JRS Eco JRS Eco 100 User manual

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Manual for low radiation wireless router
with JRS Eco 100 firmware
The wifi password is
the PIN code listed on the label on your router
To allow Apple® and Android® devices to wake up the router
from sleep mode, connect them to hidden network ‘jrs’ -see p 6
This anual explains everything you need to know to setup and control
your router running JRS Eco 100 fir ware.
Download the latest anual fro www.j rseco.co / anua ls.
The version nu ber of this copy is listed below.
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Register and stay informed!
Register your router via www.jrseco.co /register to receive e ail
notifications about i portant updates and to anually download
fir ware updates.
The JRS Eco 100 wireless router: 100% radiation-free in stand-by
An ordinary wifi router broadcasts beacon signals 24 hours a day, 10
ti es a second. This generates a considerable a ount of radiation in the
ho e, clearly easurable.
Wireless on demand The unique JRS Eco 100 fir ware, running on a
fast Asus® router, enables a Full Eco standby ode with 0%
electro agnetic e issions when no wireless devices are connected.
The router switches the wireless signal back on i ediately when you
enable wifi on your device or open the list of available networks. Even
when wireless is active, it has an up to 90% reduced pulse frequency
(see Appendix 1).
The globally unique JRS Eco 100 technology is co patible with all
brands and odels of wireless devices: Android®, Apple®, Windows®
and others. You don’t lose any wifi speed, range or stability. The
JRS Eco 100 also offers a reduced beacon pulsation frequency, just like
the previous generation JRS Eco routers, even during use.
JRS Eco 100 is a special fir ware / operating syste for specific odels
of Asus routers. It is an extension of the original Asus fir ware.
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Table of Contents
1. Is a router running JRS Eco fir ware safe in ter s of exposure to wifi
radiation?..................................................................................................... 4
2. Installing your Eco wireless router...........................................................6
3. Connecting your wireless devices to the router........................................7
3.1. Why the hidden ‘jrs’ network?...............................................................9
4. Dual band................................................................................................ 9
5. I portant: Turning off the built-in wifi of your Internet ode ................10
6. Using the JRS Eco 100 on Asus router..................................................11
6.1. Full Eco ode, Beacon Eco ode and Legacy Eco-wifi ode...........11
6.2. How to connect a new wireless device to the Eco router when it is in
sleep ode................................................................................................ 12
7. Manually turning the wifi signal off and on.............................................12
8. Meaning of the lights on the router........................................................13
9. The JRS Eco 100 settings page.............................................................14
9.1. Detailed JRS Eco 100 settings...........................................................14
9.2. Changing the passwords and wifi network na e................................19
10. Troubleshooting...................................................................................20
10.1. How to reset the router to factory default settings.............................20
10.2. The router does not go into Full Eco standby ode. What can I do? 20
10.3. The router does not wake up fro Full Eco standby ode when I turn
on wifi on y wireless device..................................................................... 21
10.4. I cannot connect to the wireless network..........................................21
10.5. My devices cannot find the Eco wifi network, connection keeps
dropping or is slow..................................................................................... 22
10.6. I can connect to the Eco wifi network but can’t get on the Internet....23
11. Frequently asked questions.................................................................24
App. 1. Eco wireless router reducing electro agnetic e issions, also when
wifi is active............................................................................................... 27
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1 Is a router running JRS Eco firmware safe in terms of exposure
to wifi radiation?
A wifi router e its electro agnetic radiation, which is
shown to be possibly unsafe in nu erous scientific
studies, even if the e issions are below current official
exposure li its. A nu ber of studies are listed on our
website at www.jrseco.co /science. You can reduce your
exposure by li iting the duration of exposure and by increasing the
distance between your body and the antennas. Any wifi device has
antennas, either internal or external.
Although the JRS Eco 100 on Asus router fir ware easurably reduces
router electro agnetic field (EMF) e issions, JRS offers no other than
legally required safety guarantees regarding the electro agnetic radiation
of the router running the JRS Eco fir ware, and use is at your own risk and
responsibility.
