User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Overview
- Setting Up the Gateway on a Network
- Changing the Gateway Settings
- Using the Advanced Feature Set
- Accessing advanced features
- Changing your gateway password
- Changing your advanced wireless settings
- Setting your transfer rate
- Setting your operating channel
- Using system tools
- Establishing routing protocols
- Refining DHCP server addressing
- Assigning virtual server settings
- Using access control features
- Changing your gateway IP address
- IP addressing in network adapters
- Universal Plug and Play
- Troubleshooting
- Glossary
- Glossary
- 802.11b
- Ad Hoc Mode
- Adapter
- Access Point (AP)
- ASCII characters
- DHCP
- Driver (Device Driver)
- DNS
- Encryption
- Ethernet
- Ethernet address (MAC address)
- Firewall
- Gateway
- Hexadecimal
- Hub
- Infrastructure Mode
- IEEE
- ISP
- LAN
- Mbps
- NAT
- Peer-to-Peer Mode
- Profiles (Network Profiles)
- Protocols (Network Protocols)
- Resources (Network resources)
- Roaming
- SSID
- Subnet
- Subnet mask
- Switch
- TCP/IP
- UPnP
- USB
- VPN
- Glossary
- Specifications
- Regulatory Compliance Statements
- Index
Chapter 3 – Changing the Gateway Settings
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You can also obtain this information from your modem
documentation or instructions in the Install Information
Worksheet that came with your gateway.
Changing IP
settings
In the IP Settings portion of the Cable/DSL screen, you
can change the following settings:
• IP address assigned by your ISP
– A unique
numeric address that identifies each computer on a
local network as well as on the Internet.
• IP Subnet Mask
– Resembles an IP address and
helps route Internet traffic to a particular local
network or “subnet.”
• ISP Gateway Address
– The IP address of your
Internet service provider's device that routes data
traffic to the Internet.
• Domain Name Server (DNS) IP Address
– The IP
address of your Internet service provider's computer
with a DNS Server. A DNS Server translates a
human-readable address such as www.intel.com into
a numeric IP address such as 192.168.0.10.
Changing
cable or DSL
settings
In the Additional Cable/DSL Settings
portion of the
Cable/DSL screen, you can change the following
settings:
• Username (PPPoE)
– A user name that applies only
if you have a DSL modem that uses the point-to-point
over Ethernet (PPPoE or PPP) protocol. Type the
user name your ISP provided you.
• Password (PPPoE)
– A password that applies only if
you have a DSL modem that uses the point-to-point
over Ethernet (PPPoE or PPP) protocol. Type the
Note Change these settings using the instructions
supplied by your broadband provider.
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