Chapter 3 Making Configuration
3.1
Network Setup
3.1.1 Basic Requirement
To make the Wireless Music Player device work properly under your network environment, your
network must have the following basic capability:
You must have a router device with DHCP server function enabled, so that it
can automatically assign IP address to your computers or other network
devices.
If you already have a router device in your home, there will be no big trouble to setup the Music
Player device with your existed network environment, but if you don’t have or don’t know what you
have in your home network., the following paragraph will help you to find out if there is any
problem to be resolved prior you start to operate the Music Player device.
Please answer the question: How does your computer or Notebook PC access the internet?
The answer might be one of the following:
Case I. I have to plug an Ethernet cable to the computer, and
I.1
I have to execute a dial-up program from my computer to link to the ISP
service, and after that I can access the internet.
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You need to purchase a (wireless) broadband router.
I.2
No extra dial-up program is executed in my computer, but I set a fixed IP
address in my computer.
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I.3
No extra dial-up program is executed in my computer, and I set the dynamic
IP address in my computer.
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There is a router device in your home. You can configure the Music Player
device as wired client mode to work in your home network.
Case II. I use the wireless connection, and
II.1 I have to execute a dial-up program from my computer to link to the ISP
service, and then I can access the internet.
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There is no router device in your home. You have to purchase a new router
device to upgrade your home network.
II.2 No extra dial-up program is executed in my computer, but I set a fixed IP
address in my computer.
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If the IP address is provided by your ISP supplier, there seemed to be no DHCP
service in your home network. You have to buy a new router device.
If the IP address is a virtual IP, like 192.168.xxx.xxx, you should have a router
device. So, the Music Player device can work in your home network.
II.3 No extra dial-up program is executed in my computer, and I set the dynamic
IP address in my computer.
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There is a wireless router device in your home, The Music Player device can
work well in your home network