Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product R-Series Netopia
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Net 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 gebruikersh.
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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.
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 Wizar d will help you set up the router and let other users on the local ar ea network (LAN) share the Inter net connection.
6 Getting Started User Guide S ETTING UP YOUR R OUTER WITH THE S MART S TART W IZARD The Smar tStar t Wizar d is tailored for your computer platfor m, but it works the same way on either a PC or a Macintosh.
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 scr een shown on page 7.
8 Getting Started User Guide In most cases, this Smar tStar t confi guration is all that you need to get your router 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 through the console-based confi guration inter face.
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 addr ess and assigning a new IP address to the r outer .
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 (a.
11 S TATIC CONFIGURATION ( OPTIONAL ) If you are manually configuring your computer on the Local Ar ea Network for a fixed or static IP addr ess, per for m the following: 1. Go to Star t Menu/Settings/Control Panels and double click the Network icon.
12 Getting Started User Guide n Y ou must have built-in Ether net or a third-par ty Ether net card 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 addr ess assigned by your router .
An important point after buying a device Netopia R-Series (or even before the purchase) is to read its user manual. We should do this for several simple reasons:
If you have not bought Netopia R-Series yet, this is a good time to familiarize yourself with the basic data on the product. First of all view first pages of the manual, you can find above. You should find there the most important technical data Netopia R-Series - thus you can check whether the hardware meets your expectations. When delving into next pages of the user manual, Netopia R-Series you will learn all the available features of the product, as well as information on its operation. The information that you get Netopia R-Series will certainly help you make a decision on the purchase.
If you already are a holder of Netopia R-Series, but have not read the manual yet, you should do it for the reasons described above. You will learn then if you properly used the available features, and whether you have not made any mistakes, which can shorten the lifetime Netopia R-Series.
However, one of the most important roles played by the user manual is to help in solving problems with Netopia R-Series. Almost always you will find there Troubleshooting, which are the most frequently occurring failures and malfunctions of the device Netopia R-Series along with tips on how to solve them. Even if you fail to solve the problem, the manual will show you a further procedure – contact to the customer service center or the nearest service center
