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 analog modem and ISDN models). For a list of ISPs that support Netopia Routers in North America, see the Netopia website at http://www.netopia.com.

(for analog modem or ISDN models) 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

This chapter covers the following topics:

“Before running SmartStart” on page 2

“Setting up your Router with the SmartStart Wizard” on page 3

“Sharing the Connection” on page 10

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Netopia R3100 manual Chapter Setting up your Router with the SmartStart Wizard