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Then what is the point of running the DHCP server at all? :confused:

let me ask you this. I only need one address to be a static IP, that is the DVR, I do not care if the others are static or not. So if I set the DVR outside the DHCP range do you think this will work.

like I suggested in my earlier post added security with the wireless access point

limit it to whats needed if you need to allow access pop in and allow one or two adress more to be assigned , when you no longer need them take it back to what you are using .

example: normaly I hve three devices on my wireless network , when my son is home from school with his laptop I log into the router and allow 4 or more if he has friends with him .

when they leave back to 3 .

hacker can sit outside all night but the router is only going to allow 3 address .


there is no reason to set it out of the range that makes sense to me .

anthony are saying you can't set a staic IP in the range on your camera ?

I can set one in the range on the DVR,well it seems to be set I have not rebooted the DVR, the trouble was when I tried to set one on my pc's it keeps defaulting back to obtain autmatically and assigns an address automatically. Will it cause any issues if I set the DVR with a static IP but leave the other computers as dynamic?

I thought you wanted everything staic

sure no problem with one dynamic and everything else static we do it all the time with network printers .

actually it would one static the rest dynamic, I thought If I had one static all would need to be.

Thans for all the input

for network printers we assign a static IP then when we install the printer on the workstaion it points to that address.

all workstaions address's are assigned dynamicly by the router

basicly the same thing you want to do

sounds great...I will give it a shot.

Once I get that all working I will worry about getting the proper ports set up on the router.

Appricate the help

Your westel modem/router might be set up slightly different, but this should help.

The router is probably 192.168.1.1, the DHCP range is .50-.100, you would want to set things like the WAP and camera to a static address from .2-.49 or .101-.254, anything else can be set to DHCP to have the router assign an address from .50-.100 or use a static address in the other ranges.

If you give something a static address in the DHCP range (.50-.100) the router wouldn't know about it and could issue the same address to a computer set for DHCP.

Personally, I like to use static addresses on everything.