E-DOC-CTC-20080118-0003 v1.0
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Contents
About this Setup and User Guide ............................................. 1
1 Installation.................................................................................... 3
1.1 Preliminary Steps ............................................................................................ 4
1.2 Placing your Thomson Gateway ..................................................................... 5
1.3 Installing your Thomson Gateway .................................................................. 6
1.3.1 Guided Installation .................................................................................................................................7
1.3.2 Manual Installation.................................................................................................................................9
2 Thomson Gateway Basics ........................................................ 11
2.1 Thomson Gateway LED Behaviour ................................................................ 12
2.2 Thomson Gateway Web Interface ................................................................. 14
2.3 Backing Up/Restoring your Configuration .................................................... 17
3 Adding New Devices to your Network.................................... 19
3.1 Adding a Computer to your Network............................................................ 20
3.1.1 Connecting a computer using Wireless.............................................................................................. 21
3.1.2 Connecting a computer using Ethernet..............................................................................................22
4 Getting the Most Out of Your Thomson Gateway.................23
4.1 Universal Plug and Play ................................................................................ 24
4.1.1 Accessing Your Thomson Gateway with UPnP ................................................................................. 25
4.1.2 Managing your Internet connection with UPnP.................................................................................26
4.1.3 Configuring UPnP on the Thomson Gateway....................................................................................28
4.1.4 Installing UPnP on Windows XP .........................................................................................................29
4.2 Assigning a service (HTTP, FTP,...) to a computer ........................................ 31
4.3 Dynamic DNS ................................................................................................ 33
5 Wireless Security .......................................................................35
5.1 Encryption ..................................................................................................... 36
5.1.1 Configuring WEP Encryption...............................................................................................................37
5.1.2 Configuring WPA-PSK Encryption ......................................................................................................38
5.2 Access Control.............................................................................................. 39
5.3 Disabling SSID Broadcast ............................................................................. 42