Wifi is two-way traffic. Both the router and your wireless devices e it
EMFs. Although the Eco firmware greatly reduces router radiation
during stand-by and partly during operation, it does not reduce
radiation from your wireless devices For each piece of data sent fro
the wifi router, a confir ation is sent back by your device. Wifi radiation
fro devices is very strong and you keep the device very close to your
body. Especially in data-intensive applications such as video, wifi radiation
fro the device is high. Even when the router is off, your wireless device
will still e it wifi radiation as long as its wifi is turned on. Most devices will
inter ittently send out wifi network scans, looking for available wifi
networks.
By using the JRS Eco firmware you agree to be aware of the risks and
that the use of the router and firmware is at your own risk It ay be
possible to reduce the trans it power of your co puter's wifi adapter by
adjusting its settings with the Windows® Device Manager. You can ini ize
your exposure to electro agnetic radiation by working with a wired Internet
connection. A hardwired Internet connection is radiation-free.
The router manual from Asus proposes the use of the AiMesh system
which allows multiple Asus routers to be interconnected wirelessly. This is
not supported by the JRS Eco firmware and will increase wifi radiation,
because all wireless si nals then need to be transmitted multiple times,
hoppin from one mesh node to another.
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2 Installing your Eco wireless router
The figure below shows how to connect the router to your Internet
ode .
1. Connect the included Ethernet cable fro the blue WAN port of the
Eco router to a free LAN port of your Internet ode . Hardwiring a
co puter is optional.
2. Mount the antennas on the Eco router. If a plug adapter was
included in your ship ent, push the power adapter in as far as it
will go. Connect the power adapter to the router and plug the
adapter into a power outlet.
3. Important! If your Internet modem has wifi built in, switch it
off If you don't know how, ask the custo er service of your
provider for help. See Chapter 5 in this anual for ore details.
In almost all cases the router will automatically detect the connection
type, provided you have wired it correctly to your Internet modem/router.
If you are not ettin Internet throu h the Eco router, please inform with
your Internet Service Provider about the required settin s.
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3 Connecting your wireless devices to the router
One thing is different fro ordinary wifi routers. This has to do with the
Eco router's special zero e ission sleep ode.
To guarantee your device can wake up the Eco router from sleep
mode, on modern Android® and Apple® wireless devices, you need
to connect to the hidden network 'jrs' You need to manually set
this up once in your device, then it will remember the credentials
•In the wifi menu, select ‘Add network’, ‘Other network’ or
similar, and then manually enter the SSID / network name ‘jrs’
•Select security WPA2 (personal)
•The wifi password is the PIN code listed on the label on your
router
•In Android, if Advanced options are available, set ‘Hidden
Network’ to Yes
It’s fine to simply connect to the visible wifi network ‘JRSeco100’
Connecting to the hidden network 'jrs' only needs to be done on
devices that you want to be able to wake the router from sleep
mode
The screen shots on the next page show how to connect fro an
Android phone (left) and fro an iPhone (right). To ake this ‘Add
network’ screen appear on an Android phone, you either need to click
on the enu icon and then press “Add network” or you need to click on
the ‘+’-sign at the right top in the list of available wireless networks.
On an iPhone or iPad, you need to click on ‘Other network’ at the
botto of the list of available wifi networks. Enter ‘jrs’ for network na e.
Select WPA2 at ‘security’ and enter the wifi password that you set for the
visible network. Set Hidden network to Yes if this advanced option is
available. For a Macbook, you can google ‘connect hidden ssid ac os’.
There is also a 5 GHz hidden network labeled jrs5.
Fro now on, always connect to this hidden network and 'Forget' the
visible networks on your devices, in case you already entered the wifi
password for those.
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On Windows, connecting to the hidden ‘jrs’ network is only needed
when you have set Windows to use rando hardware addresses. Open
the Settings and then go to Network & Internet. Select Wi-Fi and click
“Manage known networks”. Then click the “+ Add a network” button.
Enter ‘jrs’ for the network na e. Select WPA2 at ‘security’ and enter the
wifi password that you set for the visible network. Check the box that
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says “Connect auto atically”. Also check the box that says “Connect
even if the network is not broadcasting.”
3 1 Why the hidden ‘jrs’ network?
Connecting to the hidden ‘jrs’ network is needed on devices that do so-
called MAC (hardware) address rando ization. It is usually not required
on devices older than about 5 years or on Windows® devices.
