Prestige 623ME-T User’s Guide

Chapter 1Getting To Know Your Prestige

This chapter describes the key features and applications of your Prestige.

1.1Introducing the Prestige

Your Prestige integrates a high-speed 10/100Mbps auto-negotiating LAN interface and a high-speed DSL port into a single package. The Prestige is ideal for high-speed Internet browsing and making LAN-to-LAN connections to remote networks. Provided with both USB and Ethernet ports, computers can share local resources (such as printers and files) and access to the Internet – simultaneously.

The web browser-based Graphical User Interface provides easy management.

1.2Features of the Prestige

Your Prestige is packed with a number of features that give it the flexibility to provide a complete networking solution for almost any user.

Ease of Installation

Your Prestige is designed for quick, intuitive and easy installation. Physically, its compact size and lightness make it easy to position anywhere in your busy office.

USB Port

The USB port is useful if you have an USB-enabled computer that does not have a network interface card for attaching to your Ethernet network. Refer to Quick Start Guide for USB driver installation procedure in Windows 98 SE/Me/2000/XP.

High Speed Internet Access

The Prestige supports downstream transmission rates of up to 8Mbps and upstream transmission rates of 800 Kbps.

10/100Mbps Auto-negotiating Fast Ethernet LAN Interface

This auto-negotiation feature allows the Prestige to detect the speed of incoming transmissions and adjust appropriately without manual intervention. It allows data transfer of either 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps in either half-duplex or full-duplex mode depending on your Ethernet network.

Getting To Know Your Prestige

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