Configuring The Router; To Access Within The Local Area Network; To Access Over The Internet - Topfield TRF-7260 User Reference

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8.1 Configuring the router

8.1.1 To access within the local area network

8.1.2 To access over the Internet

In this section, the setup program of WRT54G, which is a router man-
ufactured by Linksys, will be referred to as an example of how to con-
figure the router for network access.
NOTE
For detailed description about how to set up the router, refer to the
manual of your router.
Once your router is powered up, a local area network gets created
whether or not it is connected to the Internet.
If the digital receiver reboots, a new dynamic IP address will be as-
signed to it. You had better assign a static IP address to the digital
receiver to avoid this inconvenience. As to how to assign a static IP ad-
dress, refer to the manual of your router; as to how to specify a static
IP address on the digital receiver, see §8.2.
When you are away from home, you can access the digital receiver
inside your home if your router is configured to route access to the
digital receiver by means of port forwarding. Via this feature, your
router will lead you to the digital receiver when you access your router
with its IP address.
You can let the router automatically assign a
dynamic IP address to the computers or de-
vices 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 re-
ceiver by the router.