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WAN Setup

5.1 Overview

This chapter discusses the ZyXEL Device’s WAN screens. Use these screens to configure your ZyXEL Device for Internet access.

A WAN (Wide Area Network) connection is an outside connection to another network or the Internet. It connects your private networks (such as a LAN (Local Area Network) and other networks, so that a computer in one location can communicate with computers in other locations.

Figure 26 LAN and WAN

LANWAN

Internet

See Section 5.6 on page 63 for advanced technical information on WAN.

5.1.1What You Can Do in this Chapter

The Internet Connection screen lets you configure the WAN settings on the ZyXEL Device for Internet access (Section 5.4 on page 53).

The More Connections screen lets you set up additional Internet access connections (Section 5.5 on page 57).

 

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