Dial-up Application Notes

Dial-up Introduction

In P-334WH, it supports only one WAN connection via Ethernet WAN port. P-334WHD also supports an embedded modem which provides the alternative WAN connection. When the Ethernet WAN connection is not available (ex. ISP down), user can use the dial-up solution if there is a city line available.

There is an application, one family wants to go travelling and they want to use Internet in their hotel which may not provide Internet access service. So Father brings one P-334WHD since it has modem dial-up soltion. They just need to connect the phone line which provided by hotel and dial the modem to access Internet anytime when they want to use. For them, the P-334WHD is light and it allows at least 4 host connected at LAN site at the same time that hosts can be protected by firewall and the Father can configure some filtering rules like content filtering to prevent children to access some websites.

Another application, several teleworker go business trip tegether. Internet access is very important for them. When they are in a certain environment which provides unstable or no Ethernet WAN connection, they can use the city line and dial the modem to access Internet easily. Now there are several ISP provides free modem dial-up service, so user will just need to pay the phone bill.

Enable Dial-up

Step1. Physical connection

a. See the P-334WHD's picture as shown below. Connect the city line cable to the "LINE" port and the cable to you phone to "PHONE" port. So that you could access Internet and your phone number is still available.

Step2. Enable Dial-up in web GUI

a. Login to P-334WHD web GUI, choose go to Basic Setup and go to menu Network > WAN.

b. Switch to Modem Dialup tab, the Modem Dialup is off by default. Check the box to enable Dial-up and fill the dial-up user account, password, and phone number. Then leave others fields as default. Click Apply button then.

Note1: Sometimes, you may need to dial a pre-fixed number to make the phone call. For example, if you need to pre-dial a "0" first. Then you need to enter the number as 0,40666688.

Note2: Here we use packet trigger the dial-up application. That is, the modem will be dialed up once it detects any packets want to be sent. So we didn't enable the "Nailed-up Connection" in this example. But if you want to make the modem connection is always up even there is no packets sent, you could enable the "Nailed-up Connection" in the same GUI page.

Step3. Packet Trigger dialed-up

Assume there is a notebook at LAN site and user try to open the web browser to access Internet.

Step4. After Dialed-up

If success, the P-334WHD will get an IP address for WAN access. Following are the logs for your reference.

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