You can use 10.0.0.1, 10.10.10.1, 10.30.20.1 or any other ip series you want. I just think that you have to use one of the subnet masks mentioned in my previous post that per subnet limits you to 254 or less hosts.
Technically a Class A network would have a default subnet mask of 255.0.0.0. When assigning your router an IP of 10.0.0.1 and a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 you're still creating a subnet with a maximum of 254 hosts whose ip address would have to be in a range of 10.0.0.1-10.0.0.254. Functionally this should be no different than using a Class C address with the 192.168.x.x ip series. I don't know any reason why one would seem any slower than the other. I'm curious what you mean about being slow or glitchy?? By using a Class A address you would just be expanding the theoretical maximum capacity of your private network. A full Class A network subnetted as 255.255.255.0 would create 65536 subnets. I suppose if you had that many $30 routers from Best Buy you could create a private network with over 16 million hosts. I think in some legacy equipment from... say twenty years ago or more, when this stuff was dreamed up, the logic about class a, b, and c networks would have been hardcoded to some degree. I don't think these kind of designations mean much when creating a private lan. -Tharin O. DHSinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK. I understand. I will again attempt to apply a class C network strategy. Even though the LAN runs very much better using class A with a full (25.255.255.0) netmask. Even the router is happy at 10.0.0.1/255.255.255.0.
