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Links Bar

The Links Bar is the frame at the left-hand side of the page con-

taining the major navigation links. These links are available

from almost every page, allowing you to move freely about the

site. The headings in the following table are hyperlinks. You can

click on any heading to read about that feature.

“Home” on page 37

“Wireless” on page 39

“Gaming” on page 58

“Advanced Setup” on page 65

“Status” on page 66

“Diagnostics” on page 71

“Help” on page 72

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Home

Home

Home Page Information

The Home page displays information about the following categories:

•

Connection Information

•

Router Information

•

Local Network

Click the

Help

link in the left-hand column of links to display a page of explanatory infor-

mation. Help is available for every page in the Web interface.

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Home Page Links

The links in the left-hand column of the Home page access a series of pages to allow you

to monitor, diagnose, and update your router. The following sections give descriptions of

these pages.

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Home

Wireless

(supported models only)

When you click

Wireless

, the 3-D Reach

Wireless

configuration page appears.

Enable Wireless

The wireless function is not automatically enabled by default. If you check the

Enable

Wireless

checkbox, the Wireless Options are enabled, and the Gateway will provide or

broadcast its wireless LAN services.

Wireless ID (SSID)

The Wireless ID is preset to a number unique to your unit. You can either leave it as is, or

change it by entering a freeform name of up to 32 characters, for example “Hercule’s Wire-

less LAN”. On client PCs’ software, this might also be called the

Network Name

. The Wire-

less ID is used to identify this particular wireless LAN. Depending on their operating

system or client wireless card, users must either:

•

select from a list of available wireless LANs that appear in a scanned list on their client

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•

or enter this name on their clients in order to join this wireless LAN.

Privacy

The pull-down menu for enabling

Privacy

offers four settings:

WPA-802.1x, WPA-PSK

,

WEP-Manual

, and

Off - No Privacy.

IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT YOU ENABLE SOME FORM OF PRIVACY

FOR THE SECURITY OF YOUR WIRELESS NETWORK.

See

“

Privacy

” on page

44

for more information.