Advanced Settings
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NETGEAR Wireless Cable Gateway
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP)
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) helps devices, such as Internet appliances and computers,
access the network and connect to other devices as needed. UPnP devices can
automatically discover the services from other registered UPnP devices on the network. With
UPnP you can specify:
•
Advertisement Period
. This specifies how often the gateway broadcasts its UPnP
information. The default is 30 minutes. Lower numbers ensure that control points
have current device status at the expense of additional network traffic. Larger
numbers may compromise the freshness of the device status but can significantly
reduce network traffic.
•
Advertisement Time to Live
. The time to live for the advertisement, measured in
hops (steps) for each UPnP packet that is sent. A hop is the number of steps that are
allowed to propagate for each UPnP advertisement before it disappears. The number
of hops can range from 1 to 255. The default value for the advertisement time to live is
4 hops, which should be fine for most home networks. If you notice that some devices
are not being updated or reached correctly, you might need to increase this value
slightly.
1.
Select
Advanced > UPnP
.
2.
Select the
Turn UPnP On
check box. The default setting is disabled, which prevents the
gateway from allowing any device to automatically control of its the resources, such as port
forwarding.
3.
Fill in the
Advertisement Period
and
Advertisement Time to Live
fields.
The UPnP Portmap Table displays the IP address of each UPnP device that is currently
accessing the gateway and which internal and external ports of the gateway were opened
by that device. The UPnP Portmap Table also displays the protocol for the port that was
opened and if that port is still active for each IP address.
4.
Perform one of the following actions:
•
Click
Apply
to save your settings.
•
Click
Cancel
to disregard any unsaved changes.
•
Click
Refresh
to update the UPnP Portmap Table and to show the active ports that
are currently opened by UPnP devices.