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your carrier.

The default and recommended Operator Settings is

Auto

.

APN / Login /

Password / SIM

PIN

When

Auto

is selected, the information in these fields will be filled automatically.

Select the option

Custom

and you may customize these parameters. The parameters

values are determined by and can be obtained from the ISP.

General Settings

DNS Servers

Each ISP may provide a set of DNS servers for DNS lookups. This setting specifies the

DNS (Domain Name System) Servers to be used when a DNS lookup is routed through

this connection.

Selecting

Obtain DNS server address automatically

results in the DNS Servers

assigned by the PPPoE server to be used for outbound DNS lookups over the WAN

connection.

(The DNS Servers are obtained along with the WAN IP address assigned

from the PPPoE server.)

When

Use the following DNS server address(es)

is selected, you can put custom DNS

server addresses for this WAN connection into the

DNS Server 1 and DNS Server 2

fields.

Standby State

This option allows you to choose whether to remain the connection connected or

disconnected when this WAN connection is no longer in the highest priority and has

entered the standby state. When

Remain connected

is chosen, upon bringing up this

WAN connection to active, it will be immediately available for use.

Idle Disconnect

When Internet traffic is not detected within the user specified timeframe, the modem will

automatically disconnect. Once the traffic is resumed by the LAN host, the connection

will be re-activated,

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Health Check Settings

Heath Check

Method

This setting allows you to specify the health check method for the Cellular connection.

The as available options are

Disabled, Ping, DNS Lookup, HTTP,

and

SmartCheck

The default method is

DNS Lookup

. See Section 12.3 for configuration details.

Timeout

If a health check test cannot be completed within the specified amount of time, the test

will be treated as failed.

Health Check

Interval

This is the time interval between each health check test.

Health Check Retries

This is the number of consecutive check failures before treating a connection as down.

Recovery Retries

This is the number of responses required after a health check failure before treating a

connection as up again.

Dynamic DNS Settings

Dynamic DNS Service

Provider

This setting specifies the dynamic DNS service provider to be used for the WAN based on

supported dynamic DNS service providers:



changeip.com



dyndns.org



no-ip.org



tzo.com



DNS-O-Matic

Select

Disabled

to disable this feature. See Section

12.6

for configuration details.

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Bandwidth Allowance Settings

Bandwidth Allowance

Monitor

This option allows you to enable bandwidth usage monitoring on this WAN connection

for each billing cycle.

When this is not enabled, bandwidth usage of each month is still

being tracked but no action will be taken. See Section 12.4 for configuration details.

MTU

This setting specifies the Maximum Transmission Unit. By default, MTU is set to

Custom 1440

. You may adjust the MTU value by editing the text field. Click

Default

to

restore the default MTU value. Select

Auto

and the appropriate MTU value will be

automatically detected. The auto-detection will run each time when the WAN

connection establishes

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MediaFast Configuration

MediaFast settings can be configured from the

Network

menu.

9.1

Setting Up MediaFast Content Caching

To access MediaFast content caching settings, select

Network>Cache Control

.

Cache Control Settings

Domain

Choose to

Cache on all domains

, or enter domain names and then choose either

Cache

the specified domains only

or

Do not cache the specified domains

.

Content Type

Check these boxes to cache the listed content types or leave boxes unchecked to disable

caching for the listed types.

Cache Lifetime

Settings

Enter a file extension, such as JPG or DOC. Then enter a lifetime in days to specify how

long files with that extension will be cached. Add or delete entries using the controls on the

right.

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9.2

Scheduling Content Prefetching

Content prefetching allows you to download content on a schedule that you define, which can help to

preserve network bandwidth during busy times and keep costs down. To access MediaFast content

prefetching settings, select

Network>Prefetch Schedule

.

Prefetch Schedule Settings

Name

This field displays the name given to the scheduled download.

Status

Check the status of your scheduled download here.

Next Run

Time/Last Run

Time

These fields display the date and time of the next and most recent occurrences of the

scheduled download.

Last Duration

Check this field to ensure that the most recent download took as long as expected to

complete. A value that is too low might indicate an incomplete download or incorrectly

specified download target, while a value that is too long could mean a download with an

incorrectly specified target or stop time.

Result

This field indicates whether downloads are in progress (

) or complete (

).

Last Download

Check this field to ensure that the most recent download file size is within the expected

range. A value that is too low might indicate an incomplete download or incorrectly specified

download target, while a value that is too long could mean a download with an incorrectly

specified target or stop time. This field is also useful for quickly seeing which downloads are

consuming the most storage space.

Actions

To begin a scheduled download immediately, click

To cancel a scheduled download, click

To edit a scheduled download, click

To delete a scheduled download, click

New Schedule

To begin creating a new scheduled download, click this button.

Clear Web Cache

To clear all cached content, click this button. Note that this action cannot be undone.

Clear Statistics

To clear all prefetch and status page statistics, click this button.