Quote Originally Posted by Xponder1 View Post
You will have to check and make sure you settings didn't get knocked out. Personally I leave mine set to DHCP but I removed the Linksys firmware from my WRT54GS V6 and installed DD-WRT. Using it I can specify this mac address = this ip so it always comes up correct. Perhaps your current firmware on your router has a feature like this or maybe you can replace it (the firmware)with something better.
DHCP on my router was causing issues conflict issues because the router was assigning the same IP address to multiple devices. So I manually configured all devices instead.