ZyXEL Communications AMG1302 User Manual

AMG1302/AMG1202-TSeries User’s Guide

This chapter describes the AMG1302/AMG1202-TSeries’s Broadband screens. Use these screens to 
configure your AMG1302/AMG1202-TSeries 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.

LAN and WAN

• Use  the  Internet Connection screen (

) to configure the WAN settings on 

the AMG1302/AMG1202-TSeries for Internet access.

• Use  the  More Connections screen (

) to set up additional Internet access 

connections.

Encapsulation is used to include data from an upper layer protocol into a lower layer protocol. To set 
up a WAN connection to the Internet, you need to use the same encapsulation method used by your 
ISP (Internet Service Provider). If your ISP offers a dial-up Internet connection using PPPoE (PPP 
over Ethernet) or PPPoA, they should also provide a username and password (and service name) 
for user authentication.

The WAN IP address is an IP address for the AMG1302/AMG1202-TSeries, which makes it accessible 
from an outside network. It is used by the AMG1302/AMG1202-TSeries to communicate with other