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3. Accessingthe home page of the digital receiver.

Refer to §9.3 for detailed descriptions about things you can

useon the web service of the digital receiver.

NOTE The web server and FTP server of the digital receiver

don’t work in standby mode. So it must be powered

up all the time if you wish to use the web service at

anytime.

9.1 Conﬁguring the access point

Inthis section, the setup program of WRT54G, which is an ac-

cess point manufactured by Linksys, will be refered to as an

exemplary description to help your understanding of how to

conﬁgure your access point for the digital receiver’s wireless

connection. For detailed descriptions of how to set up the ac-

cesspoint, refer to the manual of your access point.

Onceyour access point is powered up, whether it is connected

tothe Internet or not, a local area network is created.

You can let the access point automat-

ically assign a dynamic IP address to

a computer or device connected to the

network by enabling the DHCP server

ofthe access point. Inthis case, you can

access the digital receiver if you know

the IP address which is assigned to the

digitalreceiver by the access point.

For how to verify the dynamic IP addressassigned, refer to §

9.2.1.

If the digital receiverreboots, a new dynamic IP address will

be assigned to it. You have to assign a static IP address to