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How to Manually Configure Your Internet Connection
You can manually configure your router using the Basic Settings menu, shown below, or you can allow the Setup Wizard to determine your configuration as described in the previous section.
You can manually configure the router using the Basic Settings menu shown in Figure 3-6 using these steps:
- Connect to the wireless router by typing http://www.routerlogin.net in the address field of your browser, then click Enter.
- For security reasons, the wireless router has its own user name and password. When prompted, enter admin for the router user name and password for the router password, both in lower case letters.
- Click Basic Settings on the Setup menu.
- If your Internet connection does not require a login, click No at the top of the Basic Settings menu and fill in the settings according to the instructions below. If your Internet connection does require a login, click Yes, and skip to step 5.
- Enter your Account Name (may also be called Host Name) and Domain Name.
These parameters may be necessary to access your ISP's services such as mail or news servers.- Internet IP Address:
If your ISP has assigned you a permanent, fixed (static) IP address for your computer, select Use Static IP Address. Enter the IP address that your ISP assigned. Also enter the net mask and the Gateway IP address. The Gateway is the ISP's router to which your router will connect.- Domain Name Server (DNS) Address:
If you know that your ISP does not automatically transmit DNS addresses to the router during login, select Use These DNS Servers and enter the IP address of your ISP's Primary DNS Server. If a Secondary DNS Server address is available, enter it also.- Router's MAC Address:
This section determines the Ethernet MAC address that will the router will use on the Internet port. Some ISPs will register the Ethernet MAC address of the network interface card in your computer when your account is first opened. They will then only accept traffic from the MAC address of that computer. This feature allows your router to masquerade as that computer by "cloning" its MAC address.To change the MAC address, select Use Computer MAC Address. The router will then capture and use the MAC address of the computer that you are now using. You must be using the one computer that is allowed by the ISP. Or, select Use this MAC address and type it in here.
- Click Apply to save your settings.
- If your Internet connection does require a login, fill in the settings according to the instructions below. Select Yes if you normally must launch a login program such as Enternet or WinPOET in order to access the Internet.
- Select your Internet service provider from the drop-down list.
- The screen will change according to the ISP settings requirements of the ISP you select.
- Fill in the parameters for your Internet service provider.
- Click Apply to save your settings. Click the Test button to verify you have Internet access.
NETGEAR, Inc. http://www.netgear.com |
202-10130-01,
January 2006 |
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