Netgear RT338 RT338 Reference Manual - Page 47

Chapter 3 Preparing Your Network This chapter describes how to prepare to connect your PCs to the Internet or a remote LAN using the Model RT338 ISDN Router. Before configuring your router, you must perform the following tasks: • Order ISDN service from your phone company. • Configure your PCs for using the TCP/IP networking protocol. • Order Internet service from an Internet service provider (ISP). Details of these tasks are given in the following sections. ISDN Services Checklist Contact the ISDN ordering center of your local phone company to order an ISDN Basic Rate Interface (BRI) phone line. In most of North America, your telephone company can properly provision your ISDN line when you provide them with an ISDN ordering code (IOC) or EZ-ISDN code. The NETGEAR Model RT338 router supports the following ordering codes: • IOC-S (basic voice and data service) • IOC-U (basic voice and data plus supplemental voice services) • EZ-ISDN-1 (basic voice and data plus supplemental voice services) Note that the IOC-S capability package does not enable any supplemental voice services such as call waiting. You must ask your ISDN service provider to enable them for you, and you must inform the service provider if you want these services enabled for one of both of your ISDN channels (directory numbers). Specifically, you need to have Additional Call Offering (ACO) enabled in order to use call waiting or incoming call bumping. Incoming call bumping lets the router receive a voice call when both ISDN channels are in use for a data call. One channel is dropped to allow the incoming call, and the data rate is reduced during the call. Preparing Your Network 3-1