NetComm NTC-6000 SERIES User manual

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Quick Start Guide
NTC-6000 Series - M2M WiFi Router

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Quick Start Guide
Thank you for choosing an industrial HSPA Cellular Router of
NetComm’s NTC-6000 CallDirect Series.
This guide covers the models NTC-6908, NTC-6909 and NTC-6900
(collectively referred to in this document as the NTC-6000 series). 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
1NTC-6000 Series HSPA Cellular Router
1Crossover Ethernet Cable
1Power Supply Unit
2Antennas
1Quick Start Guide
If any of these items are missing, please contact NetComm
Technical Support.

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NTC-6000 Series - M2M WiFi Router
Overview of LEDs
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 green 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 HIGH - Indicates the RSSI level is -77dBm (high), or greater
Flashing MEDIUM - Indicates the RSSI level is between -91dBm and
-78dBm, (medium)
Off LOW - Indicates the RSSI level is less than -92dBm (low)

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Overview of the Cellular
Router Interfaces
Main Antenna Socket
SMA Female
Serial RS-232 Port
Connecting to a terminal
using a DE-9 cable
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

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NTC-6000 Series - M2M WiFi Router
Ethernet Port
Connect to a terminal using RJ45
cable or a number of terminals
through a hub or network router
Reset
Resetting the router to
factory default values
2Way Captive Power
Terminal Block
Power terminal block and the
wide voltage range of 8-28V DC
simplify the installation in differ-
ent industrial environments
SIM Card Reader
For insertion and removal
of SIM Card

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Overview of Cellular Router Interfaces
Field Description
Main Antenna Socket SMA Female
Receive Diversity
Antenna Socket
SMA Female
Serial RS-232 Port For connecting to a terminal using a DE-9 cable.
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
Terminal Block
Power terminal block and the wide voltage range of 8-28V DC
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.
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 router:
Power Supply (8-28VDC)
Ethernet cable
Laptop or PC
Active SIM card
The router is primarily managed via web interface. It may also be
congured via the units serial (V.24) port using “AT” (V.250) commands,
this method of operation is further detailed in the user guide.
Before you power up the Cellular Router, please insert an active
SIM card.

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NTC-6000 Series - M2M WiFi Router
Step One: Inserting the SIM Card
Press the SIM Eject button to eject the SIM card tray. Place the SIM
card in the tray with the gold side facing up. Insert both into the bay with
the gold side facing down and in the direction as shown below.
Insert
SIM card
Press the SIM
Eject button

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Step Two: Setting up the Cellular Router
Install the supplied antennas to the Cellular 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 red Power
LED on the panel should illuminate.
Polarity for MC100-50802 Terminal Block
+
-

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NTC-6000 Series - M2M WiFi Router
Step Three: Preparing your Computer
Connect one end of the supplied Ethernet cable to the Ethernet port
of your router and connect the other end to the Ethernet port of your
PC. The router is congured using a web browser. In order for your
PC to connect to the router, congure your PC to obtain an IP address
automatically from the router using DHCP. Windows users may use the
following procedure.
Conguring your Network Adapter in Windows
Follow the path Start -> Control Panel -> Network Connections.
Right click Local Area Connection and select Properties to open the
conguration dialogue box of 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 click OK button to close TCP/IP conguration window.
Click the Close button to complete the computer preparation.

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NTC-6000 Series - M2M WiFi Router
Step Four: Accessing your Router’s
Conguration Pages
Below illustrates the steps required to access the conguration pages:
Open your web browser (e.g.Internet Explorer/Firefox/Safari)
and navigate to http://192.168.20.1/
Click Login and enter the username and password, then click
on Submit.
There are two system management accounts for maintaining the
system, root and admin.
Each has slightly different levels of management capabilities.
The admin account allows a lower level of privileges suitable for
managing more common router settings excluding rmware upgrades,
device
conguration backup, restore and reset to factory defaults.
The root manager account has full privileges to change all settings of

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the router.

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NTC-6000 Series - M2M WiFi Router
To login to the Cellular Router in root manager mode, please use the
following login details:
http://192.168.20.1
Username: root
Password: admin
To login to the Cellular Router in admin manager mode, please use the
following login details:
http://192.168.20.1
Username: admin
Password: admin

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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 ENTER PIN or SIM LOCKED as above then do
the following:
Click on the Security link.

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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.
Now Click on the link and the Home Status page should look
as below with SIM Status OK.

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NTC-6000 Series - M2M WiFi Router
Step Six: Connect to the Cellular Network
This section describes how to set up the Cellular Router to initiate a
wireless WAN connection via PPP. There are 2 different ways:
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 Cellular Router running in PPPoE
mode. This method is not documented in this quick start guide.
Initiating a PPP Connection from the Cellular Router
Click the Internet Settings > WWAN (3G) link on top panel of the status
page to open the Connection page.

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To Connect Using a Connection Prole
The WWAN (3G) proles allow you to congure the settings that the
router will use to connect to the cellular network.
Check the list of pre-congured prole names and select the prole with
the APN name that you wish to connect to.
Click Auto Connect Enable.
Click Save.
Auto Connect will have the router connect automatically unless you
come back to this page and disable it.

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Click on the link to return to the status page. To conrm the success
of the connection in the PPP eld, the PPP status should be up and the
current IP address that the network has allocated should appear.
Congratulations - your new NetComm NTC-6000 Series Router is
now ready to use!
For more detailed information on the conguration and activation of
other features, please visit our website www.netcommwireless.com and
click on the download tab to download the user guide.

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Product Warranty
NetComm Wireless 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.
support.netcommwireless.com
NETCOMM WIRELESS LIMITED ABN 85 002 490 486
Head Ofce, 18-20 Orion Road
Lane Cove, Sydney, NSW 2066, Australia
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