<\/i><\/i>Symptoms:<\/h5><\/a><\/div>\n\u00a0Here’s what I first noticed about this problem:<\/h4>\n\n- The phone would connect to the WiFi (router), but not the Internet.<\/li>\n
- Meanwhile, all computers (PCs) and other devices connected to the internet, except our Android phones!\n
\n- That’s how I knew the cable modem worked, because other devices could access Internet.<\/li>\n
- And obviously the router worked, because nothing had difficulty connecting to it, not even the phones that wouldn’t connect to the Internet.<\/li>\n
- So… the problem must<\/em> be with the phones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
<\/i><\/i>Initial Solution Attempts:<\/h5><\/a><\/div>\nHere’s what I tried first to fix the problem:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Power cycled cable modem & router (multiple times)<\/li>\n
- Power cycled phone (several times)<\/li>\n
- Tried connecting\/disconnecting to various SSID<\/abbr>s (wifi network names)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
These steps changed nothing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/i><\/i>Power Outage...?<\/h5><\/a><\/div>\nThis may be purely coincidental,<\/strong> but the day before, lightning struck a utility pole in our neighborhood and we lost power for an hour.<\/p>\nOur phones could’ve been on cellular-data-only for a day before we noticed and then tried to switch back to our home wifi, only to find the networking problem–and that’s how the issue could’ve gone unnoticed for 24hrs. I include this vignette only because you may be here after some squirrelly home networking probs that cropped up after a power outage.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
<\/i><\/i>The Final Symptom.<\/h5><\/a><\/div>\nThe Final Symptom<\/strong>, or the characteristic of this problem that “cracked the case” for me, was noticing that the phone was trying to squat on another device’s IP address<\/p>\nI finally noticed my phone was attempting to assign itself the one address I remembered reserving for our Roku Stick. Because it used to have so much trouble hunting for a spot on the router, I finally “bound” its MAC address to an IP address so it always can quickly home in on that, and it made it easier to control via the Roku Remote app on our phones.<\/p>\n
So that was the giveaway.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
<\/i><\/i>Quick Fix Summary<\/h5><\/a><\/div>\nChange to Static IP<\/abbr> Addresses instead of DHCP<\/abbr><\/h3>\nI decided I’d assign every device its own IP address–I have literally hundreds available in my router, so why not? And in my router, it’s easy a pushing 1 button to bind all devices on the network to their own dedicated address (see “Bind all” button in a screenshot graphic below). Then hopefully I don’t have this problem again anytime soon, of 2 devices fighting over the same slot.<\/p>\n
There’re 2 parts to this solution:<\/h4>\n\n- You’ll have to change settings on your local router,<\/strong><\/li>\n
- And you’ll have to change settings on your phone.<\/strong>\n
\n- (I had to anyway, because my phone was determined to use an address that was already reserved for our Roku Stick, 192.168.1.106. I had to manually force my phone to use .107 instead.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n
Part 1: Router Settings<\/h3>\nBinding device’s MAC addresses to an IP address<\/h4>\n\n- Login to your Router Admin panel<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
You probably have a different router than me, and therefore; different menus. That’s okay. You’ll figure it out.<\/p>\n
1.a) Go to your router’s Admin login screen.<\/strong> Usually if you’re on a computer or device that is on your home network (we’re still operating under the assumption you’re just having issues with your Android device connecting to the net, not other devices), you can get to your router’s admin screen by typing this IP address into your browser’s address bar:<\/p>\n192.168.0.1<\/pre>\n![\"WIFI](\"https:\/\/krisbunda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/WIFI-ROUTER-Login-screen-and-local-IP-address-600x352.png\")
