NETGEAR RANGEMAX WNDR3300 User Manual page 22

NETGEAR RangeMax™ Dual Band Wireless-N Router WNDR3300 User Manual
Table 1-1. Basic Settings screen fields (continued)
Settings
Internet IP Address
Domain Name Server (DNS) Address
This field Router MAC Address
appears only if
no login is
required.
1-8
Description
• Get Dynamically from ISP. Your ISP uses DHCP to assign
your IP address. Your ISP automatically assigns these
addresses.
• Use Static IP Address. Enter the IP address that your ISP
assigned. Also enter the IP subnet mask and the gateway IP
address. The gateway is the ISP's wireless router to which
your wireless router will connect.
The DNS server is used to look up site addresses based on
their names.
• Get Automatically from ISP. Your ISP uses DHCP to
assign your DNS servers. Your ISP automatically assigns
this address.
• Use These DNS Servers. If you know that your ISP does
not automatically transmit DNS addresses to the wireless
router during login, select this option, and enter the IP
address of your ISP's primary DNS server. If a secondary
DNS server address is available, enter it also.
The Ethernet MAC address that will be used by the wireless
router on the Internet port. Some ISPs register the Ethernet
MAC address of the network interface card in your computer
when your account is first opened. They will then accept traffic
only from the MAC address of that computer. This feature
allows your wireless router to masquerade as that computer
by "cloning" its MAC address.
• Use Default Address. Use the default MAC address.
• Use Computer MAC Address. The wireless router will
capture and use the MAC address of the computer that you
are now using. You must be using the one computer that is
allowed by the ISP.
• Use This MAC Address. Enter the MAC address that you
want to use.
Configuring Your Internet Connection
v1.1, October 2008