NetComm NTC-40WV User manual

NTC-40W - HSPA+ M2M WiFi Router
NTC-40WV - HSPA+ M2M WiFi Router with Voice
Quick Start Guide

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Quick Start Guide
This guide covers the models NTC-40W and NTC-40WV. This guide will
provide a series of step by step instructions to ensure the conguration of
your Cellular Router goes as smoothly as possible.
Firstly please check that you have received all the items in your package:
No. Description
1 NTC-40W / NTC-40WV HSPA+ Cellular Router
1 Ethernet cable
1 Power Supply Unit
4 Antennas
1 Quick Start Guide
If any of these items are missing, please contact NetComm Technical Support.

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Overview of LEDs
Overview of Indicator Lights
LED Display Description
POWER (red) Solid ON The red Power LED indicates correct power is applied to
the DC power input jack.
Tx Rx (amber) Solid ON The amber LED will light upon data being sent to or
received from the cellular network.
DCD (green) Solid ON The amber Carrier Detect LED illuminates to indicate a
Data connection.
Service Type
(green)
The green LED will illuminate when cellular network coverage is detected.
Solid ON 3G: indicates UMTS/HSPA available coverage
Blinking EDGE: indicates EDGE available coverage
Off 2G: indicates GSM/GPRS available coverage only.
RSSI (green) This green LED indicates the Received Signal Strength. There are three
possible states that the RSSI LED can operate in, based upon signal level.
Solid ON STRONG - Indicates the RSSI level is -86dBm, or greater
Flashing
once per
Second
MEDIUM - Indicates the RSSI level is -101dBm and
–86dBm, (medium)
Off POOR - Indicates the RSSI level is less than
-101dBm (poor)

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Overview of the Cellular Router Interfaces
SIM Card Reader
For insertion and removal
of the SIM card
Mini USB Port
For insertion of the Mini USB cable

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Receive Diversity
Antenna Socket
SMA Female
Ethernet Port
Connect to a terminal using RJ45
cable or a number of terminals
through a hub or network router
Voice (RJ45) Port
Insert one end of the RJ-45 Cable
into the Voice Port and the other
end into a telephone
Only active on the NTC-40WV
2Way Captive Power Terminal Block
Power terminal block and the wide voltage
range of 8-28V DC simplify the installation in
different industrial environments
Main Antenna
Socket
SMA Female

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Overview of Cellular Router Interfaces
Field Description
Main Antenna Socket SMA Female
Receive Diversity Antenna
Socket
SMA Female
Main WiFi Antenna Socket SMA Female
Receive Diversity Antenna
Socket
SMA female
5 Indicator LEDs Indicate visually the activities and connection state for power,
service type, data trafc, data carrier connection and network
signal strength.
2-Way Captive Power Power terminal block and the wide voltage range of 8-28V DC
Terminal Block simplify the installation in different industrial environments
Reset Button Resetting the router to factory default values
Ethernet Port For direct connection to your device or number of devices
through a hub or network router.
Voice (RJ-45) Port To connect a telephone directly to your router
SIM Card Reader For insertion and removal of SIM Card
Conguring your Router
You will need the following hardware components to set up the Cellular
Router:
Power Supply (8-28VDC)
Ethernet cable
Laptop or PC
Active SIM card
The router is primarily managed via web interface.
Before you power up the Cellular Router, please insert an active SIM card.

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Step One: Inserting the SIM card
Press the SIM Eject button to eject SIM card bay. Make sure the SIM card is
inserted correctly by inserting the SIM the gold side facing down on the SIM
card bay and in the direction as shown below:
Insert
SIM card
Press the SIM
Eject button
Step Two: Setting up the Cellular Router
Connect the supplied antennas to the Router by screwing them onto the
antenna connectors.
Connect the power adapter to the mains and plug the output into the power
jack of the router.The green Power LED on the panel should illuminate.

