Last night I set up two computers on a wireless network at my home. The router is a Linksys, Firmware Version: v1.02.0. Unfortunately, it's located in my landlord's apartment downstairs but I can log into it and make changes. Anyway, one of the computers is running a web server and ftp server and I set it up to always use 192.168.1.105 for obvious reasons. About an hour ago I set up a file sharing through XP's network setup wizard. That seemed to work fine, however I immediately could no longer connect to my servers on 192.168.1.105. So I logged into the router and am seeing that it's being assigned two IP addresses now which are changing everytime I reboot the machine (they're always right next to each other though, like 109 & 110 or 107 & 108). Even if it gets assigned 104 & 105, i still can't connect. The other computer seems to only be assigned one IP. Please help! I need to get my servers back online! Thanks in advance. Zeek

Did you note the web/ftp servers mac address and then input that into the router dhcp server as a ip reservation? The workstation is set to be a dhcp client? Or did you change the dhcp ip scope on the router to not include x.x.x.105 and then set the workstation to that ip as a static assignment? Or did you not do either of those????

hi wanderer, thanks for the quick response! on the web/ftp server computer, i went to - Wireless Network Connection Properties - scrolled down to Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) - and clicked Properties from there i entered in the IP address 192.168.1.105 the subnet mask, default gateway and DNS this was working fine for months. it just suddenly stopped when i used XP's Network Setup Wizard (even though my settings are still there in the TCP/IP Properties window!)

also, this is all the info the router offers for DHCP configuration: DHCP Server: Enable Disable Starting IP Address: 192.168.1. Maximum Number of DHCP Users: Client Lease Time: minutes (0 means one day) Static DNS 1: . . . Static DNS 2: . . . Static DNS 3: . . . WINS: so i'm not sure where I can set either a static IP or mac address configuration. ??