Manual - Edimax

2-4-1 Using ‘Cable Modem’ as broadband connection typeIf your Internet service provider uses cable modem to provide Internetservice to you, you can select this connection type. You can also selectthis connection type if your ISP tells you that they will assign you the IPaddress by ’DHCP’ (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol).Here are descriptions of every setup items:Item NameHost NameMAC addressTTLDescriptionPlease input the host name of your computer,this is optional, and only required if yourservice provider asks you to do so.Please input MAC address of your computerhere, if your service provider only permitscomputer with certain MAC address to accessinternet. If you’re using the computer whichused to connect to Internet via cable modem,you can simply press ‘Clone Mac address’button to fill the MAC address field with theMAC address of your computer.Time-to-live (TTL) is a value in an InternetProtocol packet that tells a network routerwhether or not the packet has been in thenetwork too long and should be discarded.