ASUS WL330GE Wireless pocket access point
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Customer Review: Portable router, access point, repeater, gateway, and USB powered!
Summary: 4 Stars
I LOVE IT! It's about the size of a deck of cards. It can be powered via a USB connection. The device and the USB connector don't get hot to the touch. It doesn't hog my CPU when it's connected. My only complains are that the instructions are too simple and in its gateway/hotspot configuration it wouldn't show me the hotspot's capture portal (the login screen you see in hotel and cafe hotspots), so I couldn't authenticate my connection. That's why I give it 4 stars.
To make you give it 5 stars, I include supplemental instructions. Below, is what I did to set it up and to make surfing more secure. Don't be scared by the length of the instructions because every router requires similar number of steps.
OPEN THE CONFIGURATION SCREEN
* Connect the USB connector and the ethernet cable to your laptop
* Open a browser (eg IE, Safari, Firefox) and enter the device's IP address in the browser's address bar and press enter. The device's IP and MAC address are on a sticker in the device.
* A popup window will ask for the username and password. Enter the word admin in both text fields.
SWITCH FROM CHINESE TO ENGLISH
* The default language for this device is Mandarin (Chinese). Select the first item in the top right dropdown for English.
SAVE YOUR CONFIGURATION
* Click on Advanced Settings and then on System Setup and then Setting Management.
KEEP READING IF YOU WANT TO SURF SECURELY USING THE ASUS WL330GE
CHANGE THE DEVICE'S PASSWORD
* Click on Advanced Setting then Click on System Setup
* Enter a new password (make it a long phrase and remember it). The next time it asks you for a username and password enter admin in the top text field and your new password in the bottom text field. This will secure your device from someone else looking at your other passwords and changing your settings.
SET THE DEVICE FOR A SECURE WIRELESS GATEWAY HOTSPOT
* Click on Advanced Settings. The click on Wireless and lastly click on Advanced. Scroll to the part that says Hotsopt(sic). Click YES to Enable Individual Wireless Settings. Enter an SSID so you can recognize it later. Use the most secure authentication method you can. I selected WPA-Auto Personal (WPA2-Personal is more secure, but my laptop wireless device doesn't support it). Then I selected AES in the WPA Encryption dropdown because its much safer than TKIP.
* Set the Network Key Rotation interval to something less than 5 minutes to make it even harder to crack (in case you are using WPA). I set it to 60 (once a minute).
** HINT ** If you are not going to share the network, select WPA2 and use the ethernet connection in your laptop to connect to the Asus and turn off your laptop's wireless. This makes it practically impossible for others to steal your wireless connection even if your laptop doesn't support WPA2 it doesn't matter because you are connecting to it with the ethernet cable and not wirelessly.
* Click Apply and then click Finish to Save & Restart
* When it comes back to the main page (Gateway tab), select Enable for the Hotspot Mode. It will now display the SSID you chose and say Security Level WPA Personal. If you selected WPA2 it will say Extra. If you wanted WPA2 and it doesn't say Extra there's no way to set WPA2 from this screen, you have to go through Advanced settings as explained above.
EXTRA SECURITY MEASURES
* Click on Advanced Settings and then on Internet Firewall. "Enable Firewall" should be set to Yes and Enable Web Access from WAN" should be set to No. This prevents others from accessing your router without physically having it plugged into their computeres. Then click Apply, Finish, and Save.
* Click on Advanced settings, then on Wireless, then on Access Control and enter you laptop's MAC address. You MAC address can be spoofed, but it doesn't hurt to keep less sophisticated hackers at bay. Then Apply, Finish, and Save.
* Click on Advanced settings, then IP COnfig, then Miscellaneous and set "UPnP" to No. This disables universal plug and play, which will make your device more secure to UPnP vulnerabilities. Then click Finish, and Save&Restart.
MORE TECHNICAL. TO CHANGE THE IP OF THE ASUS WL330GE
* This can be more complicated, so you can skip this is everything is connecting OK already. Otherwise, try this to change the Asus' IP to make it work in a network that currently is using the same three numbers of the Asus IP (192.168.1)
* Click on Advanced Setting (lower left), then click on IP Config and then click on WAN & LAN and scroll to the bottom and change the LAN IP from 192.168.1.220 to 192.168.8.220. It will it should automatically update the DHCP. Click OK or Yes to let it update it automatically. Then Click Apply and then click Finish. This will allow it to connect to neworks that are not setup as 192.168.97.220 (most networks are setup as 192.168.1.X or 192.168.2.X).
* Click on Finish, Save&Reset and wait until it's 100% done. It may not show the Asus Quick Setup page. If that happens your LAN probably still has the wrong IP subnet, so you need to renew your LAN's IP address. This is what you do in Windows XP:
-- Open a command prompt (Click Start, then select Run, then type cmd and click OK)
-- then type ipconfig/renew
-- if you type ipconfig/all you can see that your LAN's IP address now starts with 192.168.8 (same three numbers you set for your Asus LAN IP)
** IMPORTANT ** After it resets, its default is no longer the original IP address, so next time you need to enter setup you open your browser and enter its new IP address.
That's all I have for you. Enjoy using it and don't be afraid of these instructions!
Description of ASUS WL330GE Wireless pocket access point
ASUS WL-330gE Wireless Access Point combines 4 wireless functions: Access Point, Ethernet Adapter, Gateway and Universal Repeater, into 1 - providing you with connectivity wherever you are.Digital Cameras & Photo Categories
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