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Installation Guide and User Manual 1 . Acer European Support: http://support.acer - euro.com Acer ADSL Surf USB Modem Installation Guide[...]
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Installation Guide and User Manual 2 . Table of Contents 1. About The Manual 2. Specification 3. Preface Chapter 1 : ADSL Overview Chapter 2 : NDISLAN (RFC 1483) Driver for Windows 98 (Original Edition), 98SE, ME, XP and 2000[...]
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Installation Guide and User Manual 3 . 1. About This Manual This manual provides a comprehensive user’s guide and installation manual for Acer ADSL Surf USB Modem. It has been organized in such a way to make it easy to be followed by users worldwide. In order to ensure optimal comprehension, the following list provides brief descriptions of the f[...]
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Installation Guide and User Manual 4 2. Specification s ADSL Modem: l DMT Data Rates : u Up to 8Mb downstream u Up to 1024Kbps upstream l Compliant Standards : u ITU G.992.1 (Annex A , Annex B) u G.992.2 u ANSI T1.413 Issue 2 u ETSI TR328 l RFC Protocols : u RFC 1483 ( Multi - Protocol Encapsulation Over ATM (ALL5 ) ) u RFC 2364 ( Point - To - Poin[...]
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Installation Guide and User Manual 5 O perating Environment Operating + 0 ? ~ + 50 ? Non - operating - 20 ? ~ + 70 ? Humidity Operating 20%~80% RH Non - operating 1 0%~80% RH Standard Approval CE CLASS B FCC PART 15 CLASS B FCC PART 68 EN60950 K.21 Status LED 1 LED indicates ADSL Detect/Connect 1 LED indicates Power/R eady[...]
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Installation Guide and User Manual 6 Features The Acer ADSL Surf USB Modem provides the following features: • Compliant with Universal Serial Bus Specification Revision 1.1 • USB bus - powered; an external power supply is not required • Supports device drivers: NDISLAN • Compatible with G.992.1(Annex A ,B) ,G.992.2 , T1.413 Issue 2 ,ETSI TR[...]
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Installation Guide and User Manual 7 3. Preface The Acer ADSL Surf USB Modem Manual This manual contains information regarding the installation, operation, and configuration of the Acer ADSL Surf USB Modem. The following chapters are included in this manual : l Chapter 1 : “ Overview ” offers a brief description of ADSL, protocol and device dri[...]
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Installation Guide and User Manual 8 Chapter 1 : Overview About ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) technology provides high - speed data access across regular phone lines (copper wires) by making use of previously unused frequency bandwidth abov e the voice band. By placing the ADSL signal above the frequency of the voice signal, ADSL s[...]
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Installation Guide and User Manual 9 3. Point to Point Protocol ( PPP ) over Ethernet ( RFC 2516 ) – This protocol makes the modem appear as a local area network ( LAN ) device to the operating system. It allows multiple computer users on an Ethernet to share a common DSL connection to the Internet. LAN type of device drivers is provided for the [...]
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Installation Guide and User Manual 10 Chapter 2 : NDISLAN (RFC1483) Driver for Windows 98, 98SE, ME, XP and 2000 Description The NDISLAN driver exports a standard Ethernet interface to the Windows operating system and binds with Microsoft protocols that communicate with NDIS 3 or with third - party PPPoE client software (provided by your ADSL servi[...]
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Installation Guide and User Manual 11 2. Cli ck “NEXT” to confirm setting. 3. Click “Finish” to continue.[...]
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Installation Guide and User Manual 12 4. Windows will display a “USB Warning“ message. Insert the rectangular end of a USB cable into the USB port of your PC and insert the square end of the USB cable into the USB port of the Acer ADSL Surf USB Modem and Click ” OK ” 5. The d evice driver will be automatic ally install ed into your s ystem.[...]
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Installation Guide and User Manual 13 Configuring Netw orking for Wi ndows 98, 98SE, ME, XP, and 2000 The NDISLAN driver that you have just installed exports a standard Ethernet interface to the Windows operating system and binds with Microsoft protocols that communicate with NDIS 3 or with third - party PPPoE client softwar e provided by your ADSL[...]
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Installation Guide and User Manual 14 3. You can see your configuration in the following dialog box. Whenever you need to change the settings, please also refer to this dialog box and make appropriate change.[...]