Before You Begin - Zoom X6 User Manual

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Phone-jack adapter to adapt the phone cord to a particular
phone jack (certain countries only)
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ADSL line filter(s) (certain models only)

Before You Begin

Before you begin installing the
must have the following available to you:
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ADSL service enabled on your telephone line. To do this, you
need to sign up with an ADSL service provider. Once this
service is enabled, you should have an ADSL-enabled
telephone wall jack to plug the
provider may refer to ADSL service as DSL service).
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At least one computer for setting up the X6. The
Macintosh, Linux, and Windows operating systems.
You may also want to have these available to you:
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Any computer or other device that you want to connect
without wires to your network. These must have built-in
wireless capabilities or be equipped with a wireless adapter .
The works with 802.11b, 802.11g, and 802.11n compatible
X6
adapters.
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Any computer or other device that you want to physically
connect to your
X6
ETHERNET ports to which you can connect devices. The
computer or other device must have an Ethernet port to make
these connections.
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Additional Ethernet cables. If you plan to connect more than
one computer directly to the modem, you will need additional
Ethernet cables to make the connection. The modem supports
up to four direct connections with its four ETHERNET ports.
Chapter 2: Setting Up a Network
modem using this manual, you
X6
modem into. (Your service
X6
ETHERNET port. The
supports
X6
has four
X6
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