hi guys i have a linksys wag354g adsl home gateway as it call its self with 3 PC, and an xbox all networked. i am using dhcp set up and my problem is i us a p to p programme which when i turn on my PC my ip address is change to the one that is set up for the programme , is there a way that i can set up my PC on the routers software so that when i turn on my PC that i use the same address every time no matter who is on my network at any time other wise i have to change the address on the route rand p-p software ?
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Turn off DHCP and set the address to a static ip, there really is no need for DHCP in a home environment 
Go to network connections, LAN, TCP/IP. Assuming you haven't played around with IP settings in the router, give yourself the IP address 192.168.1.2, subnet 255.255.255.0, default 192.168.1.1 and get your DNS from http://192.168.1.1/Status_Router.asp
(192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.63 is reserved for static clients by default so you can leave DHCP on.)
(192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.63 is reserved for static clients by default so you can leave DHCP on.)
There should be a page in the router that lets you specify static DHCP leases. This will involve knowing your PC's MAC address, but not hard to locate. (ipconfig /all from DOS prompt)
Look around the DHCP or LAN pages in router setup and see if you can see any "Add" buttons which let you specify MAC address and IP address pairs.
Look around the DHCP or LAN pages in router setup and see if you can see any "Add" buttons which let you specify MAC address and IP address pairs.
riddlermarc said:Turn off DHCP and set the address to a static ip, there really is no need for DHCP in a home environment
Apart from to make life easier when, for example, friends come over and want to use your wireless or whenever you have to temporarily plug in another PC, etc.
There's no reason to disable DHCP in a home environment. As MAllen said, you can define a static DHCP reservation which assigns the same IP Address to whatever MAC address you specify.
If you add a static DHCP reservation for your PC then your PC will always get the same address. You can leave everything else on DHCP (so it gets dynamic addresses) or you can set up more DHCP reservations for them if you wish.
Or you could set them up with static IPs on the PC/Xbox themselves, but you might as well just add reservations.
Or you could set them up with static IPs on the PC/Xbox themselves, but you might as well just add reservations.