Wireless Question

[CrAzY_2008]

Hello, I have a VM XL Package and bought myself a router, and there's one thing that bugs me a lot is trying to sort things out like Static IPS etc. I have a Buffalo Wireless router, and I'm quite confused when going into the settings and receiving this:



To those who own a router or this one, is this normal for a cable connection? And how do i set up a static IP for port forwarding (Portforward.com is confusing, the Command Prompt and the router are giving two different things)

EDIT: Sorry, my title is a bit silly. If an Admin to change it to Router Question, that would be most helpful

[LondonRoad]

Not sure if this will help so feel free to ignore.

You won't get a static from Virgin so I'm assuming your router is acting as a DHCP server that dishes out IP addresses to anything you attach to your network.

I don't know your particular router but there should be the facility to either switch off the DHCP functionality or , preferably, to reserve a range of IP addressed that can be used by you to assign as a static address. Set up your PC with a static in that range and all should be well. (famous last words...)

I used portforward.com to set up bittorrent and although the instructions stated you should set up a static IP, which I did on my PC, it worked just as well on my laptop with a dynamically assigned IP!!!

The screen grab you've posted looks OK, although if I were you I'd set up some encryption.