERRUPTION OF BUSINESS AND THE LIKE), EVEN IF ASUS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES ARISING FROM ANY DEFECT OR ERROR IN THIS MANUAL OR PRODUCT. Product warranty or service will not be extended if: (1) the product is repaired, modied or altered, unless such repair, modication of alteration is authorized in writing by ASUS; or (2) the serial number of the product is defaced or missing. Products and corporate names appearing in this manual may or may not be registered trademarks or copyrights of their respective companies, and are used only for identication or explanation and to the owners benet, without intent to infringe. SPECIFICATIONS AND INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS MANUAL ARE FURNISHED FOR INFORMATIONAL USE ONLY, AND ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE, AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY ASUS. ASUS ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR ANY ERRORS OR INACCURACIES THAT MAY APPEAR IN THIS MANUAL, INCLUDING THE PRODUCTS AND SOFTWARE DESCRIBED IN IT. Copyright 2006 ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. All Rights Reserved.
Note: Product warranty or service will not be extended if the serial number is defaced or missing.
Product name: Manual version: Publication date:
ASUS WL-700gE Wireless Router QE2393 / V1.0 February 2006

ASUS warranty policy

Thank you for purchasing ASUS wireless product. This apparatus is tested and approved by ASUS and enjoy two years warranty subject to use within the warranty scope. Warranty scope
ASUS provides two years limited warranty subject to correct use and maintenance. ASUS can charge fee for repairation or maintenance if damage is caused by: 1). Force majeure; 2). Abnormal voltage; 3). Disassembling, modifying by non-ASUS approved agent or personnel; 4). Using non-ASUS manufactured accessories; 5). Installing pirated software; 6). Computer virus; 7). Drop, smash; 8). Product serial number label removed, defaced, forged or changed.

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Asus WL-700gE (WL-700GE)

WL-700gE

Price details:

Price excl. VAT: 201.67 Eco fees: 0.00 VAT 21 %: 42.35
PDF generated on: 6 June, 2011

Product details:

Product code: WL-700GE EAN: 4719543723012 Manufacturer: Asus

244.02

* VAT included BroadRange Technology Triples Signal Coverage Range - USB 2.0: Connect external hard drive for more storage capacity. - RAID mirroring function for data backup. - Built-in power adaptor maintains environment cleanness and saves space. - Efficient heat dissipation via special airflow design. - Vertical placement saves precious desk space. Built-in 250GB Hard Drive - No need to install hard drive yourself. - Large digital content files can be easily stored and shared.
Product is discontinued. You can not order it anymore.
Internet-based platform for sharing large files with colleagues, friends and clients at remote locations. - DDNS support + Web Browser Sharing. - DHCP Server + Samba Server/Local Disk. Plug 'n Share USB Storage & Mirroring Backup - Easily share external storage capacity. - Flexible capacity expansion. - Automatically backup digital file to the external USB hard drive. Main specifications:

Data transmission

Data transfer rate (max): 54 Mbit/s 2.4 - 2.5 GHz OFDM, CCK, DQPSK, DBPSK 13 R-SMA DSSS Fast Ethernet 10Base-T, 100Base-TX 1x 10/100 WAN4x 10/100 LAN3x USB 2.0 64/128-bit WEP, TKIP, AES, WPA, WPA-PSK MAC, 802.1x Y

Wireless LAN features

Frequency band: Modulation: Channels quantity: Antenna connector type:

Networking

Spread spectrum method: Networking features:

Connectivity

Cabling technology: I/O ports:

Security

Security algorithms supported: Authentication method: MAC address filtering:

Security features:

NAT & SPI Firewall Y 241 x 161 x 45 mm 1400 g ETS, CE, FCC P.15 IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.3u, IEEE 802.3 100-240V; 50/60Hz 18-19 dBm 250 GB IDE

Management features

Web-based management:

Weight & dimensions

Dimensions W x D x H: Weight:

Certificates

Certification: Compliance industry standards:

Energy management

Power requirements: Output power:

Storage media

Hard disk drive capacity: Hard disk drive type:
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