ZyXEL Communications P-202 manual Preface, About Your Prestige, Setup Information

Prestige 201 ISDN Access Router

Preface

About Your Prestige

Congratulations on your purchase of the Prestige 201 ISDN Router. Don’t forget to register your Prestige (fast, easy online registration at www.zyxel.com) for free future product updates and information.

The Prestige 201 is a high-performance router that offers a complete Internet Access solution and is extremely easy to configure.

The user-friendly Prestige Network Commander (PNC) is a C++ utility that allows you to manage the Prestige via Windows. You can also manage the Prestige via the SMT (System Management Terminal), a menu-driven interface that you can access from either a terminal emulator or telnet.

Please visit our web site at www.zyxel.comfor the latest release notes and other information about this product.

Setup Information

ISDN Line

1.Contact your local telephone company’s ISDN Ordering Center to find out what type of ISDN service is available and the switch type.

2.When the telephone company installs your ISDN line, please be sure to obtain and write down the following information for future use:

∙ISDN switch type

∙ISDN telephone number(s)

∙ISDN Service Profile Identifiers (SPID) number(s) (only for North America).

∙ISDN Data Link Connection Mode

Supplemental services such as Call Forwarding are supported by the Prestige but must be subscribed to separately from the telephone company.

Ethernet Setup Information

IP Address - The IP Address is the unique 32-bit number assigned to your Prestige. This address is written in dotted decimal notation (four 8-bit numbers, between 0 and 255, separated by periods), e.g., 192.168.1.1.

Please note that every machine on an internet must have a unique IP address - do not assign an arbitrary address to any machine. If you are not sure as to which IP address to assign to the Prestige, contact your Internet Service Provider (ISP) or refer to Chapter 3 of this guide for more details.

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