<\/a>WIFI ROUTER – Login screen and local IP address<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n1.b) Then login to your router.\u00a0<\/strong>If you’ve never done this before (if someone else set up your router), there’s probably the login and password on a label on the back of your router<\/strong>. (Your router is the little box with blinking lights that’s not your cable modem, or it’s the only box<\/em> with blinking lights you have if it’s an all-in-one modem\/router).<\/p>\n2.) Go to Binding Settings<\/strong><\/p>\nYou can see in this screencap, the section for binding<\/strong> is actually labeled something straightforward, like “IP & MAC Binding”<\/strong>. Hopefully yours is similarly labeled. Or look for “ARP<\/abbr>“<\/strong> (Address Resolution Protocol).<\/p>\nYou can see I had assigned a device’s MAC address to an IP Address ending in 106. (ID #1 in the ARP Binding Table shown below). That is my Roku Stick. And since my phone suddenly kept trying to also access the Internet via that address, and I couldn’t get it to just find a new one, I bound my phone’s MAC address to an IP address ending in 107<\/strong> (ID #2 in the screenshot’s table).<\/p>\n![\"WIFI](\"https:\/\/krisbunda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/WIFI-ROUTER-BIND-MAC-ADDRESS-TO-IP-TO-GET-ANDROID-PHONE-CONNECTED-TO-INTERNET-2-600x449.png\")
<\/a>WIFI ROUTER – BIND MAC ADDRESS TO IP TO GET ANDROID PHONE CONNECTED TO INTERNET 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n2.a) Now, where to find the phone’s MAC address?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Go to your Android device’s Wi-Fi settings > push the 3-dot menu > choose “Advanced”<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
![\"Screenshot](\"https:\/\/krisbunda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screenshot-FIND-ANDROID-PHONE-MAC-ADDRESS-1-600x1067.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\nScreenshot FIND ANDROID PHONE MAC ADDRESS 1<\/p>\n
\n- Scroll<\/strong> down until you see “MAC Address<\/strong>“.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
![\"Screenshot](\"https:\/\/krisbunda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screenshot-FIND-ANDROID-PHONE-MAC-ADDRESS-2-600x1067.png\")
<\/a>Screenshot FIND ANDROID PHONE MAC ADDRESS 2<\/p>\n\n- Type<\/strong> this into your router’s “MAC Address” field <\/strong>(In the dialog that appears when you “Add new” device to Bind<\/strong>).<\/li>\n
- Then type an IP address for your Android device<\/strong>.\n
\n- i.e.; if most of your other devices have taken up 192.168.0.101 through 192.168.0.115, maybe jump ahead a few slots and assign 192.168.0.120 to your device’s MAC address.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
![\"WIFI](\"https:\/\/krisbunda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/WIFI-ROUTER-BIND-MAC-ADDRESS-TO-IP-TO-GET-ANDROID-PHONE-CONNECTED-TO-INTERNET-3.png\")
<\/a>WIFI ROUTER – ADD DEVICE MAC ADDRESS TO BIND TO AN IP ADDRESS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<\/i><\/i>(Optional) The Bind All Button<\/em> binds all devices in 1 click<\/h5><\/a><\/div>\nWhile I was at it, I went into the ARP List\u00a0submenu<\/strong>, looked at all the devices currently accessing my home network,\u00a0<\/span>and just clicked the “Bind All” button<\/strong>. Now all devices will have a dedicated address on the home network, and there should be fewer of these conflicts that confuse the devices and cause Internet connectivity problems.<\/span><\/p>\nTHEN, this had the\u00a0added bonus of not having to assign addresses to the devices<\/strong>–the router did it, and I just went into my phone, saw what the MAC address was, found it on this list, then changed the phone’s static IP address to the address it is bound to on this list.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"WIFI](\"https:\/\/krisbunda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/WIFI-ROUTER-BIND-MAC-ADDRESS-TO-IP-TO-GET-ANDROID-PHONE-CONNECTED-TO-INTERNET-600x452.png\")
<\/a>WIFI ROUTER – BIND MAC ADDRESS TO IP TO GET ANDROID PHONE CONNECTED TO INTERNET<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
<\/i><\/i>Analogy: Your Router is a Fancy Restaurant<\/h5><\/a><\/div>\nNOTE: If you Bind All devices, you shouldn’t have to then go into all<\/span>\u00a0the devices you own and change their settings to use a static address. They should all automatically negotiate their slot with the router:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n- Router (as a Ma\u00eetre D’) says<\/strong><\/span>:<\/strong>\u00a0“Oh hello Monsieur Roku Stick, I see your MAC Address is reserved, your table number 192.168.0.112 is ready, right this way…” (Mr. Roku Stick proceeds in\u00a0orderly\u00a0fashion to his assigned location.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Unfortunately, our 2 Android phones had gone to the\u00a0Ma\u00eetre D’ and belligerently insisted they were also supposed to be seated at tables that were already seated and could not accommodate any more guests.Our phones were able to arrive at the restaurant (connect to the home network), but they were drunk and disorderly, demanding to sit at the wrong tables (IP Addresses), which is why they couldn’t connect to the internet (uh, I suppose; “Order off the menu” in my analogy).<\/p>\n
