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ZyXEL Communications Prestige 660HW Series manual

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  • Page 1

    Prestige 660H Series ADSL 2+ 4-Port Gateway Prestige 660HW Series ADSL 2+ 4-Port Gateway with 802.1 1g Wireless Quick S t art Guide V ersion 3.40 5/2005[...]

  • Page 2

    Prestige 660H/HW Series Quick Start Guide 2 Overview The Prestige 660H (P660H) and Prestige 660HW (P660H W) are ADSL routers with a buil t-in switch. The Prestige 660HW also has IEEE 802.1 1g wireless cap a bility . Al l w ire le ss f ea tur es p er ta in to the P 660HW series only . Y ou may need your Internet access information. See your User ’[...]

  • Page 3

    Prestige 660H/HW Series Quick Start Guide 3 1D S L : Connect the Prestige to a telephone jack using a telephone wire. 2L A N : Use an Ethernet cable to connect a computer to a LAN 10/100M port for initia l configuration and /or Internet access. 3P O W E R : Use the included power adaptor to connect th e POWER socket to an appropriate power source ([...]

  • Page 4

    Prestige 660H/HW Series Quick Start Guide 4 2.1 Configuration Genie From the included CD, click “Multimedia Auto Provisio ner” (the installation and configuration assistant) and th e n c l ic k “Installation T utorial”. A ft er y ou ’ v e v i ew e d th e tu t o ri a l , c l i ck “ Configuration Genie” at the end of the in sta lla ti o[...]

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    Prestige 660H/HW Series Quick Start Guide 5 Note: If you do not see the next scre en, then please r ead Section 6.1 on page 1 1 4 In the MAIN ME NU screen, click WIZARD SETUP . 2.3.1 Intern et Access Set up Note: Enter the Internet access informati on given to you by your ISP e xac tly in each wizard screen and then click Next to continue or click [...]

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    Prestige 660H/HW Series Quick Start Guide 6 1 From the Mode drop-down list box, select Routing (default) if you want to us e routing features su ch as NA T . 2 The next wizard screen varie s depending on the Encapsulation you chose i n the first wizard scre en. From the Network Address T ranslation drop-down list box, select SUA Only if you have on[...]

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    Prestige 660H/HW Series Quick Start Guide 7 Note: Y ou will only see the next two screens in Routing mode. 3 Wireless Configuration (P660HW series only) WP A-PSK encryption is preferred to W E P because it has user authe ntication and improved data encryption. If you don’t have WP A-capable wireless clients, configure WEP encryption. • PPPoA ?[...]

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    Prestige 660H/HW Series Quick Start Guide 8 Note: Wireless client s and the Prestige must use the same SSID, ch annel ID, WEP or WP A-PSK key (if enabled). 1 Click the Wireless LAN link under Advanced Setup. 2 Click 802.1x/WP A . Select Authentic ation Required , then select WP A- PSK and then type a Pre- shared Key . 3 Click Advanced Setup , Wirel[...]

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    Prestige 660H/HW Series Quick Start Guide 9 3.1 OTIST Configure this screen only if you have OTIST -aware wireless clients. OTI ST (One-T ouch Inte lligent Security T echnology) allows you to transfer your Prestige’s SSID and WEP or WP A-PSK securi ty settings to wireless clients that support OTIST and are within transmission range. Y ou can also[...]

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    Prestige 660H/HW Series Quick Start Guide 10 4 NA T NA T (Network Address T r anslation - NA T , RFC 1631) means th e translation of an IP address in one ne twork to a different IP address in another . Fo r example, you could translate one public IP address to multi ple private IP addresses on your LAN (SUA Only). 5 Firewall The firewall is already[...]

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    Prestige 660H/HW Series Quick Start Guide 11 6 T roubleshooting 6.1 Set Up Y our Computer ’ s IP Address This section shows you how to set your Windows NT/200 0/XP computer to automatically ge t an IP address. This ensures that your computer can connect with your Pre stige. Refer to your User ’s Guide for detaile d IP address configuration for [...]

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    Prestige 660H/HW Series Quick Start Guide 12 4 Select Internet Protocol (TCP /IP) (under the Genera l tab in Windows XP) and click Properties . 5 The Internet Protocol TCP/IP Properties screen opens (the General tab in Windows XP). 6 Select the Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatic ally options. 7 Click OK to cl[...]