So I've been able to connect to other people's internet no problem in the past, but then I made a static IP so I could host a minecraft server, and now it just won't connect to anything but my own internet. Is that how it has to work? I can't have both a static IP and connect to Wi-Fi other than my own?
Step by step solutions would be great.
Every network is different. Your network at home may be 192.168.1.x. However, if you try to use the Wi-Fi at a friends house or at the library down the street, it may not work. Their network might use the 10.0.0.x scheme, so your ip address of 192.168.1.x won't work. Besides, there's more to hosting a server than just having a static ip address. You also need access to the network's router or firewall in order to do the proper port forwarding.
You can't have your won internet but you can have Ethernet… Like localhost and when you open http://localhost/yourHTMLFile you can see html page. And you can access from different computer using any browser… Opening your server IP like http://yourserver/html file… Using this address from different computer you can open. To do this install wanp server for window mamp for mac.
I'm not in Windows at the moment (Linux), so I can't look it up exactly. But somewhere in the properties for that network device you should be able to configure that network device for both a static IP, and an alternate configured to get an IP and everything automatically. Then if you are on a network where your static IP works, Windows should use that, and if that does not work, it should try to get IP and everything else automatically. Although, I do not recall if that is Win7 or newer or if XP can do that.
Unfortunately, Microsoft got the design of wireless network addressing wrong. With an Android device, you can set up different address settings for different wireless networks. In Windows, the settings apply to all wireless networks that are using a particular wireless adapter.
Log on to your router, go to the home network section and see if this has the option to use the same address each time for a particular device. If it has, set this option on for your specific computer (laptop) and change the settings for your computer's wireless adapter to get the addresses automatically. Each time you connect to your home network, the router will give you the same address - a static address, but when you connect to another network, you will get your address automatically from that network.
Rute is right…
Don't expect a static entry to work on every network… Because it was only made for one network…
Either the network number is off… Not in use… A different IP class is used or That static entry is already in use…
Static Entries only work with the network you got the details from.