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Chapter 3
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3.2 Web-Based Easy Setup
Easy Setup
With help of the Easy Setup, your Internet connection is set up in a few clicks.
The Easy Setup is operating system independent.
Preconditions
Make sure that:
Your SpeedTouch™ is correctly setup and turned on.
Your PC is connected to the SpeedTouch™ using wired or wireless Ethernet. In
the latter case, a wireless client adapter has to be installed on your PC and
correctly configured to connect to your SpeedTouch™.
Your host PC is configured as DHCP client or is configured with a valid fixed IP
address.
Your web browser is not using a proxy server. For more information, see
“ Disable proxy server” on page 40
.
HTTP intercept
Proceed as follows:
1
Open a web browser. Browse to an arbitrary web site, for in
s long as no Internet connection has been set up, you
will be automatically redirected to the SpeedTouch™ Welcome page.
2
Click on Setup my SpeedTouch to launch the Easy Setup wizard.
3
“ Setting up Internet connection” on page 26
.
in case of problems, you can give the host PC a fixed IP address in the
same subnet as your SpeedTouch™ (If the SpeedTouch™ is in its default
settings, that is an address between 192.168.1.1 and
192.168.1.253). In case you use fixed IP addresses, the SpeedTouch™
has to be configured as DNS server (default).
If you’re not redirected automatically, go to