Recent content by GiorgioTX

Does anybody know of plans if/when Synology will be updating it's smb/home NAS units? In particular, I am interested in the DS918+ and it's subsequent replacement. It's not clear if they are doing hardware updates every year or so or longer. The release dates for this line of products have...

Here's the link to the youtube video and a screen cap showing him disabling the DHCP IP for the wan. I am not sure that this makes sense.

No - the two addresses are different. When I googled around found one fellow who disabled this. I am not sure that’s right, since I think that’s how the external IP gets assigned.

One more quick question. The Arris Modem has a DHCP configuration for the WAN ip address. I asked the Spectrum tech rep but they were pretty clueless about whether or not I should leave it as-is or disable. I left it as active, thinking that I need Spectrum to assign the IP, and since I am...

PERFECT! Many thanks.

Thanks for that quick response! Do I assign the cable modem an IP Address and, if so, within the DCHP range our outside of it? Otherwise, I am not sure how I would potentially administer it (although that will become less of an issue shortly). Also, what IP address should I assign the...

I think this is the right forum for this -- apologies if not... I have an Arris TG1672G cable modem (with integrated router) from Time Warner/Spectrum. They are charging me $5/month for "wifi" and I decided I would get a separate router to put behind the cable modem and discontinue the Spectrum...