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Netopia Routers R-Series manual

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  • Page 1

    Ne t opia ™ R outer Getting Star ted User Guide Installationsanleitung Guía de iniciación del usuario Manuel de l’utilisateur : pour commencer Manuale dell'utente Introducer ende gebr uikershandleiding Användarhandbok - Så här börjar du Netopia R-Series Routers[...]

  • Page 2

    Cop yright ©1999, Netopia, Inc., v .399 All rights reser ved. Printed in the U.S.A. This manual and any associated ar twork, software, and product designs ar e copyrighted with all rights reser ved. Under the copyright laws such materials may not be copied, in whole or par t, without the prior written consent of Netopia, Inc. Under the law , copyi[...]

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    4 Getting Started User Guide I NTRODUCTION The Netopia™ Router is designed to be easy to connect, confi gure, and use. Netopia and your ISP together make it even easier for you to get your router set up and connected to the Inter net in a few minutes. Once you’ve connected your router to your computer and to your telecommunications line and in[...]

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    5 C ONNECTING TO YOUR N ETWORK The Netopia Router in a 10Base-T network B EFORE RUNNING S MART S TART The Smar tStar t Wizard will help you set up the r outer and let other users on the local ar ea network (LAN) share the Inter net connection. The Smar tStar t Wizard walks you thr ough a series of questions and based on your r esponses automaticall[...]

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    6 Getting Started User Guide S ETTING UP YOUR R OUTER WITH THE S MART S TART W IZARD The Smar tStar t Wizard is tailored for your computer platfor m, but it works the same way on either a PC or a Macintosh. Inser t the Netopia CD or diskette (if that is what was supplied to you), and in the desktop navigation scr een that appears, launch the Smar t[...]

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    7 n Y ou will see the Manual or Automated Connection Profile scr een shown below . If you select ISP Automation , Smar tStar t of fers you the option of choosing one of several Netopia ISP par tners that suppor t the Netopia Router. Y ou then see the Internet Ser vice Provider Selection screen shown on page 7. If you select Manual Entr y , you mus[...]

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    8 Getting Started User Guide In most cases, this Smar tStar t configuration is all that you need to get your r outer up and r unning and connected to the Inter net. However, you may want to take advantage of additional featur es or special configuration options available thr ough the console-based configuration inter face. For detailed instr uct[...]

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    9 A DVANCED OPTION Router IP Address screen. If you selected the Advanced option in the Easy or Advanced options screen, Smar tStar t asks you to choose between entering the router’s cur rent IP address and assigning a new IP address to the r outer . If the router has alr eady been assigned an IP addr ess, select the first radio button. If you d[...]

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    10 Getting Started User Guide S HARING THE C ONNECTION C ONFIGURING TCP/IP ON W INDOWS 95, 98, OR NT COMPUTERS Configuring TCP/IP on a Windows computer r equires the following: n An Ethernet car d (also known as a network adapter) n The TCP/IP protocol must be “bound” to the adapter or car d D YNAMIC CONFIGURATION ( RECOMMENDED ) If you confi[...]

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    11 S TATIC CONFIGURATION ( OPTIONAL ) If you are manually configuring your computer on the Local Ar ea Network for a fi xed or static IP address, per for m the following: 1. Go to Star t Menu/Settings/Contr ol Panels and double click the Network icon. From the Network components list, select the Configuration tab. 2. Select TCP/IP-->Y our Net[...]

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    12 Getting Started User Guide n Y ou must have built-in Ethernet or a thir d-par ty Ether net car d and its associated drivers installed in your Macintosh. D YNAMIC CONFIGURATION ( RECOMMENDED ) If you configure your Netopia Router using Smar tStar t, you can accept the dynamic IP address assigned by your r outer. The Dynamic Host Configuration P[...]