Originally Posted by
rkpetersen
DHCP is the way your router assigns an IP address on your local home network to all the devices. The addresses might be something like 192.168.1.xxx, with the last part variable. Each device talks to the router, asks for an IP address, and the router decides what xxx will be for each connected device, from a range of numbers that it's programmed to dish out. So your Apex could be on 192.168.1.15, for example, if that's what your router gave it.
This system usually works fine but sometimes problems and conflicts can arise, which can prevent devices from accessing the internet properly. A way to sometimes fix this is to have the device tell the router what number it wants, rather than asking. This is a static IP address; it's always the same. When you set a static IP address, it best to set the xxx fairly high, like 111, as this number is unlikely to be used in the DHCP table. (Ideally, you should restrict the DHCP range in the router to not include this number, but that's generally not necessary.)
So basically, if you've got DHCP enabled and a current IP of 192.168.1.5 (for example), you could disable DHCP, manually set the IP to 192.168.1.111 (for example), and reboot to have a static IP address.
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