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Reference Manual for the Broadband Voice Adapter TA612V
3-8
Connecting the Router to the Internet
202-10037-01, March 2005
•
Does Your Internet Connection Require A Login?
Select this option based on the type of account you have with your ISP. If you need to enter
login information every time you connect to the Internet or you have a PPPoE account with
your ISP, select Yes. Otherwise, select No.
Note
: If you have installed PPP software such as WinPoET (from Earthlink) or Enternet (from
PacBell), then you have PPPoE. Select Yes. After selecting Yes and configuring your router,
you will not need to run the PPP software on your PC to connect to the Internet.
•
Account Name (also known as Host Name or System Name): For most users, type your
account name or user name in this box. For example, if your main mail account is
[email protected], then put JerAB in this box. If your ISP has given you a specific Host name,
then type it (for example, CCA7324-A).
•
Domain Name: For most users, you may leave this box blank, unless required by your ISP.
You may type the domain name of your ISP. For example, if your ISP's mail server is
mail.xxx.yyy.zzz, you would type xxx.yyy.zzz as the Domain Name.
If you have a Domain name given to you by your ISP, type it in this box. (For example,
Earthlink Cable may require a Host name of 'home' and Comcast sometimes supplies a
Domain name.)
If you have a cable modem, this is usually the Workgroup name.
•
Internet IP Address: If you log in to your service or your ISP did not provide you with a fixed
IP address, the router will find an IP address for you automatically when you connect. Select
Get Dynamically From ISP.
If you have a fixed (or static IP) address, your ISP will have provided you with the required
information. Select Use Static IP Address and type the IP Address, Subnet Mask and Gateway
IP Address into the correct boxes.
For example:
–
IP Address: 24.218.156.183
–
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
–
Gateway IP Address: 24.218.156.1
•
DNS Address: The DNS server is used to look up site addresses based on their names.
If your ISP gave you one or two DNS addresses, select Use These DNS Servers and type the
primary and secondary addresses.
Otherwise, select Get Automatically From ISP.
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Note
: If you get 'Address not found' errors when you go to a Web site, it is likely that your
DNS servers aren't set up properly. You should contact your ISP to get DNS server addresses.
•
Router MAC Address: Your computer's local address is its unique address on your network.
This is also referred to as the computer's MAC (Media Access Control) address.
Usually, select Use Default MAC Address.
If your ISP requires MAC authentication, then select either Use Computer MAC address to
disguise the Router's MAC address with the Computer's own MAC address or Use This MAC
Address to manually type the MAC address for a different computer. The format for the MAC
address is XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX. This value may be changed if the Use Computer MAC
Address is selected once a value has already been set in the Use This MAC Address selection.
•
Click Test to connect to the NETGEAR Web site. If you connect successfully, your settings
work and you may click Logout to exit these pages and... enjoy surfing the 'net!
•
If you don't connect successfully:
a.
Go through the settings and make sure you've selected the correct options and typed
everything correctly.
b.
Contact your ISP to verify the configuration information.
c.
Read the Troubleshooting section in the Router Installation Guide.
d.
On the Resource CD, read the Troubleshooting Guide or the Troubleshooting section in
the Reference Manual.
e.
Contact NETGEAR Technical Support.
Setting up Your Voice Account
Refer to the Quick Installation Guide (QIG) provided by your Voice Service Provider.
Technical Support for Your Voice Account
For technical support contact your Voice Service Provider.
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Troubleshooting Tips
Here are some tips for correcting simple problems you may have.
Be sure to restart your network in this sequence:
1.
Turn off
and
unplug the modem, turn off the broadband voice adapter, and turn off the
computer.
2.
Turn on the modem, wait two minutes.
3.
Turn on the broadband voice adapter and wait 1 minute.
4.
Turn on the computer.
Make sure the Ethernet cables are securely plugged in.
•
The Internet status light on the broadband voice adapter will be lit if the Ethernet cable to the
broadband voice adapter from the modem is plugged in securely and the modem and
broadband voice adapter are turned on.
•
For each powered on computer connected to the broadband voice adapter with a securely
plugged in Ethernet cable, the corresponding broadband voice adapter LAN port status light
will be lit. The label on the bottom of the broadband voice adapter identifies the number of
each LAN port.
Make sure the network settings of the computer are correct.
•
LAN connected computers
must
be configured to obtain an IP address automatically via
DHCP. Please see
Appendix C, “Preparing Your Network
or the animated tutorials on the CD
for help with this
.
•
Some cable modem ISPs require you to use the MAC address of the computer registered on
the account. If so, in the Router MAC Address section of the Basic Settings menu, select “Use
this Computer’s MAC Address.” The router will then capture and use the MAC address of the
computer that you are now using. You must be using the computer that is registered with the
ISP. Click
Apply
to save your settings. Restart the network in the correct sequence.
Check the router status lights to verify correct router operation.
•
If the Power light does not turn solid green within 2 minutes after turning the router on, reset
the router according to the instructions in
“Restoring the Default Configuration and Password”
on page 7-7
.
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How to Manually Configure Your Internet Connection
You can manually configure your router using the menu below, or you can allow the Setup Wizard
to determine your configuration as described in the previous section.
Figure 3-9:
Browser-based configuration Basic Settings menus
You can manually configure the router using the Basic Settings menu shown in
Figure 3-9
using
these steps:
1.
Connect to the broadband voice adapter by typing
in the address field of
your browser, then click
Enter
.
2.
For security reasons, the broadband voice adapter has its own user name and password. When
prompted, enter
admin
for the router user name and
password
for the router password, both
in lower case letters.
3.
Click
Basic Settings
on the Setup menu.
4.
If your Internet connection does not require a login, click No at the top of the Basic Settings
menu and fill in the settings according to the instructions below. If your Internet connection
does require a login, click Yes, and skip to step 5.
a.
Enter your Account Name (may also be called Host Name) and Domain Name.
These parameters may be necessary to access your ISP’s services such as mail or news
servers.
b.
Internet IP Address:
If your ISP has assigned you a permanent, fixed (static) IP address for your computer,
select “Use static IP address”. Enter the IP address that your ISP assigned. Also enter the
netmask and the Gateway IP address. The Gateway is the ISP’s router to which your router
will connect.
ISP
Does
Not
Require Login
ISP
Does
Require Login
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c.
Domain Name Server (DNS) Address:
If you know that your ISP does not automatically transmit DNS addresses to the router
during login, select “Use these DNS servers” and enter the IP address of your ISP’s
Primary DNS Server. If a Secondary DNS Server address is available, enter it also.
Note:
If you enter an address here, restart the computers on your network so that these
settings take effect.
d.
Router’s MAC Address:
This section determines the Ethernet MAC address that will be used by the router on the
Internet port. Some ISPs will register the Ethernet MAC address of the network interface
card in your computer when your account is first opened. They will then only accept
traffic from the MAC address of that computer. This feature allows your router to
masquerade as that computer by “cloning” its MAC address.
To change the MAC address, select “
Use this Computer’s MAC address
.” The router
will then capture and use the MAC address of the computer that you are now using. You
must be using the one computer that is allowed by the ISP. Or, select “Use this MAC
address” and type it in here.
e.
Click
Apply
to save your settings.
5.
If your Internet connection does require a login, fill in the settings according to the instructions
below. Select Yes if you normally must launch a login program such as Enternet or WinPOET
in order to access the Internet.
Note:
After you finish setting up your router, you will no longer need to launch the ISP’s login
program on your computer in order to access the Internet. When you start an Internet
application, your router will automatically log you in. Click
Apply
to save your settings. Click
the Test button to verify you have Internet access.

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