Netgear Router WGT624 V2 User Manual
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Reference Manual for the 108 Mbps Wireless Firewall Router WGT624 v2 Preparing Your Network C-15 M-10153-01 Verifying TCP/IP Properties for Windows XP, 2000, and NT4 To check your PC’s TCP/IP configuration: 1.On the Windows taskbar, click the Start button, and then click Run. The Run window opens. 2.Ty p e cmd and then click OK. A command window opens 3.Ty p e ipconfig /all Your IP Configuration information will be listed, and should match the values below if you are using the default TCP/IP settings...
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Reference Manual for the 108 Mbps Wireless Firewall Router WGT624 v2 C-16 Preparing Your Network M-10153-01 • The default gateway is 192.168.0.1 4.Ty p e exit Configuring the Macintosh for TCP/IP Networking Beginning with Macintosh Operating System 7, TCP/IP is already installed on the Macintosh. On each networked Macintosh, you will need to configure TCP/IP to use DHCP. MacOS 8.6 or 9.x 1.From the Apple menu, select Control Panels, then TCP/IP. The TCP/IP Control Panel opens: 2.From the “Connect via”...
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Reference Manual for the 108 Mbps Wireless Firewall Router WGT624 v2 Preparing Your Network C-17 M-10153-01 2.If not already selected, select Built-in Ethernet in the Configure list. 3.If not already selected, Select Using DHCP in the TCP/IP tab. 4.Click Save. Verifying TCP/IP Properties for Macintosh Computers After your Macintosh is configured and has rebooted, you can check the TCP/IP configuration by returning to the TCP/IP Control Panel. From the Apple menu, select Control Panels, then TCP/IP. The...
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Reference Manual for the 108 Mbps Wireless Firewall Router WGT624 v2 C-18 Preparing Your Network M-10153-01 Verifying the Readiness of Your Internet Account For broadband access to the Internet, you need to contract with an Internet service provider (ISP) for a single-user Internet access account using a cable modem or DSL modem. This modem must be a separate physical box (not a card) and must provide an Ethernet port intended for connection to a Network Interface Card (NIC) in a computer. Your...
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Reference Manual for the 108 Mbps Wireless Firewall Router WGT624 v2 Preparing Your Network C-19 M-10153-01 • An IP address and subnet mask • A gateway IP address, which is the address of the ISP’s router • One or more domain name server (DNS) IP addresses • Host name and domain suffix For example, your account’s full server names may look like this: mail.xxx.yyy.com In this example, the domain suffix is xxx.yyy.com. If any of these items are dynamically supplied by the ISP, your firewall automatically...
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Reference Manual for the 108 Mbps Wireless Firewall Router WGT624 v2 C-20 Preparing Your Network M-10153-01 If an IP address appears under Installed Gateways, write down the address. This is the ISP’s gateway address. Select the address and then click Remove to remove the gateway address. 6.Select the DNS Configuration tab. If any DNS server addresses are shown, write down the addresses. If any information appears in the Host or Domain information box, write it down. Click Disable DNS. 7.Click OK to...
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Reference Manual for the 108 Mbps Wireless Firewall Router WGT624 v2 Preparing Your Network C-21 M-10153-01 Restarting the Network Once you’ve set up your computers to work with the firewall, you must reset the network for the devices to be able to communicate correctly. Restart any computer that is connected to the firewall. After configuring all of your computers for TCP/IP networking and restarting them, and connecting them to the local network of your WGT624 v2 wireless router, you are ready to...
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Reference Manual for the 108 Mbps Wireless Firewall Router WGT624 v2 C-22 Preparing Your Network M-10153-01
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Wireless Networking Basics D-1 M-10153-01 Appendix D Wireless Networking Basics This chapter provides an overview of Wireless networking. Wireless Networking Overview The WGT624 v2 wireless router conforms to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 standard for wireless LANs (WLANs) and a product update will bring the WGT624 v2 into conformance to the 802.11g standard when it is ratified. On an 802.11b or g wireless link, data is encoded using direct-sequence...
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Reference Manual for the 108 Mbps Wireless Firewall Router WGT624 v2 D-2 Wireless Networking Basics M-10153-01 In the infrastructure mode, the wireless access point converts airwave data into wired Ethernet data, acting as a bridge between the wired LAN and wireless clients. Connecting multiple Access Points via a wired Ethernet backbone can further extend the wireless network coverage. As a mobile computing device moves out of the range of one access point, it moves into the range of another. As a...