WS325 300Mbps Wireless Router
User Guide
3 Hardware Installation
Issue 01 (2012-10-26)
3-3
ADSL is a technology that uses telephone lines to provide broadband access services. To
access an ADSL network through your PC, you need to use an ADSL modem.
Figure 3-3 shows the cable connections of an ADSL broadband network after the router
is installed on the network.
Figure 3
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Cable connections of an ADSL broadband network after the router is
installed on the network
1. Router
2. Power adapter of the router
3. PC
4. Power adapter of the ADSL modem
5. Telephone
6. Splitter
7. ADSL modem
8. Telephone line interface on the wall
Figure 3-3 takes the Huawei SmartAX MT880d ADSL customer-premises equipment (CPE)
as an example of the ADSL modem on the ADSL broadband network. Other models of ADSL
modems might vary in appearance. Their interface types and cable connections, however, are
similar to those of the modem as shown in Figure 3-2.
3.2.4 Installing the Router on a CATV Broadband Network
On a CATV Broadband Network, the cable modem provides an Ethernet interface used
to connect a PC to the Internet.
