Configuration | Section 3 |
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Advanced Internet Settings
The Internet – Advanced screen allows you to adjust additional Internet settings. To access the screen, click Internet > Advanced.
Field or Button | Description | |
WAN Interface | Check to enable the link to the Internet. Disabling this feature | |
| disconnects your Internet connection. The default is enabled. | |
Factory WAN | Displays the default MAC address of the WAN interface. A MAC | |
MAC Address | address is a | |
| identification. You can find the WAN MAC address on the label on the | |
| bottom of your unit. | |
Cloned WAN | Some ISPs require that you register the MAC address of your PC’s | |
MAC Address | network adapter. | |
| Your router can use the MAC address of your PC’s network adapter as | |
| the router’s WAN MAC address. To avoid calling your ISP and | |
| changing the MAC address that is registered with the ISP, follow these | |
| instructions: | |
| 1 | In the Cloned WAN MAC Address row, click Enable. |
| 2 | Enter a MAC address or click one of the Learned MAC addresses |
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| and click Apply. |
| 3 | After restarting the unit, the router will present the MAC address to |
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| the ISP you have entered here. |
| 4 | Deselect Enable to return to the default MAC address. |
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