Connecting Your Wireless Router - NETGEAR N150 Setup Manual

Connecting Your Wireless Router

Before you install your wireless router, make sure that the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Property
settings on your computer are set to "automatically obtain an IP address" using DHCP and "Obtain
DNS server address automatically." You can check these settings by looking at the TCP/IP
Properties of your Internal Network Connections, which are accessible through the Control Panel
of your computer. If you are unsure about this, refer to the documentation for your computer or see
the link to TCP/IP Addressing in
If you are replacing an existing router, disconnect it completely from your network and set it aside
before starting to install your new router. Then, skip to
NETGEAR does not recommend or support adding a NETGEAR router behind
another router, or replacing a gateway with a NETGEAR router.
There are two steps to setting up your wireless router:
1. Connect the Product Family to the ADSL or cable modem, and connect a computer to the
Product Family.
2. Configure the Product Family to use your Internet service.
To connect the wireless router, the computer, and the modem:
1. Turn off your computer.
Turn off and unplug the cable or DSL broadband modem.
2.
Locate the cable (A) that connects your computer to the modem.
3.
Disconnect the cable at the modem end only (B). You will connect it to the router later.
4.
Manually Installing Your Router
"Related Documents" on page 40.
step 5 in the following procedure
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