
3 Hardware Installation and Quick Start
HUAWEI HG256s
User Guide
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3.3 Powering On the HG256s
To power on the HG256s, finish the cable connections and press the
ON/OFF
button on
the side panel of the HG256s. After you power on the HG256s, if the HG256s works
properly, the indicators on the front panel turn on. HG256s works properly according to
the descriptions in Table 2-2.
3.4 Logging In to the Web-Based Configuration Utility
The HG256s provides an easy-to-use Web-based configuration utility. You can view and
set the parameters of the HG256s through this utility.
To log in to the Web-based configuration utility, do as follows:
Step 1
Set the network connection of your PC and ensure that your
PC obtains an IP address
automatically.
By default, the DHCP function of the HG256s is enabled. In this case, the HG256s assigns an
IP address to your PC automatically and you do not need to configure the IP address of your
PC.
Step 2
Start the Internet Explorer on your PC and ensure that the Internet Explorer does not use
any proxy server.
Take the Internet Explorer 6.0 as an example. To ensure that the Internet Explorer does
not use any proxy server, do as follows:
1.
Start the Internet Explorer. Choose
Tools
>
Internet Options
.
2.
On the
Connect
tab of the
Internet Options
dialog box, click
LAN Settings
.
3.
In the
Proxy Server
area, ensure that
Use the proxy server for LAN
is cleared. If
Use the proxy server for LAN
is selected, clear
Use the proxy server for LAN
,
and then click
OK
.
Step 3
In the address bar of the Internet Explorer, enter
http://192.168.1.1
, and then press
Enter
.
Step 4
In the
Login
dialog box, enter the user account (
admin
by default) and the password
(
admin
by default), and then click
OK
.
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