Airlink AR686WV2 User Manual - Page 63

Remote Management

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3.8.4 Remote Management Remote Management allows you to access your router via the internet. This is useful to check on your network when away from home or to allow someone else in to help you configure your router. For security reasons, this feature is disabled by default and we do not recommend leaving this feature on unless you have set a new username and password on the router. Even if you have a complex login for the router, we recommend to only turn this feature on when needed. Step 1 Enable the function to begin Remote Management. Step 3 Set a port for the Remote Access. We recommend leaving it to 8080 unless your firewall requires the use of a different port. Step 3 Click Save apply the change. Step 4 Use the Port Number you set in Step 2 at the end of you external IP. For example, if my external IP address is http://65.125.145.301, I will use http://65.125.145.301:8080 to reach the router. 59

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3.8.4 Remote Management
Remote Management allows you to access your router via the internet. This is useful to
check on your network when away from home or to allow someone else in to help you
configure your router. For security reasons, this feature is disabled by default and we do
not recommend leaving this feature on unless you have set a new username and
password on the router. Even if you have a complex login for the router, we recommend
to only turn this feature on when needed.
Step 1
Enable
the function to begin Remote Management.
Step 3
Set a port for the Remote Access. We recommend leaving it to 8080 unless your
firewall requires the use of a different port.
Step 3
Click
Save
apply the change.
Step 4
Use the
Port Number
you set in
Step 2
at the end of you external IP. For
example, if my external IP address is
, I will use
to reach the router.