THAT is why I included steps about forcing phones into Static IP mode and typing in a specific IP address<\/strong>–because they weren’t working with the router to find a proper slot on their own.\u00a0I don’t know why not, and if I switched the phones back to Automatic or DHCP mode, they’d probably go back to working as expected.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n <\/p>\n
Part 2: Android Device Wi-Fi Settings<\/h3>\nChanging a device’s IP Settings from DHCP<\/abbr>\u00a0to Static<\/h4>\n1.) Go to your device’s Wi-Fi settings<\/strong>, so the available networks are visible.<\/p>\n2.) Touch and hold on your preferred network’s name, until a flyout menu appears.<\/strong><\/p>\n3.) Choose “Modify Network”.<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"Screenshot](\"https:\/\/krisbunda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screenshot-CHANGE-ANDROID-PHONE-TO-STATIC-IP-ADDRESS-3-600x1067.png\")
<\/a>Screenshot CHANGE ANDROID PHONE TO STATIC IP ADDRESS 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n4.) Check “Show advanced options”<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"Screenshot](\"https:\/\/krisbunda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screenshot-CHANGE-ANDROID-PHONE-TO-STATIC-IP-ADDRESS-600x1067.png\")
<\/a>Screenshot CHANGE ANDROID PHONE TO STATIC IP ADDRESS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n5.) Change your “IP settings” to “Static”<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"Screenshot](\"https:\/\/krisbunda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screenshot-CHANGE-ANDROID-PHONE-TO-STATIC-IP-ADDRESS-4-600x1067.png\")
<\/a>Screenshot CHANGE ANDROID PHONE TO STATIC IP ADDRESS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n6.) Change your device’s IP address to the one you bound (binded?) to your device’s MAC Address in your router’s MAC Binding table <\/strong>(in Step 1).<\/strong><\/p>\n
\u00a0Here’s what I first noticed about this problem:<\/h4>\n\n- The phone would connect to the WiFi (router), but not the Internet.<\/li>\n
- Meanwhile, all computers (PCs) and other devices connected to the internet, except our Android phones!\n
\n- That’s how I knew the cable modem worked, because other devices could access Internet.<\/li>\n
- And obviously the router worked, because nothing had difficulty connecting to it, not even the phones that wouldn’t connect to the Internet.<\/li>\n
- So… the problem must<\/em> be with the phones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
<\/i><\/i>Initial Solution Attempts:<\/h5><\/a><\/div>\nHere’s what I tried first to fix the problem:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Power cycled cable modem & router (multiple times)<\/li>\n
- Power cycled phone (several times)<\/li>\n
- Tried connecting\/disconnecting to various SSID<\/abbr>s (wifi network names)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
These steps changed nothing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/i><\/i>Power Outage...?<\/h5><\/a><\/div>\nThis may be purely coincidental,<\/strong> but the day before, lightning struck a utility pole in our neighborhood and we lost power for an hour.<\/p>\nOur phones could’ve been on cellular-data-only for a day before we noticed and then tried to switch back to our home wifi, only to find the networking problem–and that’s how the issue could’ve gone unnoticed for 24hrs. I include this vignette only because you may be here after some squirrelly home networking probs that cropped up after a power outage.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
<\/i><\/i>The Final Symptom.<\/h5><\/a><\/div>\nThe Final Symptom<\/strong>, or the characteristic of this problem that “cracked the case” for me, was noticing that the phone was trying to squat on another device’s IP address<\/p>\nI finally noticed my phone was attempting to assign itself the one address I remembered reserving for our Roku Stick. Because it used to have so much trouble hunting for a spot on the router, I finally “bound” its MAC address to an IP address so it always can quickly home in on that, and it made it easier to control via the Roku Remote app on our phones.<\/p>\n
