User's Manual

E-DOC-CTC-20090105-0001 v0.1
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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 Thomson Gateway Tools.......................................................... 29
4.1 UPnP ............................................................................................................. 30
4.1.1 Accessing Your Thomson Gateway with UPnP .................................................................................31
4.1.2 Managing your Internet connection with UPnP.................................................................................32
4.1.3 Configuring UPnP on the Thomson Gateway....................................................................................34
4.1.4 Installing UPnP on Windows XP .........................................................................................................35
4.2 Assigning a service (HTTP, FTP,...) to a computer ........................................ 37
4.3 Dynamic DNS ................................................................................................ 39