Another question for the IT hive mind!

[lizwilliams]

Be patient with me. I may not know what I'm talking about.

T has set up a wireless router. This worked yesterday on both laptops, but has since stopped working, citing a conflict in IP address. As far as I understand it, there's a fixed IP address attached to the router. He says he does not know how to set the IP address on the laptops (2 are PC, mine is a Mac). Can anyone help?

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[mt-yvr.livejournal.com]

It's an oddness of the whole network thingie.

Basically you need to be sure the router is aware that it's supposed to hand out IP addresses (if you're doing DHCP) and that your machines know to pick them up once handed out. If at any point those two things aren't happening then it'll get all wacked out.

ADD IN the fun of having a provider.. and it gets entertaining. My provider, for example, requires our machines be registered as ours. We only got so many machine addresses (two, in fact) capable of hooking up from our house. So I had to set it up so our router's machine ID was one of them. Our provider won't see past that router so I can hook up (and have right now three) more machines through it.

One of those is a wireless port. And I have it all kinds of secure so only my machines can hook up to it, the network it creates is hidden and password protected on top of that. So yay me.

Anyway. If T changes things so IP addresses are static, make sure all bits of the network are aware of the change.

But you've pretty much gotten all kinds of great advice. Keep us updated, k?