Setting up a static IP for one pc

16 Dec 2006 9:02 AM

davenetman

I'm using Windows XP Professional, and a wireless USRobotics router. I
have 3 pc's at home, and my internal IP addresses can change, depending
(I'm assuming) on what order the pc's are turned on/off over time. What
I'd like to do is setup so that my main desktop always has the same IP,
mostly for 'port forwarding' reasons. For example, while my main pc's
internal IP is usually 192.168.2.2, if other pc's are booted up first,
than this pc's address can change to .3 or .4, which screws up any port
forwarding rules I setup. How would I set it up so that this one pc is
always 192.168.2.2 and doesn't change? Is this something I would do
within the router, or within Windows itself? I don't really care about
whether the other two pc's change or not.

Thanks!

Dave

16 Dec 2006 10:12 AM

Ben M. Schorr - MVP

Aloha davenet***@yahoo.com,

Within Windows. Go to Network Connections (Control Panel) on that computer.
Right-click the network adapter, go to Properties, select Internet Protocol
(TCP/IP) and click Properties. Change the address options to statically
assign an address. Give it 192.168.2.200 (or some similar high address)
with the subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 and the default gateway of 192.168.2.1
(I assume that's the address of your router).

If you want to cross the t's then you should go to the DHCP settings of your
router and adjust the range so that it doesn't give out 192.168.2.200 (though
it would be hard to believe it would).

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> I'm using Windows XP Professional, and a wireless USRobotics router. I
> have 3 pc's at home, and my internal IP addresses can change,
> depending (I'm assuming) on what order the pc's are turned on/off over
> time. What I'd like to do is setup so that my main desktop always has
> the same IP, mostly for 'port forwarding' reasons. For example, while
> my main pc's internal IP is usually 192.168.2.2, if other pc's are
> booted up first, than this pc's address can change to .3 or .4, which
> screws up any port forwarding rules I setup. How would I set it up so
> that this one pc is always 192.168.2.2 and doesn't change? Is this
> something I would do within the router, or within Windows itself? I
> don't really care about whether the other two pc's change or not.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dave
>

16 Dec 2006 10:19 AM

Steve Winograd [MVP]

In article <1166259720.278066.3***@n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
davenet***@yahoo.com wrote:
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>I'm using Windows XP Professional, and a wireless USRobotics router. I
>have 3 pc's at home, and my internal IP addresses can change, depending
>(I'm assuming) on what order the pc's are turned on/off over time. What
>I'd like to do is setup so that my main desktop always has the same IP,
>mostly for 'port forwarding' reasons. For example, while my main pc's
>internal IP is usually 192.168.2.2, if other pc's are booted up first,
>than this pc's address can change to .3 or .4, which screws up any port
>forwarding rules I setup. How would I set it up so that this one pc is
>always 192.168.2.2 and doesn't change? Is this something I would do
>within the router, or within Windows itself? I don't really care about
>whether the other two pc's change or not.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Dave

Some routers have a "static DHCP" option that lets you configure their
DHCP server to always give the same IP address to a particular
computer. Check your router's documentation.

To make the setting in Windows XP instead of in the router:

1. Open the Network Connections folder.
2. Right-click the LAN connection.
3. Click Properties.
4. Click "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)".
5. Click Properties.
6. Click "Use the following IP address" and fill in the values for IP
address, subnet mask, default gateway, and DNS servers.

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