(04-26-2017, 08:55 AM)Marillion Wrote: Thanks! But I'm not sure by what you mean in "do the ip thingy in your router" or how to choose an ip outside the DHCP server range in my router. Can you clarify?
Please don't get me wrong on the following:
your router comes with a manual - Its' the single point that shields you and your network from the bad and ugly world out here^^ - you really should at least have read once through it. I know everyone thinks these things "have to be secure out of the box" - but on the other hand if they would we would not have major DDOS- / spam-attacks. (and so on^^)
1.
you should have a page where you can see all devices connected (or known) to your router .... if you have something like "advanced" or more options per device choose that and look around if you can choose some option like "always assign this ip-adress to the device" <--- that is what you want for your flash-card (or for that matter for every device that you count as static to your household)
2.
somewhere in your router settings (somewhere around your home-network ... propably under "advanced") should be the possibility to define a range for the DHCP-server (that's the name of the service that gives new devices an ip-address in your network - so that they can function)
you really don't need to assign the whole space of the 254 useable adresses to the dhcp-server .... setting a range of 100-200 (or 50-200) should be enough for a normal household.
and if you are already there change the lease-time! (in some devices the default lease-time - that is how long the dhcp-server reserves that adress for that specific device - goes up as high as 10 days!)
In my networks I assign all devices that belong to that household / place a "static-IP" through the dhcp-server with method 1. ... so the "dynamic" range is only needed for "guests" .... these adresses don't need to be reserved for longer than a single day (imagine you have like 20 different guest-devices each day .... after 10 days 200 adresses are already reserved and new devices might not get a proper ip^^)