@Cynric Hello, yeah, I thought of that afterwards (another major brain fart) as to make life easier I made certain I backed the settings up on Thursday, just in case it all went wrong. And doing it all over was as painful as it was the other times I've had to do it on the VF router ...man alive, it really does need a revamp. Adding a load of static IPs is an unnecessarily stressful experience...and it shouldn't be at all. Will it or won't it 'stick'...nope, it won't. Over and over until they are all in.
Every wired and wi-fi device has to be on and connected and visible (some need a few power cycles before they show up on the router overview page too..my printer was missing in action for ages even though it was connected and printed) and if you don't have a list of mac addresses at hand to identify each device it's a right pain adding them from the drop down list, especially if you haven't named them in advance on the overview page....which is advisable, even if more time and effort.
Anyway. It's done. Good!
