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2-3-1 Setup procedure for ‘Cable Modem’: 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Host Name :      Please input the host name of your computer, this is   
            optional, and only required if your service provider 
            asks you to do so.   
 
MAC address:    Please input MAC address of your computer here, if 
your service provider only permits computer with 
certain MAC address to access internet. If you’re using 
the computer which used to connect to Internet via 
cable modem, you can simply press ‘Clone Mac 
address’ button to fill the MAC address field with the 
MAC address of your computer. 
 
After you finish with all settings, please click ‘OK’    button; if you want to 
go back to previous menu, click ‘Back’.   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
						

							 
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2-3-2 Setup procedure for ‘Fixed-IP xDSL’: 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
IP address        Please input IP address assigned 
assigned by your    by your service provider. 
Service Provider (1):   
 
Subnet Mask :    Please input subnet mask assigned by your service 
provider  
 
DNS address :    Please input the IP address of DNS server provided by 
your service provider. 
 
Service Provider    Please input the IP address of DNS server 
Gateway Address : provided by your service provider. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
When you finish with all settings, press ‘OK’ ; if you want to go back to 
previous menu, click ‘Back’. 
 
 
 
 
 
NOTE: You can choose this Internet connection method if your 
service provider assigns a fixed IP address (also know as static 
address) to you, and not using DHCP or PPPoE protocol. Please 
contact your service provider for further information. 
You must use the addresses provided by your Internet service 
provider, wrong setting value will cause connection problem.    
						

							 
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2-3-3 Setup procedure for ‘PPPoE xDSL’: 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
User Name (1):    Please input user name assigned by your Internet 
service provider here. 
 
Password :    Please input the password assigned by your Internet 
service provider here. 
 
Service Name :    Please give a name to this Internet service, this is 
optional 
 
MTU :    Please input the MTU value of your network connection 
here. If you don’t know, you can use default value. 
 
Connection       Please select the connection type of Internet 
Type :    connection you wish to use (detailed explanation listed 
below). 
 
Idle Time Out :    Please input idle time out, (detailed explanation listed 
below). 
 
When you finish with all settings, please click ‘OK’ ; if you want to go back 
to previous menu, click ‘Back’. 
 
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2-3-4 Setup procedure for ‘PPTP xDSL’: 
 
PPTP xDSL requires two kinds of setting: WAN interface setting (setup IP 
address) and PPTP setting (PPTP user name and password). Here we start 
from WAN interface setting: 
 
 
 
Select the type of how you obtain IP address from your service provider here. 
You can choose ‘Obtain an IP address automatically’ (equal to DHCP, please 
refer to ‘Cable Modem’ section above), or ‘Use the following IP address’ (i.e. 
static IP address).   
 
WAN interface settings must be correctly set, or the Internet connection will 
fail even those settings of PPTP settings are correct. Please contact your 
Internet service provider if you don’t know what you should fill in these 
fields. 
MTU - Please use default value if you don’t know what it is, or ask 
your service provider for a proper value. 
 
Connection Type - There are 3 options: ‘Continuous’ - keep internet 
connection alive, do not disconnect, connect on Demand - only 
connects to Internet when there’s a connect attempt, and ‘Manual’ - 
only connects to Internet when ‘Connect’ button on this page is 
pressed, and disconnects when ‘Disconnect button is pressed. 
 
Idle Time Out: Specify the time to shutdown internet connect after no 
internet activity is detected by minute. This option is only available 
when connection type is ‘Connect on Demand’.  
						

							 
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Now please go to PPTP settings section: 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
User ID:    Please input user ID (user name) assigned by your 
Internet service provider here. 
 
Password:    Please input the password assigned by your Internet 
service provider here. 
 
PPTP    Please input the IP address of PPTP gateway 
Gateway :    assigned by your Internet service provider here. 
 
Connection       Please input the connection ID here, this is 
ID:     optional and you can leave it blank. 
 
MTU :    Please input the MTU value of your network connection 
here. If you don’t know, you can use default value. 
 
