vdUknown-good to hear you got it sorted.

evohome-quick question for you here, you mentioned "ANY NODE ON YOUR LAN HAS TO HAVE AN IP ADDRESS WITHIN THAT DHCP RANGE, WHETHER THE NODE(S) ARE SET UP FOR DHCP OR STATIC IP"

the poster mentioned "DHCP Address Router: 192.168.1.100 - 192.168.1.200"

i would understand that as the range of addresses that the router will use for DHCP addresses, you will still have between .2 to .99 and .201 to .254 addresses that can access the network and communicate with each other.
also that you should ALWAYS use address outside the DHCP range when using static address for some items on your network to prevent IP conflicts.

thats what i been taught just tryign to clarify it and thats how i have my network set up and it works fine????