6. Menu Options

Once the basic configuration is done, other menu choices listed in the left frame of the Web configuration window become accessible (see any of the previous figures for a list of options in the left hand column). Here, we enumerate those entries and describe each one briefly.

Quick Start Wizard

This is the first option we chose. It’s a six-screen sequence that covers basic router settings so that you can establish a working configuration (we showed half of these in the preceding section).

Online Status

This page provides simple at-a-glance status messages including LAN status with primary and secondary DNS addresses and the numbers of transmitted and received packets. Both WAN interfaces include a readout that indicates whether the interface is enabled, and lists connection type, an optional display name, operational mode (ours is DHCP), running uptime, ISP-designated IP address, relevant upstream gateway address, numbers of packets transmitted and received and so on.

System Status provides device details, plus LAN, WAN and Wireless LAN information.

WAN

This top-level menu choice provides three sub-choice entries: General Setup, Internet Access and Load-Balance Policy. General Setup choices include interface enabling/disabling, optional display name field, physical mode, physical type, load-balance mode, line speeds (uplink and downlink), active mode settings and active-on-demand settings (i.e., WAN2 fail, WAN2 upload/download speed exceed values).

The General Setup page controls both WAN interfaces on the 2930n. Internet Access gives brief descriptive information about the connection index, display name, physical mode and selectable access mode for each WAN interface. It also includes a button to a details page, which exposes other WAN interface settings. The Load-Balance Policy sub-heading gives you definable lists for protocols and WAN interfaces.

WAN1 Internet Access details include DHCP settings, connection detect, IP settings and more.