I just got a Zyxel Modem from Century Link and 5 usable Static IPs in a block of 8. I configured the modem for "transparent bridging" and configured the PPOE credentials on a DD-WRT router and now it ...

A permanent numeric identification assigned by the network administrator to a node in a TCP/IP network. Static IP addresses are used for shared resources such as Web servers, printers, telephone PBXs ...

Computers on your business' network are usually assigned dynamic IP addresses, but dynamic addressing is one more possible point of failure on your network. If your network's name services go down, ...

Been working on this most of the day now without any real solution. I'm trying to put together a file server using NFS for my small home LAN. All 3 boxes (including the server) are running SuSE 9.0 ...

In recent issues of this and the Convergence newsletters (see the Convergence newsletter archives), we opined that there were few reasons why you would need a static IP address for a residential ...

Does a static IP address make file transfers go faster than using DHCP IP addresses? No, Dr. Internet says. Did you really mean to say, in an earlier column, that using a static IP address will make ...

To change the IP address on your Android device, you'll first need to find an available IP address on your network. Once you've found an available IP address, you can change your Android's IP address ...

The tech community is full of terms you may see often but don’t know what they mean. You’ve probably encountered the phrase “IP address” countless times, but do you know what it is? Let’s take a ...

Typically, an Internet connection is created using a dynamic IP address. This means that when your computer connects to the Internet, it uses one of any number of IP addresses, so that each time you ...