Connecting The Gateway To The Internet; What You Will Need Before You Begin; Hardware Requirements; Lan Configuration Requirements - NETGEAR CG814W Reference Manual

This chapter describes how to set up the CG814W Gateway on your Local Area Network (LAN),
connect to the Internet and perform basic configuration.

What You Will Need Before You Begin

You need to prepare these three things before you can connect your gateway to the Internet:
A computer properly connected to the gateway as explained below.
1.
Active Data Over Cable Internet service provided by cable modem account.
2.
The Internet Service Provider (ISP) configuration information for your cable modem account.
3.

Hardware Requirements

The CG814W Gateway connects to your LAN using either its twisted-pair Ethernet, USB or
802.11b wireless port.
To use the CG814W Gateway on your network, each computer must have either an installed
Ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC), USB Host port or 802.11b wireless adapter. 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 gateway.

LAN Configuration Requirements

For the initial connection to the Internet and configuration of your gateway, you will need to
connect a computer to the gateway which is set to automatically get its TCP/IP configuration from
the gateway via DHCP.

Connecting the Gateway to the Internet

Reference Manual for the Model CG814W Wireless Cable Modem Gateway
Connecting the Gateway to the Internet
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