ZyXEL Communications Corporation IX280P Manuel D’Utilisation

Chapter 3 The Setup Screens

MAX-207HW2R User’s Guide

you entered. You do not need to change the computer subnet mask unless you are 
instructed to do so.

Your WiMAX Modem can act as a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) 
server that can assign your LAN computers an IP address, subnet mask, DNS and 
other routing information when its LAN DHCP feature is turned on.

A network protocol used by devices for debugging and time measurement. A 
computer can use this protocol to set its internal clock but only if it knows in which 
order the year, month, and day are returned by the server. Not all servers use the 
same format.

A network protocol for retrieving the current time from a server. The computer 
issuing the command compares the time on its clock to the information returned 
by the server, adjusts itself automatically for time zone differences, then 
calculates the difference and corrects itself if there has been any temporal drift.

NTP stands for Network Time Protocol. It is employed by devices connected to the 
Internet in order to obtain a precise time setting from an official time server. 
These time servers are accurate to within 200 microseconds.

• Make sure that you have made all the appropriate hardware connections to the 

MAX-207HW2R, as described in the Quick Start Guide.

• Make sure that you have logged in to the web configurator at least one time and 

changed your password from the default, as described in the Quick Start Guide.

Click the SETUP icon in the navigation bar to set up the MAX-207HW2R’s IP 
address and subnet mask. This screen displays this screen by default. If you are in