Patent 7596145 was granted and assigned to ZyXEL on September, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An automatic setting method for ATM network is used in an information device for automatic connecting to an ATM network of an ISP office. At first an automatic configuration table is provided and includes a plurality sets of setting parameters of virtual path identifier (VPI)/virtual channel identifier (VCI) and encapsulation capacity for a plurality of default ISP offices. A user tries connection to the ISP office by selecting one set of the setting parameters as a connecting parameter to the ISP office and receives a reply message from the ISP office. The user selects another one set of the setting parameters as a connecting parameter to the ISP office when the connection fails and tries again until the connection to the ISP office successes.