greenie95125 Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 17 hours ago, zvacman said: I thought that this horse was beat to death, buuuut, here I am again. I had to buy a new laptop. It's got windows 10. I can't get the controller to connect that was doing just fine on the old computer. I did the cmd, ipconfig and found that the new computer is 169.254.70.161. I tried to force 169.254.74.73 like the manual says. Nothing. I know I'm not doing something, I've missed a step somewhere, help. Thanks Mike That's your public ip address for the internet. You need to check your private ip address. Using the ipconfig command your private ip address will be listed in the section, "Ethernet adapter Ethernet" on the line, "IPv4 Address." That's the ip address range that has to match the e682. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zvacman Posted May 2, 2016 Author Share Posted May 2, 2016 Mike, I tried that as well. I went to network adapters and changed the ethernet IP address to 192.168.1.200, still nothing. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wbaker4 Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 I don't understand how you can go from 169.254.70.161, to 169.254.74.73, and now to 192.168.1.20. Through my Internet provider, my public IP address is for example 67.103.212.33 - but since I have everything connected to a router, the router's IP address starts with 192.168.1.xxx. Everything in my house connects to the router and has addresses from 192.168.1.1 up to 192.168.1.255 When I connect to my provider's WiFi, I get a completely differ IP address and subnet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenie95125 Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 (edited) 23 minutes ago, wbaker4 said: I don't understand how you can go from 169.254.70.161, to 169.254.74.73, and now to 192.168.1.20. Through my Internet provider, my public IP address is for example 67.103.212.33 - but since I have everything connected to a router, the router's IP address starts with 192.168.1.xxx. Everything in my house connects to the router and has addresses from 192.168.1.1 up to 192.168.1.255 When I connect to my provider's WiFi, I get a completely differ IP address and subnet. The 169.254.x.x and your 67.103.x.x are public IPs. That's what the world see's as your computer. Your router directs that traffic to individual computers based on the private IPs of your INTERNAL network. Think of an office phone system... your public IP is the office phone number, and the internal IP is the extension of each individual office. With most internet providers, you have to pay to have a static public IP address, so in most cases your public IP can change at any time. That could have been what happened to Mike. The private ip of your internal network can be static if you wish, by turning off the DHCP service of your router or gateway. Mike Edited May 2, 2016 by greenie95125 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zvacman Posted May 3, 2016 Author Share Posted May 3, 2016 So, tonight I get home from work. Boot up the laptop and plug in the controller and there it is connecting with the 192.168.1.210 address that I assigned to it with the old computer. Running tests on the matrix and its friggin' awesome! What scares me is how temperamental this controller has been. I changed nothing from yesterday and it's working fine. I'm worried that I will run into connection problems during the show. This is crazy. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wbaker4 Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 (edited) 3 hours ago, greenie95125 said: The 169.254.x.x and your 67.103.x.x are public IPs. That's what the world see's as your computer. Your router directs that traffic to individual computers based on the private IPs of your INTERNAL network. Think of an office phone system... your public IP is the office phone number, and the internal IP is the extension of each individual office. With most internet providers, you have to pay to have a static public IP address, so in most cases your public IP can change at any time. That could have been what happened to Mike. The private ip of your internal network can be static if you wish, by turning off the DHCP service of your router or gateway. Mike My point was not understanding how his IP address changes. I understand how mine works. Edited May 3, 2016 by wbaker4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenie95125 Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 2 hours ago, wbaker4 said: My point was not understanding how his IP addresses changed. I understand how mine work. Great! Maybe the info helped out someone else then. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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