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1 Using ‘Dynamic IP’ as broadband connection type

If your Internet service provider will assign IP address to you automatically by ’DHCP’

(Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol), you need to select this connection type.

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 Using ‘Static IP’ as broadband connection type

If your ISP requires you to set a fixed IP address to establish connection, you can use this

connection type to input the IP address information assigned by your ISP. Generally you’ll

get a letter from your ISP, which indicates an IP address, subnet mask, gateway address,

and DNS address.

Here are descriptions of every setup item:

Item Name

Description

Fixed IP Address

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.

Default Gateway

Please input the IP address of default gateway

provided by your service provider.

Note: Some ISP may call this as ‘Default

route’

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

wrong setting value will cause connection problem.

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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3 Using ‘PPPoE’ as broadband connection type

If your ISP requires you to establish Internet connection by PPPoE (Point

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over Ethernet), you can use this connection type to establish Internet connection.

Here are descriptions of every setup item:

Item Name

Description

User Name

Please input user name assigned by your

Internet service provider here.

Password

Please input the password assigned by your

Internet service provider here.

Service Name

Please give a name to this Internet service, this

is optional.

MTU

Please input the MTU value of your network

connection here. If you don’t know, you can

use default value.

Connection Type

Please select the connection type of Internet

connection you wish to use. There are 3

options: