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<blockquote data-quote="porky996t" data-source="post: 831581" data-attributes="member: 75318">Hi,I have a similar setup. The 2 permanent clients in kitchen and bedroom run off AV Homeplugs (and bypass the router) and the laptops are used wirelessly. I don't think it matters what the actual IP address of the PC is, the client just needs to know where to look for the TV stream, and if your TV server IP address is changing due to the automatic distribution of IP addresses from the router then the clients become lost and confused. Perhaps give the TV server PC a static IP address and see if it helps any.The IP address I now use is based on the generic IP address for the router (192.168.1.254) and I just added up all the devices that access the router to place the IP address higher than that which could be automatically allocated. I use 192.168.1.120. The dynamic allocation of IP address starts at 192.168.1.101 and works up according to what is connected. There is no way I would have 20 devices connected, so by placing the IP address where I have ensures that nothing else can use it. Again, I'm no expert and others will probably give better descriptions or reasons to either do, or not do what I have.HTH,M.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="porky996t, post: 831581, member: 75318"] Hi, I have a similar setup. The 2 permanent clients in kitchen and bedroom run off AV Homeplugs (and bypass the router) and the laptops are used wirelessly. I don't think it matters what the actual IP address of the PC is, the client just needs to know where to look for the TV stream, and if your TV server IP address is changing due to the automatic distribution of IP addresses from the router then the clients become lost and confused. Perhaps give the TV server PC a static IP address and see if it helps any. The IP address I now use is based on the generic IP address for the router (192.168.1.254) and I just added up all the devices that access the router to place the IP address higher than that which could be automatically allocated. I use 192.168.1.120. The dynamic allocation of IP address starts at 192.168.1.101 and works up according to what is connected. There is no way I would have 20 devices connected, so by placing the IP address where I have ensures that nothing else can use it. Again, I'm no expert and others will probably give better descriptions or reasons to either do, or not do what I have. HTH, M. [/QUOTE]

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