There's a number of options in your router for IP management that you may need, but is DHCP or a Static IP the right choice ...

I always use the router as a DHCP server not Windows server. I obviously wan static IPs on certain network hardware. What is the best practice in implementing this: using DHCP reservations in the ...

Got the Smoothwall firewall up and running. Now all internet connections are thru 198.168.*.* IPs. Not every system on our network needs internet. Every system should be able to see everyother system ...

* Dr. Internet columnist Steve Blass clarifies static vs. DHCP debate in terms of speed * Help Desk columnist Ron Nutter offers advice regarding analyzing an employee’s PC use without his knowledge * ...

It's time to get specific about your addresses.

Years ago, I used to be a network administrator for an organization that had some rather odd security policies in place. One of the existing policies when I got there was that all computers had to be ...

When your sign up for Internet access on behalf of your company or purchase Web hosting for your company's Web servers, you will purchase either a dynamic IP address, a single static IP address or a ...

Does a static IP address make file transfers go faster than using DHCP IP addresses? No, Dr. Internet says. Did you really mean to say, in an earlier column, that using a static IP address will make ...