So that was the giveaway.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
<\/i><\/i>Quick Fix Summary<\/h5><\/a><\/div>\nChange to Static IP<\/abbr> Addresses instead of DHCP<\/abbr><\/h3>\nI decided I’d assign every device its own IP address–I have literally hundreds available in my router, so why not? And in my router, it’s easy a pushing 1 button to bind all devices on the network to their own dedicated address (see “Bind all” button in a screenshot graphic below). Then hopefully I don’t have this problem again anytime soon, of 2 devices fighting over the same slot.<\/p>\n
There’re 2 parts to this solution:<\/h4>\n\n- You’ll have to change settings on your local router,<\/strong><\/li>\n
- And you’ll have to change settings on your phone.<\/strong>\n
\n- (I had to anyway, because my phone was determined to use an address that was already reserved for our Roku Stick, 192.168.1.106. I had to manually force my phone to use .107 instead.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n
Part 1: Router Settings<\/h3>\nBinding device’s MAC addresses to an IP address<\/h4>\n\n- Login to your Router Admin panel<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
You probably have a different router than me, and therefore; different menus. That’s okay. You’ll figure it out.<\/p>\n
1.a) Go to your router’s Admin login screen.<\/strong> Usually if you’re on a computer or device that is on your home network (we’re still operating under the assumption you’re just having issues with your Android device connecting to the net, not other devices), you can get to your router’s admin screen by typing this IP address into your browser’s address bar:<\/p>\n192.168.0.1<\/pre>\n<\/a>WIFI ROUTER – Login screen and local IP address<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n1.b) Then login to your router.\u00a0<\/strong>If you’ve never done this before (if someone else set up your router), there’s probably the login and password on a label on the back of your router<\/strong>. (Your router is the little box with blinking lights that’s not your cable modem, or it’s the only box<\/em> with blinking lights you have if it’s an all-in-one modem\/router).<\/p>\n2.) Go to Binding Settings<\/strong><\/p>\nYou can see in this screencap, the section for binding<\/strong> is actually labeled something straightforward, like “IP & MAC Binding”<\/strong>. Hopefully yours is similarly labeled. Or look for “ARP<\/abbr>“<\/strong> (Address Resolution Protocol).<\/p>\nYou can see I had assigned a device’s MAC address to an IP Address ending in 106. (ID #1 in the ARP Binding Table shown below). That is my Roku Stick. And since my phone suddenly kept trying to also access the Internet via that address, and I couldn’t get it to just find a new one, I bound my phone’s MAC address to an IP address ending in 107<\/strong> (ID #2 in the screenshot’s table).<\/p>\n<\/a>WIFI ROUTER – BIND MAC ADDRESS TO IP TO GET ANDROID PHONE CONNECTED TO INTERNET 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n2.a) Now, where to find the phone’s MAC address?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Go to your Android device’s Wi-Fi settings > push the 3-dot menu > choose “Advanced”<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nScreenshot FIND ANDROID PHONE MAC ADDRESS 1<\/p>\n
\n- Scroll<\/strong> down until you see “MAC Address<\/strong>“.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/a>Screenshot FIND ANDROID PHONE MAC ADDRESS 2<\/p>\n\n- Type<\/strong> this into your router’s “MAC Address” field <\/strong>(In the dialog that appears when you “Add new” device to Bind<\/strong>).<\/li>\n
- Then type an IP address for your Android device<\/strong>.\n
\n- i.e.; if most of your other devices have taken up 192.168.0.101 through 192.168.0.115, maybe jump ahead a few slots and assign 192.168.0.120 to your device’s MAC address.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/a>WIFI ROUTER – ADD DEVICE MAC ADDRESS TO BIND TO AN IP ADDRESS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<\/i><\/i>(Optional) The Bind All Button<\/em> binds all devices in 1 click<\/h5><\/a><\/div>\nWhile I was at it, I went into the ARP List\u00a0submenu<\/strong>, looked at all the devices currently accessing my home network,\u00a0<\/span>and just clicked the “Bind All” button<\/strong>. Now all devices will have a dedicated address on the home network, and there should be fewer of these conflicts that confuse the devices and cause Internet connectivity problems.<\/span><\/p>\nTHEN, this had the\u00a0added bonus of not having to assign addresses to the devices<\/strong>–the router did it, and I just went into my phone, saw what the MAC address was, found it on this list, then changed the phone’s static IP address to the address it is bound to on this list.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/a>WIFI ROUTER – BIND MAC ADDRESS TO IP TO GET ANDROID PHONE CONNECTED TO INTERNET<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
