Netopia R2020 manual Chapter Setting up your Router with the SmartStart Wizard

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Setting up your Router with the SmartStart Wizard 3-1

Chapter 3

Setting up your Router with the SmartStart Wizard

Once you’ve connected your router to your computer and your telecommunications line and installed a web browser, you’re ready to run the Netopia SmartStart™ Wizard. The SmartStart Wizard will help you set up the router and share the connection. The SmartStart Wizard walks you through a series of questions and based on your responses automatically configures the router for connecting your LAN to the Internet or to your remote corporate network.

The SmartStart Wizard will:

automatically check your Windows 95, 98, or NT PC’s TCP/IP configuration to be sure you can accept a dynamically assigned IP address, and change it for you if it is not set for dynamic addressing

check the physical connection from your computer to your router without your having to enter an IP address

assign an IP address to your router

allow you to register with a new ISP if you don’t already have one. For a list of ISPs that support Netopia Routers in North America, see the Netopia website at http://www.netopia.com.

allow you to enter your dial-up telephone numbers and other information, dial up and test your connection to your chosen ISP or other remote site

Before running SmartStart

Be sure you have connected the cables and power source as described in Step 1 “Connect the Router” guide contained in your Netopia folio.

Before you launch the SmartStart application, make sure your computer meets the following requirements:

 

PC

Macintosh

 

 

 

 

 

 

System

Windows 95, 98, or NT operating system

MacOS 7.5 or later

software

 

 

 

 

 

Connectivity

TCP/IP must be installed and properly

MacTCP or Open Transport TCP/IP must be

software

configured. See “Configuring TCP/IP on

installed and properly configured. See

 

Windows 95, 98, or NT computers” on

“Configuring TCP/IP on Macintosh

 

page 3-9

computers” on page 3-13.

 

 

 

Connectivity

Ethernet card (10Base-T)

Either a built-in or third-party Ethernet card

hardware

 

(10Base-T)

 

 

 

Browser

Netscape Communicator™ or Microsoft Internet Explorer, included on the Netopia CD.

software

Required for web-based registration and web-based monitoring.

 

 

 

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Netopia R2020 manual Chapter Setting up your Router with the SmartStart Wizard, Before running SmartStart