I was wondering for a while how I can have fixed IP addresses on my home LAN. I needed that because I was getting different IPs after a each boot and this was a problem in port forwarding since I had to change port forwardings every now and then. After a bit of Googling this was what I found:
- Keep the DHCP in the router. No need to disable it.
- Change the IP range for example from 192.168.(1-254) to 192.168.(100-254)
- Give static IP addresses to your devices, below 100.
- Don't forget the gateway (usually 192.168.1.1) and DNS servers. Keep the default submask.
- Done!