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4/8/16 CH H.264 Multiplex DVR User Manual...
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This symbol is intended to alert the user to the presence of unprotected “Dangerous voltage" within the product's enclosure that may be strong enough to cause a risk of electric shock. This symbol is intended to alert the user to the presence of important operating and maintenance (servicing) instructions in the literature accompanying the appliance.
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All the safety and operating instructions must be read before the unit is operated. Make sure to switch the power off before you install the DVR. There is the danger of an electric shock if the DVR is opened by an unqualified service engineer or installer.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1 FEATURES ......................1 Chapter 2 PACKING DETAIL ....................2 Chapter 3 LOCATION AND CONTROL ................3 3.1 Front Panel Controls....................3 3.2 Real Panel Connectors...................6 3.3 Remote Controller....................7 3.4 Mouse Control ......................8 Chapter 4 INSTALLATION ....................9 4.1 Total Connection Lay-out ..................9 4.2 Hard Disk Installation....................10 4.3 Main Devices Installtion ..................12 4.3.1 Camera.......................12...
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5.3 System........................26 5.3.1 HDD......................26 5.3.2 Clock......................27 5.3.3 Video Standard ...................28 5.3.4 Language....................28 5.3.5 Remote Control ID..................28 5.3.6 Key Echo ....................28 5.3.7 Advanced Setup ..................28 5.3.8 Firmware Upgrade..................30 Chapter 6 RECORD OPERATION AND MENU SETUP ............31 6.1 Record Operation ....................31 6.2 Quick Setup ......................32 6.3 Record Setup......................34 6.4 Event Setup ......................35 6.4.1 Motion Detection..................35...
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Chapter 8 COPY OPERATION AND MENU SETUP ............46 8.1 Copy ........................46 8.1.1 Copy to USB Storage Device..............46 8.1.2 Copy to DVD±RW..................47 8.1.3 Stop Copy ....................47 8.1.4 Continue Copy....................48 8.2 Copy Status ......................48 8.3 Format Media......................48 Chapter 9 NETWORK SETUP AND OPERATION.............49 9.1 Network Setup ......................49 9.2 DVR-Viewer Installation ..................50 9.2.1 System Requirement ..................50...
Chapter 1 FEATURES H.264 compression for DVR recording and web transmission Graphic OSD and mouse control(PS/2) Live display, record, backup, playback and network access as the same time DVD writer (optional) and USB device backup Remote view and manage through 16CH client software and IE browser Audio recording Motion detection with area selecting and sensitivity adjusting by each camera Remote controller...
Chapter 3 LOCATION AND CONTROL 3.1 Front Panel Controls Item Description DVD-RW A DVD-RW drive is installed in the front bay. (sold separately) STATUS LED Displays the status of the DVR (standby), HDD read/write and network transmission. (a) Starts the playback of recorded data. By default, the playback PLAY / PAUSE / Z(-) starts from the earliest recording.
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MULIT This button is used to toggle between multiple display modes: 16, 13, 10, 9, 7 and 4 channel split screen display modes. SPOT MONITOR / ESC (a) Activates the spot monitor control (b) Returns to previous menu screen (c) Exits from various function and menu screen AUTOMATIC SEQUENCE / (a) activates and deactivates the automatic channel sequence FOCUS OUT / DECREASE...
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DIGITAL ZOOM / RIGHT (a) enters digital zoom mode DIRECTIONAL BUTTON (b) pans right in PTZ mode (c) navigates right in the menu screen (d) moves the zoom box right in zoom mode MENU / UP DIRECTIONAL (a) accesses the main menu screen BUTTON (b) tilts up in PTZ mode (c) navigates up in the menu screen...
3.2 Real Panel Connectors 4CH DVR CAUTION ! RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK DO NOT OPEN WARNING: TO REDUCE THE RISK OF FIRE OR ELECTRIC SHOCK VIDEO IN SPOT AUDIO 485 RL1 ETHERNET SENSOR DC 12V VIDEO OUT PS/ 2 8CH DVR C AU T IO N ! R IS K O F EL ECT RI C SH OCK DO NO T OP EN...
