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I want to assign static IPs to my devices to see if that helps me lose my internet connection less
I want to assign static IPs to my devices to see if that helps me lose my internet connection less often (RBR50 and RBS50). I know that I can reserve IP addresses in Advanced / Setup / LAN, and that ...
If you want to put static IPs on some of your devices, you should use IPs that are out of the DHCP range of the router (2-120).
Static IPs are set on the device(s) it/themselves, the router is not involved.
Is there possibly some confusion between a static IP address set on the "client" device, and a reserved IP address set on the router?
Static IP address configurations on done ON client devices. IP address Reservations on on ON the router for client devices.
Static IP configurations should be outside of a DHCP IP address pool, while IP address reservations are made with in the DHCP IP address pool.
defjaf wrote:
Is there possibly some confusion between a static IP address set on the "client" device, and a reserved IP address set on the router?
I have been very successful keeping the reserved IPs separate from the DHCP 'pool'.
i.e. reserved IPs from 2-70. Pool from 71-100. (As I get more 'things' on the network, I move the 'pool' up. Should have gone to 101-200 to start with - sigh)
Hello Defjaf,
Welcome to the NETGEAR Community!
I understand that you would like clarification on the reserved IP addresses in your Orbi RBR50 router and the static IP addresses on the client-side devices.
The reserved IP address in the router ensures that those IP addresses are not automatically assigned. This allows the user to manually (static) assign IP addresses to client-side devices. This allows the user to pick a reserved IP address from the reserved list for a specific end-user device.
Below are the steps to manually (static) assign an IP address to a client from the router:
- In the Address Reservation section, click or tap the Add button.
- In the IP Address field, type in the IP address to assign to the computer or server.
Choose an IP address from the router’s LAN subnet, such as 192.168.1.x. - Type the MAC address of the client-side device to be assigned an IP address.
Best,
Kevin
Community Team
microchip8 wrote:
If you want to put static IPs on some of your devices, you should use IPs that are out of the DHCP range of the router (2-120).
Static IPs are set on the device(s) it/themselves, the router is not involved.This is entirely correct. Assigned (or reserved) IPs belong outside the DHCP pool. In addition, the Orbi does not handle DHCP the way people want it to. Rebooting the actual device will not cause the Orbi to assign the "correct" IP. The only process that appears to work is to power cycle the Orbi itself. Every device will notice, "The network went away." and begin looking for it to reappear. When it does, the Orbi will have totally forgotten what IPs devices were using before the network went down and will assign correctly from the LAN Setup table.
Personally, I hate rebooting the router, but in the case of getting DHCP to hand out what it should, that's the only sure way.
