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Originally Posted by DavisC
I still have not attempted Static IPs but it seems impossible for my home router because with the default address, I can only assign static IPs of 192.168.2.zz...
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Your static IPs can be whatever you wish regardless of your home router's IP address.
It's a router's job to be uniquely different than everyone else.
It's convention to keep local devices in the same IP address space. It makes it easier to talk about it and catch mismatches, but it also misleads you into thinking that's the only way it will work.
For instance, my home router/gateway uses a 71.190. address (necessary since a private network IP cannot talk directly to the Internet), but the dozen or so computers in the house are all assigned private 192.168. addresses (one uses 132.), except for when the robots are visiting and I run a mixture of 192. and 10. addresses. (192.168. is one of the private address ranges, like 10.)
You won't get very far trying to completely makeover how our 10. robot networks are setup. Why are you doing that, just experimenting?
It is a good learning experience to dig into things like that.
It's actually a pretty trivial problem. It just takes getting used to the concepts involved.
There are a huge number of variations possible (IP is a pretty big space), but also many ways to foul it up until you learn what's important.