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1. joolsburger - Member

   I have a Samsung printer connected by wire to the latest Virgin wireless router.

   It 's all set up fine and works OK but periodically it changes the last digit of it's IP address and wont work. I go to the router menu check the address, change to port number in the printer options on our laptops and it works again.

   Any ideas how to stop it?

   Thanks all.

   Posted 9 months ago #
2. uplink - Member

   Can you not set the printer to a static IP and the router to reserve it for the printer?

   Posted 9 months ago #
3. almightydutch - Member

   Fix the IP's to their respected MAC addesses. Unsure of 'new' Virgin router but they used to use Netgears which were easy.

   Posted 9 months ago #
4. Daisy_Duke - Member

   is printer set with manual IP add?

   Posted 9 months ago #
5. Milkie - Member

   Set it to manual/static and outside your current DHCP reserved range.

   Posted 9 months ago #
6. joolsburger - Member

   Doh! Will do and thanks. That's an easy fix.

   Posted 9 months ago #
7. Cougar - Member

   Yep.

   Either,

   a) set a static IP address manually on the printer, outside of your DHCP scope, or,

   b) reserve an IP for the printer based on its MAC address, inside your DHCP range.

   I use b) for every device connected to my LAN, including PCs; I like knowing where everything is.

   Posted 9 months ago #

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