78 Accessing The Digital Receiver
9.1Configuring 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