3.3 Remote Controller Button Name Description ○ ○ ○ Enter the COPY menu / Auto Focus ○ 1 COPY/AF Mode (PTZ control mode) Enter the SEARCH menu / sets the ○ 2 (SEARCH) / PRESET preset positions in PTZ mode Enter PTZ control mode / creates a ○...
3.4 Mouse Control LIVE MODE Single Channel Display Move the cursor to the desired channel and double left click. Change from Single-Channel to Multi-ChannelDisplay Double left click MENU MODE Enter MENU Right click Select / Enter Double left click Return to Previous Page Double right click Value Change Turning the wheel scroll...
4.2 Hard Disk Installation First, please remove the HDD holder from the DVR machine. (Pic1)。 (Pic1) Lock HDD holder symmetirically in the two sides of HDD. (Pic2, Pic3) (Pic2) (Pic3) Insert the SATA cable and power cable into SATA HDD. (Pic4) (Pic4)
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Lock the HDDs onto DVR machine. (Pic5)。 (Pic5) Insert the SATA cables into the sockets on the main board (Pic6). Make sure the HDD1 cable insert into HDD1 socket. Now, the installation was finished (Pic7). HDD1 (Pic6) (Pic7)
4.3 Main Devices Installtion 4.3.1 Camera * Connect a female BNC connector of each camera to a male BNC connector, “CAMERA IN” port. 4.3.2 Audio Audio Input - AUDIO IN: Connect the RCA Line Jack of the relevant equipment (for example, a camera with a built-in microphone) to the AUDIO IN port.
4.3.3 Monitor SPOT MONITOR VGA MONITOR MAIN MONITOR DVR supports two types of monitor output, one is Composite output (BNC connector); the other one is VGA output (DSUB-15). But you can just select one monitor output type at a time. * Composite Output: (1) Power off (2) Press the MENU button and CH3 button at the same time...
4.4 sensor Input 16CH: SENSOR 1~SENSOR 16 8CH: SENSOR 1~SENSOR 8 4CH: SENSOR 1~SENSOR 4 4.4.1 Sensor Input Menu Setup Enter EVENT -> SENSOR INPUT menu to select the correct sensor input type which connected with DVR. Select the right sensor type according to the type of installed sensor with the unit. - NORMAL OPEN: The sensor is open in normal times.
4.5 RS-485 RS485 is use for connect to external device, such as keyboard or PTZ camera. 4.5.1 RS-485 Menu Setup Enter LINK -> RS485 menu to set the parameters of RS-485 device which connected with DVR (The parameters must the same with the device). 4.5.2 PTZ Camera Installation Connect the PTZ camera to DVR RS-485 interface (D+ to D+;...
4.5.3 PTZ Camera Operation 1. Select the desired PTZ camera channel. 2. Press the PTZ button to enter the PTZ mode. 3. Use the direction buttons to change camera position. 4. Press Z(+) and Z(-) buttons to control the camera zoom in and zoom out. 5.
Preset point is a convenient usage of PTZ camera. It is a preset user-defined camera position; user can move the camera position very quickly when needed. Total programmable capacity of 16 preset locations. 4.6 Relay Output The relay device should be set to NO (Normal Open) and it will change to NC (Normal Close) when an event has been triggered.
Chapter 5 BASIC OPERATION AND MENU SETUP 5.1 Basic Operation 5.1.1 Power ON/OFF After the connection of power adaptor and other devices (HDDS) with this DVR, turn the power on. a. The video signal system (NTSC or PAL) is automatically detected. b.
-CAMERA/NUMBER INPUT buttons are used to input the password in the password lock function as well. c. Freeze FREEZE This function allows users to freeze live view mode at any given time. 4CH DVR supports only single screen mode. Press [FREEZE] at single screen mode to freeze the image and press again to release this function. 8/16CH DVR can support both single and multi screen mode.
