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Originally Posted by camtosh
I just tried my first wifi sync on my KT (ver 2.0.0) -- I was also booting up my Macbook laptop at the same time. The KT logged in to the wifi after I typed the wifi password, and proceeded to sync. Then my Mac, which I had powered on after the KT, popped up a message that another device was using the IP address of this Mac. Is that supposed to happen? i.e., is the KT supposed to have its own IP address? perhaps that is why people have trouble, if their IP address is already in use when the KT is trying to log in to the wifi? I am no expert...
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IP address conflicts, an interesting problem... I've found they happen if you are in the habit of turning off the router, lets say it's set to grant 24 hour IP address leases, so device 1 is started and gets the 1st IP in the pool, then device 2 and 3. Since the lease is 24 hours, each device will remember the IP, Windows, for instance, must be saving in the registry, as the lease is preserved across reboots.
Then you turn off the router, and that does NOT store the information, so if a device that is not relying on an unexpired lease is started, IT will get the 1st IP, and then when device 1 is started, it will conflict if the lease has not expired.
So to avoid, set the DHCP lease SHORT in a router that will not remain powered up to retain them, or for all your devices, use the router's fixed DHCP IP mapping to shift them away from the auto-assign pool (eg. mine assigns from 100 - 200, uses .1 itself, so I tend to place "known" devices on 10, 20, 30, 40 etc.). Some call it mapping, binding, DHCP assign.