ZyXEL Communications 642R Series manual Getting to Know Your Adsl Internet Access Router

Prestige 642R Series ADSL Router

Chapter 1

Getting to Know Your ADSL Internet Access Router

This chapter describes the key features and applications of the Prestige 642.

1.1Prestige 642R Series ADSL Internet Access Router

Your Prestige integrates a high-speed 10/100Mbps auto-negotiating LAN interface and one high-speed ADSL port into a single package. The Prestige is ideal for high-speed Internet browsing and making LAN- to-LAN connections to remote networks.

1.2Features of the Prestige 642R

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

zHigh Speed Internet Access

The P642 ADSL router can support downstream transmission rates of up to 8Mbps and upstream transmission rates of 640Kbps. The P642 also supports rate management; rate management allows ADSL subscribers to select an Internet access speed that best suits their needs and budgets.

zPPPoE Support (RFC2516)

PPPoE (Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet) emulates a Dial-Up connection. It allows your ISP to use their existing network configuration with newer broadband technologies such as ADSL. The PPPoE driver on the Prestige is transparent to the PCs on the LAN, which see only Ethernet and are not aware of PPPoE thus saving you from having to manage PPPoE clients on individual PCs.

zTransmission Rate Standards

♦Supports Multi-Mode standard (ANSI T1.413, Issue 2; G.dmt(G.992.1); G.lite(G992.2)) 1.

♦Full-Rate (ANSI T1.413, Issue 2; G.dmt(G.992.1)) with line rate support of up to 8Mbps downstream and 1024kbps upstream.

♦G.lite (G.992.2) with line rate support of up to 1.5Mbps downstream and 512Kbps upstream.

zIP Alias

IP Alias allows you to partition a physical network into logical networks over the same Ethernet interface. The Prestige supports three logical LAN interfaces via its single physical Ethernet interface with the Prestige itself as the gateway for each LAN network.

1Depends on firmware release version.

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