Recording Bitrate: This page shows the present RECORDING BITRATE of DVR. High bitrate means it’ll need more HDD space. 5.1.4 Audio Control Audio ON/OFF: Press the FUNCTION button and then press the “AUDIO (0)” button to open/close the DVR audio function. You can hear audio of selected channel regardless of monitoring screen. 5.1.5 PIP Mode ①...
① Select the desired camera channel. ② Press the D-ZOOM button, the indication screen appears on the main screen. ③ Press , ⊳, buttons to select the desired location. ④ Press the ENTER button to change the zoom size x2 ~ x4. ⑤...
5.2.1 Auto Sequence To set the length of time for switching each channel in the AUTO SEQUENCE mode. The value is from 1SEC to 60SEC and the default is “3SEC”. ADD AUTO SINGLE: If selected OFF, every single channel will be skipped in the AUTO SEQUENCE mode.
5.2.2 Display To decide which information will be displayed on the screen: HDD Free Space If the value is ON, the remaining capacity of the fixed HDDs will be displayed on the screen. The default is HDD Free Space Mode The default is “PERCENT”.
5.2.3 Title To name or modify the channel title. Press the ENTER button after selecting desired channel and the following screen appears: , ⊳, Select the character using the buttons and then press button. Press the ESC button to exit the character table.
SELECT: “LV&PB&NW”, “PB&NW”, “LV&NW”, “LV&PB”, “NETWORK”, “PLAY” and “LIVE”. LV(LIVE): To covert selected channels on live screen. PB(PLAY): To covert selected channels on playback screen. NW(NETWORK): To covert selected channels on network viewer screen. COVERT TITLE DISPLAY: Show the “COVERT” text in the camera title position or not. 5.2.6 SPOT SPOT MODE - MANUAL: Manually select the channel of spot monitor.
5.2.7 Camera Change the values shown on the screen to adjust the BRIGHTNESS, CONTRAST, HUE and SATURATION of each channel. The value is from 0% to 100% and the default is “50%”. 5.3 System 5.3.1 HDD REC HDD INITIALIZE: Select YES and press ENTER button to format the HDD.
Note: All data will be cleared after initialized. Please be careful. 5.3.2 Clock System clock adjustment. DATE&TIME Manually adjust the Date and Time values. - DATE: YYYY/MM/DD YEAR/MONTH/DAY - TIME: HH:MM:SS HOUR:MINUTE:SECOND TIME ADJUST ① If the INTERNET TIME ADJUST is “ON”, system time will be adjusted to the time offered by the internet server.
④ If the DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME is “ON”, please set the starting date and time and end date. 5.3.3 Video Standard Select from “AUTO”, “NTSC” or “PAL”. The default is “NTSC”. If you select “AUTO”, this DVR can detect NTSC/PAL automatically. 5.3.4 Language Select the system language.
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5.3.7.2 Set Passwork Select the administrator or user1~4 to change the password and then press “ENTER” button. Insert your desired password and retype again using the CAMERA/ NUMBER INPUT buttons. NOTE: - You can use only 0~9 number buttons to setup the PASSWORD. - The default passwords as: ADMIN is 11111111, USER1 is 22222222,...
5.3.7.4 DVR Menu Setup 1. Menu Initialize If select YES, all menu setting will be restore to factory default. NOTE: After initialized, HDD data will not be deleted. 2. LOAD MENU FROM FILE To download the DVR menu settings from file that was saved in the USB storage device. 3.
Chapter 6 RECORD OPERATION AND MENU SETUP 6.1 Record Operation The DVR provide three methods of recording for your choice as following: 1. Manual Recording: You can just press the button on the front panel during any LIVE monitoring time. Press the RECORD button again to exit recording mode. 2.
- “ (Green) ” : Schedule Recording mode - “ (Red) ” : Event Recording mode (Motion detection/ Video loss/ Sensor) - “ (White) ” : Not Recording These three recording mode all needs a corresponding RECORD SETTINGs such as IMAGE SIZE, RECORD FRAME…...
