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Attempting to set static address on WNR2000v3
My WNR2000v3 router and Samsung Blu Ray player will not communicate to do an auto setup, but if I do a manual setup on the Blu Ray player, the router picks it up and everything works, so I am trying t...
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justav6 wrote: I thought that I had to set the static address outside the range so that the router would not try to use that same address when it was trying to assign an address automatically. I was under the impression that by limiting the range I was only limiting the addresses that the router could assign automatically.
The crux of your problem lies in the info you posted in your first message:
As soon as you try to reserve the IP address of the Blu-Ray player, you'll get an error message!!! That IP address is outside the DHCP range and thus invalid for reservation.
....so I am trying to reserve the IP address of the Blu Ray in the router, I get an "Invalid IP Address" message
Either you leave the Blu-Ray player in dynamic IP addressing (a.k.a. DHCP client) and then reserve an IP address for it, or as I said before, use a static IP address for the Blu-Ray player outside the DHCP range and don't try to reserve anything. It will work just fine this way.
P.S.
I've had some issues with my Blu-Ray player with YouTube feature. I could solve this by using static IP address together with DMZ for this IP inside my router.
Are you trying to open ports for the Blu-Ray player and thus need a reserved/static IP address?
Using DMZ is easier than multiple port forwarding......