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Before you begin
Installation Summary
This guide will show you how to physically install the router and make it accessible
from both the WAN and your LAN. Advanced features, which are explained in the
User’s Guide,
can then be configured by you or a network administrator using a
computer on your LAN, or from a remote office over the WAN.
For a first-time installation, allow about 15 minutes for each of the following:
❏
Looking through this manual and understanding the steps
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Installing the router and cables
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Setting up a computer to access the router through your Internet browser
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Performing the basic LAN and WAN configurations
Add or subtract time depending on your experience and installation site readiness.
Subsequent router installations can go much faster.
NOTE
Your router may have already been pre-configured by your network administrator,
which would further simplify your installation tasks.
Gather the necessary information
Ask your network administrator or IT department for the information listed in the
configuration worksheet on
. After physically installing the router, you will
enter this information using the router’s graphical user interface (GUI) to set up
basic network connectivity.
NOTE
The configuration worksheet contains the minimum information necessary to make
the LAN and WAN interfaces functional in most remote-office installations. Not all
parameters visible in the graphical interface are represented in the worksheet. The
goal of this Setup Guide is to make the router accessible over the WAN to a network
administrator who can later configure the advanced features.
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