Hughes DW6000 User Manual

The System Information screen displays a number of fields. 
While all the information may be useful at some time, the most 
important is discussed below. 

Print the System Information screen and tell the customer 

to save it. It will be needed should they need to call their service 
provider and not be able to access the System Control Center.

• DW6000 Info section

–

Serial number - 

needed to identify customer’s unit 

when troubleshooting.

–

Software creation date

 

- software build date.

–

Software release number

 -

 version of the software on 

the DW6000.

–

IP Address - 

the address of the DW6000.

–

Subnet Mask - 

defines range of addresses assigned to 

the DW6000.

–

Site ID 

- Site identification number.

• Satellite section

–

Longitude - 

displays the satellite’s longitude.

–

Receive frequency -

 transponder frequency 

configured for the DW6000.

–

Receive Polarization - 

polarization orientation, 

which is either horizontal or vertical.

–

Router Address -

 IP address of the primary router used 

to route data sent by the DW6000.

•

Software Configuration section- 

Turbo Page, NAT, and DHCP 

are enabled or disabled as per a customer’s service offering 
and cannot be changed by the customer.

–

Network Address Translation (NAT)

 - 

typically 

used to allow multiple computers to share a single address 
on the Internet. It also allows preconfigured remote 
networks to be integrated easily with the DIRECWAY 
network.

–

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) 

if enabled, this simplifies the network configuration of the 
computers. The computers just need to be set up to “Obtain 
IP address automatically.”

–

Turbo Page

 -

 if enabled, speeds Web surfing.