Networking at home for a dummy?

Pixual

Pixual

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I hope some of the networking experts here can help me with a problem I have. At home I am running a few devices on wifi and a few connected to my ancient Telkom Mega 100WR router by ethernet cable (2 mac computers and a Mede8er). Everything works fine, but the problem I have is that the IP addresses assigned to various bits of hardware always change whenever I need to re-boot the router. Ordinarily this isn't a problem, but because I like to connect to certain devices by name instead of IP address, I need to find a way of assigning the IP addresses to the device names in a static manner using this router. Is it possible?

I see the option to assign the IP's statically under LAN clients in the router, but whenever the thing is powered off the static addresses vanish into the ether and connecting to the device by name doesn't seem to work.

Any suggestions?
 
"assign the IP's statically"
Did you click on save and write changes to flash before the router restated?
Otherwise you would have to set a static IP manually on every device in your home network.
 
I'm not too sure if this is the case with your router as-well, but I have to assign the static addresses in 2 places on my billion router, try find a manual on the web or something
 
Evo1ve said:
"assign the IP's statically"
Did you click on save and write changes to flash before the router restated?
Otherwise you would have to set a static IP manually on every device in your home network.
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This will work, how I suggest creating reservation in DHCP for your devices instead.
Call me old-school, but end-devices shouldn't get static IP addresses unless they're servers.
 
The Mede8er is a server, so that's the one I'd really like to keep static if possible.

What I am noticing with the Mede8er though is that sometimes it pops up in my Mac Finder under its name and other times it doesn't - I have to go looking for it by IP. Fortunately there aren't that many devices to make this difficult, but it is annoying when I am trying to find it with my Apple TV or iPad.
 
I think I get it...

So in the network settings of the device, I should be configuring IPv4 with a manual address. Does that mean that the router will automatically assign it that IP or does it need to be specified in the router too?
 
Pixual said:
The Mede8er is a server, so that's the one I'd really like to keep static if possible.

What I am noticing with the Mede8er though is that sometimes it pops up in my Mac Finder under its name and other times it doesn't - I have to go looking for it by IP. Fortunately there aren't that many devices to make this difficult, but it is annoying when I am trying to find it with my Apple TV or iPad.
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Just set the ip on the mede8tor... give it an ip that is way out of the range of the other device. So lets say all the other devices are 192.168.0.1-192.168.0.10 give the mede8tor an ip of 192.168.0.50 just to be safe. make sure you have the default gateway though.
 
Pixual said:
I think I get it...

So in the network settings of the device, I should be configuring IPv4 with a manual address. Does that mean that the router will automatically assign it that IP or does it need to be specified in the router too?
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The router wont need to know, just give the deice a static ip in the range of the other devices like in my explanation
 
If you are going the static IP route, then assign IP addresses that fall outside your DHCP scope. If need be either disable DHCP altogether, or change the scope to a block of IP addresses and assign static IP addresses outside of this scope.
 
Thanks! I will see if this resolves the problem. Now to get access to Mede8er while the wife is watching tv... :whistle:
 
Hi There,
Not worked with that particular router but what I do is assign particular mac addresses that I want to be fixed IP in the router.
e.g. I have a backup server that I want to connect to on my phone with a package that needs the IP address of the device server to connect to. So it has a fixed IP.
For the rest leave them for the router to assign.

Much easier.

Regards

Tim
 
I recall those having a save config button.

Sounds like you haven't used it.
 
I think you are right, SauRoNZA. I hit the apply button at the bottom of the screen, but not the Save link at the top. Talk about stupid interface design...
 
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