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Alcatel SpeedTouch 570 Setup And User Manual

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  • Page 1 SpeedTouch™ 570/570i Wireless ADSL Routers Setup and User’s Guide SERIES...
  • Page 3 SpeedTouch™ 570 Setup and User’s Guide 3EC 17766 BAAA TCZZA Ed. 01...
  • Page 4 Status Released Change Note PeckelbeenS Short Title CD-UG ST570 R2.0 Copyright © 2002 THOMSON multimedia. All rights reserved. Passing on, and copying of this docu- ment, use and communication of its contents is not permitted without written authorization from THOMSON multimedia. The content of this document is furnished for informational use only, may be subject to change without notice, and should not be construed as a commit- ment by THOMSON multimedia.

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Contents 1 SpeedTouch™570 Installation ... 7 Getting Acquainted with the SpeedTouch™570... 8 Preparing the SpeedTouch™570 ... 10 Wireless Connectivity ... 13 1.3.1. First-time Wireless Client Connectivity ... 15 1.3.2. Connecting other Wireless Clients ... 16 SpeedTouch™570 Configuration Setup ... 18 1.4.1.
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  • Page 7: Speedtouch™570 Installation

    Guide Touch™570 and quickly connecting wired and wireless users to the Internet. Terminology For readability, both the SpeedTouch™570 and SpeedTouch™570i will be referred to as SpeedTouch™570 in this Setup and User's Guide. Quick installation and Prior to connecting the SpeedTouch™570 , read the SpeedTouch™ Quick Installation Safety instructions Guide and Safety instructions.

  • Page 8: Getting Acquainted With The Speedtouch™570

    In the event of damaged or missing items, please contact your local product dealer for more information. The SpeedTouch™570 You SpeedTouch™ is presented in a slim line box: SpeedTouch™ LEDs The SpeedTouch™570 is equipped with 5 LEDs on its front panel, indicating the state of the device during operation: Indicator Name Line TX...
  • Page 9 WLAN Registration button Description Status 10/100Base-T 10Base-T Ethernet connection. Solid 100Base-T Ethernet connection. Integrity No connection on this port. Activity Solid Ethernet link up. Flashing Data is flowing from/to this port. 1 SpeedTouch™570 Installation Defaults button 10/100Base-T Ethernet port DSL line port...

  • Page 10: Preparing The Speedtouch™570

    SpeedTouch™570 on a wall. Before you start, check for the following items: • • • To prepare the wall fixing assembly and the SpeedTouch™570 , proceed as follows: Step The wall fixing assembly 2 screws and 2 wall plugs 1 Velcro sticker.
  • Page 11 Connect the ADSL line The DSL port on the SpeedTouch™570 is marked “Line”. Use the DSL cable provided to wire the SpeedTouch™570 DSL port to your telephone wall outlet. 3EC 17766 BAAA TCZZA Ed. 01 Position the SpeedTouch™570 over the two hooks and slide the box down...
  • Page 12 The power inlet on the SpeedTouch™570 is marked “DC”. Plug the adapter's coaxial jack into the SpeedTouch™570's power inlet. Turn on the Once all previous steps are completed, you can turn the SpeedTouch™570 on (I) with SpeedTouch™570 the power switch.

  • Page 13: Wireless Connectivity

    The WLAN's 'radio' link is a shared medium. As no physical connection exists between the SpeedTouch™570 and wireless clients, a name must be given to allow unique identi- fication of your WLAN radio link. This is done by the Service Set ID (SSID). Wireless clients must be part of this SSID environment in order to be able to communicate with other clients on the (W)LAN - including the SpeedTouch™570 .

  • Page 14: Default Configuration

    1 SpeedTouch™570 Installation Default configuration When the SpeedTouch™570 leaves the factory and after every Push-to-Defaults, the SpeedTouch™570 wireless configuration returns to its initial default settings. These settings are as follows: • • • • • The default SSID is printed on the identification label located on the bottom of your SpeedTouch™570:...

  • Page 15: First-Time Wireless Client Connectivity

    Some WLAN clients do not automatically join a WLAN. If so, Note follow the instructions for the WLAN client software to initiate the association. As a result the WLAN client is associated to the default SpeedTouch™570 Wireless environment and registered to the Access Control List. 1 SpeedTouch™570 Installation Action...