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EVENT Select a kind of EVENT of “ALL”, “ALARM”, “V-LOSS”, “MOTION”, “ALARM&LOSS”, “ALARM&MOTION”, “LOSS&MOTION”, “OFF”. The default is “ALL”. If you want to select all kind of event, choose “ALL” and if you don’t want event recording, choose “OFF”. PRE RECORD TIME When video loss, alarm or motion is detected, DVR will store pre-recorded data during the selected time.
6.3 Record Setup If QUICK SETUP setting is “OFF”, DVR will record data according to the RECORD SETUP settings. DVR provides 10 RECORD PROGRAMs, user can use RECORD SETUP menu to arrange the different RECORD PROGRAMs to different time point. For example, you can use higher recording frame to record on workday, and use lower recording frame on weekend.
NTSC: 720x480/ 720x240/ 360x240 PAL: 720x576/ 720x288/ 360x288 ③ Set the RECORD FRAME for each camera: - NORMAL: Normal record frame. - EVENT: Event record frame. ④ QUALITY: Set the record quality of normal recording and event recording. There are three record qualities: Fine(F)/ Normal(N)/ Low(L).
CHANNEL Set the camera channel of MOTION DETECTION. SENSITIVITY The higher the number is, the more sensitive. The default is 3. AREA SETUP Move the cursor to the desired area and press ENTER button to save it. Press Z(+) button to select whole area, press Z(-) button to deselect whole area.
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EVENT Set the EVENT RECORD item. Select a kind of EVENT of “ALL”, “ALARM”, “V-LOSS”, “MOTION”, “ALARM&LOSS”, “ALARM&MOTION”, “LOSS&MOTION”, “OFF”. The default is “ALL”. If you want to select all kind of event, choose “ALL” and if you don’t want event recording, choose “OFF”. PRE RECORD TIME When video loss, alarm or motion is detected, DVR will store pre-recorded data during the selected time.
When QUICK SETUP is OFF: Please assign the event type in the RECORD PROGRAM menu and set the EVENT CHECK to ON. 6.5 Other Record Setup 6.5.1 Preview Quality After the DVR and cameras installed, DVR will calculate how long the installed HDDs can record automatically.
6.5.2 Audio Record If the QUICK SETUP is OFF, when you want to record audio, the AUDIO RECORD in the RECORD SETUP must set to ON. 6.5.3 Repeat Record ON: When repeat recording, if the HDD is full, DVR will overwrite the recorded data automatically. OFF: Stop to record when the HDD is full.
Chapter 7 SEARCH OPERATION AND MENU SETUP SEARCH&PLAYBACK If you want to search the specific record data, you can enter the SEARCH menu through the main menu or press the SEARCH button on the front panel. Instant Playback Press the (DIRECT) button in the LIVE mode, DVR will switch to the PLAYBACK mode instantly and start to play from the button pressing time.
7.2 Search & Copy You can search the record data from HDD and copy to specific storage device. HDD ID: The HDD (HDD0, HDD1) which the record data saved. The default is NORMAL. The START TIME and END TIME of the selected record data will be shown on the screen.。 CHANNEL: Select to playback signal channel or all channels.
7.4 Event Search Search the record data according to the event. For example, you can see how many MOTION events during the assigned time period. Select the desired HDD ID, CHANNEL, EVENT, TIME and press the ENTER button, the search relausts will be shown.
7.6 File Search Search the record data according to the record file in the storage device. If user has more than two DVRs which are the same model (with the same file format), you can save the record data of one DVR to external storage device and play the data on the other DVRs.
7.9 Search Button Information SLOW ( Press this button to make the speed level which is slower than normal speed (X1) and displayed it at the upper left side of screen as below; (If you press this button again, the playback speed will be changed in the order of the below seven speed level).
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DIRECTION ( ) or backward ( ⊳ ) in playback mode. Press this button to change direction to forward ( <A-B SECTION REPEATE PLAYBACK> While playback, one may setup a specific period for repeative palyback. 1. Start playback 2. Press “SEQ” button to set up SECTION A (Starting Position), then the screen will show (A -). 3.
