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2 WAN

You can setup WAN (Wide Area Network, i.e. Internet) connections of this broadband

router in ‘WAN’ menu:

Please select the WAN connection type you wish to use to setup Internet connection, and

click ‘Apply’ to save changes you made.

If you’re not sure which connection type you should use, please contact your ISP’s service

hotline and ask for help. You’ll not be able to connect to Internet with wrong connection

type.

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1 Dynamic IP

Dynamic IP means your ISP will assign an IP address to you automatically by ‘DHCP’

(Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol). Dynamic IP is often used by cable modem Internet

connection.

Here are descriptions of every setup item:

Item Name

Description

Host Name

Please input the host name of your computer,

this is optional, and only required if your

service provider asks you to do so.

MAC address

Please input MAC address of your computer

here, if your service provider only permits

computer with certain MAC address to access

internet. If you’re using the computer which

used to connect to Internet via cable modem,

you can simply press ‘Clone Mac address’

button to fill the MAC address field with the

MAC address of your computer.

If you wish to select another connection type as broadband connection type, click ‘Back’; or

you can click ‘OK’ to finish with quick setup. You’ll see the following message:

Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes you made and restart the broadband router, this

requires about 30 seconds and the broadband router will stop responding (this is normal

and is not malfunction). You can reconnect to this broadband router and continue on other

settings later.

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2 Static IP

Some ISP will give you a fixed IP address, and ask you to use this IP address to establish

Internet connection. In this case, you have to select this connection type to establish

connection with your ISP.

Please note that if your ISP is assigning a fixed IP address to you by DHCP or PPPoE, do not

select this connection type. Please contact your ISP’s service hotline to make sure you really

need to use static IP as connection type.

Here are descriptions of every setup item:

Item Name

Description

IP address assigned by

your by your service

provider

Please input IP address assigned by your

service provider.

Subnet Mask

Please input subnet mask assigned by your

service provider.

DNS address

Please input the IP address of DNS server

provided by your service provider.

Service Provider

Gateway Address

Please input the IP address of DNS server

provided by your service provider.

You must use the addresses provided by your Internet service provider,

wrong setting value will cause connection problem.