How to Disable DHCP in Home Network and Assign Static IP Addresses

How to Disable DHCP in Home Network and Assign Static IP Addresses

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a client/server protocol that automatically provides an Internet Protocol (IP) host with its IP address and other related configuration information such as the subnet mask and default gateway. If you're looking at advanced internet connection troubleshooting, you may need to enable or disable DHCP.

Issues addressed in this tutorial:
dhcp explained
dhcp server
dhcp server configuration
dhcp snooping
dhcp configuration
dhcp relay
dhcp is not enabled for ethernet
dhcp and dns server configuration
dhcp address reservation
a dhcp server must be authorized

If you're running a typical home network, then your devices receive their IP addresses via the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). This means they're assigned an IP address when they connect to the network, and may in fact receive a completely different one the next time.

Whether or not your device will use DHCP or not is a setting unique to each connection. In other words, if you turn off DHCP for your wired connection, all your wireless connections will continue to use DHCP until you do the same.

This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops, and tablets running the Windows 11 operating system (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Samsung, and Huawei.

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If you disable DHCP in the router, can you then set a static IP like shown?

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I took a network from my neighbor and cancelled DHCP so that there would be no problems and it no longer gets an IP on its own