Linksys Router Basic Setup
This tutorial will show you how to setup Linksys Router in order to configure and share Internet access for host located on your home/office network. You will learn how to setup Internet connection through PPPoEthernet, and the DHCP service in order to assign IP address dynamically to your network computers.
This article is designed for CCNA students, network engineers, and anyone looking to do basic Linksys router setup. It falls under the CCNA syllabus’s objective “Explain and select the appropriate administrative tasks required for a WLAN”.
The following steps describe how to configure Internet connection:
Step 1: Open your favorite web browser application, and enter the IP address 192.168.1.1 in the address field. Then press Enter.
Step 2: In the authentication dialog box, enter the administrator’s username and password. The default values are admin/admin for the username/password. However, on some Linksys router platforms, the default value for the username is the blank and for the password is admin.
Step 3: In the Encapsulation field, select the protocol used to establish Internet connection.
Step 4: Select the Multiplexing type. In most cases, this parameter is set automatically.
Step 5: Select the QoS type. Like the Multiplexing field, this parameter is set automatically based on the encapsulation type.
Step 6: Configure the VPI/VCI parameters. To do this, you can either let the Linksys router detects their values automatically, or you can set them manually yourself using the values supplied by your ISP (Internet service Provider).
Step 7: Select the DSL Modulation type. Your ISP supplies this information.
Step 8: In the username/password text boxes, enter your Internet account credentials (username and password).
Step 9: At this step of the configuration process, you have to choose one from these two options:
- Connect on Demand: Selecting this option instructs the router to establish Internet Connection whenever a user on your home network tries to access the Internet. Additionally, you have to configure the Max Idle Time (amount of time the router will wait before disconnecting from the Internet if no user requests Internet within that period. The default value is 5 minutes).
- Keep Alive: Select this option if you want your Internet connection is up all the time. The router will check its connectivity to the Internet every Redial Period interval time. The default Redial Period is 30. If your Internet connection is down for whatsoever reason, the router will reestablish it automatically.
Step 10: this is optional, but some ISPs still require the configuration of the hostname, domain name, and MTU parameters. So, enter your hostname and domain name in the Hostname and Domain Name fields respectively. In addition, select auto in the MTU drop-down list in order to detect the MTU size automatically. Otherwise, you can enter this value manually after you select manual instead of auto in the MTU drop-down list.
Configuring the DHCP function is an easy task. Just follow these steps:
Step 1: Open your favorite web browser application, and enter the IP address 192.168.1.1 in the address field. Then press Enter.
Step 2: In the authentication dialog box, enter the administrator’s username and password. The default values are admin/admin for the username/password. However, on some Linksys router platforms, the default value for the username is the blank and for the password is admin.
Step 3: Scroll down to the network Setup section, and select the enable option if the DHCP function is already disabled.
Step 4: Enter the starting IP address. It is assigned to the first computer requesting an IP address.
Step 5: In the Maximum Number of DHCP users, enter the number of IP addresses that the router is allowed to assign. In most cases, this is the number of your network computers.
Step 6: Enter the client lease time. This is the amount of time a network computer can keep using the IP Address offered by the router. For example, if this value is 6 hours, then the actual computer’s IP address is valid for 6 hours. After 6 hours, the computer’s IP address is renewed and the Linksys router assigns a new IP address to it. The default value of the Client Lease Time parameter is zero, which means one day.
Step 7: Enter the IP address(es) of the DNS server(s) that a network computer will use to translate Domain Names into IP addresses. For example, when you type http://www.ciscoccnabootcamp.com in the web browser, it try to find the IP address associated with the domain name www.ciscoccnabootcamp.com by contact the DNS server(s) configured on your operating system, and then open the web page http://www.ciscoccnabootcamp.com.
Step 8: Enter your WINS server’ IP address in the WINS Server field.
Step 9: Click Save Settings.
The following video will show the exact steps to setup Internet connection through PPPoEthernet, and the DHCP service in order to assign IP address dynamically to your network computers.
This video is based on the Linksys Router WAG200 and the following specifications:
Internet Connection:
- Encapsulation: PPPoE 2516 RFC
- Multiplexing type: LLC
- QoS Type: UBR
- VPI: 8
- VCI: 35
- Modulation DSL: GDMT
- MTU Size: 1492
- PPPoE Settings: Connect on Demand
- Hostname: rtr
- Domain Name: ciscoccnabootcamp.com
DHCP Service:
- Starting IP address:
- Maximum Number of DHCP users:
- Client Lease Time: 1 day
- DNS server: 4.2.2.1
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