MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin

First, I don't know what DHCP is except it's needed for assigning IPs, but I don't know how, or why, or even if I need it.

I've always noticed that everytime I reboot my router, my internal IP changes. Sometimes it's 192.168.1.128, sometimes 129 and sometimes 130. It changes apparently randomly between those values.

On the other hand, my blu-ray player is also connected to the router, and as far as I know it always takes 131, although I rarely watch its config unless it stops working (but more often than not, it's an issue with Serviio).

Today I had a problem connecting with some parts of the ~~interwebs~~ internets and after fixing it I was just lazily moving through the router configuration, and saw that I had DHCP enabled, and it was configured to assign IPs in the range of 128 to 160. It also says that the leased time is 72 hours, and hell if I really understand what that means other than EnableDelayedDHCPRefreshHappiness == linearalgebra(72).

Is that somehow connected to my computer having a different IP each time the router reboots? Should I disable DHCP or leave it enabled? Is there a way to make my computer always get 192.168.1.128?

Thanks in advance for any insight. Take a beer, help yourself some crackers. Use my wife.

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