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FCC Statement This device complies with Class B Part 15 of the FCC Rules. The device generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used as instructed, may cause harmful interference to radio communication. Only Coaxial cables are to be used with this device in order to ensure compliance with FCC emissions limits.
PacketCable 1.5 and DOCSIS/EURODOCSIS 2.0 compliant specification. And with the integration of 4 ports switch and IEEE 802.11g wireless functionality, the DCM-604 series could also be used as a Wireless Cable Modem Residential Gateway in your home or small office. The ability to route data information into your broadband network could help you easily extend your local network via wire or wireless.
DCM-604 Cable Modem EMTA Gateway User’s Manual Hardware Overview Front Panel and LEDs There are fourteen Light-Emitting-Diodes (LEDs) located on the front panel top provide status information to the user. NAME COLOR MODE STATUS Connected with power Power Green Power failure or disconnect...
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DCM-604 Cable Modem EMTA Gateway User’s Manual Blinking WPS Activating WPS Connected Blue No WPS Connection 2.2 Rear Panel and Hardware Connection This chapter describes the proper steps for connecting your cable modem. Please be sure to follow the steps in the sequence outlined below. Failure to do so could result in improper operation or failure of your cable modem.
DCM-604 Cable Modem EMTA Gateway User’s Manual Ethernet Installation The LAN port you are using is auto-negotiating 10/100Mbps (Switch) Ethernet Interface. You can use the Ethernet port to connect to the Internet with an Ethernet network device such as NIC/Hub/Switch through RJ45.
DCM-604 Cable Modem EMTA Gateway User’s Manual USB Driver Installation Using the USB port to connect to the Internet allows you to install the cable modem more quickly and easily than connecting to the Internet using the Ethernet port, since you do not need to install a network interface card (NIC).
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DCM-604 Cable Modem EMTA Gateway User’s Manual Windows will locate the driver automatically. Please click Continue Anyway to continue the installation process. Windows shall find the location of USB driver and complete the installation. Click Finish.
DCM-604 Cable Modem EMTA Gateway User’s Manual Windows 2003 Connect USB cable from PC to cable modem. Connect RF cable and power on Cable Modem. Wait until it register, it will take about 40 seconds to 4 minutes depends on network traffic. Cable Modem may reboot if you previously connect it through Ethernet port.
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DCM-604 Cable Modem EMTA Gateway User’s Manual Windows will locate the driver automatically. Please click Continue Anyway to continue the installation process. Windows shall find the location of USB driver and complete the installation. Click Finish.
DCM-604 Cable Modem EMTA Gateway User’s Manual Windows Vista Connect USB cable from PC to cable modem. Connect RF cable and power on Cable Modem. Wait until it register, it will take about 40 seconds to 4 minutes depends on network traffic. Cable Modem may reboot if you previously connect it through Ethernet port.
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DCM-604 Cable Modem EMTA Gateway User’s Manual During the driver installation, your system may pop-up a dialogue as below window, just click “Install this driver software anyway”. During the driver installation, your system may pop-up a dialogue as below window, just click “Install this driver software anyway”.
You may get an error message. This is normal. Continue on to the next step. Type the default IP address of the DCM-604 (e.g. 192.168.0.1) and press Enter. The Log In page appears. Type the user name (admin) and your password (password) in the respective fields.
192.168.100.1. And to access home page, need to set up connected device (PC) IP address as 192.168.100.xx. After changing the settings, click Apply, then the modem will reboot to take effect setting. And wait for DCM-604 boot up completes.
This setup page allows configuring the basic features of the broadband gateway related to your ISP's connection. 5.3.2 DHCP The DHCP page allows you to activate/deactivate the DHCP server function of the DCM-604, and, if the DHCP server is activated, to see DHCP leases it has provided.
Address field, to your PCs. A DHCP server leases an IP address with an expiration time. To set the maximum number of PCs to which the DCM-604 will issue IP addresses, enter it in the Number of CPEs box and then click Apply. (CPE is another term sometimes used for PC.)
WAN and LAN. Remote Config Management: To make the Web Management pages of your DCM-604 accessible from the WAN side. Page access is limited to only those who know the DCM-604 access password you set in the Status--Security page.
These PCs can still communicate with each other on your LAN, but packets they originate to WAN addresses are blocked by the DCM-604. To enable IP Filtering feature of DCM-604, check the Enable box and click Apply button. 5.4.3 Port Filtering The Port Filtering page allows you to enter ranges of destination ports (applications) that you don’t want your LAN PCs to send packets to.
User’s Manual 5.4.4 Forwarding For communications between LAN and WAN, the DCM-604 normally only allows you to originate an IP connection with a PC on the WAN; it will ignore attempts of the WAN PC to originate a connection onto your PC. This protects you from malicious attacks from outsiders.
PCs from the WAN side for all ports. For example, if you locate a HTTP server on this machine, anyone will be able to access that HTTP server by using your DCM-604’s IP address as the destination. This may be used when problem applications do not work with port triggers. The...
DCM-604 Cable Modem EMTA Gateway User’s Manual Firewall The DCM-604 provides built-in firewall functions, enabling you to protect the system against denial of service (DoS) attacks and other unwelcome or malicious accesses to your LAN. 5.5.1 Web Filter This page allows certain Web-oriented cookies, java scripts, and pop-up windows to be blocked by the firewall.
DCM-604 Cable Modem EMTA Gateway User’s Manual Specify the e-mail address and its SMTP of the administrator who needs to receive the notice of any attempted firewall violations. Type the addresses in standard Internet e-mail address format, for example, yourname@onecompany.com. Then check the Enable box to enable the alert feature and click Apply button.
DCM-604 Cable Modem EMTA Gateway User’s Manual Parental Control 5.6.1 User Setup This page allows configuration of users. “White List Only” feature limits the user to visit only those sites specified in the Allowed Domain List in Parental Control, Basic page of his/her content rule. Actually, this page helps you to identify whether or not the Websites are blocked to access.
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DCM-604 Cable Modem EMTA Gateway User’s Manual 5.6.3 Time of Day Filter This page allows configuration of time access policies to block all internet traffic to and from specific network devices based on time of day setting. And it helps to ensure that the target or connected computer cannot access the internet at all.
DCM-604 Cable Modem EMTA Gateway User’s Manual 5.7.4 Access Control This page allows configuration of the Access Control to the AP as well as on the connected clients.
DCM-604 Cable Modem EMTA Gateway User’s Manual Section MTA has 5 sub-items, which indicate the status of MTA. These information can help you to understand the parameters of MTA operation. 5.8.1 Status This page displays initialization status of the MTA.
DCM-604 Cable Modem EMTA Gateway User’s Manual Hard Reset To factory reset the DCM604, press and hold the reset button for at least 10sec Reset Button...