Subnet Mask | Enter the Subnet Mask provided by your ISP (e.g. 255.255.255.0) | |
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Gateway | Enter the IP address of the ISP’s Gateway. | |
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User ID | Enter the User Name provided by your ISP for the L2TP connection. | |
Sometimes called a Connection ID. | ||
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Password | Enter the Password provided by your ISP for the L2TP connection | |
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L2TP Gateway | If your LAN has a L2TP gateway, enter that L2TP gateway’s IP address here. If | |
you do not have a L2TP gateway, enter the ISP’s Gateway IP address above. | ||
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| This is an optional parameter. You can specify the maximum size of | |
MTU | transmission packet to the Internet. The range of the MTU will be from 1492 to | |
| 512. You can also consult you ISP for the optimal MTU as well. Default: 1392 | |
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| If you select “Continuous”, the router will always connect to the ISP. If the WAN | |
| line breaks down and links again, the router shall auto- reconnect to the ISP. | |
| If you select “Connect On Demand”, the router will | |
| when someone wants to use the Internet and keep connected until the WAN | |
Connection Type | idle timeout. The router will close the WAN connection if the time period that no | |
one is using the Internet exceeds the “Idle Time”. | ||
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| If you select “Manual”, the router will connect to ISP only when you click | |
| “Connect” manually from the Web user interface. The WAN connection will not | |
| disconnect due to the idle timeout. If the WAN line breaks down and latter links | |
| again, the router will not | |
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| You can specify an idle time threshold (minutes) for the WAN port. This means | |
| if no packets have been sent (no one using the Internet) throughout this | |
| specified period, then the router will automatically disconnect the connection | |
| with your ISP. | |
| Note: This “idle timeout” function may not work due to abnormal activities of | |
Idle Time | some network application software, computer virus or hacker attacks from the | |
| Internet. For example, some software sends network packets to the Internet in | |
| the background, even when you are not using the Internet. So please turn off | |
| your computer when you are not using it. This function also may not work with | |
| some ISP. So please make sure this function can work properly, especially | |
| when your ISP charges you by time used. | |
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When the configuration finished please click “OK” to next step or click “Back” to previous step. After press “OK”, you will see a web screen to prompt you the configurations save successfully. Please refer to section 4.2.7 for the information of this screen.
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