Table of Contents
VMG4927-B50A / VMG9827-B50A User’s Guide
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7.1.2 What You Need to Know
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7.2 WiFi
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7.2.1 WiFi Edit
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7.3 Guest WiFi
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7.3.1 Edit Guest WiFi
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7.4 WPS
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7.5 Advanced Settings
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7.6 Channel Status
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7.7 MESH
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7.8 Technical Reference
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7.8.1 Wireless Network Overview
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7.8.2 Additional Wireless Terms
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7.8.3 Wireless Security Overview
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7.8.4 Signal Problems
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7.8.5 BSS
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7.8.6 MBSSID
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7.8.7 Preamble Type
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7.8.8 WiFi Protected Setup (WPS)
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Chapter 8
Home Networking
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8.1 Overview
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8.1.1 What You Can Do in this Chapter
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8.1.2 What You Need To Know
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8.1.3 Before You Begin
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8.2 LAN Setup
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8.3 Static DHCP
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8.4 UPnP
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8.4.1 Turn On UPnP in Windows 7 Example
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8.5 Additional Subnet
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8.6 STB Vendor ID
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8.7 Wake on LAN
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8.8 TFTP Server Name
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8.9 Technical Reference
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8.9.1 LANs, WANs and the VMG
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8.9.2 DHCP Setup
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8.9.3 DNS Server Addresses
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8.9.4 LAN TCP/IP
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Chapter 9
Routing
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9.1 Overview
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9.2 Routing
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