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justav6
Jul 14, 2012Aspirant
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...
Jack_
Jul 16, 2012Aspirant
Almost.
justav6 wrote: I think I understand now. .....................If I am reserving it in the router, leave the Blu-ray in auto and reserve the static ip address insidethe DHCP range of the router.
Just as a way not to confuse things, don't use the term 'static IP address' while reserving a specific IP address in the DHCP Server settings in the router…
As said several times here by all of us, static IP addressing is done in the Blu-Ray network menu setup!
It's only terminology, but for sure, it avoids problems like you were having…