Welcome to the Speed Touch Pro Mac set-up guide, you should be up and running in 15 minutes.

Please note that this Guide assumes you have purchased the ST Pro with the intention of using it to provide Internet Access to Mac's on an Ethernet/Airport network, however if your are only connecting the modem to a single Mac the instructions should apply with little alteration.

If you are looking for intructions on setting up the Speed Touch 510 go here.

Please note that changes to the ST Pro's software mean that some of the config web pages you see may be slightly different to the ones shown here, I've been told the changes are not very significant so use some common sense and you should be able to figure it out!

If you plan to connect an Airport BaseStation to your ST Pro or Network I suggest setting up the ST Pro using the supplied Ethernet cable connected to your Mac first (Airport instructions start at Step 11)

Step 1 - Resetting the modem to it's factory defaults.

Ensure that your modem is only connected to the power adapter and is switched off, now locate the small block of four dip switches on the rear of the ST Pro (all should be down), move switch 4 to the UP position and turn on the modem.

The modem will go through it's start-up procedure and end with the Pwr/Alarm LED flashing Green/Amber and the Line Sync LED flashing green. Now move dip switch 4 back to the DOWN position and the PWR/Alarm light should go solid green. Now turn off the modem and move to step 2.

Step 2 - Connecting the modem to your Mac/Ethernet Hub

Hub: To connect the ST Pro's 10baseT port to a standard port on your Ethernet Hub you will need to use a "Cross Over" cable or if your Hub has an "Uplink" port you can use a (supplied) standard Ethernet cable.

Mac: Simply use the supplied Ethernet Cable to connect the ST Pro's 10baseT port to the Ethernet port on your Mac.

Once you have connected the ST Pro to your Mac/Hub, connect the ADSL line (phone line) and power up the modem.

Step 3 - Initial set up of TCP/IP

To configure the ST Pro you need to access the modem's "Web Interface" but before you can do this you need to change your TCP/IP settings.

For MacOS X open the System Preferences application and select Network. Under the "Show:" pull down menu select "Active Network Ports", a list of network ports will appear, de-select all of the ports apart from "Built in Ethernet". Now select "Built in Ethernet" from the "Show:" pull down menu, click the TCP/IP tab and from the "Configure:" menu select "Using DHCP". Click "Apply Now" and exit.

Your now ready to configure the ST Pro.

Step 4 - Accessing the ST Pro's "Web Interface"

Launch your browser of choice (IE, Netscape, iCab, OmniWeb etc) and enter the address http://10.0.0.138 You should be greeted with a page that reads "Welcome to the World of ADSL" (image below)

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Step 5 - Setting the Modem password

To stop unauthorised access to the ST Pro's web interface you can password protect the modem. To do this click the "System Setup" button on the top left of the Web interface, enter a password into the password box and click the "Apply" button. Now click "Save all" towards the bottom left of the page.

Now everytime you try to access the web interface you will be asked for a user name and password, the user name is just blank whilst the password is what you just entered above.

Step 6 - Deleting the Pre-configured settings

The Speed Touch Pro comes pre-configured with several sets of default settings, unfortunately none of these apply to UK ADSL so to simplify things we will delete them.

Along the left of the page are several buttons that take you to the different configuration pages, you need to delete all of the settings from the following pages:

Phonebook
PPP
PPTP
Dial-in
CIP
Bridge

I suggest deleting the entries from the Phonebook page last as some settings cannot be deleted until entries on other pages have been deleted first. After deleting the settings from each of the pages remember to click the apply button. Make sure that there are NO settings entered into any of the above pages before you continue.

Step 7 - Configuring the PhoneBook settings

Click on the "Phonebook" button on the left of the page, there should be no entries in the Phonebook as you should have just deleted them all in Step 5. Under "Use input fields below to add a new entry" enter a name i.e. I called mine "Fish" because I'm weird like that, under "VPI" enter "0", "VCI" enter "38" and under "Type" enter "PPP" (all minus quotes) Click the "Add" button and then "Apply" (top left) The page will refresh showing your new entry, the "Usage" column next to your entry should say "configured" (image below) Don't worry if your entry doesn't turn yellow like mine, it seems modems with later firmware don't do this and I've never bothered updating my firmware.

