Reply to post: Re: It's all a bit farcical, isn't it?

Is your Windows 10, 8 PC falling off the 'net? Microsoft doesn't care

John Brown (no body) Silver badge

Re: It's all a bit farcical, isn't it?

"setting static addresses willy-nilly may bork other devices like printers which use DHCP, if you end up with duplicate IP addresses."

Does your router not allow you to specify a range for DHCP, thus reserving the rest for static IP addresses?

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