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  • Page 1 INKSYS WCG200 Cable Modem User’s Manual...

  • Page 2: For Installation

    INKSYS WCG200 User Manual Safety Notes For Installation Use only the type of power source indicated on the marking labels. Use only the power adapter supplied with the product. Do not overload wall outlet or extension cords as this may increase the risk of electric shock or file. If the power cord is frayed, replace it with a new one.

  • Page 3: Physical Outlook

    INKSYS WCG200 User Manual 1.1 Physical Outlook The following illustration shows the front panel of the INKSYS WCG200 Cable Modem. LED Indicators The LEDs on the front panel are described in the table below (from left to right): Color Status Description Power off.
  • Page 4 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual Power Switch: Standard Power Switch 12 VDC: 12V Power connector RESET︰ Reset-to-Default push button ETHERNET(L1 to L4)︰ 10/100BaseTX RJ-45 connectors, 4 ports auto-sensing & auto-crossover Ethernet switch USB： USB Connector CABLE︰ F-Connector...

  • Page 5: Connecting The Cable Modem To Your Computer

    INKSYS WCG200 User Manual 2.1 Connecting the Cable Modem to Your Computer Follow the steps below for proper installation: 1. Make sure your computer meets the system requirements. 2. Connect a coaxial cable (supplied by the local Cable Television Company) to the CABLE connector on the modem.
  • Page 6 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual Follow the steps below for proper installation: 1. Make sure your computer meets the system requirements. 2. Connect a coaxial cable (supplied by the local Cable Television Company) to the CABLE connector on the modem. 3. Plug the power adapter into the POWER connector of the modem.
  • Page 7 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual 1. Make sure your computer meets the system requirements. 2. Connect a coaxial cable (supplied by the local Cable Television Company) to the CABLE connector on the modem. 3. Plug the power adapter into the POWER connector of the modem.

  • Page 8: Usb Driver Installation

    INKSYS WCG200 User Manual 3.1 USB Driver Installation 1. Wait for the cable modem is running in the operational state (registration O.K.). Plug the USB cable into your PC USB port. You will see the next page. Click the “Next” button.
  • Page 9 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual 4. Select “The updated driver...” and click the “Next” button. 5. Click the “Next” button. 6. Installation has been completed here. Click the “Finish” button.
  • Page 10 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual 7. The system will ask you to restart your computer. Click “Yes” to complete the installation. 1. Wait for the cable modem is running in the operational state (registration O.K.). Plug the USB cable into your PC USB port.
  • Page 11 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual 3. Select “Search for a suitable driver for my device“ and click the “Next” button. 4. Insert the driver CD into CD-ROM. Select “CD-ROM drive” and clicks the “Next” button. 5. Click the “Next” button.

  • Page 12: Uninstall Usb Driver

    INKSYS WCG200 User Manual 6. Installation has been completed here. Click the “Finish” button. 3.2 Uninstall USB Driver 1. Click “Start” button on your computer’s taskbar, point to “Settings”, and then click “Control Panel”. 2. Select Add/Remove Programs. 3. On the Install/Uninstall tab, select USB Cable Modem Adapter from the list box. Click the Add/Remove button.

  • Page 13: Setting Tcp/Ip On Client Pc

    INKSYS WCG200 User Manual 3.3 Setting TCP/IP on Client PC After you successfully complete the network interface card (Ethernet card) installation task, you need to make sure the TCP/IP communications protocol used by the Ethernet card is installed and correctly configured on your system.
  • Page 14 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual 4. The Select Network Component Type dialog box will show up. Click ”Protocol”, and then click ”Add”. 5. You will see the Select Network Protocol dialog box. Click “Microsoft” in the “Manufactures:” list, and then click “TCP/IP” in the “Network Protocols:” list. Click “OK”.
  • Page 15 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual 6. You will be directed back to the Network dialog box, and on the “Configuration” tab, the entry that includes TCP/IP -> followed by the Ethernet card installed in your computer will appear in the list of installed network components.
  • Page 16 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual 8. In the TCP/IP Properties dialog box, please follow the directions below: Click “IP Address” tab to bring it to the front, and then click “Obtain an IP address automatically” on the tab. 9. Click “Gateway” to bring it to the front. On this tab, leave the “New gateway:” blank. If there is the entry in the “Installed gateway:”...
  • Page 17 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual 11. The Copying Files dialog box will pop up and the system will start copying files from Windows. At the first time you will be asked to insert the Windows 98 CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive during the files copying, and follow the instructions when they show up, then click “OK”.
  • Page 18 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual Click “Start” button on your computer’s taskbar, point to “Settings”, and then click ”Network and Dial-up Connections”. The Network and Dial-up Connections window will show up. Double-click “Local Area Connection” icon in the Network and Dial-up Connections window.
  • Page 19 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual Click “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)” and then click “Properties”. The Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties dialog box appears. Click “Obtain an IP address automatically”. Click “Obtain DNS server address automatically”. Click “OK” to close the dialog box.

  • Page 20: Dhcp Server

    INKSYS WCG200 User Manual Windows will appear the System Settings Change dialog box and ask you if you would like to restart your computer. Click “Yes”. 3.4 DHCP Server PC connected to the cable modem can automatically get a private IP address from the DHCP server of cable modem before cable modem is on line.
  • Page 21 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual Enter “winipcfg“ in the “Open“ field. Click “OK“ to execute the winipcfg and show the “IP Configuration“ window. Select the “Ethernet adapter“ to show the IP address. Press “Release“ and “Renew“ if the PC is not accessing the Internet. After the cable modem is on line, you need to press the “Release“...
  • Page 22 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual The Run dialog box appears. Type “cmd” in the “Open” field, and then click “OK” to execute the command. You will enter the dos mode, type “ipconfig”, press “Enter” on your keyboard, and you will see the IP address your computer get from the cable modem.
  • Page 23 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual Type “ipconfig /renew”, and press “Enter” on your keyboard to renew the IP. You can repeat the steps until your computer gets the correct IP. 1. Click “Apple menu“, point to “Control Panels“, and click “TCP/IP” to open the “TCP/IP”...

