Static IP's..... Right, bit stuck with these - basically, I want to assign static IP's to the computers on our wireless network, so we can use port forwarding with Azureus and things properly. But when I disable DCHP in the router, and assign them in windows (with the correct subnet), you then can't connect to the internet. Any ideas? I'm out of my depth!
GAteway IP is normally your wireless routers IP address and your DNS will have to be obtained from your ISP
you can use 158.43.192.1 for dns, it's pipex and I've used it for a few years without problem. If you can't find your gateway... Connect via dhcp open a command prompt Type 'route print' Press enter Your gateway is the ip at the top of the third column.
Sorted, cheers chaps. Rob - had the DNS numbers anyway from the ISP, so used those. Freedom 2 Surf are wicked
For future reference on how to do this: Just temporarily, turn on DHCP on your network. (You only need to do this once to get the network details). Double click on the icon for the network connection in the system tray. Select "Support" and choose "Details". (If there is no icon for the network connection on the system tray, right click on "My Network Places", right click on the connection in question and select "Properties", then tick "Show Icon in Notification Area When Connected"). This will tell you your subnet mask, local gateway (usually the IP address of your router) and it should also give you at least one DNS server address. Copy these down. Turn off DHCP, assign your IP address manually for your PC, but then fill in the subnet mask, gateway, DNS (and any other information). And you should be laughing - I've done this to allow a spare PC to serve information out onto the net and it worked fine EDIT: You can leave DHCP on and just specify an IP address manually for individual PCs, but make sure that they are outside of the DHCP range on your router. For example, my router is set up to hand out IPs via DHCP from 192.168.1.10 to 192.168.1.60 (50 addresses in total). My server runs on 192.168.1.100 (so that there is no possibility DHCP will attempt to assign the server's address to another PC).
