Philips CPWUA001 manual Internet Connection Sharing ICS, English

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	Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)
	Internet access can be provided either directly through a wireless base
	station (preferred), or indirectly through a PC with Internet access and
	router/gateway software (e.g. ICS from the Windows OS) installed and
	running.
	If you connect your PC with the Wireless Adapter to an existing
	network host with Internet access:
Preferred	If you have an existing home network with centrally shared broadband
Solution >	Internet access for all connected computers, you can connect your PC
	directly to your central network device: the router/gateway (or "host"
	computer). That way, it can access the Internet just like your other
	computers and you do not need to install ICS to make Internet access
	available to your network.
	If you connect your PC with the Wireless Adapter to a stand-
	alone or client PC with Internet access:
	If you connect the Wireless Adapter to a stand-alone or client PC with an
	existing broadband Internet connection, you can bridge - within that PC -
	the wireless network to the existing network adapter that connects to the
	Internet.You do this by enabling Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) from
	your Microsoft®Windows® operating system for that PC. This makes the
	PC share its existing broadband Internet connection with the wireless
	network.
	ICS configuration and usage issues
If a network has a	ICS is intended for use in small networks in which the network
central host	configuration and the Internet connection are managed by the Windows-
computer or	based computer on which the shared connection resides (the so-called
router that acts as	"host" computer). It is assumed that on its network, this computer is the
a DHCP server,	only Internet connection, it is the only gateway to the Internet, and that it
this server	sets up all internal network addresses (this means it is the DHCP server
allocates IP-	(see left) for the network).
addresses,
netmasks, and the
gateway address

to all DHCP client computers and devices in the network dynamically.