Netgear WGU624 Guide D’Exploitation

Connecting the Router to the Internet

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This chapter describes how to set up the router on your local area network (LAN) and connect to 
the Internet. You will find out how to configure your Double 108 Mbps Wireless Firewall Router 
WGU624 for Internet access using the Setup Wizard, or how to manually configure your Internet 
connection.

You need to prepare these three things before you begin:

1.

Have active Internet service such as that provided by an cable or DSL broadband account.

2.

Locate the Internet Service Provider (ISP) configuration information for your DSL account. 

3.

Network capability to connect the router to a cable or DSL modem and a computer as 
explained below.

To use the WGU624 wireless router on your network, each computer must have an installed 
Ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC) and an Ethernet cable. If the computer will connect to your 
network at 100 Mbps, you must use a Category 5 (Cat 5) cable such as the one provided with your 
router. The cable or DSL broadband modem must provide a standard 10 Mbps (10BASE-T) or 100 
Mbps (10BASE-Tx) Ethernet interface. 

The WGU624 includes a built-in Web Configuration Manager. To access the configuration menus 
on the WGU624, your must use a Java-enabled Web browser program that supports HTTP uploads 
such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. Use Internet Explorer or Netscape 
Navigator 4.0 or above. 

For the initial setup of your router, you need to connect a computer to the router. This computer 
has to be set to automatically get its TCP/IP configuration from the router via DHCP.