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My printer has to be reinstalled like eleventy billion times because whenever something gets rebooted (either computer or router) the computer cant see it anymore.

Is there any way to avoid this? Like making the IP static.

2/15/2011 4:51:08 PM

Printer model? I'm sure there is.

2/15/2011 4:54:00 PM

Try putting the IP address of the printer into a web browser. 99% of them can set static from whatever interface pops up.

Also, ^ if that doesn't fix it.

2/15/2011 4:55:41 PM

Can probably be done, depends on the printer. Most should have a way to set it statically. If you're behind a NATing router, just make sure you pick an address in the correct subnet that isn't already being used. (e.g. if your computer is 192.168.0.2, make your printer something like 192.168.0.50)

2/15/2011 4:56:31 PM

Yeah that is my question.

How do I know what IP to assign to it, I know nothing about IPs

2/15/2011 5:04:34 PM

I have two

Brother HL-4040CN

&

Brother MFC-7820N

2/15/2011 5:05:31 PM

You could always get the MAC address and setup static leases in the router. That way it would DHCP an address if it didn't have one, but the router would always hand out the same one. In fact, I'll say this is probably the simplest solution.

2/15/2011 5:10:09 PM

K I am going to try to figure that out.

Its an att uverse router.

2/15/2011 5:26:15 PM

I went in router control panel and assigned fixed IP to what the device currently had assigned to it so hopefully it wont change again.

2/15/2011 5:47:18 PM

yeah, setting it in the router IP lease tables is the easiest way to do it. Unfortunately my linksys at work doesn't do that without dd-wrt and I can't install that too easily.

2/15/2011 6:04:31 PM

^DD-WRT is teh shiznit, too bad you can't install it at work

Quote :

"You could always get the MAC address and setup static leases in the router. That way it would DHCP an address if it didn't have one, but the router would always hand out the same one. In fact, I'll say this is probably the simplest solution."

I do this for all of my devices...

[Edited on February 15, 2011 at 9:17 PM. Reason : I now have static leases, IPv6, and the ability to download ad- and malware-filtering lists

2/15/2011 9:16:14 PM