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2.2 Procedure for Hardware Installation

2.2.1 Decide where to place your

Broadband Router

You can place your

Broadband Router on a desk or other flat surface, or you can mount

it on a wall. For optimal performance, place your

Broadband Router in the center of your

office (or your home) in a location that is away from any potential source of interference,

such as a metal wall or microwave oven. This location must be close to power and network

connection.

2.2.2 Setup LAN connection

a.

Wired LAN connection: connects

an Ethernet cable from your computer’s Ethernet port

to one of the LAN ports of this product.

b.

LAN connection: locate this product at a proper position to gain the best transmit

performance.

Figure 2-3 Setup of LAN and WAN connections for this product.

2.2.3 Setup WAN connection

Prepare an Ethernet cable for connecting this product to your cable/xDSL modem or

Ethernet backbone. Figure 2-3 illustrates the WAN connection.

2.2.4 Power on

Connecting the power cord to power inlet and turning the power switch on, this product

will automatically enter the self-test phase. When it is in the self-test phase, the indicators

M1 will be lighted ON for about 10 seconds, and then M1 will be flashed 3 times to indicate

that the self-test operation has finished. Finally, the M1 will be continuously flashed once

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per second to indicate that this product is in normal operation.

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Chapter 3

Network Settings and Software

Installation

To use this product correctly, you have to properly configure the network settings of your

computers and install the attached setup program into your MS Windows platform (Windows

95/98/NT/2000).

3.1 Make Correct Network Settings of Your Computer

The default IP address of this product is 192.168.123.254, and the default subnet mask is

255.255.255.0. These addresses can be changed on your need, but the default values are

used in this manual. If the TCP/IP environment of your computer has not yet been configured,

you can refer to

Appendix A

to configure it. For example,

1.

configure IP as 192.168.123.1, subnet mask as 255.255.255.0 and gateway as

192.168.123.254, or more easier,

2.

configure your computers to load TCP/IP setting automatically, that is, via DHCP

server of this product.

After installing the TCP/IP communication protocol, you can use the

ping

command to check

if your computer has successfully connected to this product. The following example shows

the ping procedure for Windows 95 platforms. First, execute the

ping

command

ping 192.168.123.254

If the following messages appear:

Pinging 192.168.123.254 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.123.254: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=64

a communication link between your computer and this product has been successfully

established. Otherwise, if you get the following messages,

Pinging 192.168.123.254 with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.

There must be something wrong in your installation procedure. You have to check the

following items in sequence:

1.

Is the Ethernet cable correctly connected between this product and your computer?

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Tip

: The LAN LED of this product and the link LED of network card on your computer

must be lighted.

2.

Is the TCP/IP environment of your computers properly configured?

Tip

: If the IP address of this product is 192.168.123.254, the IP address of your

computer must be 192.168.123.X and default gateway must be 192.168.123.254.

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Chapter 4

Configuring

Broadband Router

This product provides Web based configuration scheme, that is, configuring by your Web

browser, such as Netscape Communicator or Internet Explorer. This approach can be adopted

in any MS Windows, Macintosh or UNIX based platforms.