You should definitely be able to set the IP on the empeg itself, with a menu command or somesuch; it shouldn't really be a techie-only option. Also, I think it should come with a pre-set "local" IP address that's stated in the docs or something. Both of these because some people (like me) would want to use the Ethernet simply because I don't want to deal with the serial cabling (I have a Mac without a serial port) or the USB driver hassles.

trev