RCA 546 User Manual

Internet Connectivity Dial-In Clients

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Embedded PPP dial-in

clients

The SpeedTouch™’s embedded PPP dial-in client allows you to establish an Internet 
connection for computers residing on your local network, using only one computer of 
the network to control the client.
If this computer runs:

Any Operating System
you can always use the SpeedTouch™ web pages.
See 

MS Windows XP
you can use MS Windows XP’s Internet Gateway Device Control Client.
See 

Broadband host PPPoE

dial-in clients

You can also connect to the Internet using a Broadband PPPoE dial-in application. 
The PPP over Ethernet connection scenario provides PPP-like dial-in behaviour over 
the virtual Ethernet segment.
To be able to use a broadband dial-in application on your computer for connecting to 
the Internet, the SpeedTouch™ needs to be configured for Bridged Ethernet or Routed 
PPPoE (with PPPoE relay) via the SpeedTouch™ Home Install Wizard on the Setup CD 
or the embedded Easy Setup. 
If this computer runs:

MS Windows XP 
you can use the MS Windows XP broadband dial-in client. See 

 for more information.

Mac OS X
you can use a Mac OS X broadband dial-in client. See 

 for more information.

- or -

A broadband PPPoE dial-in client provided by your Service Provider to connect 
to the Internet

Upon availability of OS-specific PPPoE dial-in client applications, the 
latter method is Operating System independent.
For PPPoE session connectivity from a Mac OS 8.6/9.x, an MS 
Windows 95/98(SE)/ME/2000 or a Linux system, a host PPPoE dial-in 
application is mandatory.