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Step Three: Preparing your computer
Connect one end of the supplied Ethernet cable into a LAN Ethernet port
of your router. Connect the other end of the cable into the LAN port of your
computer.
Congure your PC’s Ethernet interface to be dynamically assigned an IP
address by doing the following:
Conguring your Network Adapter in Windows
Click on Start -> Control Panel -> Network Connections.
Right click on the Local Area Connection icon and select Properties to
open the conguration dialogue box of the Local Area Connection as below:

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Find and click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) from the protocol list box and
then click the Properties button The TCP/IP. Conguration window will pop
up as illustrated below.
Under General tab, select radio button Obtain an IP address automatically
and Obtain DNS server address automatically.
Then press OK button to close TCP/IP conguration window.
Press the Close button to complete the computer preparation for the
Cellular Router.

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Step Four: Accessing your Router’s conguration pages
There are two system management accounts for maintaining the system,
root and admin, and each of which has slightly different levels of
management capabilities.
The root manager account is empowered with full privilege while the admin
manager (administrator) can manage all settings of the Cellular Router
excepts functions like Firmware Upgrade, Device Conguration Backup and
Restore and Reset Cellular Router to factory default.
To login to the Cellular Router in root manager mode, please use the
following login details:
http://192.168.1.1
Username: root
Password: admin
Enter the address below in your web browser and connect. The username
and password are dened below.
Whenever you make changes please refresh your web pages to prevent
errors due to caching of web pages.
http://192.168.1.1
Username: admin
Password: admin

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Follow the steps below to access the Cellular Router’s web browser:
Open your web browser (e.g.Internet Explorer/Firefox/Safari) and
navigate to http://192.168.1.1/
Click Login and type admin in the Username and Password elds.
Then click on Submit.

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Step Five: Unlocking the SIM
If the SIM card is locked you will need to unlock it with a PIN provided with
your SIM card.
You can nd out if the SIM is locked by viewing the SIM Status on the
Home page:
If the SIM Status is SIM Locked as above then click on the Internet Settings
menu and then the Security link on the left.
When you click on the ‘Security’ link you should see the following message:-
Click OK
Next, enter the PIN code and conrm the PIN code. Then click Save.

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Now Click on the link and the Home Status page should look as below with
SIM Status OK:
The SIM is now unlocked and can be used to connect to a 3G service.

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Step Six: Connect to the Cellular Network
This section describes how to set up the Cellular Router to initiate a wireless
WAN connection.
There are 2 different ways to set up a wireless WAN connection via PPP:
Initiating the PPP Connection directly from the Cellular Router acting
as the PPP Client (most common).
Initiating the PPP Connection from a different PPP client (i.e. laptop
or router) with the Router running in transparent PPPoE mode. This
method is not documented in this quick start guide.
Initiating a PPP Connection from the Cellular Router
The status page of Cellular Router Setup will now be displayed as below.
The PPP status on the page should be DISABLED network (as indicated by
the large arrow) as your new device is not yet congured to connect to the
cellular network.
Click the Internet Settings > WWAN (3G) link on top panel of the screen to
open the Connection web page.

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To Connect Using a Connection Prole
The Router proles allow you to congure the settings that the router will use
to connect to a particular network.
By default, the Router is congured to use the AutoCong prole. This prole
should detect the correct APN and connection details in order to connect to
your 3G service.
If it does not, you will need to enter the connection details manually. To do
this, perform the following steps:
In the AutoCong prole, select to disable “Auto Connect” and click
“Save”.
Select one of the other proles and congure it with the details
provided by your 3G service provider.
Select to enable “Auto Connect” for this prole and click “Save”.

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To Conrm a Successful Connection
Now click on the Status link to return to the status page. The WWAN Status
should be UP.
The Local eld shows the current IP address that the network has allocated
for the Router.
Congratulations - your new NetComm NTC-40W /
NTC-40WV Router is now ready to use!
For more detailed information on the conguration and activation of other
features, please visit our website www.netcomm.com.au and download the
user guide.

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Product Warranty
NetComm products have a standard 12 months warranty from date
of purchase.
Technical Support
For rmware updates or if you have any technical difculties with your
product, please refer to the support section of our website.
www.netcomm-commercial.com.au/support
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