This must be like networking 101 for 99.9% of the people on Geekzone, but I'm hoping that one of you good folk will be able to enlighten me ...Moved house very recently to a fibre only area and have gone with Orcon to supply internet/telephony services.We have (had) a home wireless network in the previous house with just my wife and I each of us with a) laptop, b) tablet, c) smartphone plus a wireless printer, and a TIVO which accessed the network for the electronic programming guide. That lot all went through a TP-Link modem/router to which a DLINK DNS-320L NAS box was also connected and was accessed by us wirelessly. I can't remember for the life of me how I did it but I had managed to assign both the NAS and the TIVO with a static IP address on that network (192.168.1.199 and 192.168.1.190, I think, respectively) because whenever there was a power cut or something the NAS and the TIVO would get lost. At least with the fixed IP they were more consistent.The new house is hard wired for Ethernet and the Orcon supplied wireless modem is a NetComm NF4V modem.I plugged the NAS into one of the Ethernet ports yesterday and it showed up in Windows Explorer under the Network. However sometime in the evening it disappeared and I've tried everything to try and find it again, including resetting it several times (which I would have thought would revert its status back to out of the box condition, even if it still thought it had that original fixed IP address). The device, I'm sure is working normally. I have rebooted everything else several times, having previously powered off everything. The starting order being: fibre box, modem/router, NAS, TIVO, laptops, tablets, printer, phones - and that's also included resetting the modem (and loss of SSID/Password which had to be reconfigured). The NAS box stops and starts fine, but it's just not visible.I have no idea (and never have had) what part of the modem setup I look at to determine what devices have what IP address.Orcon have not been helpful.DLINK help said contact NetComm, and that's just an email 'help' function.As I say, I'm sure this is simple stuff for those who know, but what do I do? Any ideas re the NAS, and those wretched IP addresses would be much appreciated. Thanks everyone in advance. Would be delighted to be able to talk to someone about this if at all possible. Cheers, Steve
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