Telstra Bigpond Cable Help

The Setup Wizard has detected that you have a Telstra Bigpond Cable account. To access the Internet you will need to provide your user name and password that you would normally use to login to the Internet. Once this information is entered in the router you will no longer need to run the client software on each PC that is connecting to the Internet.

Login

This is usually the user name that you use in your Telstra Bigpond client program.

Password

Type the password that you use to log in to the Internet with the Telstra Bigpond client program.

Authentication Server

The default name is sm-server. The local ISP may change the authentication name from time to time, and when this happens it may be necessary to update the authentication server, although this usually doesn't happen very often.

DNS Address

The DNS server is used to look up site addresses based on their names.

If your ISP gave you one or two DNS addresses, select Use These DNS Servers and type the primary and secondary addresses.

Otherwise, select Get Automatically From ISP.

Note: If you get 'Address not found' errors when you go to a Web site, it is likely that your DNS servers aren't set up properly. You should contact your ISP to get DNS server addresses.

Router MAC Address

Your computer's local address is its unique address on your network. This is also referred to as the computer's MAC (Media Access Control) address.

Usually, select Use Default MAC Address.

If your ISP requires MAC authentication, then select either Use Computer MAC Address to disguise the Router's MAC address with the Computer's own MAC address or Use This MAC Address to manually type the MAC address for a different computer.

The format for the MAC address is XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX. This value may be changed if the Use Computer MAC address is selected once a value has already been set in the Use This MAC Address selection.

Apply, Cancel and Test

Click Apply if you think the settings are correct or after changing the settings.

Click Cancel to return to the default settings.

Click Test to connect to the NETGEAR Web site. If you connect successfully, your settings work and you may click Logout to exit these pages and... enjoy surfing the 'net!

If you don't connect successfully,