User manual NETGEAR AGM721F

[. . . ] Support Information Phone: 1-888-NETGEAR, for US & Canada only. For other countries, see your Support information card. E-mail: support@netgear. com North American NETGEAR website: http://www. netgear. com Trademarks NETGEAR, the NETGEAR logo, ProSafe, and Auto Uplink are trademarks or registered trademarks of NETGEAR, Inc. Microsoft, Windows, Windows NT and Vista are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Other brand and product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders. Statement of Conditions In the interest of improving internal design, operational function, and/or reliability, NETGEAR reserves the right to make changes to the products described in this document without notice. [. . . ] When the wireless communication quality is poor, enable acknowledgement messages so that you are notified when a package is lost. Acknowledgement messages are enabled. Wireless Configuration v1. 1, May 2009 2-18 Wireless Cable Modem Gateway AGM721F User Manual ­ · Off. Acknowledgement messages are disabled. Power Save Support. Select the power save mode to conserve battery power in smaller devices that are connected to the gateway: ­ ­ On. Click Apply to save your settings. Turning on Access Control to Restrict Access by MAC Address By default, any wireless PC that is configured with the correct SSID and WEP/WPA settings will be allowed to access to your wireless network. For increased security, you can restrict access to the wireless network to only allow specific PCs based on their MAC addresses. You can restrict access to only trusted PCs so that unknown PCs cannot wirelessly connect to the AGM721F gateway. MAC address filtering adds an obstacle against unwanted access to your network, but the data broadcast over the wireless link is fully exposed. To restrict access based on MAC addresses: 1. Log in to the gateway using its default address of http://192. 168. 0. 1 or at whatever IP address the unit is currently configured. Use the default user name of admin and default password of password, or the password you have set up. Enter the following information: · · · Contact Email Address. Enter an e-mail address to which the logs will be sent. Use a full e-mail address (for example, ChrisXY@myISP. com). Enter the outgoing SMTP mail server of your ISP (for example, mail. myISP. com). If you leave this box blank, no alerts or logs will be sent. Enter an e-mail address from which the logs will be sent. Use a full e-mail address (for example, JohnXY@myISP. com). 3. Select the E-mail Alerts Enable check box to activate the e-mail alerts. For information about event logs, see "Viewing the Event Log" on page 4-6. Blocking Keywords, Sites, and Services The gateway provides a variety of options for blocking Internet based content and communications services. With its content filtering feature, the gateway prevents objectionable content from reaching your PCs. The gateway allows you to control access to Internet content by screening for keywords within Web addresses. [. . . ] Troubleshooting a TCP/IP network is made easier by using the ping utility in your PC or workstation. Testing the LAN Path to Your Gateway You can use ping to verify that the LAN path to your gateway is set up correctly. To ping the gateway from a PC running Windows 95 or later: 1. From the Windows toolbar, click on the Start button and select Run. In the field provided, type Ping followed by the IP address of the gateway, as in this example: ping 192. 168. 0. 1 3. [. . . ]