Wireless Router Setup Manual
of your computer. If you are unsure about this, refer to the documentation for your computer or see the link to TCP/IP Addressing in “Related Documents” on page 41.
If you are replacing an existing router, disconnect it completely from your network and set it aside before starting to install your new router.
There are two steps to setting up your wireless router:
1.Connect the router to the ADSL or cable modem, and connect a computer to the router.
2.Configure the router to use your Internet service.
To connect your wireless router:
1.Connect the wireless router, the computer, and the modem.
a.Turn off your computer.
b.Turn off and unplug the cable or ADSL broadband modem.
c.Locate the Ethernet cable (1) that connects your computer to the modem.
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2.Disconnect the cable at the modem (2). You will connect it to the router later.
3.Locate the Ethernet cable that came with the NETGEAR product. Securely insert that Ethernet cable into your modem and into the Internet port of the wireless router (3).
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