User's Manual

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E-DOC-CTC-20090105-0009 v0.1

Contents

About this Setup and User Guide ............................................. 1

1 Installation.................................................................................... 3

1.1 Preliminary Steps ............................................................................................ 4

1.2 Installing your Thomson Gateway .................................................................. 5

1.2.1 Guided Installation .................................................................................................................................6

1.2.2 Manual Installation.................................................................................................................................8

1.3 Adding a New Computer to your Network ..................................................... 9

1.4 Connecting a Computer Using the Ethernet Cable ....................................... 10

2 Thomson Gateway Basics ........................................................ 11

2.1 Thomson Gateway LED Behaviour ................................................................ 12

2.1.1 Status LEDs ...........................................................................................................................................13

2.1.2 WPS Button LED ...................................................................................................................................15

2.1.3 Ethernet LEDs .......................................................................................................................................16

2.2 Thomson Gateway GUI ................................................................................. 17

2.3 Backing Up/Restoring your Configuration .................................................... 20

3 Wireless Access ......................................................................... 21

3.1 Connecting Your Wireless Client via WPS .................................................... 22

3.2 Connecting Your Wireless Client without WPS ............................................ 24

3.3 Securing Your Wireless Connection.............................................................. 25

3.3.1 Configuring WPA-PSK Encryption ......................................................................................................27

3.3.2 Configuring WEP Encryption...............................................................................................................28

4 Sharing Content on your Thomson Gateway......................... 29

4.1 Using the Network File Server ...................................................................... 30

4.2 Using the UPnP AV Media Server ................................................................. 33

4.3 Using the FTP Server .................................................................................... 34

4.4 Managing your Shared Content .................................................................... 36

4.5 Safely Removing your USB Storage Device .................................................. 38