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Step 8 - Configuring the PPP settings

Click on the PPP button on the left of the page, again there should be no entries as you should have deleted them all in Step 5. Create a new entry giving it the same name you specified in the PhoneBook, "Encap" should be set to "vc-mux" and "Mode" to "Dial-on-demand"

Now click the "Config" button next to the entry you just created, a new page will appear containing three boxes:

Authentication: Enter your user name and password into fields "User" and "Password".

Routing: Set "Connection Sharing" to "Everybody", "Destination networks" to "All networks", check the tick box "Address Translation" and enter your ISP's DNS server addresses into the Primary/Secondary DNS boxes.

Options: If you have a dynamically assigned IP enter "none" in the "Local IP" field, otherwise enter your Static IP address. "Remote IP" should read "none" and "Mode" should be set to "Always on". The three check boxes should be as follows:

LCP echo OFF, PAP OFF, ACCOMP ON

Your PPP Config page should now look something like this:

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Click the "Apply" button (top left) and you should be taken back to the PPP page. On your PPP entry click the pull down menu under "Status" and select "on" if all has gone well "State" will now change to read "up" Click the "Apply" button again, your PPP page should now (fingers crossed) look something like this:

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Step 9 - Disable DHCP

The Speed Touch Pro has a built in DHCP Server which can assign IP addresses to the computers on your network automatically, this sounds cool, but if you turn your computers on in a different order each day then each Mac may get a different IP address every time you turn it on. For this reason it's best to assign each Mac it's own IP address and disable the DHCP server.

Click the DHCP button on the left of the page and select "No DHCP", click the "Apply" button and move on to the next step.

Step 10 - IMPORTANT SAVE ALL

You should have now finished configuring the ST Pro but before you run off to play with the other Mac's on your network you need to click the "SAVE ALL" button towards the bottom left of the page, this is VERY important as if you don't you'll find yourself doing all of the above again! Once you've done this your now ready to configure your Mac's.

Step 11 - Configuring the Mac's on your Ethernet network

You now have to configure the TCP/IP settings for each Mac on your network, if you only have Airport connected Mac's skip to Step 11 "Configuring Airport" otherwise you will need to enter the following settings for each "Wired" Mac.

The Airport BaseStation acts as a "Transparent Bridge" between your Airport connected Mac's and the Speed Touch Pro.

Launch the "Airport Admin Utility" and open up the Config of your BaseStation, go to the "Internet" tab and enter these settings:

Click the "Update" button.

All Airport connected Mac's should use the same TCP/IP settings as specified in Step 10 the only change being "Connect via" (MacOS 9) and "Show:" (MacOS X) should be set to "Airport"

Step 13 - Port Forwarding (Optional)

If you want to run any kind of Server behind the Modem/Router you will need to set-up Port forwarding. Unfortunately this cannot be done through the web interface and involves using a Telnet application to connect to the ST Pro's CLI (Command Line Interface) But do not fear this is not as difficult as it sounds.

First off you need a Telnet client (a piece of software) - for MacOS 9 I recommend Better Telnet but with MacOS X you have a Telnet client available from the Terminal (check in Applications>Utilities) For these instructions I will use the MacOS X Terminal as I no longer run MacOS 9!

First launch the Terminal application and select preferences from the application menu, goto the "Window" pane and set the number of columns to 120. Quit Terminal and relaunch it.

Type in the Terminal window minus quotes "telnet 10.0.0.138"

When asked for a user name just press enter then when asked for a password enter the password you entered at Step 5

Your Terminal window should now look something like this:

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Now, to create a NAT entry you use the "nat create" command, for example to forward all web server requests from the outside world to your webserver on port 80 at IP 10.0.0.2 you would type the following and hit enter:

nat create protocol=tcp inside_addr=10.0.0.2 inside_port=80 outside_addr=0 outside_port=80

To see if your entry has been added you can use the command "nat list" not surprisingly this displays a list of NAT entries!

IMPORTANT - Once you are happy your entry is correct you must type "nat save".

To delete a NAT entry you use the "nat delete" command, for example to delete the above entry you would type:

nat delete protocol=tcp inside_addr=10.0.0.2 inside_port=80 outside_addr=0 outside_port=80

Once finished you can end the Telnet session by hitting control and c

To learn more about the Command Line Interface you can download the ST Pro CLI Reference Guide from the Alcatel website here.

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