Quote Originally Posted by madonion

understood. (i think! )
so when u refer to 'network ip', you're talking about the ip address at each pc that the "outside world" (aka internet) would use to access that pc, correct?
in that case, yes they should all be static. how do i go about making that setting?
thanks!

madonion


Quote Originally Posted by ilw
Do you want the network ip address to be static or the internet ip address?
Your Internet ip will be static as its set by the ISP, so adding a hub won't change anything.
Network ip can be set to be static or dynamic on each pc...

If the above makes no sense to you it might be easier to just say why you want the ip address to be static.
No, wrong way round, assuming you've got the usual NAT (Network Address Translation) router.

In that case you only have a single internet address, which is assigned by your ISP to your router. For the purposes we are discussing here it doesn't really matter whether this is static or dynamic, since it will be provided automatically by your ISP.

The network IP address is the address on your side of the router. Dynamic addresses are assigned by your router, static addresses are assigned by you. The only time there's a real difference between static and dynamic is if you've got the lease period set very short (which by default it shouldn't be) and you want to set certain services (such as bittorrent) to be routed to a certain pc. Since the standard on most routers these days seems to be that a lease lasts for ever (or a very long time) you should probably leave the network ip addresses set at dynamic, since your router won't get it wrong but you might.