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78 Accessing The Digital Receiver
9.1 Configuring the router
In this section, the setup program of WRT54G, which is a router
manufactured by Linksys, will be referred to as an exemplary
description to help your understanding about how to config-
ure the router for network connection.
NOTE
For detailed description about how to set up the router, refer
to the manual of your router.
9.1.1 To access indoors
Once your router is powered up, whether it is connected to
the Internet or not, a local area network is created.
You can let the router automatically as-
sign a dynamic IP address to a computer
or device connected to the network by
enabling the DHCP server of the router.
In this case, you can access the digital
receiver with the IP address which is
assigned to the digital receiver by the
router.
If the digital receiver reboots, a new dynamic IP address will
be assigned to it. You had better assign a static IP address to
the digital receiver to avoid this inconvenience. To do so, you
have to disable the DHCP server of the router, and specify an
available IP address for the digital receiver at the IP Configu-
ration menu. For how to specify a static IP address, see § 9.2.
9.1.2 To access from outdoors
When you are outdoors, you can access the digital receiver in-
side your home if your router is configured to route an access
to the digital receiver by means of port forwarding. By this