Setup and User Guide
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Thomson TG784
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Contents
Getting the Most Out of Your Thomson Gateway
Used Symbols Terminology
About this Setup and User Guide
Documentation and software updates
Typographical Conventions
About this Setup and User Guide
Introduction
Installation
Computer requirements
Preliminary Steps
Internet connection details
Voice over IP VoIP connection details
Installation methods
Installing your Thomson Gateway
Guided Installation
Manual Installation
Connecting devices wait
Guided Installation
Case of problems
Starting the wizard
CD menu
Procedure
Manual Installation
Configure the Thomson Gateway
Click Setup my Thomson Gateway
This chapter
Thomson Gateway Basics
Thomson Gateway LED Behaviour
Content
Wireless LED
Power LED
Status LEDs
Ethernet LED
Internet LED
Broadband LED
Phone LED
WPS LED
WPS Button LED
LED Status Description
Ethernet LEDs
Thomson Gateway Web Interface
Accessing the Thomson Gateway Web Interface
Requirements
Menu
Components
Content pane
Login section
Language bar
Location bar
Backing up your configuration
Backing Up/Restoring your Configuration
Restoring your configuration
Adding a New Computer to your Network
Ethernet cable
Connecting a Computer Using the Ethernet Cable
Wireless
WPS button LED is solid green
Connecting Your Wireless Client via WPS
WPS button LED is blinking red
Troubleshooting
Where can I find the SSID?
Connecting Your Wireless Client without WPS
Where can I find the encryption?
Forgot your wireless settings?
Configuring the wireless encryption
Securing Your Wireless Connection
Encryption methods
WPA-PSK versions
Wireless
Select Use WPA-PSK Encryption
Configuring WPA-PSK Encryption
Select Use WEP Encryption
Configuring WEP Encryption
Thomson solution
Old solution
Telephony
Voice over IP VoIP
Connecting a Regular Phone to Your Thomson Gateway
Installing the Thomson Dect USB Adapter
Select Register Handset and press OK
Connecting a Dect Phone to Your Thomson Gateway
Configure the Telephony Service
Configuring the Telephony Service
Enable the Telephony Service
Assign Phone Numbers
Select Service Enabled
Using Multiple Identities
Verifying Telephone Connectivity
Multiple Identities
Using the Address book
Accessing the Address Book page?
Address Book
Managing contacts
Checking which services that you can use?
Telephony services
Activating services
Pick a task list, click View Telephony Services
Using switching order commands
Activating services on the web pages
Call Forwarding
To retrieve the call on hold when there is No active call
Transfer a call
Viewing Telephony Statistics
Accessing the Telephony Statistics
Call Statistics
Getting the Most Out of Your Thomson Gateway
Feature availability
Connecting your USB storage device to the Thomson Gateway
Sharing Content on your Network
What do I need?
Configure Content Sharing on the Thomson Gateway
On the Tools menu, click Content Sharing
Setting Up the File Server
Server Description
Workgroup
Open Windows Explorer
How to access the shared content on Windows
How to access the shared content on Mac
Managed Partition
Managing your Shared Content
Result
Enable UPnP AV on the Thomson Gateway
Using UPnP AV to Share Content with Media Devices
Under UPnP AV Media Server, click Server Enabled
Thomson UPnP AV Server
Configure FTP access for your shared content
Accessing your Shared Content by FTP
Under FTP Server, click Server Enabled
Additional configuration
Safely Removing your USB Storage Device
On the Toolbox menu, click Content Sharing
Unmounting your USB storage device
Supported Operating Systems
Universal Plug and Play
UPnP and the Thomson Gateway
Windows Vista
Accessing Your Thomson Gateway with UPnP
Windows XP
Go to My Network Places
Managing your Internet connection with UPnP
On the Windows Start menu, click Settings Control Panel
Disabling this feature
Enable/Disable UPnP
Configuring UPnP on the Thomson Gateway
Extended Security
Enabling Extended Security
Start menu, click Settings Control Panel
Installing UPnP on Windows XP
Adding UPnP
Adding IGD Discovery and Control
Problem
Assigning a service HTTP, FTP,... to a computer
Solution
Assign a game or application to a local networking device
UPnP
What you need
Dynamic DNS
Getting the Most Out of Your Thomson Gateway
Overview
Internet Security
Changing the security level
Firewall
Creating a new security level
Pick a task list, click Create a new Security Level
Content-based filtering
Access Denied
Web Site Filtering
Address-based filtering
On the Toolbox menu, click Web Site Filtering
Option 2 address-based filter only
Action for Unknown Sites, select
Introduction Accessing the configuration
Configuring The Content-based Filter
Configuring the content-based filter
Creating your own content level
Allow access to a specific Web site
Deny access to a specific Web site
Adding Rules For The Address Based Filter
Options
Click Redirect in the Action list
Redirect all Web sites
Internet Security
Topics
Troubleshooting
Setup CD does not start automatically
Setup wizard Troubleshooting
Your Thomson Gateway has not been found
Thomson Gateway does not work
General Thomson Gateway Troubleshooting
Thomson Gateway unreachable
Poor Thomson Gateway performance
Ethernet LED does not light up
Wired Connection Troubleshooting
No Wireless Connectivity
Wireless Connection Troubleshooting
Poor Wireless Connectivity or Range
Change the wireless channel
Problems with Supplementary Services
Voice over IP Troubleshooting
Calling over VoIP
Calling over Pstn
Resetting your Thomson Gateway
Reset to Factory Defaults
Software Reset
Methods
Hardware Reset
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