Can someone answer some questions about setting up a static IP Network?

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massahwahl

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I've been dilligently working to get all of my computer equipment hooked up in our house and I was curious whether or not now would be a good time to setup a static IP on all of my devices. I tried it before but had oodles of problems especially when I wanted to take my laptop places or have friends over with theirs.

So first and foremost:
1. What are the advantages of setting up static IPs? I've heard its more secure but don't know if that's true.
2. I've had problems on my old network with connecting to my brother via xbox live and have read again that static IPs will correct this too.
3. If I have a wireless router attached to my modem, do I need to forward ports on both? Or just forward ports on the router?
4. Downstairs I have a computer and xbox hooked together. The pc has a wireless card with the xbox using the ethernet as a bridged connection. Would I need to forward ports to the xbox ip or the pcs? Would this get more sticky if I added a wired router down there so I can attach my directv box and xbox to the bridged connection?
5. Total, I have 4 devices to hook up. (Wii, xbox-pc, office pc, laptop) is that going to be a pain in the ass too?
6.Should I just bail on this idea and stick with dynamic ips?
 
I only set static IP addresses on devices like network printers, DNS servers..etc. I can't think of a reason for a workstation unless you have a service running on it that you want other workstations to find.
Why do you want static ip?
Don't you have a router w/ dhcp?
If you still want to use static ip and dynamic ip, go to your tcp/ip properties
leave obtain ip and dns automatically. Click on alternate config, enter your static ip and save. Your computer will try to obtain an ip from dhcp when it gives up it will roll over to the alternate instead of the MS out of the box ip of 169.xxx.xxx.xxx
 
ukulele_ninja said:
I've been dilligently working to get all of my computer equipment hooked up in our house and I was curious whether or not now would be a good time to setup a static IP on all of my devices. I tried it before but had oodles of problems especially when I wanted to take my laptop places or have friends over with theirs.

So first and foremost:
1. What are the advantages of setting up static IPs? I've heard its more secure but don't know if that's true.
2. I've had problems on my old network with connecting to my brother via xbox live and have read again that static IPs will correct this too.
3. If I have a wireless router attached to my modem, do I need to forward ports on both? Or just forward ports on the router?
4. Downstairs I have a computer and xbox hooked together. The pc has a wireless card with the xbox using the ethernet as a bridged connection. Would I need to forward ports to the xbox ip or the pcs? Would this get more sticky if I added a wired router down there so I can attach my directv box and xbox to the bridged connection?
5. Total, I have 4 devices to hook up. (Wii, xbox-pc, office pc, laptop) is that going to be a pain in the ass too?
6.Should I just bail on this idea and stick with dynamic ips?
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The pros are that you can know exactly what IP your computer/devices are on. This means you can port forward and have a setup to maximize torrenting etc. It also means you can remote desktop with ease. In general it's just easier to do. You could always set up wired to be static, and wireless to be dhcp if you wanted too.
 
I do have a router with dhcp but that has not solved my xbox issues.

As for specific questions since I will be doing port forwarding, do I need to forward ports on my modem and router? And for the xbox that is sharing my pcs wireless internet, do I need forward ports to the pc, the xbox or both?
 
instead of going completly with static ip you can have a mixture.

You can have your router set to use DHCP but have a few devices with permanent address. That way their ip address lease never expires. That way you can have port forwarding to those devices without worrying about that ip address changing.

Another advantage to that is not having to setup a static ip address on the end device it self. You leave the option "obtain ip and dns automatically" checked. All of the configurations will be done through the router.
 
Great advice guys! Sounds like I will only be setting up the static on a few devices, def on the 360 BUT

Since the 360 is sharing a connection with the wireless desktop, do I need to forward ports to the 360 ip or the desktops? Also, when forwarding ports do you only forward them on the router or do you do it on the modem too?
 
you should forward it to your xbox, but i am not 100% sure about that. you should play around with it. first try the xbox. if you are losing your connection sometimes. then try the pc.

you only forward them on your router, since it is the router that deals with where everything goes.
 
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