Internet: static ip address?

Neshi

I'm not entirely sure where to put this, and if there is a section for this at all, but I've been having problems setting up a static ip address.

I have did it before, setting up a static ip address so I can forward some ports on my router, but after I came home from a lan and connected everything somehow it's giving me problems.

I follow guides from the internet to set up an ip address, but somehow it only works halfway. voipbuster can connect, steam can connect, but msn can't, and I can't surf the internet. The more I try the worse it gets, now I can't even set up an ip address without me losing all internet connection.

without portforwarding, certain downloads tell me there is a problem with my internetconnection, feel like they are being firewalled, and just go very slow. (the download program from world of warcraft has this)

Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong and explain step by step how to set this up?

the router is a Digiconnect WIC328 by the way.

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kris23

try turning everything back to automatic and see if you regain your internet, then bit by bit, change the settings to static. this sounds like a conflict with your router...

also, the networking forum is the same as the Motherboard forum dunno why but it is

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Zelig

You're trying to do the static IP via the router, and leaving the settings on the PCs alone, right?

It should be relatively straight-foward on the router, you've looked at this already?

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Neshi

oh, I should make the ip on the router static, and leave the one on the computer to automatic?

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Zelig

Yes.

The idea being that the router detects the MAC address of a PC, and always assigns the same IP to that MAC address.

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Tipstaff

It's called a Dynamic Static IP where every time your Ethernet card asks for an IP from the router it assigns the same address all the time. However, not all routers support this.

If yours doesn't support this then the best thing to do is setup a static IP address for the computers Ethernet card, and then forward the necessary ports to that cards address via the router. What you need to pay attention to is that you need to keep that static address within the same range as the routers, as well a using the same subnet. So, if the IP of you router is 192.168.62.1 you will want to set the computers Ethernet IP to something within 192.168.62.2 to .254 range. The most probable setup would be:

IP: 192.168.62.2
Subnet: 255.255.255.0 (most home routers use a class C subnet)
Gateway: 192.168.62.1 (your routers IP address)
Primary DNS: 192.168.62.1 (your routers IP address)
Secondary DNS: Not needed

Your router already knows where to go because it is getting certain info from your ISP, such as the DNS addresses, so by putting the routers IP address as the Gateway and the Primary DNS your computer is getting that info automatically from your router.

After that it's just a matter of setting up the ports you want to forward either in the Special Application or Virtual Server sections of your router.

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Neshi

so it isn't hard at all, and now I think about it, it is what I already tried. But for some odd reason it didn't work then.

I will try it again tomorrow and let you know how it turned out.

is there a reason my router shows me a different IP address, gateway and DNS then ipconfig does?

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Tipstaff

If you are running DHCP on your computer (where you Ethernet card is getting an IP from the router) then both the Gateway and DNS listings should be the same. However, the funny thing is that this may not be the same IP as the one the router dishes out for DHCP. Most routers allow you to setup a different range of IPs for the router to hand out. In my case I can do this, however the subnet will be the same as the routers own listed subnet. Normally this not a good way to set things up for a simple network. There is only one instance I can think of that IPConfig will show you a different IP, and that is if you are running a DMZ type of setup on the router. The reason for this is that some routers (such as the 2Wire that a lot of ADSL+ lines use) link your ISP assigned IP to whatever computer you've assigned as a DMZ computer.

Anyways, what you need to do is look at the page that deals with "Lan" setup on your router, and base the IP address you want to give your computer based on what your routers IP is set to. And I mean the routers IP, not the one your Internet provider has given you.

BTW, there is one other thing to consider: local firewall. It's possible that Windows Firewall is now blocking the ports you once had open, or if you have an anti-virus software that has a built in firewall that it too could be blocking things. Some, such as Panda and McAfee, will block, by default, what it deems to be new or untrusted networks. It could be that this how your network is now being treated. With the AV software I can't say exactly how to reset this, or to allow this easily, but with Windows Firewall it's really easy. Just go into Control Panel, and open up Windows Firewall. In there select the Advance tab, and you should see a button that says, "Restore Defaults". Once you do this the next time an app wants through the firewall it will pop up asking you if you want to block or allow it, and you just pick what you want. If it doesn't you can easily add the port you want by clicking on the "Exceptions" tab, and adding the app/port you need.

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Neshi

I tried it again, and this time it worked!
somehow it would assign both -.-.-.100 and -.-.-.101 as IP, and I think that gave a conflict which ended up in me having no internet connection. I removed the .100 and now everything is functional again.
Thanks for helping, appreciate it!

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RE III - Frankie

When that happened to me I eventually worked out that it was Windows fault because it had disabled use of my broadband modem-router from the network connections folder.