Hughes DIRECWAY DW4020 - Manual (Page 58)

Chapter 3 • The User Interface
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– Longitude - displays the satellite’s longitude.
– Receive Polarization - polarization orientation.
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Software Configuration section- WEB Acceleration, NAT,
and DHCP are enabled or disabled as per a customer’s
service offering and cannot be changed by the customer.
– Web Acceleration - Allows fast access to Internet
Web sites and high-speed data download from the Internet.
– Network Address Translation (NAT)
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typically
used to allow multiple computers to share a single address
on the Internet. It also allows preconfigured remote
networks to be integrated easily with the DIRECWAY
network.
– Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
if enabled, this simplifies the network configuration of the
computers. The computers just need to be set up to “Obtain
IP address automatically.”
– Firewall - can be enabled by the user and configured to
help deflect unwanted Internet traffic.
Figure 39: System Information; print and save this screen