  • Page 24: Renew Pc Ip Address

    INKSYS WCG200 User Manual 2. If the iMac gets an invalid IP, select “Using DHCP Server” in “Configure” field. Click the “Close box” at the upper left corner to close the “TCP/IP” window. 3. Click the “Save” in the prompted message box.
  • Page 25 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual Click “Start“, point to “Run“, and click to open the “Run“ windows. Enter winipcfg in the “Open“ field. Click “OK“ to execute the winipcfg and show the “IP Configuration“ window. Select the “Ethernet adapter“ to show the IP address. Press “Release“ and “Renew“ to get a new IP address from your ISP’s server.

  • Page 26: Accessing Internet

    INKSYS WCG200 User Manual For making sure that you can get into Internet successfully, please make sure the following first. 1. Make sure the connection (through Ethernet or USB) between the cable modem and your computer is OK. 2. Make sure the TCP/IP protocol is set properly.
  • Page 27 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual Once your host PC is properly configured, please proceed as follows: Start your web browser and type the private IP address of the cable modem in the URL field: 192.168.0.1. Type the IP address as the figure shown below.
  • Page 28 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual 5.1 Setup This page allows you to select the connection type. You can set up static IP or obtain IP address automatically. Also you can set up Gateway IP and DHCP. Gateway IP: Network Address Server Settings(DHCP):...
  • Page 29 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual 5.2 Wireless...
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  • Page 32 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual After all settings are ready, click on Save Settings.
  • Page 33 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual 5.3 Security...
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  • Page 35: Access Restrictions

    INKSYS WCG200 User Manual 5.4 Access Restrictions...
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  • Page 38: Application & Gaming

    INKSYS WCG200 User Manual 5.5 Application & Gaming...
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  • Page 41 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual 5.6 Administration...
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  • Page 43 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual To retore Factory Default, select YES and click on Save Settings.
  • Page 44 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual 5.7 STATUS...
  • Page 45 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual Product Overview INKSYS WCG200 is a DOCSIS 1.1 compliant wireless cable residential gateway that provide high-speed connectivity to residential, commercial, and education subscribers on public and private networks via an existing cable infrastructure. INKSYS WCG200 is equipped with 4-port Ethernet switch, USB, and IEEE802.11g Wireless interfaces.
  • Page 46 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual Gateway multiple users with one IP account for routing mode One to Many − Many to Many − Reverse NAT − PPTP, L2TP & IPSec Pass-Through − Advanced Application Level Gateways (ALG) − Support Transparent bridging for IP traffic for bridge •...
  • Page 47 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual Association Control List (ACL) for Wireless • Clients Management Firewall IP Filtering • Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) • Intrusion Detection System (IDS) • Application Content Filtering • Configurable Access Policy • Web-Based User Interface Management and •...
  • Page 48 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual -15 to +15dBmV/256QAM +8 to +55dBmV/16QAM Modulation 64QAM/256QAM QPSK/16QAM Modulation Rate 5.056941/5.360537 160/320/640/1280/2560 Msym/sec Ksym/sec Maximum Bit Rate 42.88Mbps/256QAM 10.24Mbps/16QAM 30.34Mbps/64QAM 5.12Mbps/QPSK Forward Error Correction (FEC) RS(128,122)/Trellis Reed Solomon Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) >30 Bit Error Rate (BER) 1×10...
  • Page 49 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual Case Lay down • LEDs Power • Green Blink - Booting / Diagnostics Green ON - Power On / Device Ready Orange ON - Error Cable|Activity (Green color) • OFF|Blink - Scanning D/S channels OFF|ON - D/S channel acquired, Start ranging...
  • Page 50 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual Power 12VDC, 1.2 A • Wireless: Media Access Control CSMA/CA with ACK for unicast data frames • CSMA/CA with ACK for broadcast data frames • and management frames Data Rate 802.11g • 54, 48, 36, 24, 18, 12, 9, 6 Mbps 802.11b...
  • Page 51 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual 20m @ 54Mb 30m @ 18Mb 35m @ 11Mb 40m @ 5.5Mb 45m @ 2Mb 50m @ 1Mb Outdoors: • 50m @ 54Mb 70m @ 18Mb 100m @ 11Mb 150m @ 5.5Mb 250m @ 2Mb 300m @ 1Mb Standards &...

  • Page 52: Mib Support

    INKSYS WCG200 User Manual • SNMP v1/v2c/v3 • Syslog • HTTP • TFTP • UPnP • Kerberos • WPA / TKIP • MIB Support: MIB 2 • RFC2786 • RFC2669 • CableLabs Private MIBs • Environment: Operating Temperature 32°F ~ 104°F (0°C to 40°C) •...
  • Page 53 INKSYS WCG200 User Manual FCC Part 15 Class B • CE 300, 328-2 • Telec & VCCI • Wireless Wi-Fi Compliant • UPnP • Front View: Rear View: 12 VDC CABLE CABLE: F-Connector USB: USB Connector ETHERNET: Four ports RJ-45 10/100BaseT Ethernet switch...

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