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Chapter 5
Gateway Configuration Options
This chapter explains when and how to use the Gateway’s modem options.
Overview
Many advanced features, status, and diagnostic screens and are provided for your convenience. This
chapter contains details of the configuration and use of each of these features. This chapter is organized
into three parts corresponding to the buttons in the toolbar:
Users
Devices
Gateway
Note
:
Some of the features described below require at least a mid-level understanding of networking
principles. These features are provided to allow configuration flexibility for advanced users.
Users
To use user profiling, simply click
Users
in the toolbar.
The system responds with the “User Profiles”
window. The “User Profiles” window provides details about all active user profiles. Select the “Enable
User Profiling” checkbox option to activate user profiles. You must enable User Profiling to utilize the
content filtering feature described in the next section. You must also be logged in as the administrator to
see all user profiles and to add a user.
From this window, you can add, view, and delete user profiles. Please see the next section in this
document titled Adding a User.
Figure 28: User Profile Window
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Adding a User
You may add different users to the gateway to restrict their access to both gateway functions and to the
Internet.
You
MUST
be logged in as the administrator to add a user.
To add a user:
1.
Click
Add New User
in the left-navigation-pane.
The system responds with the “Profile User
Information” window.
Figure 29. Profile User Information Window
2.
Type a user name in the “Username” box.
3.
Type a password in the “Password” box.
4.
Re-type the password in the “Confirm” box.
5.
Click
Next
.
The system responds with the “Profile Content Filtering” window.
Note
:
Optionally
,
you can click
Finish
to complete the user profile.
The system accepts all of the defaults for a user.
6.
Please see the next section in this document titled
Content Filtering (Optional)
.
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Content Filtering (Optional)
Content filtering restricts access to undesirable Web sites and Web content.
Note:
The “Enable User
Profiling” checkbox option must be selected on the “User Profiles” window for the content filtering
option to be operational.
To use content filtering:
1.
Select one of the following options from under the “These are three ways to set this up” heading:
Disable
: All Internet content is allowed for this user.
Allow access Only
: Allows access only to the specified Web addresses or to addresses containing
specified word entries. You must specify words or Web addresses to add to the table.
Deny all access
: Disables access to all Web addresses specified as well as addresses that contain
any words specified in the filter entries. You must specify words or Web addresses to add to the
table.
Note
:
Optionally
, you can click
Finish
to complete the user profile.
The system accepts all of the
defaults for a user.
2.
If the “Allow access Only” or “Deny all access” option is selected from step 1, type a word or Web
address in the box under the “Website word/name” table and click
Add Entry
.
The system responds
by adding the word or Web address to the “Website word/name” table.
Note
:
The entries in the
“Website word/name” table may be either modified or deleted at any time by clicking either
Edit
or
Delete
next to the corresponding word or Web address.
3.
Click
Next
.
Figure 30: Profile Content Filtering Window
4.
The system responds with the “Profile Configuration Access” window. Please see the next section in
this document titled
Profile Configuration Access (Optional)
.
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Profile Configuration Access (Optional)
Profile configuration allows the administrator to grant users certain permissions to access options on the
gateway.
To use profile configuration access:
1.
Select one of the following profiles and click
Next
.
Note
:
Optionally
, you can click
Finish
to
complete the user profile.
The system accepts all of the defaults for a user.
Figure 31: Profile Configuration Access Window
2.
The system responds with the “Profile Time Settings” window.
Note
:
Optionally
, you can click
Finish
to complete the user profile.
The system accepts all of the defaults for a user.
Administrator
Allows access to the Internet and all of the configuration tools on the gateway.
Gamer
Allows access to the Internet as well as the gateway’s commonly used tools for gamers, including
Port Configuration and DMZ.
Web Surfer
Allows access only to the Internet, not to the gateway’s configuration.
3.
Please see the next section in this document titled
Profile Time Settings (Optional)
.
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Profile Time Settings (Optional)
Profile time settings are used to limit a users ability to use the Internet during certain times of the day or
night. You can also define the amount of time a user stays logged on to the Internet without Web surfing
activity (Idle Time).
Note:
To use the time of day restrictions, you must have the Time Client enabled.
Please see
Gateway Setup Wizard
for more information.
To use profile time settings:
1.
Select one of the following options:
No time of day restrictions:
The user may have Internet privileges at any time.
Only allowed from
: The user may only have Internet privileges at the time range set in the time
drop-downs.
Note
:
Optionally
, you can click
Finish
to complete the user profile.
The system accepts all of the
defaults for a user.
2.
Select one of the following options under the “Designate the number of minutes a user can sit idle
before they are automatically logged out from the web” heading:
Infinite Time
: The user is never automatically logged out of the Internet.
Minutes
: Type a time interval in minutes in the “Minutes” box.
This time represents how long a
user may be idle before automatically being logged out of the Internet.
3.
Click
Next
.
The system responds with the “Associated Computer/Connected Device” window.
Figure 32: Profile Time Settings Window
4.
Please see the next section in this document titled
Associated Computer/Connected Devices
(Optional)
.
Associated Computer/Connected Device (Optional)
Certain users consistently use a particular computer to surf the Internet. To simplify logging in for these
users, you can use the Associated Computer option to automatically log a particular user into the Gateway
with their username and password when they access the Internet from the specified computer.

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