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IP Addresses not reusable
Well this is a strange one.
I guess it started when I disabled my onboard LAN and installed a third party network card in my PC and couldn't assign it the same IP as the one the previous card had. Fair enough I thought, maybe the card wants to hold onto it. :)
I then assigned a new address to the new card using DHCP (normally I manually enter all the details). Once an IP address had been assigned I noted it down and then changed the details from DHCP to manual using that IP address.
It wouldn't let me do it. Just got the yellow exclamation mark on the network icon.
So I switched it back to DHCP again and it assigned yet another IP address (192.168.1.73). OK so I stuck with that.
Of course now all the ports in my router are assigned to the wrong IP. When I realised that I tried again to manually assign the old IP back on this card (192.168.1.71). Naturally it wouldn't do it. So noting that the computer was on .73 I manually re-entered that number. It wouldn't let me have it and again giving me the yellow exclamation mark on the network icon.
So I just put it on DHCP again and now it's assign 192.167.1.77.
Seemingly once I assign an IP to my card I can never reuse it again. So what's going on here ? I've never in all my time experienced this one before, but this is Windows 10.
I dunno if any of this has anything to do with how laggy the computer can get when there is a lot of WAN traffic (downloading). Something's not right.