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Setting Up: Advanced
Linksys E-Series
TIPS
An office network often has a wall plate with an Ethernet port that
you can connect to .
If you are doing this in a home environment (without wall ports),
connect an Ethernet network cable between a LAN port on your
upstream router and the
Internet
port on your Linksys router .
3.
Run Cisco Connect on each computer that you want to connect to
the Linksys router . Each computer needs either a wired or wireless
connection to the Linksys router . For more information, see “How to
connect a computer to your network” on page 16 .
The computers that are connected to the Linksys router are now on the same
network, and are isolated from the upstream network . However, you will still
have access to the Internet through the upstream router (by way of your Linksys
router) . Because two routers are between your computer and the Internet,
Internet traffic undergoes two network address translations . This is sometimes
referred to as
Double NAT
.
Your computers can also use the built-in capabilities of your Linksys router,
such as parental controls . If you need further control over the type of content
your employees or family access, you can create an account with an Internet
filtering site such as
www.opendns.com
or
www.bsecure.com
. After you
create an account with them, use their DNS in place of your ISP’s DNS .
To use their DnS:
Setup > Basic Setup
1.
Log into the browser-based utility (see “How to open the browser-based
2.
Click the
Setup
tab, then click the
Basic Setup
page .
3.
Complete the
Static DnS
fields with the information provided by your
content filtering provider .
4.
Click
Save Settings
.
To extend your network
This topic covers cases three and four above.
noTE
This is a complex process, so this procedure assumes that you have
some networking knowledge .
To extend your network or add wireless capabilities:
1.
If you want to extend your network, you may also follow the instructions
above . One example of this might be to provide a separate wireless
network for your children to keep their wireless network traffic separate
from your wireless network . You might also want to isolate one network
from another network so that network shares aren’t visible across
networks . In this case, use an Ethernet cable to connect the
Internet
port of the downstream router to one of the LAN ports of the upstream
router . Make sure that the local network subnets on the two routers are
different .
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