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
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