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Wireless Broadband Router User Guide 10
tions including address translation and firewall features. Use this setting if you connect
an xDSL or Cable modem to the WAN port of your router.
The next series of screens will now depend on the choice you selected above: if you selected
wireless access point only, the ISP Settings screen will be skipped.
Click “NEXT”.
Device IP Settings
The device IP settings screen configures the IP address and subnet of the router on the
LAN. The screen that appears depends on whether you’ve configured the device as a
wireless access point or as an internet gateway + wireless access point.
IP Settings if Internet Access + Wireless Access Point selected
This value defaults to the IP address 192.168.1.1 with a network mask of 255.255.255.0. It
is important to note that this type of address is termed a private IP address and is an es-
sential security feature of the router: this type of address cannot be seen or accessed from
the Internet. The Wireless Router’s private address of 192.168.xxx.yyy is called a Class C
IP address. This means that changing “xxx” will change the network while changing “yyy”
will assign a different address in the same network.
Although its value may be changed to another address in the same or different private
network, it is recommended that this address not be changed unless necessary. For ex-
ample, If you want to create your own private network with another Wireless Router at
remote office locations, you need to make sure that each Wireless Router on each LAN is
assigned an address in a unique private IP network.
Also note that if you do change this value to an address in a different subnet, you will lose
contact with the router until you change the address of your management PC to the same
subnet as the newly configured one.
If you selected wireless access point only, then an additional field appears in the device