ZyXEL Communications NBG4115 User Manual

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WAN
8.1  Overview
This chapter discusses the NBG4115’s WAN screens. Use these screens to 
configure your NBG4115 for Internet access.
A WAN (Wide Area Network) connection is an outside connection to another 
network or the Internet. It connects your private networks (such as a LAN (Local 
Area Network) and other networks, so that a computer in one location can 
communicate with computers in other locations.
Figure 53   LAN and WAN
See the chapter about the connection wizard for more information on the fields in 
the WAN screens.
8.2  What You Can Do in this Chapter
• Use  the  Internet Connection (
) screen to enter your 
ISP information and set how the computer acquires its IP, DNS and WAN MAC 
addresses.
• Use  the  Advanced (
screen to enable multicasting, 
configure Windows networking and bridge.
WAN
LAN