  • Page 16: Connecting Other Wireless Clients

    Optionally, the SpeedTouch™570 WLAN settings have been personalized. The WLAN client adapter is installed on your computer. In case WEP encryption is enabled on the SpeedTouch™570 , you must configure the WLAN client for using the same WEP key. Configure the WLAN client for the SpeedTouch™570 SSID, hence associated to the SpeedTouch™570 WLAN.
  • Page 17 3EC 17766 BAAA TCZZA Ed. 01 Action Make sure that all preconditions mentioned above are met. Push the red Registration button on the SpeedTouch™570 back panel or click the 'Registration' button on the SpeedTouch™570 Wireless web page via an already registered and connected computer.

  • Page 18: Speedtouch™570 Configuration Setup

    A password. A Microsoft Windows OS From the included SpeedTouch™ Setup CD-rom a wizard will automatically guide you through the configuration of both the SpeedTouch™570 and your PC for setting up the appropriate configuration. See subsection “1.4.1. Configuration Setup for MS Windows OSs” on page Another OS, e.g.

  • Page 19: Configuration Setup For Ms Windows Oss

    Start > Run from the Start menu and enter the following path: D:\Setup.exe, where D is the drive letter of your CD-rom drive. The SpeedTouch™ Welcome window pops up: To start the SpeedTouch™ Setup wizard, click SpeedTouch™ Setup. 1 SpeedTouch™570 Installation Action...
  • Page 20 1 SpeedTouch™570 Installation Step Action The Welcome to the SpeedTouch™ Setup Wizard window pops up: Click Next to proceed. The Software License Agreement for SpeedTouch™ window pops up: Click Yes to accept the terms of the agreement and to continue with the Setup wizard.
  • Page 21 The setup wizard should find your SpeedTouch™570 device on the local network. This is indicated by following window: If the Setup wizard does not find an SpeedTouch™570 on the network an error window pops up. In this case check: •...
  • Page 22 This information should be provided by your Service Provider. In final step all configurations will be applied to the SpeedTouch™570 and your PC. You can follow the configuration progress in following window: 3EC 17766 BAAA TCZZA Ed. 01...
  • Page 23 The SpeedTouch™ Setup wizard will appear again to announce that the configuration has been successful: Click finish to close the wizard. For enhanced security, after going through the SpeedTouch™570 configura- tion setup procedures, you are able to “personalize” the SpeedTouch™570 Wireless configuration. See “1.3 Wireless Connectivity” on page 13 information.

  • Page 24: Configuration Setup For Other Oss

    The following procedure may equally be used on MS Windows OSs. 13) and with a static “Net10” private IP address, Action To make sure that the SpeedTouch™570 is in its factory default state, perform a reset to defaults. Register the first-time WLAN client according to subsection Wireless Client Connectivity”...
  • Page 25 3EC 17766 BAAA TCZZA Ed. 01 Action To check whether the activation of the uploaded configuration was successful, you can browse to the SpeedTouch™570 and overview the current configura- tion. It is advised to “personalize” the SpeedTouch™570 WLAN configuration. See chapter “2 SpeedTouch™570 Web Interface”...

  • Page 26: Speedtouch™570 Internet Connectivity

    World Wide Web (WWW) or Internet. Note An example of how to establish a PPP dial-in connection via the SpeedTouch™570 embedded dial-in client is provided on the next page. SpeedTouch™570 Your SpeedTouch™570 offers a user-friendly web interface.
  • Page 27 The SpeedTouch™570 supports both two most popular connection methods: Routed PPP over ATM (PPPoA) and PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE). The connection method to use depends on the preferences of your ISP, hence the configuration profile you must apply to the SpeedTouch™...
  • Page 28 1 SpeedTouch™570 Installation Terminating an opened To close an active Routed PPP connection: PPP session Step Action Ensure that you have access to the SpeedTouch™ web pages. Browse to the SpeedTouch™ Connections page. Select the connection entry you want to terminate the session for.

  • Page 29: Speedtouch™570 Web Interface

    Before you access the SpeedTouch™570 pages, make sure that your browser is config- ured to directly connect to the SpeedTouch™570, I.e. that it is not using a Proxy server. If required, you can disable the proxy server for the time you want to access the Speed- Touch™570 web pages.
  • Page 30 Touch™570. The latter scans the pages and performs the appropriate configurations. Topic menu and links On the left of each of the SpeedTouch™570 web pages a topics menu is provided. This menu navigates you via links through all configurational aspects of the Speed- Touch™570.
  • Page 31 For more information on a specific topic you can click the context-related located at the Topic's web pages. Save all It is advised to save the SpeedTouch™570 configuration and to back it up whenever you made changes to its settings. To save the configuration click the For backing up the SpeedTouch™...