<\/i><\/i>Analogy: Your Router is a Fancy Restaurant<\/h5><\/a><\/div>\nNOTE: If you Bind All devices, you shouldn’t have to then go into all<\/span>\u00a0the devices you own and change their settings to use a static address. They should all automatically negotiate their slot with the router:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n- Router (as a Ma\u00eetre D’) says<\/strong><\/span>:<\/strong>\u00a0“Oh hello Monsieur Roku Stick, I see your MAC Address is reserved, your table number 192.168.0.112 is ready, right this way…” (Mr. Roku Stick proceeds in\u00a0orderly\u00a0fashion to his assigned location.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Unfortunately, our 2 Android phones had gone to the\u00a0Ma\u00eetre D’ and belligerently insisted they were also supposed to be seated at tables that were already seated and could not accommodate any more guests.Our phones were able to arrive at the restaurant (connect to the home network), but they were drunk and disorderly, demanding to sit at the wrong tables (IP Addresses), which is why they couldn’t connect to the internet (uh, I suppose; “Order off the menu” in my analogy).<\/p>\n
THAT is why I included steps about forcing phones into Static IP mode and typing in a specific IP address<\/strong>–because they weren’t working with the router to find a proper slot on their own.\u00a0I don’t know why not, and if I switched the phones back to Automatic or DHCP mode, they’d probably go back to working as expected.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n <\/p>\n
Part 2: Android Device Wi-Fi Settings<\/h3>\nChanging a device’s IP Settings from DHCP<\/abbr>\u00a0to Static<\/h4>\n1.) Go to your device’s Wi-Fi settings<\/strong>, so the available networks are visible.<\/p>\n2.) Touch and hold on your preferred network’s name, until a flyout menu appears.<\/strong><\/p>\n3.) Choose “Modify Network”.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>Screenshot CHANGE ANDROID PHONE TO STATIC IP ADDRESS 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n4.) Check “Show advanced options”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>Screenshot CHANGE ANDROID PHONE TO STATIC IP ADDRESS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n5.) Change your “IP settings” to “Static”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>Screenshot CHANGE ANDROID PHONE TO STATIC IP ADDRESS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n6.) Change your device’s IP address to the one you bound (binded?) to your device’s MAC Address in your router’s MAC Binding table <\/strong>(in Step 1).<\/strong><\/p>\n
- \n
- That’s how I knew the cable modem worked, because other devices could access Internet.<\/li>\n
- And obviously the router worked, because nothing had difficulty connecting to it, not even the phones that wouldn’t connect to the Internet.<\/li>\n
- So… the problem must<\/em> be with the phones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
<\/i><\/i>Initial Solution Attempts:<\/h5><\/a><\/div>
\nHere’s what I tried first to fix the problem:<\/strong><\/p>\n
- \n
- Power cycled cable modem & router (multiple times)<\/li>\n
- Power cycled phone (several times)<\/li>\n
- Tried connecting\/disconnecting to various SSID<\/abbr>s (wifi network names)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
These steps changed nothing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
<\/i><\/i>Power Outage...?<\/h5><\/a><\/div>
\nThis may be purely coincidental,<\/strong> but the day before, lightning struck a utility pole in our neighborhood and we lost power for an hour.<\/p>\n
Our phones could’ve been on cellular-data-only for a day before we noticed and then tried to switch back to our home wifi, only to find the networking problem–and that’s how the issue could’ve gone unnoticed for 24hrs. I include this vignette only because you may be here after some squirrelly home networking probs that cropped up after a power outage.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
<\/i><\/i>The Final Symptom.<\/h5><\/a><\/div>
\nThe Final Symptom<\/strong>, or the characteristic of this problem that “cracked the case” for me, was noticing that the phone was trying to squat on another device’s IP address<\/p>\n