Chapter 8 COPY OPERATION AND MENU SETUP To copy the DVR record data, you can enter the COPY menu through the main menu or press the COPY button on the front panel. 8.1 Copy Copy the record data from DVR internal HDD to external storage device. 8.1.1 Copy to USB Storage Device First, please connect the USB devices (DVD Writer, HDD, Card Reader) to DVR and enter the COPY munu: MEDIA: Select USB_FRONT...
8.1.2 Copy to DVD± ± ± ± RW Put the DVD±RW into DVD-ROM and enter the COPY menu: Select the desired MEDIA (INTERNAL CD-RW/DVD), HDD ID, CHANNEL, COPY START TIME, COPY END TIME and press the ENTER button to start the copy. NOTE: - You can see a password input message.
8.1.4 Continue Copy If the storage device full or error occurs during the COPY process, the “MEDIA FULL OR FAIL PRESS [COPY]” message will be shown on the screen. Press COPY button, the following screen will appear: CONTINUE COPY: After change a new media, the COPY process will be continued. FORMAT MEDIA: Format the present storage device.
Chapter 9 NETWORK SETUP AND OPERATION 9.1 Network Setup This DVR support dynamic IP and static IP. Remote view from Internet Explorer or DVR Viewer software. DVR Viewer provide plenty functions include menu setup. IE support only simple viewing and playing. This DVR doesn’t support xDSL, there is a DYNAMIC IP SERVER, but no PPPoE protocol.
NETWORK FRAME Select the desired value to select an image frame to be transported from DVR to network client viewer. Note: NETWORK FRAME is use for the transported image being influenced by Network speed. - STILL: Use when the local network speed is too slow. - MOTION: Use when the normal situation of network speed.
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If you don’t need to change the default path, press “Install” to start installation. Installation DVR-Viewer completed. Click on “YES” to install the Roxio UDF Reader. Click on “Next”. Click on “Install”. Click on “OK” and the installation completed. Double click the following icon to start DVR-Viewer:...
9.3 DVR-Viewer Control Panel Introduction Items Description DVR List: 「」Add/Modify/Delete the DVR connection list or connect to DVR. DVR Search: To scan the available DVRs within a local network area. HDD Search: To search the record data of DVR HDD connect to PC. File Search: Search by record files (Copy from DVR or on PC).
Press button to switch to full screen mode. 9.4 DVR-Viewer Operation 9.4.1 DVR-Viewer Software Password When the DVR Viewer is run for the first time, it prompts for the administrator’s password. When you run the software in the future, you’ll need this password. If you don’t want to set a password, please keep it empty. Click on OK to start the program.
○ 1 You can click on the DVR Search button ( ) to auto scan the available DVRs in a local network area: Press “Search” button to scan the DVRs, select the desired DVR and press “Add to List”. The selected DVR will be added to the DVR List.
○ 1 Select the desired HDD, Channel and Video Mode. ○ 2 Press “OK”, the following window appears: ○ 3 Select the desired Channel and Search Time under the Time Search window, click on “Play” to playback. 9.4.4 File Search Some users copy the DVR record data to DVD or USB storage device.
9.4.5 Arrange Windows Arrange the windows opened by DVR-Viewer automatically. * 1 window * 2 ~ 4 windows *5 ~ 9 windows *10~16 windows Double click on one window in multi display mode to extend to full screen. 9.4.6 Viewer Option...
Display: - Channel Title: Show the Channel Title on the screen. - Event: Show the event occured channel as Red on the screen. - Date Time: Show the DVR date and time on the screen. - Frame Rate: Show the Frame Rate on the screen. Play Mode: - Frame Mode: It will playback images in frame mode which is useful for recorded images in high frame rate.
b. Multi Display Mode Click on “MULTI” button to display as Multi Display Mode. Click on “MULTI” again to return to Signal Display Mode. c. Auto Sequence Mode Click on “AUTO” button to display as Auto Sequence Mode, and you can also set the sequence time. 9.4.8 DVR Controller Press “Controller”...
buttons in Move line, then the PTZ camera will move to the preset position. 9.4.10 Setup Click on “SETUP” button and input the DVR ADMIN password, you can enter to the DVR muen setup. Save To File: Save the DVR menu settings to a file. Read From File: Read the DVR menu settings from a file.
