Static IPv4

[waggythegeek]

My IPv4 address is currently dynamic. How do I change that?

[minibois]

My IPv4 address is currently dynamic. How do I change that?

In Windows?

 

EDIT: do you know how to access your router's UI?

[Enderman]

You pay 3 times more for a business internet plan with a static IP

[Jade]

Contact your ISP and request a static IP, and if they're not free (usually aren't), ask for the prices and decide whether or not you want to pay for it.

[waggythegeek]

In Windows?

EDIT: do you know how to access your router's UI?

Yes, in Windows, accessed through thing to web browser, typing in 192.168.1.1 and then giving password.

[minibois]

Yes, in Windows, accessed through thing to web browser, typing in 192.168.1.1 and then giving password.

Yep. Is there a network tab? Where you can find your device of choice? (The device which IP you want to change to static)?

I can tick a box telling my router to always give it the same IP adress

 

 

You pay 3 times more for a business internet plan with a static IP

Contact your ISP and request a static IP, and if they're not free (usually aren't), ask for the prices and decide whether or not you want to pay for it.

Or he's talking about a private IP? (as in 192.168 IP..)

[Jade]

Or he's talking about a private IP? (as in 192.168 IP..)

Typically internal dynamic IPs don't cause as much trouble as dynamic external IPs. However, you are right, I assumed OP meant external.

 

OP: What's the model of your router?

[minibois]

Typically internal dynamic IPs don't cause as much trouble as dynamic external IPs. However, you are right, I assumed OP meant external.

 

OP: What's the model of your router?

Understandable.

A friend of mine needed a static private address because he hosted a server or something..

[waggythegeek]

Typically internal dynamic IPs don't cause as much trouble as dynamic external IPs. However, you are right, I assumed OP meant external.

OP: What's the model of your router?

I mean the IP that is used to access a Minecraft server (192.168.1.xxx)

Which one is that? I have a WRT160N by Linksys

[Jade]

Which one is that? I have a WRT160N by Linksys

That's what I needed to know. Reading the manual, it says you need to go to the control panel (192.168.1.1), click on "DHCP reservation" about half way down the first page. Then select the box on the far right (for the computer you want to set up a static IP on), hit Add Clients, and click Save Settings. That should make that IP static internally.

[tmlhalo]

Go down to the taskbar, right click on your lan or wifi which ever you use, open network and sharing center, select the NIC you are using for network communication, right click properties, scroll down in the box to Internet protocol 4, properties, select using the following IP address. You can find your default gateway and subnet mask in command prompt, ipconfig, then just give it a ip address that isn't in use. It will also help to set aside that ip as static in your router too. 

[Master Disaster]

Run command as admin and type in

Netstat /all

Find your NIC and get its gateway IP, note it down.

Now open Control Panel > Network Centre > Advanced. Right click your NIC then select Properties > IPV4.

Enter your gateway IP in the second from bottom field (marked Primary DNS), you can leave secondary DNS empty, now in the top field (IP Address) enter your gateway IP again but change the last set of numbers to a number between 2 and 200, click the subnet field and it will auto populate itself, finally enter your gateway IP again in the gateway field.

Your computer will now always negotiate the IP you entered in the top field so if you entered 192.168.1.2 then that's always your IP address.

This will only effect your internal network (your PC to your router), it won't change anything going from the router to your ISPs DNS server.