Siemens Gigaset 108 User manual

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Safety precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Your contribution to the environment (ECO) . . . . . 6
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Possible uses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
First Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Operating displays and connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Back panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Setting up the Gigaset WLAN Repeater 108 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Connecting the Gigaset WLAN Repeater 108 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
To a wired network (LAN), a PC, a games console or a modem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Wirelessly to a PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
To the mains power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
The user interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Launching the user interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
The start screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Selecting a language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Elements on the user interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Basic Setup Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Regional Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Operating Mode selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Basic settings for the Repeater and
Access point Operating Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Settings for the wireless network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Local network settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Basic settings in Ethernet adapter Operating Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Local network settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Security Setup Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Changing the system password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
SSID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Setting data encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
WPA2/WPA with pre-shared key (PSK) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
WEP encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

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Access control within the wireless network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Saving settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Configuring the Advanced Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Operating Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Local Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Repeater/Access Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Ethernet adapter Operating Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Wireless Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Setting wireless security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
WPA2-PSK and WPA2-PSK / WPA-PSK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
WEP encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Permitted clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Repeater function (WDS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Regional Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Internet Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
System Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Saving and restoring a configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Saving configuration data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Restoring the back-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Resetting to the factory settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Reboot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
Updating firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
System Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Status information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76
Local Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Wireless Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80
Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Settings for wireless connection for games consoles
and set-top boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Integration in the network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Windows 98 SE/ME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Assigning IP addresses automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Windows 98 SE/ME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

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Assigning static IP addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Private IP addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Windows 98 SE/ME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Restarting the network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Updating IP addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Trouble shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Approval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Service (Customer Care) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Guarantee Certificate United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Guarantee Certificate Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Tillverkarens garanti Sverige . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Takuuehdot Suomi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Tillverkarens garanti Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Garanti Norge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Producentens Garanti Danmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

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Safety precautions
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Safety precautions
uOnly use the mains adapter (5V DC 1A) that is supplied with the Gigaset WLAN
Repeater 108. Comply with the connection values and ratings when connecting the
device to the mains power supply.
uProtect the device from damp.
uNever open the device. For reasons of electrical safety it may only be opened by
authorised service technicians.
uThe device may affect medical equipment. Take account of the technical conditions
in the relevant environment.
Your contribution to the environment (ECO)
We at Gigaset Communications GmbH make our products as environmen-
tally compatible as possible. Our goal is a sustainable process that makes it
easier for us to comply with the strict stipulations of the ISO standard 14001
for international environmental management.
Further advantages for the ecology
uThanks to a switched-mode power supply, all our routers and repeaters use up to
60% less power and so offer higher energy efficiency.
uYou can reduce the WLAN's transmitting power for all routers and repeaters and
some WLAN clients – depending on the device in question and your PC's operating
system.
uYou can turn off the WLAN completely.
Trademarks
Gigaset Communications GmbH is a trademark licensee of Siemens AG.
Microsoft, Windows 98 SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Internet
Explorer are registered trademarks of the Microsoft Corporation.
Mozilla Firefox is a registered trademark of the Mozilla Organisation.
Super G is a registered trademark of Atheros Communications, Inc.

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The Gigaset WLAN Repeater 108 offers various possibilities for use in wired and wireless
networks. It enables very simple wireless integration of remote PCs into a network. You
can also provide wireless access to a wired network.
Possible uses
You can use your Gigaset WLAN Repeater 108 in various functions in your network. The
device provides three operating modes that you can choose to suit your requirements.
Use as Repeater
The Gigaset WLAN Repeater 108 can be used to increase the coverage of your wireless
network. Set it up within the range of your network. The Gigaset WLAN Repeater 108
will now transmit data traffic into its own wireless area. This allows you to set up
wireless networks that cover a much larger area than would be possible with just
one wireless router (e.g. Gigaset SE551 WLAN dsl/cable).
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In this case you need to operate your Gigaset WLAN Repeater 108 in Repeater
Operating Mode.
PCs that you wish to connect to a wireless local network via a Gigaset WLAN Repeater
108 must have a wireless network adapter, such as a Gigaset USB Adapter 108.
Use as access point in conjunction with a Router
The Gigaset WLAN Repeater 108 permits wireless connection of PCs to a wired local
network. For example, the Gigaset WLAN Repeater 108 can be connected via an
Ethernet cable to an Ethernet router, thus providing further PCs with wireless access to
this network. It is also possible to connect the Gigaset WLAN Repeater 108 away from
(e.g. on the first floor) the Ethernet router (which is in the cellar for example) using
cable.
In this case you need to operate your Gigaset WLAN Repeater 108 in Access point
Operating Mode.
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Use as wireless network adapter
The Gigaset WLAN Repeater 108 can be connected directly to the Ethernet port of a PC
or other device (e.g. a games console, set-top box). It then functions as a wireless
network adapter, but uses the device's wired Ethernet port. You do not need to install
any additional driver software on the device. This ensures that access to the wireless
network is independent of the operating system.
When you set up a connection from a computer or other device to an access point using
the Gigaset WLAN Repeater 108, you operate the Gigaset WLAN Repeater 108 in
Ethernet adapter Operating Mode.
If you want to set up a wireless connection between two PCs or other devices using
the Gigaset WLAN Repeater 108, you have to use one Gigaset WLAN Repeater 108 in
Access point Operating Mode, and all others in Ethernet adapter Operating Mode.
An example of this configuration, a wireless connection between two games consoles,
can be found on page 82.
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Use for accessing the Internet with a PC
The Gigaset WLAN Repeater 108 permits wireless Internet access for a PC. Here it is
operated in Access point Operating Mode, connected directly to a DSL or cable modem.
However, simultaneous Internet access for several PCs is not possible. This requires a
wireless router (e.g. a Gigaset SE551WLAN dsl/cable).
To access the Internet, a DSL or cable modem is required. You also need an Internet
Service Provider for Internet access. The Internet access is configured using the software
from your Internet Service Provider. The Gigaset WLAN Repeater 108 does not require
any further configuration.
Security functions
You can use various encryption methods and authentication methods (WEP, WPA/WPA2-
PSK,WPA/WPA2, MAC access control) to prevent unauthorised access to your wireless
LAN or make data illegible to unauthorised parties. The security settings available to you
depend on the Operating Mode you select and the components used in your local
network.
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