Accton Technology AC-IG2004W manual Introduction, About the CheetahAccess Wireless Gateway

Chapter 1: Introduction

Congratulations on your purchase of the CheetahAccess™ Wireless Gateway. Accton is proud to provide you with a powerful yet simple communication device for connecting your local area network (wired or wireless LAN) to the Internet. For those who want to surf the Internet at the lowest possible cost, this wireless gateway provides a convenient and powerful solution.

About the CheetahAccess™ Wireless Gateway

The CheetahAccess Wireless Gateway provides Internet access to multiple users by sharing a single-user account. It serves as a wireless access point, and includes a dual-port WAN interface which allows you to connect to an xDSL or Cable modem, ISDN TA or PSTN analog modem. The CheetahAccess Wireless Gateway provides extensive firewall protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) services. It also provides print services for any client attached to a LAN port.

The CheetahAccess Wireless Gateway supports dial-on-demand for ISDN/PSTN service, automatically connecting to the Internet when there are requests and terminating the connection if no further requests occur. This dual-port design also supports fail-over Internet access through the secondary WAN port (i.e., the serial port can be used for primary or backup Internet access).

This new CheetahAccess Wireless Gateway technology provides many cost-effective functions and management benefits. It is simple to configure and can be up and running in minutes.

Features and Benefits

•Internet connection to xDSL or Cable modem via a 10 Mbps WAN port

•Internet connection to ISDN TA or PSTN modem via an RS-232 console port

•Local network connection via 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ports or 11 Mbps wireless interface (supporting up to 128 mobile users)

•802.11b Compliant – interoperable with multiple vendors

•Provides seamless roaming within 802.11b WLAN environment

•Supports 64-bit and 128-bit WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy)

•Built-in Print Server for any client attached to the LAN

•DHCP for dynamic IP configuration, and DNS for domain name mapping

•Firewall with client privileges, hacker prevention, and NAT

•NAT also enables multi-user access with a single-user account, and virtual server functionality (providing protected access to Internet services such as Web, FTP, mail and Telnet)

•Virtual Private Network support using PPTP, L2TP or IPSec pass-through

•User-definable application sensing tunnel supports applications requiring multiple connections

•Supports CHAP authentication protocol for dial-up identification

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