Setup

Home Screen

After finishing the Setup Wizard, you will see the Home screen. When you connect in future, you will see this screen when you connect. An example screen is shown below.

Figure 9: Home Screen

Main Menu

The main menu, on the left, contains links to the most-commonly used screen. To see the links to the other available screens, click "Advanced" or "Administration".

The main menu also contains two (2) buttons:

Log Out - When finished, you should click this button to logout.

Restart - Use this if you wish to restart the Broadband ADSL Router. Note that restarting the Router will break any existing connections to or through the Router.

Navigation & Data Input

Use the menu bar on the left of the screen, and the "Back" button on your Browser, for navigation.

Changing to another screen without clicking "Save" does NOT save any changes you may have made. You must "Save" before changing screens or your data will be ignored.

On each screen, clicking the "Help" button will display help for that screen.

Broadband ADSL Router User Guide

LAN Screen

Use the LAN link on the main menu to reach the LAN screen. An example screen is shown below.

Figure 10: LAN Screen

Data - LAN Screen

TCP/IP

IP Address

IP address for the Broadband ADSL Router, as seen from the local

 

LAN. Use the default value unless the address is already in use or your

 

LAN is using a different IP address range. In the latter case, enter an

 

unused IP Address from within the range used by your LAN.

 

 

Subnet Mask

The default value 255.255.255.0 is standard for small (class "C")

 

networks. For other networks, use the Subnet Mask for the LAN

 

segment to which the Broadband ADSL Router is attached (the same

 

value as the PCs on that LAN segment).

 

 

DHCP Server

• If Enabled, the Broadband ADSL Router will allocate IP Ad-

 

dresses to PCs (DHCP clients) on your LAN when they start up.

 

The default (and recommended) value is Enabled.

 

• If you are already using a DHCP Server, this setting must be

 

Disabled, and the existing DHCP server must be re-configured to

 

treat the Broadband ADSL Router as the default Gateway. See the

 

following section for further details.

 

• The Start IP Address and Finish IP Address fields set the values

 

used by the DHCP server when allocating IP Addresses to DHCP

 

clients. This range also determines the number of DHCP clients

 

supported.

 

See the following section for further details on using DHCP.

 

 

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