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| Thread ID: 94132 | 2008-10-15 20:22:00 | Crowded network - Automatic or Manual IP's | supersi (8401) | Press F1 |
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| 712473 | 2008-10-15 20:22:00 | I have a Dynalink RTA 1025w router. Recently my wife brought home another computer, so now we have the following hanging-off the network .... 1 x Vista PC - Wired connection 1 x Apple Mac Mini - Wired connection 1 x PABT Box (VOIP) - Wired connection 1 x Mediagate (streaming media device) - Wireless 1 x PC Laptop - Wireless 1 x iPhone - Wireless Every time I bring my Vista PC out of sleep I have to disable then re-enable the NIC to get connected. Rather than rush out and buy a gruntier router/modem I want to try manually assigning an IP to each device. However there are a couple of issues. 1. The Mediagate device. Although it offers manual configuration it doesn't like it and won't connect. So I might leave that to automatically obtain it's IP. 2. If the routers default gateway is 192.168.1.1 and the subnet mask is 255.255.255.0. What should the preferred & alternate DNS be? |
supersi (8401) | ||
| 712474 | 2008-10-15 20:28:00 | Why not just disbale sleep on the NIC in Device Manager. Or shut the PC down rather than use sleep. You have too many devices. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 712475 | 2008-10-15 20:41:00 | Sleep is already disabled on the NIC. I'm constantly on and off the PC. So shut-down is a time-consuming pain in the arse compared to waking the PC from sleep. If I manually assign IP's it should stop different devices from fighting for IP's being dished-out by the router. right? |
supersi (8401) | ||
| 712476 | 2008-10-15 20:57:00 | As a rule, any 'server' devices should always have a static IP - in your case, your VoIP & Mediagate devices probably should. The other 'clients' on your LAN should work fine under DHCP - just make sure the DHCP scope on your router is set to exclude the address you're going to assign to those devices; i.e. if your router is 192.168.1.1, assign 192.168.1.2 to your VoIP device, and 192.168.1.3 to your mediagate. Then set your DHCP scope to the range of 192.168.1.10 - 192.168.1.254 etc. Your primary & secondary DNS server IP's should be available from your ISP. Regarding your Mediagate not liking static IP's, is there a firmware update available? |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 712477 | 2008-10-15 21:03:00 | It will stop devices fighting to a degree - but then it can also cause clashes. lets say you assign an IP address of 192.168.1.8 to a device, when the device starts up IT tells the router it wants that Address #8 All good so far, when some other device wants an IP address if the router is issuing them (like Now) it will know #8 is already in use so it issues a different one. BUT if that device is turned off that has the static IP of #8, the router may issue that number to another device if its "obtain automatically" - so when the original device starts up wanting #8 -- ERRRRRRRor - IP conflict. Generally speaking - and this is no set rule, but most routers issue lower number IP address's to Obtain automatically. So with that in mind I always set a static IP above 100 ( assuming the router is capable of the full range 2-254,routers generally have 255 or 1 as the routers IP) Here I have my servers set to static they use 200 & 201 and my play one 250 My own PC has a static of 107, workshop PC's have obtain automatically. As do any customers PC's that I plug into the LAN to get internet access. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 712478 | 2008-10-15 21:07:00 | So I can use 2-254 for the IP in the last grouping bracketed. eg 192.168.1.(252) |
supersi (8401) | ||
| 712479 | 2008-10-15 21:20:00 | So I can use 2-254 for the IP in the last grouping bracketed. eg 192.168.1.(252) You got it :thumbs: as long as the router will issue the full range shouldn't be a problem. Looking back on the first post the router is 192.168.1.1 so 1 is already used - 254 left :) Best advice is do one device ( or Node as a network Device is called) at a time. Sometimes I find they dont like having a "Set" number you decide, so if that's the case I set to obtain automatically, find out what the router has issued, and working and set it to that as static. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 712480 | 2008-10-15 21:54:00 | You are going to change your network config due to an issue with the Vista PC?.... Why dont you fix the issue with the Vista PC? 1 suggestion would be to stop the PC going to sleep using the power management function, test how that works for awhile.... |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 712481 | 2008-10-15 21:56:00 | Ok, I found a 'reserved IP address' option under DHCP tools on my router. I'm going to input reserved IP's for each wired device & the MediaGate (no updates available from manufacturer by the way) based on current IP's assigned. See how that goes. |
supersi (8401) | ||
| 712482 | 2008-10-15 22:03:00 | Solmeister. If you read from the start of the post you might see I've already tried that. On the other hand, Wainuitech did this and has given a considered and very helpful response rather than second-guessing. | supersi (8401) | ||
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