[General Maximus]

my bad, I was trying to keep things simples. Defo go down the route of the dhcp reservation list. Somebody tried using a mix of static ip's (which you can also do) and dhcp reservation last year and it screwed things up big time. I can't remember whether the static ip's couldn't see the other devices on the lan or whether they didn't have internet access but it messed things up big time. Once the static ip's were removed and everything was on a dhcp reservation list everything worked fab.