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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.
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.