I finally noticed my phone was attempting to assign itself the one address I remembered reserving for our Roku Stick. Because it used to have so much trouble hunting for a spot on the router, I finally “bound” its MAC address to an IP address so it always can quickly home in on that, and it made it easier to control via the Roku Remote app on our phones.<\/p>\n
So that was the giveaway.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
<\/i><\/i>Quick Fix Summary<\/h5><\/a><\/div>
\nChange to Static IP<\/abbr> Addresses instead of DHCP<\/abbr><\/h3>\n
I decided I’d assign every device its own IP address–I have literally hundreds available in my router, so why not? And in my router, it’s easy a pushing 1 button to bind all devices on the network to their own dedicated address (see “Bind all” button in a screenshot graphic below). Then hopefully I don’t have this problem again anytime soon, of 2 devices fighting over the same slot.<\/p>\n
There’re 2 parts to this solution:<\/h4>\n
- \n
- You’ll have to change settings on your local router,<\/strong><\/li>\n
- And you’ll have to change settings on your phone.<\/strong>\n
- \n
- (I had to anyway, because my phone was determined to use an address that was already reserved for our Roku Stick, 192.168.1.106. I had to manually force my phone to use .107 instead.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n
Part 1: Router Settings<\/h3>\n
Binding device’s MAC addresses to an IP address<\/h4>\n
- \n
- Login to your Router Admin panel<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
You probably have a different router than me, and therefore; different menus. That’s okay. You’ll figure it out.<\/p>\n
1.a) Go to your router’s Admin login screen.<\/strong> Usually if you’re on a computer or device that is on your home network (we’re still operating under the assumption you’re just having issues with your Android device connecting to the net, not other devices), you can get to your router’s admin screen by typing this IP address into your browser’s address bar:<\/p>\n
192.168.0.1<\/pre>\n
<\/a>WIFI ROUTER – Login screen and local IP address<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n 1.b) Then login to your router.\u00a0<\/strong>If you’ve never done this before (if someone else set up your router), there’s probably the login and password on a label on the back of your router<\/strong>. (Your router is the little box with blinking lights that’s not your cable modem, or it’s the only box<\/em> with blinking lights you have if it’s an all-in-one modem\/router).<\/p>\n
2.) Go to Binding Settings<\/strong><\/p>\n
You can see in this screencap, the section for binding<\/strong> is actually labeled something straightforward, like “IP & MAC Binding”<\/strong>. Hopefully yours is similarly labeled. Or look for “ARP<\/abbr>“<\/strong> (Address Resolution Protocol).<\/p>\n
You can see I had assigned a device’s MAC address to an IP Address ending in 106. (ID #1 in the ARP Binding Table shown below). That is my Roku Stick. And since my phone suddenly kept trying to also access the Internet via that address, and I couldn’t get it to just find a new one, I bound my phone’s MAC address to an IP address ending in 107<\/strong> (ID #2 in the screenshot’s table).<\/p>\n
<\/a>WIFI ROUTER – BIND MAC ADDRESS TO IP TO GET ANDROID PHONE CONNECTED TO INTERNET 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n 2.a) Now, where to find the phone’s MAC address?<\/strong><\/p>\n
- \n
- Go to your Android device’s Wi-Fi settings > push the 3-dot menu > choose “Advanced”<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
Screenshot FIND ANDROID PHONE MAC ADDRESS 1<\/p>\n
- \n
- Scroll<\/strong> down until you see “MAC Address<\/strong>“.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/a>Screenshot FIND ANDROID PHONE MAC ADDRESS 2<\/p>\n
- \n
- Type<\/strong> this into your router’s “MAC Address” field <\/strong>(In the dialog that appears when you “Add new” device to Bind<\/strong>).<\/li>\n
- Then type an IP address for your Android device<\/strong>.\n
- \n
- i.e.; if most of your other devices have taken up 192.168.0.101 through 192.168.0.115, maybe jump ahead a few slots and assign 192.168.0.120 to your device’s MAC address.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/a>
WIFI ROUTER – ADD DEVICE MAC ADDRESS TO BIND TO AN IP ADDRESS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n <\/i><\/i>(Optional) The Bind All Button<\/em> binds all devices in 1 click<\/h5><\/a><\/div>
