Hello everyone; I have a linksys router that dishes out a dynamic IP. I want to know how to give myself a static IP. Try to be specific. **LEave your email address

Do you want the router to have a static IP internal to the LAN (it should by default :192.168.1.1) Or do you want it to have a static IP to the outside world? (You need to have an IP from your ISP, but it can be configured by going to the router configuration page and deslecting "Obtain IP automatically" and instead put int he outside IP you want) Or did you want a certain PC on your internal network to have the static IP? (click on the DHCP tab, select the number of users you want to the router assign an IP to, which whill be one less than the number of PC's on your network. Set the starting IP address to be 192.168.1.100, and apply the settings. Now on the PC you want to have a static IP, set the IP address to 192.10.168.10. Since the router will only assign out IPs of x.100 and up, you will never have a conflict, and since it's still on the 192.168.1.x subnet, then it will still be on the same network as everything else) Hope this clears things up a bit, of course if you didn't alreay know, you can access the configurations page by directing your browser to 192.168.1.1, no username, password of admin (lowercase) by default. If the router is secondhand and you can't get into it, hold the reset button on the back until it resets back to factory results. HTH post back with any questions or further clarification -Dave C

Hello Dave C.; I would actually like to do both. But as for my outgoing IP address... can I just make anything up? Or do I have to follow a formula? Or does my ISP assign me one? or what.

The outside IP is assigned to you, either as a static IP from your ISP, or you get it from DHCP. Most ISP's give DHCP, and are adamant about people not using static IP's, as they charge more money for them (Because they know you are trying to host a web site or something) But I know people who get their IP from DHCP, write it down, and put it in as a static IP and reboot quickly enough that no one else takes it, and from that point on it's pretty much yours (the ISP's DHCP server pings an IP before assigning it to someone else, and if you are using that IP, then it won't give it out... AKA no conflict). The problem is if you have a power failure or anything, then it might give out your IP to someone else before your power is restored, and when you get your power back, then your internet connection will crap out on you until you get a different IP. As far as making it up, you can't do that. It has to be on a subnet that your ISP carries, or else nothing will recognize it. Are you wanting it so you can host a web site, or something of that nature? If so, here's how I did it: Set up Personal Web Server on a computer in my network (used frontpage 98, I'm no pro at web sites LOL) and made that computer's IP 192.168.1.10 Next I registered a domain from www.register.com (I paid $70 for 2 years, but I see now some sites charge about half that, so shop around) I still use DHCP for my outside IP in my linksys, so I went to my Linksys config page (192.168.1.1) and checked the STATUS tab to see what my outside IP is. I then went to www.register.com (or whoever you choose to use) and logged in with my domain and account information, and assigned my domain to point to that IP. (They said it would take up to 24 hours, past couple of times it was done within 15 minutes) I then went back into the router config and went to the Advanced section, Forwarding tab, and set all incoming rquests from port 80 (http) port to be forwarded to 192.168.1.10 (my web server computer's static IP) So anytime someone goes to my www.domain.com address, it is actually going to my computer which I'm using as a web server. My DHCP IP that I got from my ISP stays on for long periods of time.. I'm thinking that in the last year I had maybe 3 or 4 resets that came from the ISP (the rest were me releasing and renewing while troubleshooting my network) If at any time I do have a power failure or a reset and get a different IP, no biggie, I just go to the Router config, Status tab, check out what my new IP is, jot it down, go to manage my domain, put in the new IP address, and within the hour my web site is back up and running. I also was able to set up an FTP server the same way by installing an FTP program on the same computer, and setting port 21 to go to 192.168.1.10 in the forwarding tab, just like I did for the web page. HTH, and if you plan on usingit for a different purpose and need a hand, let me know!

This is somewhat related to the topic but could someone post instructions on setting up a static IP, provided by my ISP, so that this computer I assign it to can be accessed from outside via ftp. Also, how do I set it up so I can use pcAnywhere to control this computer? More info: There are other computers in the workgroup that use DHCP. Thanks, steven

I also use DHCP but whenever i try to assign a statip ip address to my web server it doesn't seem to want to grab it. i have tried anything, i am running Linksys BEFSR11 with the most current firware version. please help me out explaining all to do Router Address:192.168.1.1 Subnet Mask:255.255.255.0 DHCP Starting:192.168.1.100 Number of Users:15 I can't seem to assign a address that that will work, HELP!

Hi Steven, If you are looking to just host a web server or host games (counter strike rocks) you might want to look at this tool "dynip" at www.dynip.com. In short no matter what your ip address is or how often it changes everyone will still be able to get to youre machine by using mypc.dynip.com, where mypc is the name you register with dynip. I use it for hosting counter strike fwg.dynip.com. TRY IT OUT, 30 days free.