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Prestige 964 Cable Router with 802.11g Access Point Chapter 1 Getting to Know Your P964 APR This chapter provides functional overviews, key features, applications and product specifications of your P964 APR 1.1 Overview of the P964 APR The P964 APR is a high bandwidth Internet access Cable Modem with integrated router device that connects your home/office LAN to the Internet using the hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) cable; the same cable that brings television into a cable television (CATV) subscriber's home. Through 4 Ethernet and 1 USB ports of the P964 APR , up to 5 computers and can be directly connected to the HFC cable network for high-speed access to the Internet without an external Ethernet hub. Ideally, It allows 253 computer users using the same cable to access the internet. P964 APR provides model for supporting the Multimedia Cable Network System (MCNS) Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) specifications in 1.0/1.1/2.0 version. MCNS is a consortium of cable television companies whose goal is to create standards for interoperable data-over-cable systems. The P964 APR is powered by one external 9V DC-input power supply. 1.2 Hardware Interfaces P964 APR has integrated 4-port Ethernet switch and one USB 1.1 interfaces concurrently. The 4-port switch provides auto crossover MDI/MDI-x function and is 10/100M bps Ethernet auto-negotiating. The physical user interfaces of P964 APR provide you with the capability of wired connecting up to 5 stations without the need of external Ethernet hub/switch. If you have more than 5 wired computers, to choose a hub/switch can easily expand the number of LAN users. P964 APR is designed for wired and wireless computer users. The P964 APR is also equipped with a reset button which is used for user to reset the device to factory default user name and password of each user interfaces. Hold on the Reset button for 10 seconds, the user name and password will return to the factory default and the P964 APR will automatically reboot. Press the reset button will also make system reboot while P964 APR is not working properly. 1.3 Firmware Operation Mode According to DOCSIS specification, a cable modem is basically a bridge device. It can be configured to serve specific CPEs by provisioning their MAC addresses. Only traffic to/from these CPEs will be forwarded. The others will be filtered. It can also be configured to serve specific numbers of CPEs. However, these services are provided by your cable operator. They have to setup one account for each CPE. For most Internet users, they have only one access account. If they have two computers' at home and want to share this account for two or more users, they have to add another Internet sharing device, like a router. The P964 APR is equivalent to a cable modem plus a router with the capability of wireless data access. This is very suitable for SOHO and SME for Internet sharing. P964 APR has three major operation modes as shown in Figure 1-1. Getting to Know Your P964 APR 1-1