call. Some phone companies in North America charge less if calls are made using DOVBS.

9.Press ENTER at the message: Press ENTER to Confirm ... to confirm your selections, or press ESC at any time to cancel your selections.

10.At this point, the SMT will ask if you wish to test the Internet connection. If you select Yes, the Prestige will call the ISP to test the Internet connection. If the test fails, note the error message that you receive and take the appropriate troubleshooting steps.

Single User Account

Typically, if there are multiple users on the LAN wanting to concurrently access the Internet, they will have to subscribe to multiple IP addresses or a Class C subnetwork from the ISP. In either case, these two approaches will cost more than a single user account.

The Single User Account (SUA) feature allows customers to have the same benefits as having a Class C address, but still only pay for one IP address, thus saving significantly on subscription fees. (Check with your ISP before you enable this feature).

This feature may also be used to connect to TCP/IP remote nodes other than Internet Service Providers. 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 Single User Account can be either fixed or dynamically assigned by the ISP (or other remote node). In addition, you can also configure a server, e.g., a Web server, on your local network and make it accessible by outside users.

If you do not set a server IP address, SUA offers the additional benefit of firewall protection. This is because if no server is

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