User Manual

Chapter 3: Networking and Advanced Settings
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Advanced User Configuration
Three Networking Modes
Your gateway can be configured to provide connectivity between your cable company and your
home LAN in any one of three Networking Modes: CM, RG, and CH. This mode setting is under the
control of your cable company, who can select the mode to match the level of home networking
support for which you have subscribed. All units ship from the factory set for the RG mode, but a
configuration file which the cable company sends the cable modem section during its
initialization can change it. This instruction book describes the RG mode as available out of the
factory.
The Wireless Cable Gateway offers local management capability through a built in HTTP server
and a number of diagnostic and configuration web pages. These pages are available from http://
192.168.0.1 in Residential Gateway (RG) and Cable Home (CH) modes, and http://192.168.100.1 in
Cable Modem (CM) mode. Not all pages are available in some modes.
Some information on two of the following web pages MUST BE configured, as explained in
Mandatory User Configuration: Status…Security web page and Basic...Setup web page.
In addition, more configuration and diagnostics are possible through the following additional web
pages, most of which are aimed at controlling the advanced networking functions of the gateway.
To navigate between pages, use the hyperlinks on the sidebar which appear on the left side of all
pages.
Your cable company may not support the reporting of some items of information listed on your
gateway’s internal web pages. In such cases, the information field appears blank. This is normal.
In the CM Mode, the simplest configuration mode of the gateway, or in the CH Mode, where you
have subscribed to an outside service (your cable company or another party) to remotely manage
your home network configuration, you will see only the Status and Wireless web page hyperlinks
in the sidebar, indicating only these page groups are available.
In the RG Mode, the mode where you manage your home network configuration, you will see web
page hyperlinks to all five page groups: Status, Basic, Advanced, Firewall, and Wireless. The
following section explains all of the available pages for all of the modes.
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