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Enervent® Freeway Ethernet EN 2011_1
INSTALLATON
CONNECTING THE FREEWAY BUS ADAPTER TO INTERNET
The ”WAN” gate on the Freeway adapter needs to be connected to a data transmission network in order for Freeway to be
available on the Internet. The data transmission network must be in direct contact with Internet, i.e. it must have a pub-
licly routable IP address. How to get a suitable IP address depends on the Internet connection in the building. A typical
Finnish broadband connection gives a functioning IP address if Freeway is connected directly to the modem.
Freeway can be connected to the Internet in at least the following to ways:
FREEWAY
MODEM
Upstream cable
(ADSL or wide area network)
WAN port
Ethernet
ETHERNET
SWITCH
MODEM
Upstream cable
(ADSL or wide area network)
Ethernet
FREEWAY OTHER
COMPUTERS
OR ROUTER
Ethernet
Ethernet
WAN port
Picture 1: Direct connection to a broadband modem Picture 2: Direct connection to a broadband modem,
local network divided with switch
The Freeway Bus adapter can be contacted from the Internet if the network cable is connected directly tothe modem. If
Freeway is connected through a router of its own it can be reached by computers behind the same rewall.
Connection alternatives:
1. Connect the Freeway WAN gate straight with the Ethernet gate on a ADSL/cable modem. In this case it is pos-
sible to connect portable computers to the Freeway LAN gates or connect to Internet using the Freeway wireless
network (picture 1).
2. The Ethernet cable from the cable modem/ADSL modem can be divided with a switch to run both to the home
router and the Freeway Bus adapter. This works on the assumption that the broadband provider gives several IP addresses
per modem (picture 2). The router is congrated to direct requests to HTTP gate TCP/80 and the Freeway bus adapter.
Universal instructions for the conguration can not be given because they depend on the broadband connection and the
model of router installed. The conguration requires expertise.
Choose tab Conguration on the user interface for Freeway. Click on Network conguration for interface ”WAN”.
In the middle of the page is the heading Current WAN setup. The address can for instance be inet addr: 192.168.1.5. Addres-
ses beginning with 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x indicate that Freeway is connected to the buildings own network and can be
reached only on the internal network, not on the Internet. (Freeway can be reached over the Internet by congurating the
router).