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For the rest settings please refer to 5.1.2 SCREEN. RECORD To set the Schedule Record, please click on an hour block and then click “SCHEDULE RECORD ON/OFF”. An hour block when enabled becomes Green. Move the cursor to any time point on the vertical ALL roll, then click on “SCHEDULE RECORD ON/OFF”...
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For the rest settings, please refer to 6.3 RECORD SETUP. EVENT Please refer to 6.4 EVENT SETUP. SYSTEM Please refer to 5.3 SYSTEM. LINK Please refer to Chapter 4 and 9.1 NETWORK SETUP. DOWNLOAD Download the Firmware from DVR to PC.
9.4.11 Status Click on “STATUS” button to review the System/Record/Network/Bit Rate status. 9.4.12 Print Click on the “PRINT” button to make a screen snapshot and save as a file. The size of snapshot is depend on the Record Image Size (D1、Half-D1、CIF).
9.4.13 Copy Copy the DVR images to PC. Select the desired HDD, Time and channel, click on “Copy” button to start copy. The Copying stutus will be shown as below. Click on “OK” button after the copy finished, the file will be saved in C:\Program Files\DVR \DVR-Viewer\Copy automatically.
Chapter 10 ADDITIONAL FUNCTION OPERATION AND MENU SETUP 10.1 E-mail Enter the LINK -> E-mail menu SEND E-MAIL Select from “ON”, “OFF”, The default is “OFF”. When SEND E-MAIL set to “ON”, DVR will send a e-mail when an event happened. SMTP SERVER ①...
③ To exit this CHARACTER TABLE screen, press the ESC button. USER ID ① Move the cursor to USER ID and press ENTER button: ② Select the character using the , ⊳, buttons and then press the ENTER button. ③ To exit this CHARACTER TABLE screen, press the ESC button. PASSWORD ①...
10.3 Connect the DVR through Internet Explorer Step1. Connect to this web site (IP address: 211.174.251.155) and the following interface will be shown: Step2. Input the IP address of DVR and then click “Connect”. Step3. Type the password to access the DVR (Default Password: 11111111)
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Step4. The LIVE image will be displayed. Note1: When first time connecting to this web site, ActiveX component is downloaded and installed automatically. It will take a few minutes. If the Internet Explorer does not allow this installation, please adjust the security option of the browser. Note2: If the DVR cannot be connected, please delete the file “XViewer.dat”...
Chapter 11 TROUBLESHOOTING Q: What brand of hard disk does the DVR support? A: DVR supports Western Digital and Seagate hard disks. The maximum capacity is 1 terabyte for each device. Q: What type of DVD disks is competitble? A: DVD-RW (MITSUBISHI 2X-4X, Verbatim 6X, VIO 4X); DVD+RW (MITSUBISHI 1X-4X, Verbatim 6X, PHILIPS 1-4X).
Chapter 12 SPECIFICATION VIDEO SYSTEM Auto Detection INPUT 4CH BNC 8CH BNC 16CH BNC LOOP VIDEO MAIN OUTPUT 1CH BNC Composite Video / VGA (select from front panel) SOPT OUTPUT 1CH BNC INPUT 1CH RCA AUDIO OUTPUT 1CH RCA REMOTE INPUT 4CH ALARM INPUT 8CH ALARM INPUT...
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SEARCH MODE Time, Calendar, Event, File, Block Normal, REW&FF [1x/2x/4x/16x/32x/64x/128x], SPEED PLAYBACK Picture to Picture, Pause DEVICE Internal: HDD, DVD Writer/ External: USB 2.0 Devices BACKUP FILE H.264 compression and AVI format (converted by client viewer) COMPRESSION H.264 NETWORK 16CH Client Viewer, Web Browser INTERFACE NETWORK SPEED...