  • Page 32: System Tasks

    • Establish dial-in connections, if applicable: See section “1.5 SpeedTouch™570 Internet Connectivity” on page 26 information on how to use the Dial-in Connections table. View detailed connection information by clicking the View which configuration profile/file is currently loaded, including information on...

  • Page 33: System Setup

    • 3EC 17766 BAAA TCZZA Ed. 01 Configure a System password to restrict access to the SpeedTouch™570 : It is highly recommended that you configure a System password. To protect the SpeedTouch™570 you should change the System password on a regular basis.
  • Page 34 Note Provider. Contact your Service Provider for more information. Make sure no passive software is stored on the SpeedTouch™570. If needed click Remove passive to remove a passive software version. Click Browse to locate the SpeedTouch™570 upgrade software on your disk or CD-rom provided.
  • Page 35 Browse to go to the location where the SpeedTouch™570 upgrade configuration file resides. Select it and click Upload to upload the file. Click restart to reboot the SpeedTouch™570 and allow the changes to take effect 3EC 17766 BAAA TCZZA Ed. 01...

  • Page 36: Other Places Tasks

    View or add/delete specific IP address entries for the SpeedTouch™570’s inter- faces: You can add a static IP address for one of the SpeedTouch™570 's interfaces by clicking New. Specify the IP address, (sub)netmask, whether NAPT should be applied to this address, and select the interface for which the IP address applies (use eth0 for the Ethernet interface).
  • Page 37 The SpeedTouch™570 features a DHCP server which allows the PCs/computers on your local network to automatically obtain an IP address (select DHCP Server). If DHCP is not used on your local network, the SpeedTouch™570 DHCP server can be disabled (select No DHCP). The SpeedTouch™570 can also search for another DHCP server (select AutoDHCP) .
  • Page 38 • Configure the SpeedTouch™570 DHCP server lease pool properties: The SpeedTouch™570 DHCP server (if enabled) will use the address pools listed in this table to provide IP addresses to requesting DHCP clients. To configure a user-defined IP address pool (appropriate to your local network conditions) click New and provide the required information.
  • Page 39 By specifying a default server IP address all incoming connections will be forwarded to the device with this IP address. In most cases this setting should be adequate for most server applications and will make the need for specific static NAPT entries redundant. 2 SpeedTouch™570 Web Interface...
  • Page 40 By default only WLAN clients which are configured with the exact SSID, are allowed to join the SpeedTouch™570 WLAN. You can change this setting to allow also WLAN clients with a blank SSID, or SSID 'any' to join the SpeedTouch™570 WLAN.
  • Page 41 Overview the current Association Control List and enable/disable future associa- tions: Via this table you can also manually add or delete WLAN clients and configure whether WLAN clients are allowed to associate with the SpeedTouch™570 WLAN or not. 2 SpeedTouch™570 Web Interface...
  • Page 42 2 SpeedTouch™570 Web Interface 3EC 17766 BAAA TCZZA Ed. 01...

  • Page 43: Troubleshooting And Specifications

    Start-up problems Via the LEDs you can check the status of the SpeedTouch™570 . Following table may help you in case of problems with starting up the SpeedTouch™570 : LED indication...

  • Page 44: Troubleshooting Table

    Make sure that the WLAN client adapter is configured for the correct wireless settings. Make sure that the WLAN client adapter and SpeedTouch™570 share the same IP subnet. Choose automatic channel selection or be careful to select a DSSS channel that doesn't interfere with other radio chan- nels.
  • Page 45 Make sure the computer's Ethernet port supports 100Base-T Ethernet connec- tivity and/or is configured for auto-negoti- ation. Make sure that the SpeedTouch™570 is installed and configured as instructed in this Setup and User's Guide and/or as instructed by the SP.
  • Page 46 • Make sure the SpeedTouch™570 is powered on. Use a pencil to press the Defaults button at the back of the SpeedTouch™570 until all the LEDs on the front of the SpeedTouch™570 start flashing. Release the button. You will notice that the SpeedTouch™570 reboots. The SpeedTouch™570 will come online with factory default settings.
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