IP Address Changed When I Moved.

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I'm fairly knowledgeable about IP addresses, but I don't work with this stuff everyday.

At my old house I had the IP's locked so they would not shift around and cause no printing situations, ect. Now that I moved I can connect to the router, but it will not pick up the new IP address even when I changed he setting to "Obtain New IP Address"

How do I get the new IP address from the old wireless router using the new cable connection?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. :redface:
 
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Unless you moved on the same block (or along the same loop of the cable distribution system), your external static IPs are not likely to travel with you. You would have to talk to the cable company to either get a new static IP that works in the new location or to have the traffic routed to your new location using the old IP (did that once, they would only do it for 6 months, kind of like the post office).

Or do you mean that you assigned static IPs on your internal network ? Those should be the same as long as you plug everything back together the same way you had it at the old house.
 
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weilke said:
Unless you moved on the same block (or along the same loop of the cable distribution system), your external static IPs are not likely to travel with you. You would have to talk to the cable company to either get a new static IP that works in the new location or to have the traffic routed to your new location using the old IP (did that once, they would only do it for 6 months, kind of like the post office).

Or do you mean that you assigned static IPs on your internal network ? Those should be the same as long as you plug everything back together the same way you had it at the old house.
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I think he meant the LAN addresses, as he was talking about network printers and such.

-Rich
 
nddons said:
Could THIS be shortest thread ever? :D
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We can't let that happen. Recently, within the last couple of years, I came across a network with a couple of hundred device, trying to manage static IPs. You can imagine the results. We did show them the light and they are much happier now. It used to be that you would occasionally come across an application, like an AS400 client, that required static addresses. I haven't seen that in years, though. Even then, you are better off managing the addresses as reserved addresses. At least the management is centralized.
 
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Glad it worked out. Here's to the death of your thread!
 
Static IP for servers, printers, switches, and routers..DHCP for the rest.
 
jesse said:
Static IP for servers, printers, switches, and routers..DHCP for the rest.
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That's my normal route, but having been through the "WTF just stole my laptop's IP in my own house?!" routine a couple of times, for a roughly ten node network, I just assign 'em in the DHCP server.

Takes an extra five minutes once a decade or so, whenever I decide I need to reconfigure something, swap out a router, whatever.

Only here at home. Added benefit, if anything asked for a DHCP address and got one outside the static range, it probably doesn't belong on my network. :)
 
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