Hey guys. i am new to this whole networking thing. I am trying to set up a static IP in order to do port forwarding. IVE read a number of guides and none of them have worked. I have a WRT54G router and vista. So i found out my IP, Subnet, Gateway and DNS. I WENT into my network properties and went into tcp/ipv4. i entered in all the information i got from USING ipconfig/all . The internet WORKS, everything is cool. I got to my web based router settings i try to change my connection TYPE to Static IP. I enter in all my info and i get a message that says "LAN IP same with WAN IP". what is a wan ip, why do i need it, and what can i do about all this? also my ip address is 192.168.2.122 is that 2 in the third position wierd?



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 Can I ask why static IP? Is this for a gaming purposes? The LAN IP is basicly the address range within your home network. The WAN IP is for wide area network. Basically what is happening is IP address conflict between the LAN and WAn networks. The LAN IP is what lets u communicate with in your home network. The WAN lets u communicate with other computers within a network. Try setting your Wan static and your LAN DHCP. Let us know what happens.