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Prestige 650ME ADSL Bridge
Getting To Know Your Prestige 1-1
Chapter 1
Getting To Know Your Prestige
This chapter describes the key features and applications of your Prestige
.
1.1 Prestige 650ME ADSL Bridge
Your Prestige integrates a high-speed 10/100Mbps auto-negotiating LAN interface and one high-speed
ADSL port into a single package. The Prestige is ideal for high-speed Internet browsing and making LAN-
to-LAN connections to remote networks.
1.2 Features of the Prestige
Your Prestige is packed with a number of features that give it the flexibility to provide a complete
networking solution for almost any user.
High Speed Internet Access
Your Prestige can support downstream transmission rates of up to 8Mbps and upstream transmission rates
of 832 Kbps. Prestige with ADSL over POTS also supports rate management.
10/100M Auto-negotiation Ethernet/Fast Ethernet Interface
This auto-negotiation feature allows the Prestige to detect the speed of incoming transmissions and adjust
appropriately without manual intervention. It allows data transfer of either 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps in either
half-duplex or full-duplex mode depending on your Ethernet network.
PPPoE Support (RFC2516)
PPPoE (Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet) emulates a dial-up connection. It allows your ISP to use their
existing network configuration with newer broadband technologies such as ADSL. The PPPoE driver on the