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WAN

8.1 Overview

This chapter discusses the NBG-460N’s WAN screens. Use these screens to configure your NBG-460N 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 94 LAN and WAN

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See Chapter 4 on page 49 for more information on the fields in the WAN screens.

8.2What You Can Do

•Use the Internet Connection screen (Section 8.4 on page 139) to enter your ISP information and set how the computer acquires its IP, DNS and WAN MAC addresses.

•Use the Advanced screen (Section 8.5 on page 146) to enable multicasting, assign a port/s for IPTV, and configure Windows networking and bridge.

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