Connecting The Fwg114P To The Internet; What You Will Need Before You Begin; Cabling And Computer Hardware Requirements; Computer Network Configuration Requirements - NETGEAR FWG114P Reference Manual

Connecting the FWG114P to the Internet

This chapter describes how to set up the router on your local area network (LAN) and connect to
the Internet. You will find out how to configure your ProSafe Wireless 802.11g Firewall/Print
Server Model FWG114P for Internet access using the Setup Wizard, or how to manually configure
your Internet connection.

What You Will Need Before You Begin

You need to prepare these three things before you begin:
Have active Internet service such as that provided by a cable or DSL broadband account.
1.
Locate the Internet Service Provider (ISP) configuration information for your DSL account.
2.
Connect the router to a broadband modem and a computer as explained below.
3.

Cabling and Computer Hardware Requirements

To use the FWG114P Wireless Firewall/Print Server on your network, each computer must have
an installed Ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC) and an Ethernet cable. If the computer will
connect to your network at 100 Mbps, you must use a Category 5 (CAT5) cable such as the one
provided with your router.

Computer Network Configuration Requirements

The FWG114P includes a built-in Web Configuration Manager. To access the configuration menus
on the FWG114P, your must use a Java-enabled Web browser program which supports HTTP
uploads such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. NETGEAR recommends
using Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator 4.0 or above. Free browser programs are readily
available for Windows, Macintosh, or UNIX/Linux.
For the initial connection to the Internet and configuration of your router, you will need to connect
a computer to the router which is set to automatically get its TCP/IP configuration from the router
via DHCP.
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