Hughes DIRECWAY DW4020 User Manual

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Chapter 3 • The User Interface

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Longitude -

displays the satellite’s longitude.

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Receive Polarization -

polarization orientation.

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Software Configuration section-

WEB Acceleration, NAT,

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

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Web Acceleration -

Allows fast access to Internet

Web sites and high-speed data download from the Internet.

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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.

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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.”

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Firewall -

can be enabled by the user and configured to

help deflect unwanted Internet traffic.

Figure 39: System Information; print and save this screen