Flashair question(s)
I use a Toshiba Flashair card in my MK3S printer and in the main it is excellent; no more trekking across my office between the computer and printer to swap cards. The card shows in Windows 10 File Explorer as a network drive so moving files back and forth is easy. The only problem is that the Flashair sometimes uses IP address 192.168.1.188 and sometimes 192.168.1.253 which I don't understand. The work around is to have two network drives configured, one for each address, and to use whichever is available in File Explorer at any time. I'm interested to hear any insights anyone may have as to what's going on.
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RE: Flashair question(s)
Never used a flash air card before but it looks like it gets a dynamic IP address from your router. Most routers can be configured to provide the same static IP address to a network device. How that is done depends on your router. It's somewhere in your router configuration options. With my Eero system it's called "IP reservation", for example. That way you can make sure that every time the printer is started it will get the same IP address.
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RE: Flashair question(s)
You can also configure the Configuration file on the flash air card to used a fixed IP address. Just make sure you configure your router to have a range of IP addresses it won’t use for dynamic allocation and pick on in the range. I have my router set to use 2 to 100 for dynamic only and that leaves me everything above 100 to assign to devices as I require. Like my MK3, my tv, Synology etc.