it is considered for the example that the port 111 is a usb port the port 111 could be of a different type among at least those quoted for the circuits 107 the peripheral 112 is for example a printing device nevertheless it is to be noted that the peripheral 101 may be any peripheral compatible with the port 111 for the example in the case of a usb port a cd dvd player writer or a mass storage peripheral may be quoted it is recalled that a digital camera is regarded as a mass storage peripheral via a usb connection fig1 shows that the port 111 is connected to a transport gateway 113 of the port 111 in a primary start up version of the invention the gateway 113 transforms the port 111 into an ethernet port this enables the port 111 and particularly the peripheral connected thereto to be considered as a network peripheral on the network 110 in order to attain this result the stb 101 also comprises a hub 114 also referred to as a u2018 switch u2019 on the gateway 113 on the connector 109 and on the interface ethernet circuits 115 between the bus 104 and the hub 114 the hub 114 enables to spit up the port 109 and thus to associate two network addresses with the stb 110 one of these addresses corresponds to the port 111 the other corresponds to the other elements of the stb the addresses corresponding to the port 111 are referred to here as u201c addper u201d with the address corresponding to the other elements called u201c addstb u201d in another start up version of the invention here referred to as the second start up the device 114 is a mini router that.