User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Product overview
- Setting Up: Basics
- Setting Up: Advanced
- How to open the browser-based utility
- How to manually set up your router
- How to set up the DHCP server on your router
- How to find your network on the Internet
- How to clone a MAC address
- How to connect to your corporate office using a VPN
- How to optimize your router for gaming and voice
- How to remotely change your router settings
- How to enable Voice over IP on your network
- How to configure UPnP
- How to use a router as an access point
- How to put your new router behind an existing router
- How to expose a device to the Internet
- Improving Security
- Port Forwarding and Port Triggering
- Maintaining and Monitoring
- Specifications
9
Setting Up: Basics
Linksys E800
To manually connect a device to your network:
1.
Run Cisco Connect, then click Add device under Computers and devices.
The Computers and other devices screen opens.
2.
Click Other wireless devices. A screen opens that displays network
information.
3.
Write down the Network name (SSID), Security Key, and Security Type
information, or click Print these settings if you have a printer attached.
4.
Follow your device’s instructions for entering the wireless network
information into the device.
5.
After the device connects to your network, return to the computer
running Cisco Connect, then click Next.
6.
Enter a name for device, then click Finish.
For more instructions on connecting a game console to your network, see also:
• “How to optimize your router for gaming and voice” on page 32
• “How to set up port forwarding” on page 57
• “How to set up port range triggering for online gaming” on page 59