NETGEAR DG814 manual Host and Domain Names, Login Name, Fixed or static IP address

Host and Domain Names

Some ISPs use a specific host or domain name—like CCA7324-Aor home. If you haven’t been given specific information about host or domain names then use the following examples as a guide:

•If your main e-mail account with your ISP is aaa@yyy.com, then use aaa as your host name. (Your ISP might call this your account, user, host, computer or system name.)

•If your ISP’s mail server is mail.xxx.yyy.com, then use xxx.yyy.com as the domain name. Account name:

Domain name:

Login Name

If your ISP requires a login name and password (possibly because you have a PPPoE or PPPoA account), fill in the following:

Login name:	(may be your full e-mail address)
Password:
Service name:	(if required by your ISP)

Note: The login name could be called a user name or account name by your ISP. The login name is case sensitive. You must type it exactly as given by your ISP. For example, c_jones is a different login name than C_Jones or cjones.

Fixed (or static) IP address

If you have a static IP address through your ISP, fill in the following information:

Internet IP address:		.		.		.	Note: For example, a
Subnet mask:	.		.		.		valid IP address could
							be 169.254.141.148.
Gateway IP address:		.		.		.

DNS server address information

If you were given specific Domain Name System (DNS) server addresses, fill in the following:

DNS Server IP address(es): . . .

. . .

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