\nWhile I was at it, I went into the ARP List\u00a0submenu<\/strong>, looked at all the devices currently accessing my home network,\u00a0<\/span>and just clicked the “Bind All” button<\/strong>. Now all devices will have a dedicated address on the home network, and there should be fewer of these conflicts that confuse the devices and cause Internet connectivity problems.<\/span><\/p>\n
THEN, this had the\u00a0added bonus of not having to assign addresses to the devices<\/strong>–the router did it, and I just went into my phone, saw what the MAC address was, found it on this list, then changed the phone’s static IP address to the address it is bound to on this list.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>WIFI ROUTER – BIND MAC ADDRESS TO IP TO GET ANDROID PHONE CONNECTED TO INTERNET<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
<\/i><\/i>Analogy: Your Router is a Fancy Restaurant<\/h5><\/a><\/div>
\nNOTE: If you Bind All devices, you shouldn’t have to then go into all<\/span>\u00a0the devices you own and change their settings to use a static address. They should all automatically negotiate their slot with the router:<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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- Router (as a Ma\u00eetre D’) says<\/strong><\/span>:<\/strong>\u00a0“Oh hello Monsieur Roku Stick, I see your MAC Address is reserved, your table number 192.168.0.112 is ready, right this way…” (Mr. Roku Stick proceeds in\u00a0orderly\u00a0fashion to his assigned location.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Unfortunately, our 2 Android phones had gone to the\u00a0Ma\u00eetre D’ and belligerently insisted they were also supposed to be seated at tables that were already seated and could not accommodate any more guests.Our phones were able to arrive at the restaurant (connect to the home network), but they were drunk and disorderly, demanding to sit at the wrong tables (IP Addresses), which is why they couldn’t connect to the internet (uh, I suppose; “Order off the menu” in my analogy).<\/p>\n
THAT is why I included steps about forcing phones into Static IP mode and typing in a specific IP address<\/strong>–because they weren’t working with the router to find a proper slot on their own.\u00a0I don’t know why not, and if I switched the phones back to Automatic or DHCP mode, they’d probably go back to working as expected.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n
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Part 2: Android Device Wi-Fi Settings<\/h3>\n
Changing a device’s IP Settings from DHCP<\/abbr>\u00a0to Static<\/h4>\n
1.) Go to your device’s Wi-Fi settings<\/strong>, so the available networks are visible.<\/p>\n
2.) Touch and hold on your preferred network’s name, until a flyout menu appears.<\/strong><\/p>\n
3.) Choose “Modify Network”.<\/strong><\/p>\n
<\/a>Screenshot CHANGE ANDROID PHONE TO STATIC IP ADDRESS 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n 4.) Check “Show advanced options”<\/strong><\/p>\n
<\/a>Screenshot CHANGE ANDROID PHONE TO STATIC IP ADDRESS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n 5.) Change your “IP settings” to “Static”<\/strong><\/p>\n
<\/a>Screenshot CHANGE ANDROID PHONE TO STATIC IP ADDRESS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n 6.) Change your device’s IP address to the one you bound (binded?) to your device’s MAC Address in your router’s MAC Binding table <\/strong>(in Step 1).<\/strong><\/p>\n
- Router (as a Ma\u00eetre D’) says<\/strong><\/span>:<\/strong>\u00a0“Oh hello Monsieur Roku Stick, I see your MAC Address is reserved, your table number 192.168.0.112 is ready, right this way…” (Mr. Roku Stick proceeds in\u00a0orderly\u00a0fashion to his assigned location.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Then type an IP address for your Android device<\/strong>.\n
- Type<\/strong> this into your router’s “MAC Address” field <\/strong>(In the dialog that appears when you “Add new” device to Bind<\/strong>).<\/li>\n
- Scroll<\/strong> down until you see “MAC Address<\/strong>“.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Go to your Android device’s Wi-Fi settings > push the 3-dot menu > choose “Advanced”<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Login to your Router Admin panel<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
- And you’ll have to change settings on your phone.<\/strong>\n
- You’ll have to change settings on your local router,<\/strong><\/li>\n
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