Connection       Please select the connection type of Internet 
type :    connection you wish to use, please refer to last section 
for detailed descriptions. 
 
Idle Time        Please input the idle time out of Internet 
Out :    connection you wish to use, and refer to last section for 
detailed descriptions. 
Setting item ‘BEZEQ-ISRAEL’ is only required to check if you’re using the 
service provided by BEZEQ network in Israel.   
 
When you finish with all settings, please click ‘OK ; if you want to go back 
to previous menu, click ‘Back’.  
						

							 
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2-3-5 Setup procedure for ‘L2TP xDSL’: 
 
L2TP is another popular connection method for xDSL and other Internet 
connection types, and all required setting items are the same with PPTP 
connection. 
 
Like PPTP, there are two kinds of required setting, we’ll start from ‘WAN 
Interface Settings’: 
 
 
 
Please select the type of how you obtain IP address from your service 
provider here. You can choose ‘Obtain an IP address automatically’ (equal to 
DHCP, please refer to ‘Cable Modem’ section above), or ‘Use the following 
IP address’ (equal to static IP address, please refer to ‘PPPoE xDSL’ section 
above).  
 
WAN interface settings must be correctly set, or the Internet connection will 
fail even those settings of PPTP settings are correct. Please contact your 
Internet service provider if you don’t know what you should fill in these 
fields. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
						

							 
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2-3-5 Setup procedure for ‘L2TP’: 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
User ID (1):      Please input user ID (user name) assigned by your   
    Internet service provider here. 
 
Password :    Please input the password assigned by your Internet 
service provider here. 
 
L2TP Gateway :    Please input the IP address of PPTP gateway assigned 
by your Internet service provider here. 
 
MTU :    Please input the MTU value of your network connection 
here. If you don’t know, you can use default value. 
 
Connection       Please select the connection type of Internet 
type :    connection you wish to use, please refer to last section 
for detailed descriptions. 
 
Idle Time        Please input the idle time out of Internet 
Out :    connection you wish to use, and refer to last section for 
detailed descriptions. 
 
When you finish with all settings, please click ‘OK ; if you want to go back 
to previous menu, click ‘Back’. 
 
 
 
 
 
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2-3-6 Setup procedure for ‘Telstra Big Pond’: 
 
 
 
This setting only works when you’re using Telstra big pond’s network 
service in Australia. You need to input: 
User Name :      Please input the user name assigned by Telstra. 
 
Password :     Please input the password assigned by Telstra. 
 
User device login    Check this box to choose login 
server manually :  server by yourself. 
  
Login Server :    Please input the IP address of login server here. 
 
When you finish with all settings, click ‘OK ; if you want to go back to 
previous menu, click ‘Back’. 
 
When all settings are finished, you’ll see the following message displayed on 
your web browser: 
 
 
 
Please click ‘Apply’ button to prepare to restart the router, and you’ll see this 
message: 
  
						

							 
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Please wait for about 50 seconds, then click ‘OK!’ button. You’ll be back to 
router management interface again, and the router is ready with new settings.  
						

							 
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2-4 Basic Setup 
 
In this chapter, you’ll know how to change the time zone, password, and 
remote management settings. Please start your web browser and log onto 
router web management interface, then click ‘General Setup’ button on the 
left, or click ‘General Setup’ link at the upper-right corner of web 
management interface. 
 
 
 
 
2-4-1 Time zone and time auto-synchronization 
 
Please follow the following instructions to set time zone and time 
auto-synchronization parameters: 
 
Please click ‘System’ menu on the left of web management interface, then 
click ‘Time Zone’, and the following message will be displayed on your web 
browser: Please select time zone at ‘Set time zone’ drop-down list, and input 
the IP address or host name of time server. If you want to enable daylight 
savings setting, please check ‘Enable Function’ box, and set the duration of 
daylight setting. When you finish, click ‘Apply’. You’ll see the following 
message displayed on web browser: 
 
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