NETGEAR CG814WG V3 manual What You Need Before You Begin, Rear Panel, Hardware Requirements

Wireless Cable Modem Gateway CG814WG v3 Reference Manual

Rear Panel

The rear panel of the CG814WG v3 contains the connections identified below:

wireless antenna

reset button

USB port

coaxial cable to your cable service provider

4 Ethernet LAN ports

AC power adapter input

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What You Need Before You Begin

You need these three things before you can connect your gateway to the Internet:

•A computer properly connected to the gateway as explained below.

•Active Data Over Cable Internet service provided by cable modem account.

•The Internet Service Provider (ISP) configuration information for your cable modem account.

Hardware Requirements

The CG814WG v3 Gateway connects to your LAN using either its twisted-pair Ethernet, USB or 802.11b or 802.11g wireless port.

To use the CG814WG v3 Gateway on your network, each computer must have either an installed Ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC), USB Host port or 802.11b or 802.11g wireless adapter. If the computer will connect to your network at 100 Mbps, you must use a Category 5 (CAT5) cable such as the one provided with your gateway.

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v1.0, June 2007