DSL & D-Link DI-704

I use the same setup at my house except that I use a cable modem for my connection. The router has a WAN link in the back of it. This is where you will connect the cable from the back of the modem to the router itself. You shuld see one solid orange light and one blinking orange light if all is working well. The PC's that you are going to connect to the DSL will be attaching via the front of the router marked 1x, 2x, 3x, and 4x. You will need the documentation for the rest of this. Open internet explorer. You will get a page not found error, but that is OK. Type the address of the gateway for the router in the address bar of IE (found in documentation). You will then be prompted to enter the password for your router which will be in the documentation as well. You will also need the documentation from the DSL provider. It is important that you follow the directions in the manual for the router pertaining to how your IP is set, meaning static or dynamic. You will then set the clients to obtain IP address automatically from the router as this router has built in DHCP capabilities. I know this isn't all of the configuration information you were looking for, but it's a good start. It would take way more than the alloted amount of space to walk you through every step in this forum. If you have any questions, feel free to email me. I know that you will be happy with this router as I have nothing but great things to say about it. I have been in the field for quite some time now and only wish that all my equipment was as reliable as this little router. Enjoy.

Unfortunately, DSL is a little more complicated than cable. With most DSL providers, you are getting PPoE software, and most DSL providers will not tell you or help you setup anything else. The PPoE software has DNS and IP addressing software and you will need to install PPoE at least on one computer and connect it to you DSL modem in order to determine how the DI-704 should be setup.

The information you need to put into the DI-704 is:
1) DNS ip addresses (preferably two sets of ip addresses providing a primary DNS server and a secondary DNS server -- in case the first goes down). Install the PPoE software then do a winipcfg (or ipconfig depending on the os you are using) and write down the DNS ip addresses (hit the "..." button on win98 computers for the second DNS ip). Then uninstall the PPoE software and connect your computers as indicated by the first poster. Http into the DI-704 and set it up with the DNS info.

2) your complete e-mail address will need to be placed in the DI-704 account field... and your password

3) You should set the di-704 to timeout=0 (no timeout) and you should enable PPoE. You should probably also set DHCP.

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