On April 8, 2016 at 15:03, buzz said...
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Nonsense. The WAN side of the router has no concept of DHCP. An address is an address -- but you may need to open a port or set up a VPN for special services.
The router setup is the worst I have seen. Nothing is labeled as VPN, port forwarding, port triggering, impossible to actually understand the settings of this POS device.
I encourage the customer to purchase a modem and skip the monthly rental fees. Payback is usually about a year. Then we can install a robust router and lock it down. Hopefully, my router will scare the cable guy and he'll leave it alone.
I am in Canada and none of our ISP's allow for customers to supply their own modems (at least in my area)
Although one can reserve an IP address for a device that needs a fixed address, I prefer placing fixed addresses outside of the DHCP range.
I do as well however for this scenario I'm just going to use the DHCP reservation and be done with it.