If the wifi network doesn't appear in the list of available wifi networks on
your wireless device when the Eco 100 on Asus router is in Full Eco
sleep ode, that is when you need to connect your device to the hidden
'jrs' network.
The hidden network does not add to the e issions, because both
network beacons (visible + hidden) are sent in one single 'pulse'.
4 Dual band
Most odern wifi routers are dual band, eaning they broadcast two wifi
networks: one at 2.4 GHz and the other at 5 GHz. The Eco router also
e its two wifi networks: one called ‘JRSeco100’ and another
‘JRSeco100-5’. The range is best on the 2.4 GHz network because
5 GHz is attenuated ore by walls and ceilings. On the 5 GHz network,
the axi u wifi throughput speed (about 400 Megabits p/s) can be
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achieved. On 2.4 GHz the ax. speed is about 150 Mbps.
If you prefer, switching off 5 GHz will reduce wifi radiation fro the router
even ore. You can do it fro the JRS tab on the Wireless page. First
set the Band selector to 5 GHz, then set Enable Radio to No and click on
Apply at the botto of the page.
The 2.4 GHz needs to re ain turned on in order for the Full Eco
functionality to work properly.
5 GHz does not have anything to do with 5G. These are two different
things that are totally unrelated but often ixed up. 5G is the new (fifth)
generation of networks for obile telephony, which will work at higher
frequencies and will require any ore trans itters.
5 Important: Turning off the built-in wifi of your Internet modem
If your Internet modem has wifi built in, switch it off, to eliminate
unnecessary wifi radiation If you don't know how, ask the
customer service of your provider for help See also below
You need to retain your Internet ode because it provides the
conversion of the Internet signal to ADSL, cable or fiber, the specifics of
which depend on your Internet provider. If your Internet ode has built-
in wifi, this needs to be turned off in order to ini ize wifi radiation and
interference. You don’t need that wifi signal any ore because the wifi
function is taken over by the Eco router.
On so e Internet ode s you can si ply turn off the wifi with a switch
on your ode . Usually the built-in wifi can be turned off in the settings
enu of your Internet ode , which can be reached through a web
browser by typing in the correct address, an IP nu ber. Alternatively you
ay search for a do-it-yourself anual on the Internet by typing the
provider na e and the ake and odel of your Internet ode .
We regularly receive questions on how to do this. Please understand
that we cannot support all the different providers and ode s. This is
outside of our scope of influence. However re e ber that turning off the
built-in wifi is always possible. If you don’t know how, ask your provider’s
custo er service to help you.
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If your Internet provider also operates a public wifi network through its
Internet ode s, please ake sure to also turn this public wifi network
off. In so e cases you need to do this on a separate web page of the
Internet provider with a personal login. You can check if your ode is
not e itting any wifi any ore by holding your s art phone next to it and
scanning for wifi networks. Make sure there is no strong wifi network on
top of the list with the na e of the public network.
6 Using the JRS Eco 100 on Asus router
If you have just installed the Eco 100 on Asus router, its wifi signal will be
active and waiting for the first wireless device to connect.
In order to recognize which devices are yours, the router auto atically
keeps a list of devices that you have previously connected to it: the
registration list. Once you have connected the first wireless device to the
router, this device will be auto atically registered in the list, and the
router will switch into Beacon Eco ode (a.k.a. Learning ode). After
one day it auto atically switches to Full Eco mode, in which the JRS
Eco 100 on Asus router is fully radiation-free in stand-by.
Once the router is in Full Eco mode, it will only wake up in the
following two situations:
1 It receives a connection request from a device with a MAC
(hardware) address that is in the registration list
2 It receives a connection request from a device with any MAC
(hardware) address, for the hidden network named ‘jrs’
Your wireless device will send the above connection requests if
you enable wifi or open the list of available networks Type 2
requests will only be sent by your device if you have manually
entered the credentials for the hidden ‘jrs’ network as explained on
p 6
When no wireless devices are connected to the router, it will turn off the
beacon signal in standby, thereby reducing unnecessary e issions.
6 1 Full Eco mode, Beacon Eco mode and Legacy Eco-wifi mode
In Beacon Eco ode, also called learning ode, the router sends
responses to connection requests fro all devices, whether they are on
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