I have a setup where there is a comcast modem and a firewall. The firewall is acting as the DHCP server and handing out ip addresses. The comcast modem is only acting as a modem. The firewall had a ...

The DHCP Lookup Failed problem indicates that your PC was unable to obtain an IP address from the DHCP server. To interact with the router and the internet, each device requires an IP address. DHCP ...

Does a static IP address make file transfers go faster than using DHCP IP addresses? No, Dr. Internet says. Did you really mean to say, in an earlier column, that using a static IP address will make ...

Years ago, I used to be a network administrator for an organization that had some rather odd security policies in place. One of the existing policies when I got there was that all computers had to be ...

Systems administrators differ on the helpfulness of assigning static IP addresses for networked printers. Leaving the printers set to Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, or DHCP, would be the ...

An IP address is a unique identifier for a specific device on your network. Your router assigns them to these devices using Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). As you connect new devices to ...

In this article, we will show you how to change DHCP Lease Time in Windows 11/10. When you connect your device to the internet, your Internet Service Provider assigns an IP address to it. This is a ...

An IP address is a unique identifier for a specific device on your network. Your router assigns them to these devices using Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). As you connect new devices to ...