Okay. Is the ISP's IP # the DNS numbers from D-Link? There are two of them. One is the one I log into the web setup for D-Link and the other, quite different in series, is the ISP IP??


I GUESS I ought to mention that I had an OLD Qwest DSL modem and this
"newer" D-Link router. They worked fine together. THEN, I upgraded my DSL to a faster connection and bought this new Qwest, ActionTec GT701. When I first switched out the modems, I could no longer see my network. The tech guys told me the router thought the MODEM had router capabilities and it was confused. The MODEM is NOT a modem/router; JUST a modem. So they had me adjust the IP settings in the D-Link web setup, turn off my XP Firewall and disable my McAfee Firewall and use only the NAT firewall. So this configuration I'm using is a modified configuration from the original that the D-Link set up by default. WHEW! How's that for long-winded. NOW do you guys have any more ideas???

Oh dear you have lost me know lol...

The DNS numbers aren't the ISP's IP, give them a call and get their IP number from them....
The Router login is similar, but not always the same (I think lol)

Once you have that number, delete the configuration you set up in port forwarding the router and just put the original IP number (the one your isp give's you) in where the static IP number should go....It may work, it may not...

With your actiontec, does it have a letter after GT701.

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I downloaded Pando and it seems to work just fine for the file transfer that I needed to do. So I guess I've achieved what I need as far as file sharing.

I asked another question that I think got lost in the shuffle but may turn out to be important.

Now that I have a Static IP on this computer, do I need to create Static IP's on the other two that are hardwired to the router and the one that accesses it wirelessly? If I don't make them all Static, will they eventually be assigned the same IP and stop communicating???

That, I think, is the end of my questions for now.

Thank you!!!

Greg

The best thing is to give them static IPs. I have run into trouble with this before, because if you turn on the other computers before the one with the static IP, one of them might get the same IP as the static one is supposed to get.

Regarding the other thing, I really don't know why it wouldn't work to portforward. It is usually because of user error, but modem-->router-->PCs setups can be tricky at times.

And finally yes, your internet will load faster, not because of the static IP itself, but because of the other info you add as well saving the PC-->Router-->PC messages that would otherwise occur