Orbi network -- IP address conflicts (AC2200/RBK33)

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JVK1 wrote:

Hello,
I have several devices in my home using the Orbi router in both wired and wireless connections. For most of the wired devices – Tivo, AppleTV, Mac desktop – I've switched them to static IP addresses because they kept having IP address conflicts; they work great now. However, sometimes with my wireless devices — iPhones, laptops, iPads — I get an IP address conflict.

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Another suggestion is to stop using static IP addresses and use dynamic IP address assignment for all your devices.  If you let the Orbi assign addresses to everything via DHCP then you shouldn't get any IP address conflicts.  It's only when you mix-and-match when you have to be careful that you don't overlap and assign a static IP address in the range that Orbi will dynamically assign.

Is there a reason that you are assigning static IP addresses?  Sometimes people want a fixed IP that they can type into a browser.  You can still get this by using dynamic assignment and then later, go into Orbi's Advanced...Setup...LAN Setup, press Add, find the device in the list of dynamically assigned IP addresses, select it and press Add.  This will reserve that device to that IP address so even though it is still dynamically assigned Orbi will always give it that same IP address.  Since Orbi is assigning it that IP it will make sure no other device is dynamically assigned the same IP and therefore avoid any IP address conflicts.