Wanting to setup Static IP, will it effect other devices on my network?

[greywind]

I'm wanting to set up a Static IP so I can use port forwarding for online games.

I'm just wondering, because there's several people using my internet, but I am the one with the router plugged into the ethernet. If I set up a static IP will this effect the devices using my wifi ie. will they lose their internet connection?

I don't want to have to give everyone a static IP, so I'm wondering if there connections will be fine if I set up a static IP for my PC?

 

[WyomingKnott]

You probably have to configure your router/wifi to exclude that particular address from the range of DNS addresses that it can provide to clients. Usually, when you connect to the router, it supplies an IP address from a specified range. If the range excludes your fixed IP, then all is fine unless a device is using that IP at the time. Then you'd have to re-connect that device.

 

[Dunlop0078]

No unless you use a static ip that DHCP already assigned to a device, that would cause an IP conflict. A quick fix is to get an ip from DHCP then assign that as static since you know no other device is using it, but in the future DHCP may give out that address again to a different device causing an ip conflic,t to stop that you would need to make a DHCP reservation of your static ip you do that in your router GUI.