“Set­ting a Sta­tic LAN IP on your HP Medi­aS­mart is a sim­ple way to avoid net­work­ing has­sles with DHCP and port for­ward­ing. This tuto­r­ial is designed for the folks who have to man­u­ally for­ward ports in their router to run the HP Medi­aS­mart. If the MS router tool didnt work with your router, man­ual port for­ward­ing is the only way to get to your server remotely.”