Can I setup a ReadyNAS home network without internet?

vandermerwe wrote:
Slightly off topic ,but why do you suggest that ip from dhcp is better than static ip? I only use my router as a gateway to WAN. I have a switch to which all my devices and a wireless AP are connected. All wireless clients run fixed ip addresses. I only use dhcp for wifi guests. You have made me think that I may be running an inefficient LAN

Often users will migrate to a new router which uses a different IP address space. Then they can no longer connect to the NAS because the static IP address is not in the range used by the new router. In the forum, we often end up walking them through the fix for this (either direct-connect with a suitable IP address setting for their PC or an OS reinstall). Reserving addresses avoids this problem.

Most of my WiFi devices are used on other networks when I travel. So there is no way I would ever use static addresses for my wireless devices. However, I do reserve IP addresses in the router.

There is no efficiency advantage either way. Just that reserving addresses in the router is a bit more robust, in that all the client equipment will still work properly when it is migrated to a different network.