Connecting To A Network And Inserting The Memory Card; Preparing Your Network - Epson PowerLite 8150i Administrator's Manual

Connecting to a Network and Inserting
the Memory Card
To use the projector's EasyMP.net features, you have to connect the
projector to your network and insert a memory card as described
below. You'll also need to configure the projector's network settings
and perform other setup procedures as described in "Setting up
EasyMP.net" on page 45.

Preparing Your Network

To connect the PowerLite 8150i to a network, you must already have
in place an Ethernet network running Microsoft networking over
TCP/IP.
When setting up your network, you may wish to take into account
certain security measures. Since the projector can be accessed by
anyone on your network with a web browser, you may wish to limit
which systems have access to the projector, as well as which systems
the projector itself can be used to access. One way of doing this is to
place the projector on its own subnet, as shown below; this way, only
PCs on the projector's subnet (for example, those located in the
meeting room) can access the projector directly.
projector subnet
office subnet
(meeting room)
server
You may also wish to consider setting up a wireless LAN. This is
helpful if users want to draw on screen but the projector is in a
hard-to-reach place, making it difficult to connect a mouse or drawing
tablet directly to the projector (see page 34). To draw on screen, users
can run the EMP Tablet software and draw using their laptop's mouse
(or a drawing tablet connected to the laptop). The laptop running the
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