
Prestige 782R G.SHDSL Router
3.6Single User Account
Typically, if there are multiple users on the LAN wanting to concurrently access the Internet, you will have to lease a block of legal, or globally unique IP addresses from the ISP.
The Single User Account (SUA) feature allows you to have the same benefits as having multiple legal addresses, but only pay for one IP address, thus saving significantly on the subscription fees. (Check with your ISP before you enable this feature). SUA supports popular Internet applications such as MS traceroute, CuSeeMe, IRC, RealAudio, VDOLive, Quake and PPTP with no extra configuration needed.
FigureThe Single User Account feature may also be used on connections to remote networks other than the ISP. For example, this feature can be used to simplify the allocation of IP addresses when connecting branch offices to the corporate network.
The IP address for the SUA can be either fixed or dynamically assigned. In addition, you can designate servers, e.g., a web server on your local network and make them accessible to outside world.
If you do not define any server, SUA offers the additional benefit of firewall protection. If no server is defined, all incoming inquiries will be filtered out by your Prestige and thus preventing intruders from probing your network.
Your Prestige accomplishes this address sharing by translating the internal LAN IP addresses to a single address that is globally unique on the Internet. For more information on IP address translation, refer to
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