Static ip address setup using linksys wrt150n router?

i followed the instructions available online (youtube, portforward.com, etc) and i managed to change the ip address in my computer (internet connection properties). i have also followed the instructions for port forwarding for my router. the problem is, my azureus downloads are still so slow. i also configured my internet connection by the way. one thing in question is the settings for my router. in the basic setup, i noticed that the internet connection type is set to "automatic configuration-dhcp"


should i change that to static ip?





in any case,


i tried changing to static ip.





my next question is, how come the ip address, subnet mask, and default gateway displayed are all different from the ones i set up myself? (eg. the static ip address i setup was 192.168.1.104. the one displayed in the router webpage is 192.168.255.248)


do i have to change the values in the router settings or in the pc settings? or do i not change anything?





i also tried the dhcp reservation, but the downloads are still slow...i still get yellow smileys.





right now, i reverted to the "automatically configure-dhcp" internet connection type. my ip address is manually configured, i have ports set up for both single port forwarding and port range forwarding.


i reserved my ip address in the dhcp reservation.





what am i doing wrong? please give me a detailed walkthrough on how to fix this.





thank you so much|||I don't know what azureus is, so someone else will have to finish answering this question.





But you don't want to change your internet IP to static. Your ISP will use DHCP to give your router an IP address. You can (and have) set your pc's to use static. This makes the forwarding easier because you know which pc to forward to. Your pc's gateway should be set to the routers internal ip address. (usually 192.168.1.1)


Remeber, your router has 2 IP's, an internal one to your network, and an external one to the internet. It performs what's called NAT, to forward your data to the internet as its own, and that's why you set up port forwarding to send incoming data to your computer.


DHCP reservation has to do with reserving ip's for your internal network. You should have 192.168.1.104 included in there as you set that statically on your pc. If you set your computer to DHCP, then your router will assign an IP that is not reserved. Usually in a range of 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.150.