Wan; Chapter 10 Wan; Overview; What You Can Do In This Chapter - ZyXEL Communications NBG5715 User Manual

10.1 Overview

This chapter discusses the NBG5715's WAN screens. Use these screens to configure your NBG5715
for Internet access.
A WAN (Wide Area Network) connection is an outside connection to another network or the
Internet. It connects your private networks such as a LAN (Local Area Network) and other
networks, so that a computer in one location can communicate with computers in other locations.
Figure 37 LAN and WAN

10.2 What You Can Do in this Chapter

• Use the Broadband screen to enter your ISP information and set how the computer acquires its
IP, DNS and WAN MAC addresses
• Use the Advanced screen to enable multicasting

10.3 What You Need To Know

The information in this section can help you configure the screens for your WAN connection, as well
as enable/disable some advanced features of your NBG5715.

10.3.1 Configuring Your Internet Connection

Encapsulation Method
Encapsulation is used to include data from an upper layer protocol into a lower layer protocol. To set
up a WAN connection to the Internet, you need to use the same encapsulation method used by your
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