CHAPTER 6 Internet Settings

WAN Setting

STATIC IP Configures a static IP for the WAN port.

Figure 24: Static IP Configuration

IP Address — The IP address of the Wireless Broadband Router. Valid IP addresses consist of four decimal numbers, 0 to 255, separated by periods.

Subnet Mask — The mask that identifies the host address bits used for routing to specific subnets.

Default Gateway — The IP address of the gateway router for the Wireless Broadband Router, which is used if the requested destination address is not on the local subnet.

Primary DNS Server — The IP address of the Primary Domain Name Server on the network. A DNS maps numerical IP addresses to domain names and can be used to identify network hosts by familiar names instead of the IP addresses. If you have one or more DNS servers located on the local network, type the IP addresses in the text fields provided. Otherwise, leave the addresses as all zeros (0.0.0.0).

Secondary DNS Server — The IP address of the Secondary Domain Name Server on the network.

MAC Clone — Some ISPs limit Internet connections to a specified MAC address of one PC. This setting allows you to manually change the MAC address of the Wireless Broadband Router's WAN interface to match the PC's MAC address provided to your ISP for registration. You can enter the registered MAC address manually by typing it in the boxes

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