TRENDware MIMO Wireless Router : Help / Status

Device Info

All of your Internet and network connection details are displayed on the Device Info page. The firmware version is also displayed here.

Note: Some browsers have limitations that make it impossible to update the WAN status display when the status changes. Some browsers require that you refresh the display to obtain updated status. Some browsers report an error condition when trying to obtain WAN status.

Depending on the type of WAN connection, you can take one of the following sets of actions:

DHCP Connection: Clicking the DHCP Release button unassigns the router's IP address. The router will not respond to IP messages from the WAN side until you click the DHCP Renew button or power-up the router again. Clicking the DHCP Renew button causes the router to request a new IP address from the ISP's server.
PPPoE, PPTP, L2TP Connection: Depending on whether the WAN connection is currently established, you can click either the Connect to attempt to establish the WAN connection or the Disconnect to break the WAN connection.
BigPond Connection: Depending on whether you are currently logged in to BigPond, you can click either the BigPond Login to attempt to establish the WAN connection or the BigPond Logout to break the WAN connection.

Wireless

The wireless section allows you to view the wireless clients that are connected to your wireless router.

MAC Address: The Ethernet ID (MAC address) of the wireless client.
IP Address: The LAN-side IP address of the client.
Mode: The transmission standard being used by the client. Values are 11a, 11b, or 11g for 802.11a, 802.11b, or 802.11g respectively.
Rate: The actual transmission rate of the client in megabits per second.
Signal: This is a relative measure of signal quality. The value is expressed as a percentage of theoretical best quality. Signal quality can be reduced by distance, by interference from other radio-frequency sources (such as cordless telephones or neighboring wireless networks), and by obstacles between the router and the wireless device.

Routing

The routing section displays all of the routing details configured for your router.

A value of 0.0.0.0 for gateway means there is no next hop, and the IP address is directly connected to the router on the interface specified: LAN or WAN. A value of 0.0.0.0 in both the destination IP and netmask means that this is the default route.

Logs

The router automatically logs (records) events of possible interest in its internal memory. If there is not enough internal memory for all events, logs of older events are deleted, but logs of the latest events are retained. The Logs option allows you to view the router logs. You can define what types of events you want to view and the level of events to view. This router also has external Syslog Server support so you can send the log files to a computer on your network that is running a Syslog utility.

What to View

Select the kinds of events that you want to view.

Firewall and Security
System
Router Status

View Levels

Select the level of events that you want to view.

Critical
Warning
Informational

Apply Log Settings Now

Click this button after changing Log Options to make them effective and permanent.

Refresh

Clicking this button refreshes the display of log entries. There may be new events since the last time you accessed the log.

Clear

Clicking this button erases all log entries.

Email Now

If you provided email information with the Tools -> Email screen, clicking the Email Now button sends the router log to the configured email address.

Save Log

Select this option to save the router log to a file on you computer.

Statistics

The Statistics page displays all of the LAN, WAN, and Wireless packet transmit and receive statistics.

Sent: The number of packets sent from the router.
Received: The number of packets received by the router.
TX Packets Dropped: The number of packets that were dropped while being sent, due to errors, collisions, or router resource limitations.
RX Packets Dropped: The number of packets that were dropped while being received, due to errors, collisions, or router resource limitations.
Collisions: The number of packets that were dropped due to Ethernet collisions (two or more devices attempting to use an Ethernet circuit at the same time).
Errors: The number of transmission failures that cause loss of a packet. A noisy radio-frequency environment can cause a high error rate on the wireless LAN.

Active Sessions

The Active Sessions page displays full details of active sessions through your router. A session is a conversation between a progam or application on a LAN-side computer and a program or application on a WAN-side computer.

Internal

The IP address and port number of the LAN-side application.

Protocol

The communications protocol used for the conversation.

External

The IP address and port number of the WAN-side application.

NAT

The port number of the LAN-side application as viewed by the WAN-side application.

Priority

The preference given to outbound packets of this conversation by the Traffic Shaping logic. Smaller numbers represent higher priority.

State

When SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection) is enabled, this is the state for sessions that use the TCP protocol.

Dir

The direction of initiation of the conversation:

Egress: Initiated from LAN to WAN.
Ingress: Initiated from WAN to LAN.

Time Out

The number of seconds of idle time until the router considers the session terminated.