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3-3 Home Network (LAN: Local Area Network) Configuration
A LAN is the network within your home. All computers accessing your Internet
connection through the Smart Dish Repeater are considered part of your Home Network.
Each of these users will either have their own manually configured IP address or an
automatically configured IP address from the Smart Dish Repeater via its DHCP server.
There are two ways to assign IP addresses to computers: static IP address (set the IP
address for every computer manually), and dynamic IP address (IP address of computers
will be assigned by Smart Dish Repeater automatically. It’s recommended for most
computers to use dynamic IP address, it will save a lot of time on setting IP addresses for
every computer, especially when there are a lot of computers in your network; for servers
and network devices which will provide services to other computers and users that come
from the Internet, a static IP address should be used.
Suggestions on IP address numbering plan:
If you have no idea on how to define an IP address plan for your
network, here are some suggestions.
1. A valid IP address has 4 fields: a.b.c.d, for most of home and
company users, it’s suggested to use 192.168.c.d, where c is
an integer between 0 and 254, and d is an integer between 1
and 254. This Smart Repeater Pro is capable to work with up to
253 clients, so you can set ‘d’ field of IP address of Smart
Repeater Pro as 1 or 254 (or any number between 1 and 254),
and pick a number between 0 and 254 for field ‘c’.
2. In most cases, you should use ‘255.255.255.0’ as subnet mask,
which allows up to 253 clients (this also meets Smart Repeater
Pro’s capability of working with up to 253 clients).
3. For all servers and network devices which will provide
services to other people (like Internet service, print service,
and file service), they should use static IP address. Give each
of them a unique number between 1 and 253, and maintain a
list, so everyone can locate those servers easily.
4. For computers which are not dedicated to provide specific
service to others, they should use dynamic IP address.