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2. Before you start
Before you can use your internet radio, you need the following:
1. A broadband internet connection.
2. A wireless access point connected to your broadband internet. Via a router is
recommended.
3. If your wireless network is configured to use WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy)
or WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) data encryption, it is important that you
know your WEP or WPA code to connect to your network.
4. PC
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Windows Media Player (WMP) 11 can be set up to
enable streaming music files from the PC to the radio.
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Alternatively, Windows shared folders can be used if
WMP is not installed in the PC.
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The PC can also be used to customise the radio’s
favourites via the Frontier Silicon internet radio portal.
2.1 Difference between the Internet Radio Portal and Radio Station
There might be some confusion with regards to the difference between the Internet
radio portal and the actual internet radio stations.
Internet Radio Portal The portal is the content aggregator which maintains links to
all the available internet radio stations. It can be considered to
be an ‘address book’, listing the address of all the internet radio
stations and regularly updated with new ones. When a user
