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You can also visit your cable ISP’s website and follow the onscreen instructions to set up

your Internet service.

Note:

The contact information listed might change. You can also find the

contact number in your monthly Internet service billing statement.

2.

When asked, provide the modem router’s serial number and MAC address located on the

product label on the modem router.

For more information, see

Label

on page

10.

3.

Wait for your cable ISP to confirm that your modem router is active.

4.

If you do not have an Internet connection with the modem router, ask your cable ISP to look

for your modem router online, and do one of the following depending on what your cable ISP

tells you about your modem router:

•

If the modem routeris not visible, your cable ISP can give you instructions to verify

why the modem routerdoes not connect with your high-speed Internet service.

•

If your cable Internet service provider can confirm that the modem router is visible,

reboot the computer that is connected to the modem router. Try checking your online

status again.

Cable ISP

Contact Information

Cablevision

www.cablevision.com

www.optimum.com/contactus.jsp

Charter

1-888-438-2427

Comcast

1-800-COMCAST (1-800-266-2278)

Cox

1-877-891-2899

ww2.cox.com

Optimum

Time Warner Cable

1-800-892-2253

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2.

Configuring Your Wireless

Network

This chapter covers the following sections:

•

Set Up Your Wireless Network

•

Set Up Wi-Fi Multimedia

•

Change the Password

Note:

Before changing wireless settings, connect the modem router and set

up its Internet connection as described in the

N450 WiFi Cable

Modem Router N450/CG3000Dv2 Installation Guide

.

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Set Up Your Wireless Network

To set up the wireless network, you can enter the wireless settings manually, or you can use

Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS). To wirelessly connect to the modem router, a computer or

wireless device must be configured with the same wireless settings as the modem router.

Configure Wireless Settings Manually

You can manually configure the wireless settings and security in the Wireless Settings

screen.



To view or configure the wireless settings:

1.

Use an Ethernet cable to connect your computer to a LAN port on the modem router.

Note:

If you connect wirelessly to the modem router and then change its

wireless network name (SSID) or wireless security, you are

disconnected after you click the

Apply

button on the Wireless Settings

screen.

2.

Type

in the address field of your web browser.

A login screen displays.

3.

Enter the modem router user name and password.

The default user name is

admin

. The default password is

password

. The user name and

password are case-sensitive.

The modem router main menu displays.

4.

In the main menu, under Setup, select

Wireless Settings

.

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The following screen displays:

5.

Specify the Wireless Network settings for your network:

•

Name (SSID)

. The name of the wireless network.

The default wireless network name (SSID) for the modem router appears on the label

of the modem router. You can enter a different name here for better wireless security

and to make it easier to recognize your network when you want to connect to it

wirelessly.

•

Region

. The location where the modem router operates.

•

Channel

. The available channels depend on the region. Some countries have laws

specifying which channels should be used. To reduce interference when using more

than one access point, NETGEAR recommends using five-channel spacing between

adjacent access points (for example, use Channels 1 and 6, or 6 and 11).

•

802.11 Mode

. This value is set to

Up to 217 Mbps

by default. You can specify the

mode to support faster equipment or legacy equipment.

6.

Specify the security options:

By default the modem router works with WPA and WPA 2 wireless security. You can

specify the network key, which works like a password to access the wireless network.

a.

Set up WPA or WPA2 wireless security. Select one of the following radio buttons:

•

WPA-PSK

. This setting provides the TKIP encryption type and a pre-shared key.

•

WPA2-PSK

. This setting provides the AES encryption type and a pre-shared key.

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Note:

Configure your wireless computers with the same WPA2 or WPA

settings as your modem router so that you can connect.

b.

Depending on the WPA setting that you select, enter the required information.

For WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK, enter the pre-shared key, which is a password between

8

and 63 characters. The default WPA password appears on the label of your modem

router.

Note:

By default, the modem router is set up to work with WPA and WPA2

wireless security, both of which are newer than WEP. Typically, the

only reason you might need to set up WEP would be to allow access

to older wireless computers or devices that cannot support WPA.

7.

Click the

Apply

button.

Note:

If you plan to use WPS, and you want to keep your wireless settings

the same, go to the Advance Wireless Settings screen and make sure

that the

Keep Existing Settings

check box is selected. See

Advanced

Wireless Settings

on page

52.

Use WPS Wireless Setup

Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) can be a quick way to automatically set up your modem

router’s wireless network and set up your wireless computer to connect to it at the same time.

WPS is relatively new technology, so before you decide to use it, check to make sure that

your wireless computers and devices support WPS. NETGEAR calls WPS Push 'N' Connect.

Look for the WPS symbol

on all the computers that connect wirelessly to the modem

router. If you do not see the WPS symbol

on all the computers that connect to the

wireless network, then you should manually set up your network first (see

Configure Wireless

Settings Manually

on page

18). After that, you can still use WPS to set up the wireless

connection for the computers that support WPS.

Note:

All WPS-capable products should be compatible with the modem

router. For more information about the WPS standard, visit

).

Two Push 'N' Connect methods are available, WPS button and PIN (personal identification

number).