Re: Driven Mad by Wireless Mystery



Tiscali Tim wrote:

Far safer in my view to disable DHCP, and give each computer a fixed IP address.

Although I rarely use DHCP when helping anyone set up their LAN, it's very rare I suggest in a newsgroup post that someone stops using it, since it will leave them able to ping their gateway, but unlikely to do much else... (hint: DNS lookups!) Peter M.

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