Scientific Atlanta DPR300 Series manual Introduction, Benefits and Features

WebSTAR DPR300 Series Cable Modem Gateway User’s Guide

Introduction

Welcome to the exciting world of home and office networking. Your new DPR300 Series WebSTAR™ Cable Modem Gateway allows several users to share one high-speed broadband connection across multiple PCs, laptops, digital cameras, personal data assistants (PDAs), digital devices, and Internet devices. The cable modem gateway makes sharing files and photos with your family and friends hassle free. With the DPR300 Series Cable Modem Gateway, your Internet enjoyment and business productivity will surely soar.

This guide provides procedures and recommendations for placing, installing, configuring, operating, and troubleshooting your cable modem gateway for Internet access and for high-speed wired or wireless broadband networking for your home or office. Refer to the appropriate section in this guide for the specific information you need for your situation. Contact your cable service provider for more information about subscribing to these services.

Benefits and Features

The cable modem gateway offers the following outstanding benefits and features:

•Allows you to attach multiple devices in your home or office to the cable modem gateway for high-speed networking and sharing of files and folders without first copying them onto a CD or diskette

•Protects your equipment and system files from unauthorized access by hackers who might want to access your private information

•Allows everyone to participate in the latest multiplayer games through your home network and on the Internet

•Allows you to connect your digital camera, or other digital devices, directly to your cable modem gateway for quickly sharing photos or files

•Permits an unprecedented method for economical and efficient high-speed networking for your home or office to share files and printers

•Enables home phoneline networking (HPNA) to multiple devices in your home or office using your existing telephone lines (not available on all models)

•Facilitates high-speed wireless networking of PCs, laptops, and PDAs (not available on all models)

•Assures a broad range of interoperability through support of the Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications (DOCSIS) 1.0 and 1.1 standards

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