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    www .eicon.com Eicon 1550/1551 W AN Router Quic kstar t Guide[...]

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    2 Thank you for purcha sing the E icon 15 50/1551 W A N Router fr om Eico n Networ ks. Pl ease read t hrough th is guide ca refully , as it co ntains im por tant and us eful i nstalla- tion inf ormation. T o lear n mo re about pr oduct s from Ei con Networ ks, vis it our web site at www .eicon.com. Eicon 1 550/155 1 W A N Route rs are intellig ent,[...]

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    3 This sec tion wi ll de scr ibe how to con nect o ne com puter to th e Eicon 155 0/1551. Once the setup is r unnin g cor rectly , you can connect up to thr ee oth er LAN devices, such as other compute rs or a network -capable pr inter. Leav e your comput er on duri ng ins tallatio n. 1. Connect t he power a dapter . When con nected , the P ower in[...]

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    4 Changes to settings are mad e through a web browser . The web pages r eside on the Ei con 15 50/1551 itself. 1. Launch your web br owser . 2. Click ‘File’, ‘ Open’, th en enter t he following IP addr ess: 192.168.1.1 3. Click ‘OK’. Y ou shou ld see the ‘L og in’ page. Note: If you receive an erro r message from yo ur browser , and[...]

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    5 Once the VHSI p or t p rotoc ol is veri fied, you ca n begin c re- ating con nection p rofil es. Creating a Pr ofile 1. F r om the m enu, click the ‘Con necti on’ link . The ‘Con nection P rofiles’ page ap pears. As no p rofiles yet e x ist, t he only s ection o n this page is a n are a to create a new profile. 2. T o add a pr ofile, ente[...]

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    6 Changes th at you hav e made thus far do not take effect until you reset the device. Ho we ver , it is s trongly recomm ended that you che ck other device setti ngs t o ensur e that they cor- respond to your networ k situ ation. Specifi cally , you should inspe ct the f ollowing pages : • All VHSI P or t settings. The ‘V HSI P or t’ group o[...]

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    7 Any profil e can ac t as a backup co nnection in case a pr i- mar y conn ectio n f ails. The following e xamp le demo nstrates a simpl e scenar io on the Eic on 1551 . T wo profiles have been creat ed: VHS I-main a nd ISDN- backup . As shown bel ow , on the prof ile pa ge for ‘VHSI-main’ , the profile ‘IS DN-ba ck up’ has been d efined as[...]

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    8 The following dia gram descr ibes the behavio r of the in dicat or light s on the Eic on 155 0/1551. Note that t he ISDN l ights ap ply only to the Eicon 15 51. Indicator Lights ISDN Light Inter national F ir mware: OFF: D tur ns on to indicate a proper ly configu red line. Howe ver , whe n the line i s idle, many networks automatically disconnec[...]