User's Manual

Wireless-G Router User's Manual
page's Router panel), or (b) use the MAC Address Clone panel to change the
router's WAN-port MAC address.
• Static IP: Use this setting if you have purchased a fixed IP address from your ISP
and you are not using PPTP. All IP settings must be input manually: Internet IP
Address, Subnet Mask, Gateway, and at least one Static DNS server address.
All values must be obtained from your ISP.
• PPPoE: This is the most common connection type for DSL ISPs. You must input
the User Name and Password settings required by your ISP. WAN-side IP
settings will be received over the wire from your ISP when the router connects.
• PPTP: This is used by a minority of ISPs. You must input the User Name and
Password settings required by your ISP. If you have received fixed IP settings
from your ISP, you must input them in the Internet IP Address, Subnet Mask,
and Gateway boxes. If these settings are assigned dynamically (over the wire),
leave the Internet IP address set to 0.0.0.0.
• L2TP: This is used by a minority of ISPs. You must input the User Name,
Password, and L2TP Server IP address settings required by your ISP. WAN-
side IP settings will be received over the wire when the router connects.
• Telstra Cable: This is used on Telstra BigPond broadband cable connections in
Australia. You must input the User Name and Password settings required by
BigPond. Input the name of a heartbeat server if Telstra BigPond indicates that
this is necessary on your connection; otherwise leave the Heart Beat Server box
blank.
Optional Settings (required by some ISPs): Some of the settings in this group are
required on some Internet accounts. Your ISP can tell you which ones you need to set,
if any.
• Router Name: This is not required by any ISP. It is for your reference, and does
not affect operation. You can set this to any string you like, as long as it does not
contain spaces and is no more than 39 characters long.
• Host Name and Domain Name: One or (more often) both of these may be
required. Enter the strings your ISP has instructed you to use. Usually, a host
name has no dots (www is a common host name), while a domain name has at
least one dot (bigcompany.com, for example).
• MTU and Size: Information is sent over a network in chunks called packets.
Packet size is measured in octets (also called bytes) of eight bits (1s and 0s) each.
MTU stands for Maximum Transmission Unit. MTU size is the greatest allowable
packet size on a given connection.
With the MTU control set to Auto, the router adjusts MTU size according to
connection type (1500 for Ethernet, 1492 for PPPoE, 1436 for PPTP, and so on).
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