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My internet connection is DSL provided by Telus.  That connection is protected by a hardware router/firewall.  The "EXTERNAL" network card in the LinuxMCE Core/Hybrid is plugged into that router/firewall.  Other media directors will be connected to the "INTERNAL" network.

The [[Media:System_diagram.png|system diagram]] provides a decent overview of the network topology.

I am using a Linksys WRT54GL wireless router v1.1 running [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWrt OpenWrt]/X-WRT.  

I ended up making some changes to the router's setup to nicely accomodate the LinuxMCE system.  I've described them in the sections below.

==User Friendly URLs and Particular IP Addresses==
To give the core and laptop orbiter static IP addresses (in this case 192.168.1.102 and 80.1), I added the following line to the WRT54GL's ''dnsmasq.conf'' file:
 dhcp-host=192.168.1.102,orbiterlaptop
 dhcp-host=192.168.80.1,dcerouter

To make the IP addresses map to some user-friendlier names, I added the following line to the WRT54GL's ''hosts'' file:
 192.168.1.102  orbiterlaptop
 192.168.80.1	mc mediacenter mce linuxmce dcerouter

In order to access the 192.168.80.1 address, I changed '''Network=>WAN-LAN=>Netmask''' to 255.255.0.0.

With these entries, you can enter http://mce into the address bar of a browser and end up at the admin page.  No IP address entry necessary.

''Note: Some orbiters need the core to be at 192.168.80.1.''

==Bittorrent Port Forwarding==
Under '''Network->Firewall''', I created a port forwarding entry that looks like this:
 Match                     Target          Port	 
 Destination Ports: 60000  192.168.1.103   60000

==QoS==
Under '''Network->QoS''', I configured as follows:
*'''QoS Service''': Enabled
*'''QoS Overhead Calculation''': Enabled
*'''Wan Upload Speed''' and '''Wan Download Speed''' see below

To get numbers for the two speed fields, I stopped all other internet access and ran a speed test [http://www.speedtest.net/ here], then filled in the up and down speeds.  I noticed that the speeds reported seem to vary quite a bit over the course of a week.  I recommend filling in the worst-case speeds which turned out to be 200/1600 upload/download for my connection.  If you overstate the speeds web browsing, email, VoiP, etc will get starved by bittorrent downloads.

==Links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_WRT54G_series Wikipedia - Linksys WRT54G series]
*http://openwrt.org/
*http://x-wrt.org/

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