Desperate help with dynamic IP service from comcast.

[Kitomaru]

I have a DI-604 (not rev. a) and I recently added a recurring $9.90 a month on my bill with comcast so I could have 5 dynamic IP addresses.

I am extremely frustrated with D-Link's support, so I am coming to you guys.


How would I go about assigning different "external" IP's to different computers in my house?

Do I need different equipment?

Thanks, if u can talk to me on AIM: "I b jezus"


(By the way, by "external" ip, I mean that when I go to www.whatismyip.com on each computer it is a different one.)

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: Kitomaru
I have a DI-604 (not rev. a) and I recently added a recurring $9.90 a month on my bill with comcast so I could have 5 dynamic IP addresses.

I am extremely frustrated with D-Link's support, so I am coming to you guys.


How would I go about assigning different "external" IP's to different computers in my house?

Do I need different equipment?

Thanks, if u can talk to me on AIM: "I b jezus"

The easy way:
1. Cancel your $10/mo dynamic IP addressing.
2. Figure out why you want the dynamic service, and figure out what ports those apps use.
3. Register, with Dynamic DNS (www.dyndns.com, IIRC), your router's IP address
4. Configure your router to pass, on a port-by-port basis, traffic to your PCs.

The difficult, unsafe, expensive way:
1. Keep the $10/mo fee.
2. Put all machines directly on the public internet using a simple hub, not the router
3. Run DynDNS services on each one so you can reach them by ports.
4. All PCs will be reachable by the names assigned via dyndns.

I suggest the former, not the latter.

 

[Kitomaru]

Problem with your "easy way"


My router is F**king r*tar*ed

I open the port, open the program, blocked.

I use DMZ that "opens all ports to an IP"

Blocked.

I call up tech support, and no suprise they did no good.

Thanks for the "difficult unsafe expensive" way lol



Edit-

Your post doesent even really tell me anything....

I need to be able to ASSIGN or CHANGE IP's on a single compuer.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: Kitomaru
Problem with your "easy way"


My router is F**king r*tar*ed

I open the port, open the program, blocked.

I use DMZ that "opens all ports to an IP"

Blocked.

I call up tech support, and no suprise they did no good.

Thanks for the "difficult unsafe expensive" way lol



Edit-

Your post doesent even really tell me anything....

I need to be able to ASSIGN or CHANGE IP's on a single compuer.

<LOL> all you like. The method I've described is exactly what I'm doing, and it works perfectly. Plenty of people do exactly what I described.

Browse on over to a few tech websites and find the best deal on the latest LinkSys WRT54Gxxyyzz revision.
Get it. Problem with your router solved.

I'm trying to help you. Don't be nasty to me; I saw your original note, which was even worse than what's above. Your router will handle this very well, but you need to detail exactly what you want. p21 (assuming versions a-c; you didn't tell us) tells you exactly what to do. When you tried that, what happened? Have you even tried that? Aside from whine at tech support, what have *you* done to fix *your* problem?

 

[BadThad]

Originally posted by: Kitomaru
Problem with your "easy way"


My router is F**king r*tar*ed

I open the port, open the program, blocked.

I use DMZ that "opens all ports to an IP"

Blocked.

I call up tech support, and no suprise they did no good.

Thanks for the "difficult unsafe expensive" way lol



Edit-

Your post doesent even really tell me anything....

I need to be able to ASSIGN or CHANGE IP's on a single compuer.

Ease up, dclive is one of AT's best.

My suggestion is to buy a new router.

 

[Ctrackstar126]

Yea the WRT54G is a nice router. If you get it online get it from amazon they have versions 4 which are a lot better then the new version 5. I have a 2.2 which works like a charm even without the firmware hack